According to the conservative @taxfoundation.bsky.social think tank, the Trump tariffs will cost the average American household $1,300 in 2026 alone, lead to a 0.5% reduction in GDP, and cost 436,000 jobs.

Just a self-inflicted economic disaster.

Full report: taxfoundation.org/research/all...

GOP congressmen want the National Guard in Charlotte. Here's where violent crime is a bigger problem. Sure, the data can't always tell the entire story. But one representative who's asking for a deployment isn't suggesting the same solution for a more violent place in his own district.

Spoiler alert: It’s Robeson County.

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I don’t even know where to begin. This week in NC politics has been A LOT…

Y’all, this is such a close race! We have the opportunity to flip this seat and put a young, progressive community organizer who CARES into this seat! Donate if you can.

Also, sign up to canvass. We need to knock ALL the doors in district 3.

Early voting in Guilford County starts Thursday! Find locations and times attached. Vote early - That way, if your registration has been deactivated or is incomplete, you have time to correct it.
#GoVote

Our cost of living is spiraling out of control, with no clear end in sight.

There are many dimensions of our cost of living: housing, electricity, childcare, and especially, food. In the long term, they are a product of our political choices.

“I may not agree with a thing you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Everyone should be able to express their opinions freely. And no one should have to fear being a victim of violence. My thoughts and prayers to his loved ones and for our nation.

Four Messaging Experts on How to Resist the Assault on our Democracy Working advice from Heather Cox Richardson, Nicole Quick of Carolina Forward, George Lakoff, and Thomas Mills of Politics NC

Messaging for the next election.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @georgelakoff.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy @tmillsnc.bsky.social

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Here’s your #NCPol update. You can't make this 💩 up.

In our climate, this should be a requirement. People die from the heat here!!

Irving Allen has been working to better our community longer than I’ve known him, and I’ve known him for 8 years. His voice on the Greensboro City Council will speak up for ALL of Greensboro’s citizens. Please come out and support him on Monday, 8/11.

Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸 I still believe in you. And in your promise. #LibertyAndJusticeForAll

LFG!!!

📣📣📣 Attention friends in Columbus, Bladen, Brunswick, Cumberland, and New Hanover counties:

Give my friend Kimberly Hardy for Congress a follow and your support!!

NC lawmakers are proposing a host of election changes. What you need to know On Wednesday night, lawmakers released a bill that stands to make a number of changes to how elections are conducted. Here's what you should know

andersonalerts.substack.com/p/nc-electio... NC lawmakers mull major election changes. What you should know

Credit to @bryanranderson.bsky.social
for spotting the bill and @carolinaforward.bsky.social for the summary above.

Interesting postscript to this: one of the Republican sponsors of this bill is Rep. Sarah Stevens, the GOP candidate for NC State Supreme Court in 2026. 👀

* bar Attorney General @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social from representing NC SBE in court, and allocate $1.5M of taxpayer money to pay for private Republican attorneys instead
* change campaign finance disclosure rules to require less transparency around Election Day.

House Bill 958 would:
* convert 38% of NC SBE
employees into Republican political appointees, and add 7 more
* permanently ban ranked-choice voting statewide

Introduced last night - HB 958, which should be entitled “How To Rig Elections and Disenfranchise Voters.”

Thank you @ncgovernor.bsky.social!

📣EMERGENCY RALLY THIS WEDNESDAY

Governor Stein still has not vetoed HB318 or SB153, two dangerous anti-immigrant bills that will expand ICE’s presence in NC.

‼️Join us at the Governor’s mansion to make our voices loud and clear: ICE OUT OF NC!

@carolinaforward.bsky.social

We had a huge turnout in High Point for the #NoKings protest! Thank you everyone who stopped by the @carolinaforward.bsky.social table to see me! And thanks to our partners at @indivisiblegconc.bsky.social for organizing!

NO KINGS High Point · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

Come out for the No Kings protest tomorrow and stop by and see me at the @carolinaforward.bsky.social table!!
NoKingsProtest
@indivisiblegconc.bsky.social
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... NO KINGS High Point · No Kings

Correction: 2 Republicans voted no - Davis and Rep. William Brisson.

All @nchousedems.com and one Republican, Rep. Ted Davis, Jr.,
voted against it. They have our thanks for taking a stand for sensible gun legislation.

This just passed by a House vote of 59 to 48. Now it goes to @ncgovernor.bsky.social to sign.
@carolinaforward.bsky.social #GunBills

Inside Trump's push against school desegregation plans Lifting desegregation policies set by federal rules and court orders — some of them a half-century old — could lead to a range of changes in more than 80 school systems.

And there it is - what they really mean when they say Make America Great Again. They’re trying to bring back legalized segregation.

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