North State Journal: “N.C. Democrats are confronting a trend working against them in the last 30 years of elections: they’ve won just two U.S. Senate races in that time frame. In the 10 U.S. Senate races in that time (1992, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2020) they’ve managed to win just twice,…
“POLITICAL RETIREMENTS WILL PAINT TEXAS A FRESH COAT OF RED IN 2022”
TX Observer: “Like a political etch-a-sketch, Texas’ new maps shook away the geographic, demographic, and partisan sorting that successfully secured GOP majorities through the 2010s and drew a new political landscape that Republicans expect will get them through the 2020s. Red seats were drawn redder, blue seats bluer. Competitive districts were all but eliminated. Soon…
Florida Whisper Campaign Seeks to Tarnish VP Harris
Politico: “Florida Democrats are sounding alarms over what they believe is a sustained and coordinated campaign rapidly unfolding across Spanish-language media to tarnish the image of Vice President Kamala Harris. Democratic veterans in the state are unnerved by the ferocity and speed of the attacks, which have come from callers and guests on local radio…
A Look at One TX Man’s Role in Spreading Election Disinformation
NY Times: “A few days after President Biden’s inauguration put to rest one of the most chaotic transitions in U.S. history, a former Army colonel with a background in information warfare appeared on a Christian conservative podcast and offered a detailed account of his monthslong effort to challenge the validity of the 2020 vote count….
NC Sheriff Refusing to Remove Huge Bible Quote Saying “I can do all things through Christ…” from Public Building
News and Observer: “A Bible quote painted in the hall of one North Carolina law enforcement agency has ignited a very public spat between a Christian county sheriff and the national Freedom from Religion Foundation. The foundation is demanding the New Testament quote be removed and hints legal action could follow. The sheriff of Columbus…
“‘Negro Durham [NC] Marches On’: Library to Preserve 1940s Film Documenting Hatyi’s Prime”
News and Observer: “Former state Rep. Henry “Mickey” Michaux was a student at North Carolina College (now N.C. Central University) in 1948 when the talk of the town was that Don Parrisher would be making a film about Hayti, Durham’s historic Black neighborhood. Parrisher was a white filmmaker known for his reels documenting towns and…
“Texas Board Pulls George Floyd Pardon Recommendation”
Political Wire: “George Floyd will not be posthumously pardoned for a 2004 Houston drug charge because the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles withdrew its recommendation, the Dallas Morning News reports.”
TX AG Burning Money with Largely Fruitless Anti-Voter Fraud Division
Off the Kuff: “Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been one of former President Donald Trump’s most reliable allies in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud, particularly in the 2020 election, and frequently boasts that few states are as vigilant. His office’s election integrity unit added two lawyers to the team in the…
“University of Alabama Faculty Senate formally opposes ban of critical race theory”
AL Political Reporter: “The University of Alabama Faculty Senate has officially passed a resolution stating its opposition to legislation banning critical race theory. The group had previously discussed a resolution by the state school board banning the theory at the K-12 level as well as the potential of legislation in the upcoming session that could impact higher…
“The push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries”
TX Tribune: “When the Llano County Library shuts down for three days this week, starting Tuesday, it won’t be for the holidays. Instead, a group of six librarians in this small Central Texas county will be conducting a “thorough review” of every children’s book in the library, at the behest of the Llano County Commissioners…