Sophia

Last week reminded us that the state level is where trust in the political process is built — & where it is lost. We need EVERY Democratic legislator to bring the energy, values alignment, & hard work that it will take to fight for an affordable America. #NorthCarolina

We voted against this budget because it’s not a good budget. It doesn’t fund Medicaid — even as coverage for 3.1 million North Carolinians is threatened. It doesn’t fund raises for our teachers. And it neglects our true constitutional duty: passing a REAL budget for this biennium.

Republicans say a bill to ban books and punish LGBTQIA people for existing is to “protect women” but when given an opportunity to actually protect women…

On the same day that a gunman senselessly murdered four people in New York with an assault weapon, our State Senate voted to give MORE people access to guns, making it more likely for incidents like this to happen here in North Carolina. We all deserve better.

Truly shameful. We know that letting anyone carry a gun means more deaths — HUNDREDS more annually in our state. We must break the supermajority in the Senate so that we can uphold the Governor’s vetoes on gun sense, immigration, corporate greed and LGBTQ rights.

How do we elect @roycoopernc.bsky.social and @anitaearls.bsky.social By turning out more voters *IN DURHAM.* We delivered his win margin once, and we’re going to do it again. 💙🐂💙 @durhamdems.bsky.social

This fired up mom is ready for the 2026 Senate race with pom poms, cartwheels, snacks, shoes with little roller skates in them, the megaphone from the garage, my special clipboard, crystals, electrolytes, you name it.

We’re going back into session next week, and I look forward to upholding these and the Governor’s previous vetos!

Mourning the loss of one of our state’s most storied civil rights leaders, James Ferguson — a trailblazer and one of the primary forgers of the Black-Jewish alliance that accomplished so much during the Movement and beyond. May his memory be for a blessing.

Help vulnerable voters get their voter files ready for the upcoming elections!

Join Justice @anitaearls.bsky.social and NCDP Chair @abreezeclayton.bsky.social as we reach out to voters to make updates to their voter registration so they can vote with confidence.

mobilize.us/ncdems/event/814003/

With no adjustment of pay for cost of living, NC’s state employees would effectively be getting a pay CUT. If the Republicans in the General Assembly are going to back tariffs that fuel inflation, the least they can do is give folks the ability to be able to buy the basics.

Thank you @joshsteinnc.bsky.social for standing up for the safety of ALL North Carolinians and vetoing these bad bills!

Three Wins Today (June 8, 2025)

1. Wed 6/4 - @sophiafornc.bsky.social gave a fantastic speech against the anti immigration bill making it’s way through the legislature about how most violence comes from citizens
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Report shows most NC voucher recipients already attended private school — here's why that matters A new report finds about 90% of Opportunity Scholarship recipients this school year already attended a private school before the program was expanded so even wealthy families could apply.

Vouchers are just tax breaks for the wealthy.
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"I'd love to see us focus on the big problems that our constituents have sent us here to solve instead of what I see as bullying our immigrant community into increased fear." - on HB318 in the Judiciary committee yesterday.

Now, they want to finalize that control by taking away every last bit of executive authority away from the Governor and the Governor’s agencies by making it impossible for them to make new rules. That’s what House Bill 402 would do.

Republicans say they want less regulation, but DON’T BE FOOLED. What they really want is total control over every branch of government. First, they took over the legislature. Then, they made that control permanent by taking over the judiciary.🧵

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This is what I meant by bringing new energy to the Senate – BOLD ideas and the chutzpah to make them happen. That’s really what I’m celebrating today: a year of growing bolder and (hopefully) wiser.

Will you help me celebrate my 36th birthday today by investing $36 in bold ideas like this.

Inspired by ideas throughout the country and outlined in my bill, S680, Comprehensive Capital for Childcare Expansion, this idea would help proven North Carolina childcare providers to scale their businesses and offer more care to more people.

I wanted to share with you a big, bold, idea I’m working on to help to solve this crisis: the creation of the nation’s first Child Care Finance Agency.

Today is my 36th birthday!🎂🎉 

While I am now old enough to have enough candles on my cake to create alarm among fire safety advocates, what I’m really fired up about is… you guessed it… childcare! 🧵

When I hear news like the Federal DOJ is being called in by NC Republicans to disenfranchise voters, I feel mad. Then I tap into my toddler mom frequency and recognize this for what it is: a tantrum. Boundaries and sturdiness end tantrums. And guess what, NC? We won’t budge for bullies.

Today we remember the fallen and the promise of the country they fought for. May we continue to fight, each in our own way, to make their ultimate sacrifices count.
May their memories be for a blessing & may there one day be freedom, for ALL.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

"...Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles...🇺🇸🧵

But the coalitions, the movement, the action? That’s tomorrow work. Today, I stand with our community in grief and in mourning, and in hope that our pain will unite and not divide us.

We need coalitions that will not let this moment embolden far-left extremists who seek to make antisemitism mainstream.

We need coalitions that will not let this moment further empower far-right extremists who seek to use Jews as pawns to destroy American civil liberties or to make Gaza completely unlivable.

Condemnation is a moment, not a movement. For a movement to be possible, we first need what Rabbi Matt Soffer has called “coalitions of common decency.”