The march the trolls couldn't stop: NC-NAACP's Moral March on Raleigh, 13 Feb...
I know how very many of my friends and loved ones wished they could attend yesterday’s HKonJ Moral March on Raleigh, but were unable to. So I froze my keester off and my shutter-finger stiff, just so...
View ArticleRepairing the breach: Sanders' North Carolina campaign, the NC-NAACP, and...
February is not an auspicious month for a presidential campaign to seem to snub the African American community. Especially not in the Southeast, where just days from now over 8.5 million voting age...
View ArticleUPDATED 4x: Court rulings, dead Scalia, Republican hijinks throw upcoming NC...
[Updated 1x 2x 3x 4x below]If you find yourself wondering what the hell is going on with battleground North Carolina’s upcoming elections...well, you’re in good company. Because as of today no one else...
View ArticleOne reason why N. Carolina Republicans new Congressional redistricting map...
The always excellent Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has just published its demographic analysis of NC Republicans’ proposed “2016 Contingent Congressional...
View ArticleWhy we lose :-(North Carolina edition)
Tomorrow being Saturday, the recently-truncated Early Voting period down here in NC will end at 1:00 PM, which means the polls will be packed with Rumpists. So I decided to vote today to beat the...
View ArticleBad science, worse politics: North Carolina's coal ash-poisoned water and the...
A summary of Insightus' latest investigative report: Duke Energy’s Poisoned Power: How the giant utility's bad science – and friends in high places – hide the poisoning of North Carolina's drinking...
View ArticleNorth Carolina progressive orgs unite for ongoing "direct action" against...
Outrage — and the thirst for justice — continue to mount in North Carolina in response to state Republicans’ now notorious ‘bathroom bill,’ HB2. To the waves of bad news crashing daily over Gov....
View ArticleWe ARE this: Scenes of protest against North Carolina's 'bathroom bill'
White, brown, and black. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and atheist. Trans, cis, gay, straight, tattooed and balding. Over 2,000 North Carolinians of every possible description celebrated our diversity and...
View ArticleHow to opt out of voter suppression (no, really!): Vote at home
North Carolina ranks high on anyone’s short list of today’s too-close-to-call battleground states. But the relative strengths of the two parties’ campaigns may, in the end, prove less important in...
View ArticleThank you for your service, Sergeant Duncan. Rest in peace.
Just minutes ago I read the obituary of a man I never knew: Green Beret Master Sergeant Donald Duncan. I never knew him personally, but half a century ago he changed my life in ways I will always be...
View Article4th US Circuit Court of Appeals sounds ready to overturn NC's voter...
The NC-NAACP’s challenge to North Carolina’s draconian 2013 voter suppression law — widely judged to be the worst in the nation, but currently poised to take full effect for the coming election — has...
View ArticleBREAKING: U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns North Carolina's voter...
This is a developing story; stay tuned for updates.The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has just issued its ruling in NC-NAACP v. McCrory, the case against North Carolina’s worst-in-the-nation voter...
View ArticleIndie papers: not just for concert schedules & craft beer reviews. Some...
Thank FSM for independent progressive home-town papers.It’s now Day 8 since our non-profit investigative group, Insightus, issued our exclusive report on widespread uranium contamination of well water...
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Wallet Poll: The stark divide between battleground NC's Trump & Clinton...
Opinion polling isn’t the only way to take the pulse of a political contest.Recently the data-driven activist team at insightus has been kicking around the notion of conducting what some like to call a...
View ArticleNC State Board of Elections Live Blog: voter suppression under the microscope...
The NC State Board of Elections is currently in session, passing judgement on the dozens of County Board of Elections’ racially discriminatory early voting plans which have been contested by those...
View ArticleNorth Carolina's war on voting is STILL targeting black voters "with almost...
Last July, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned North Carolina’s “monster voter suppression law,” HB589, finding that it unconstitutionally "targeted African Americans with almost surgical...
View ArticleHas Trump awakened North Carolina's sleeping giant (the black vote)?
Starting today, Insightus is launching a twice-weekly analysis of near-real-time North Carolina State Board of Elections data to gauge voter turnout in the Tar Heel State for the 2016 election —...
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In pivotal Wake County North Carolina, GOP prepares to flood polling places...
As we revealed in a recent Insightus investigative report, North Carolina’s GOP is busily exploring every possible means to discourage the ‘wrong sort’ of voters from showing up at the polls this year....
View ArticleWeek 2 early voting analysis: Are North Carolina's GOP voters in a Trump Slump?
A whole lot is riding on North Carolina in this election. Maybe even all the marbles. Which is why data scientists at Insightus are currently all over the NC State Board of Elections’ daily voting...
View ArticleGob-smacked. North Carolina absentee vote stats updated: is the Republican...
Insightus’s twice-weekly analysis of North Carolina absentee-by-mail (ABM) ballot tabulation has just been updated for the period through Oct. 12th. And I’m gob-smacked.What seemed on October 3rd (when...
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