North Carolina Gov. McCrory's voter registration meltdown: latest developments
Last Thursday (May 7) here at Daily Kos, I published the first public disclosure of a shocking collapse of the state's voter registration system here in North Carolina under Republican Gov. Pat...
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Organizing activist Kossacks locally: the North Carolina Experiment
It's a start: geographic distribution of North Carolina activist Kossacks on Doc's List, as of May 17, 2015 YOU CAN VIEW THE MOST CURRENT (LIVE) VERSION OF THIS MAP HERE Life is like a box of...
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Weren't alive in '65? Then this July 13th could be your lucky day
...or maybe you just weren't alive to the awesome power and the awful responsibility of fusion politics back then. I know I sure wasn't.Perhaps you've admired North Carolina's Forward Together Moral...
View ArticleIt's official: Discrimination against gays, blacks, Jews now legal for North...
Back in March I introduced you to the single most morally repugnant bill then before the North Carolina General Assembly, SB 2, which aimed to permit county magistrates to refuse to perform any civil...
View ArticleAs lawsuit and protest loom, panicked North Carolina Republicans scramble to...
With the start of oral arguments in a U.S. District Court challenge to its worst-in-the-nation voter suppression law just three weeks off (plus an accompanying massive protest to be held just outside...
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"Uniquely remarkable, phenomenal" NC GOP's new chairman promises an...
Hasan Harnett, the North Carolina GOP's newly elected state chairman The choice of a political party's state chairperson is one of those classic 'inside baseball' things. Probably not one in a thousand...
View ArticleHow the Right is covering yesterday's black church arson in Charlotte, NC
Yesterday, local North Carolina news outlets (and Daily Kos itself) were abuzz with the depressing news that a fire which leveled a black church in Charlotte during the night (and sent at least one...
View ArticleReductio ad absurdum: Politico's silly slap at marriage equality
Leave it to Politico to find a way to trivialize a landmark day in the history of American civil rights into a jumbled mess of word salad.For reasons best known only to its reputed editors, the...
View ArticleOn eve of historic voter suppression trial, battle lines are drawn in...
Exactly one week from today, at 9:30 AM in Courtroom 1 of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina in Winston-Salem, opening arguments will begin in NC-NAACP v McCrory...
View ArticleImages from tomorrow's voting rights march in Winston-Salem...today!
Some of my favorite snapshots from past (and, hopefully, much smaller) Moral Monday events. There's enough spirit in this Movement to power an expedition to Mars and back.To those who have written to...
View ArticleThe Battle of Winston-Salem ("our Selma"): the video
Now you've seen as much of it as more of it than I did....Thanks to the many, many Kogs who stepped forward to make our participation in this historic event possible! Forward together!P.S.: Don't you...
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In Charleston's aftermath, hope and hate descend on tiny Hillsborough, NC
On July 23rd, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) signed into law Senate Bill 22, the Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015, barring the removal of "objects of...
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Red Strings and Black Lives: reality confronts mythical 'heritage' in a...
PrologueIn his masterful chronicle of "the war within the war" (Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers) William Auman...
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The hate next door: Unexpected faces of the Neo-Confederacy
It is far too easy - and all too human - to make sweeping judgements about people based solely on limited experience and unlimited assumptions. But it is important to work past that genetically...
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Neo-Confederacy's "hidden hand" financier to rally battle flag wavers in...
Millionaire neo-Confederate movement financier and Republican power broker, Richard Hines North Carolina's grass-fed neo-Confederate movement appears to be struggling of late to find a way to continue...
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Uncle Lucius' grace note: Truth and reconciliation in the face of the...
A popular Austin TX band, Uncle Lucius, kicked off a Southeastern U.S. tour recently. In Charlotte, North Carolina (a state whose growing neo-Confederate frenzy I have covered here, here, and here), at...
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Your money or your life: Theft at the invisible hand of 'free' pharmaceutical...
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO, Martin Shkreli, practicing for his impending mugshot. I earn my living by serving the pharmaceutical industry, and I don't apologize for that for one second. I'm a...
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Muslim-free flag-nutters' rally fizzles at UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill's 'Silent Sam' confederate monument has seen increasing vandalism attacks in recent months. The university has no similar monument to the many otherwise similar young Tarheels who laid...
View ArticleLottery pools on DKos: WTF?
Kog eeff’s two sequentialdiaries encouraging fellow Kogs to list their Powerball numbers with the promise that winners will split their take with all the others who do so raises, in my mind at least,...
View ArticleThe Legend of Ammo Bumbler
O, there once came a man from the Marlboro land,with his rock-hard Glock in his work-worn hand,armed to the tooth, with an itch fer a fight,and he drove the birds from the West one night.(Ammo....Ammo...
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