Mayday PAC staffers comment on "missing" $5 million, critics, holding their...
Psst, guys...your Freenode IRC channel's log is public, you know. Ix-nay on the rutal-bay onesty-hay! Demonstrating a surprising but impressive level of commitment to transparency, anti-PAC Mayday...
View ArticleVoters guide to 2014 North Carolina State Supreme Court elections
At last month’s NAACP “Vote Your Dreams, Not Your Fears” rally in Raleigh, NC (featuring Dr. William Barber), NCCU Law professor and a member of the NC NAACP legal team, Irv Joyner, told the crowd:The...
View ArticleMayday PAC moves the needle (week of 9/18): Crisis Management Edition
Yet another in a so-far unbroken series of Advantage: Republican weeks for Mayday PAC and its "Buy Republicans First" strategy. It was a quiet week in Lake Wobegone, with anti-PAC Mayday PAC's...
View ArticleMayday PAC moves the needle (week of 9/25): Staci Who? Edition
Same-old same-old: another in an unbroken series of Advantage: Republican weeks for Mayday PAC. With seven weeks of spending behind it and just six more to go before the election, anti-PAC Mayday PAC...
View ArticleThe men who would own the stars: Why we need a Bill of Rights for the universe
James T. Mangan (right), the man who owned the Universe, circa 1949 On December 20, 1948, Chicago publicity man James T. Mangam laid claim to sole ownership of the Universe (excluding only the Earth),...
View ArticleMayday PAC moves the needle (week of 10/2): Parsimonious Paradox Edition
No surprise: another in an unbroken series of Advantage Republican weeks for Mayday PAC. With just a hair over four weeks left until the Nov. 4th election, Mayday PAC once again this week spent like...
View ArticleMayday PAC REBOOTS: Engages Progressive Change Campaign Committee, endorses...
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig's anti-PAC, Mayday PAC, has certainly seen its share of roller coaster thrills and chills in its five short months of life so far. Born with great promise (raising an...
View ArticleNorth Carolina's same-sex marriage ban overturned
Breaking news:A federal judge in North Carolina has struck down the state's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional, opening the way for the first same-sex weddings in the state to begin immediately. U.S....
View ArticleReacting to Marriage Equality, North Carolina reasserts its progressive...
Can't you see the sunshine? Can't you just feel the moonshine? My adoptive home state, North Carolina, is certainly a state of contradictions. Pulled, as it is, between its Southern heritage and its...
View ArticleLaura Fjeld [NC-06] comes out swinging against the Mad Mexico Bomber, Mark...
Democrats in North Carolina's freshly gerrymandered sixth Congressional district are rooting for Laura Fjeld in her campaign against fellow political newcomer, former Baptist preacher, and batshit...
View ArticleMayday PAC moves the needle (week of 10/10): Hey Big Spender Edition (MI-06)...
The End is Near: Mayday finally starts spending big on select Democrats Since its inauguration in early August, the Mayday PAC 'Advantage Gauge' (reporting the PAC-to-end-all-PACs' net differential in...
View ArticleOn war and rape, tea party pastor Mark Walker (R; NC-06) stumbling badly
Coming into the home stretch, tea party Baptist preacher Mark Walker (R; NC-06) is suddenly starting to sound noticeably uncomfortable regarding his standing versus his opponent for this open House...
View ArticleThe Devil made him do it: pastor Mark Walker (R; NC-06) forswears PAC money,...
"...And dang if that trout wasn't THIS big. No, really - as God is my witness!" As if threatening war on Mexico and championing rapists' reproductive rights wasn't enough to establish his...
View ArticleNorth Carolina governor's hired gun, Butch Bowers, attacks Rev. William...
On the first day of early voting this year, North Carolinians faced unprecedented lines at the polls thanks to Republicans' new voter suppression laws. Gov. McCrory's attorney, Butch Bowers, thinks it...
View ArticleNorth Carolina turns blue! Early voting data deep dive (10/27 Edition)
This is Part 1 of a 6-part series. Collect the whole set:1 (10/27), 2 (10/28), 3 (10/29), 4 (10/30), 5 (11/1)North Carolina's Board of Elections provides a wealth of early-voting data in near-real...
View ArticleNorth Carolina turns blue! Early voting data deep dive (#2: 10/28 Edition)
Voting is heavy this year in North Carolina. But if you think that's exciting, wait till you see what's below the fold.This is Part 2 of a 6-part series. Collect the whole set:1 (10/27), 2 (10/28), 3...
View ArticleNorth Carolina turns blue (#3: 10/29 Edition): New index trending liberal
See text for discussion of what the LCT Index is, is not, and how to interpret it.This is Part 3 of a 6-part series. Collect the whole set:1 (10/27), 2 (10/28), 3 (10/29), 4 (10/30), 5 (11/1) Yesterday...
View ArticleNorth Carolina turns blue (#4; 10/30): Voter suppression FAIL Edition
There: we're fixing it.This is Part 4 of a 6-part series. Collect the whole set:1 (10/27), 2 (10/28), 3 (10/29), 4 (10/30), 5 (11/1) With its radically abbreviated early-voting period now 80% complete,...
View ArticleNorth Carolina turns blue (#5, 11/1): Repent! The end is near
Heading towards the Nov. 4th finish line, Dems have racked up a big lead in early voting.This is Part 5 of a 6-part series. Collect the whole set:1 (10/27), 2 (10/28), 3 (10/29), 4 (10/30), 5 (11/1) By...
View ArticleWhy progressive North Carolinians will march on Raleigh Feb. 14th - and why...
2014's Moral March on Raleigh Saturday morning, February 14th, will witness the 9th annual Moral March on Raleigh and People's Assembly, organized as always by North Carolina's remarkable chapter of...
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