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The campaigns for the candidates seeking the Republican nomination for the NC 3rd Congressional District seat are nearing an end with just two weeks left before the actual run-off.
Published: Monday, June 24th, 2019 @ 2:07 pm
By: Chip Olmstead
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After Durham businessman Greg Lindberg, state Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes, and two of Lindberg’s business associates were indicted in an alleged bribery scheme, advocates of government-funded campaigns scurried to restate their argument.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Tuesday morning, the Cook County State's Attorney's office announced that they'd dropped all 17 charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in an odd "plea deal," allowing Smollett to escape trial on accusations that he orchestrated a false hate crime against himself and lied to Chicago police in
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2019 @ 9:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Saikat Chakrabarti, the brains behind socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who also serves as her chief of staff, allegedly funneled over $1 million in political donations to his own private companies, according to a new complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Published: Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 @ 1:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her minions in the media clipped a 5-minute video of a House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday which quickly went viral - but excluded a follow-up response that put a damper on Ocasio-Cortez's pontificating.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 10:43 am
By: Daily Wire
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Two close Clinton allies dumped at least $700,000 to prominent sexual harassment lawyer Lisa Bloom to fund women willing to accuse then-candidate Donald Trump of sexual misconduct the week before the presidential election
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 7:05 pm
By: Daily Wire
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What if the governor broke campaign finance laws but no state election board was there to rule
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The battle to preserve the state's certificate-of-need laws is about to get personal
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2017 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Betsy DeVos may be in some hot water over $10,000 she gave to an organization that defends free speech and civil liberties
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 @ 11:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC-03) and Ted Lieu (D-CA-33) joined C-SPAN to discuss a recent lawsuit which they filed against the Federal Election Commission, seeking to abolish super PACs.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 10:21 am
By: Russell Allen
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Today key supporters of Roy Cooper, Democracy NC and Progress NC, are calling on Governor McCrory to vacate the Executive Mansion before the first full vote count has been certified, in a race separated by 1/10th of 1%
Published: Friday, November 25th, 2016 @ 1:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Formal protests are being filed to challenge potentially fraudulent absentee ballots cast for Roy Cooper and other Democrats in 11 additional counties.
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2016 @ 5:36 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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By a 2-1 party-line vote that had racial undertones, the Durham County Board of Elections approved a challenge to its vote-tallying process that Thomas Stark, a lawyer and Durham County resident, believes might have been corrupted by software limitations in voting machines that couldn't accept the v
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2016 @ 8:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A formal protest has been filed with the Bladen County Board of Elections to challenge several hundred apparently fraudulent absentee ballots cast for Roy Cooper and other Democrats in Bladen County.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 @ 12:35 am
By: McCrory Communications
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One of the main issues in the race for House District 41 is health insurance - specifically whether and how the state should deal with Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 18 with Roy Cooper
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 11:46 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Some have called O'Keefe's latest investigation into the collaboration of political groups, super-pacs and nonprofit organizations on the Left explosive
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 5:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Congressman Walter Jones (NC-3) along with Congressman Ted Lieu (CA-33) and Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) filed a complaint before the Federal Election Commission (FEC) seeking to end super PAC spending in US elections.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2016 @ 10:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Do state politicians have principles? To some cynical academics and activists, the only way this question can have an affirmative answer is to define the term the way comedian Groucho Marx famously did: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others."
Published: Monday, June 13th, 2016 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was natural to include unions in the Mapping the Left website. They are the quintessential leftist political machine. With virtually unlimited bank accounts, thanks to mandatory membership and dues, more lawyers than one would care to count, and the best community organizing structure...
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 4:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Following "Super Tuesday," both political parties are wondering how they can survive their nominees, while North Carolinians are pondering the impact on our state.
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2016 @ 10:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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When our legislature voted to consolidate the traditional May Primary Election with the March 15th Presidential Primary they may have driven a nail in the coffins of political parties in our state.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 12:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well, they did it. Thumbed their collective noses at those of us who voted to give them super-majorities in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was paid $1.35 million since last May for three speaking engagements for a network marketing company that has been accused of being nothing more than a pyramid scheme.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 1:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In case you missed it, National Review has a great writeup on next year's showdown between Renee Ellmers and Jim Duncan in the 2nd district GOP primary.
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 1:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The physical resemblance is uncanny, but it's not the only thing Jay Faison and Tom Steyer have in common. They both are wealthy political environmental activists who have decided they will spend their millions/billions to support the politics of environmentalism and the agenda of Big Solar - one...
Published: Monday, July 20th, 2015 @ 3:48 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I talked this week with one of my moles on Jones Street. This person was absolutely floored by the amount of public feedback in this whole debate on alternative energy mandates and subsidies.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In part one of this series we reported on right-of-center political consultants who have created an innovative business model advising a growing number of Republican legislators to turn their backs on conservative, free-market principles to take up the cause of more government mandates...
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 8:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A proposal before the General Assembly would petition Congress to call a convention of states that would entertain constitutional amendments that, if enacted by the convention, would be sent to state legislatures for ratification.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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$100 million for ONE US Senate race. Most of it flooded in from out of state.
Published: Saturday, November 15th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It is absolutely amazing how many people have reacted to the recently completed elections in the same fashion as they would to athletic events. Yay, Blue Devils! Yay, Panthers! Yay, Thom!
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 11:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As the 2014 election cycle draws to a close, few states have drawn so much national attention as North Carolina, thanks to the tight Hagan-Tillis race, the dramatic turn in state government from blue to red, and our status as a presidential swing state in 2008 and 2012.
Published: Friday, October 31st, 2014 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger Thom Tillis looks like it's about to become the most expensive statewide race in North Carolina history.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Supposedly, the Republican Party is about free markets, individual liberty, and reaping the rewards of hard work.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 3:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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