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Howard Dean taught us modern campaigning. He pioneered social media outreach and fundraising. As chair of the Democratic National Committ...

Thom Tillis, just back from his annual jaunt to the Koch-snorting ALEC seance in Oklahoma City, has now gotten the religion of "Let...

A group of 30 Big Heads with the portentous title "UNC Advisory Committee on Strategic Directions" is meeting for the first time...

Mark Binker is reporting that Real Jobs NC (remember them?) is about to unleash their Art Pope-financed smeers of Democratic candidates a...

It may have come as a shock to Sen. Dan Soucek to have George S. Robinson file to run against him in the Republican primary for the Dist. ...

The Battleground Group, which designed and handled the mailing of many of the attack pieces on Democratic members of the North Carolina Gene...

"Americans for Prosperity is a nonpartisan, issue-based policy organization and does not support or oppose candidates for public office...

The new NC General Assembly districts drawn by the Clown College in Raleigh make some major changes to Dan Soucek's 45th Senate District...

You will, of course, remember that the General Assembly, under Democratic control in 2009, passed the Racial Justice Act which allows an inm...

It's simple logic at work with the new Republican majority in the NC General Assembly: We can be as extreme as we please , because the f...

Finally! The North Carolina Independent and the Institute of Southern Studies have produced an exhaustive series of investigative pieces on ...

Some totals of outside spending in the NC House & Senate races have become available , and a couple of clear patterns emerge: all of it ...

The implied criticism of Dan Soucek and Jonathan Jordan, newly elected Republican members of the General Assembly, is buried deep in the edi...

Andrew Whalen, executive director of the NC Democratic Party, is calling on fellow Dems to boycott Roses, Maxway, Super Dollar, Value Mart,...

Wilkes County, yesterday. Goss supporters greet the out-of-state bus tour of Americans for the Prosperous. One sign reads: "Free Bus Ri...

Read Dan Soucek's deer-in-the-headlights defense of the nastiness and the money expended by his millionaire friends down-state to help ...

At the Appalachian State University candidate forum last night, it was standing-room-only for head-to-heads between Cullie Tarleton/Jonathan...

Defacement, Wilkes County style.

One-minute cable TV ad .

Art Pope is upping his bid to take over the NC legislative body. From Chris Fitzsimon: The Insider is reporting this morning that Civitas Ac...