Plans to Flip North Carolina: Why North Carolina Matters
Of all the states up for grabs in the coming presidential election, perhaps none is the center of more bare-knuckle brawling between Republicans and Democrats than North Carolina. At stake…
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Plans to Flip North Carolina: Census Counts
One such group trying to tilt the census is Census Counts, which virtuously describes itself as a “collaborative campaign” of 60 organizations “working together to make sure that the 2020 Census…
Plans to Flip North Carolina:
The Redistricting Process
The redistricting process—when every state redraws its congressional and legislative maps—will start in early 2021, when the Census Bureau releases its data to the states. Just how North Carolina will…
Plans to Flip North Carolina: Holder’s War
The litigation war to reshape America’s congressional districts to suit the Democrats is being coordinated by Eric Holder, President Barack Obama’s former attorney general and an overt partisan. In 2017,…
Plans to Flip North Carolina:
A “Redistricting Coup”
The third group, the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), has already had perhaps the most potent impact on the 2020 election. The 501(c)(3) group describes its mission as “initiating litigation that…
Plans to Flip North Carolina: Democracy Alliance and Arabella Advisors
The Democracy Alliance has its own big plans for North Carolina. A recently unearthed 2016 internal report by the secretive group details 15 funding streams moving money to battleground states ahead of…
The Organizational Structure of Black Lives Matter
What exactly is Black Lives Matter as an organization? In the broadest sense, Black Lives Matter refers to a protest movement spawned by recent and repeated instances of black men…
Vote-by-Mail Dilemmas
While states seek to hold elections amid the coronavirus pandemic, many are questioning the viability of introducing a nationwide vote-by-mail election system. Oregon, Washington, Ohio, and Maryland ran into problems…
Margaret Sanger: The Birth of Birth Control
The woman who birthed Planned Parenthood—today the biggest provider of abortion services in the country—left a legacy so charged it’s bitterly despised by the Right and fanatically defended by the…
Margaret Sanger: The “Tragedy of Overpopulation”
Sanger conceived the term “birth control”—the direct predecessor to today’s “planned parenthood”—upon returning to the United States in January 1914. From the start, she had her eye on its propagandistic…