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Voters in Arizona will have the opportunity to enact broad border security measures in November as the state faces a flood of illegal immigration after the Republican-led state legislature passed a resolution that will put the measures on the general election ballot.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2024 @ 12:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed 30 gun control bills on Tuesday afternoon, using his perch as a Republican governor to restrain Democrats from taking the state in a leftward direction despite the party having taken full control of the legislature in November.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 9:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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A Georgia state senator has been suspended from the Senate Republican caucus after he called for a special session of the legislature over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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Gov. Cooper outlines devastating impacts of Republican legislature’s schemes to give vouchers to millionaires, defund public schools and push culture wars in the classroom and urges North Carolinians to contact their legislators to protect public schools
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 8:57 am
By: Governor's Office
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Ron DeSantis Pushes ‘Toughest’ Illegal Immigration Crackdown In Country With New Legislative PackageThe Republican-controlled Florida Legislature is in the process of considering an aggressive set of legislative proposals from Gov. Ron DeSantis to combat the illegal immigration crisis that has exploded during President Joe Biden’s administration.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 1:08 am
By: Daily Wire
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Immigrant Republican Lawmaker Blasts Democrat Lawmaker Expelled From TN House: He Called Me A ‘Slur’Sabi Kumar, an Indian-American Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, slammed one of the Democrat lawmakers that was expelled this week from the legislature for allegedly making racist remarks.
Published: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 5:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina State Rep. Tricia Cotham is defecting from the Democratic Party, joining the GOP, and delivering Republicans supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature.
Published: Monday, May 1st, 2023 @ 7:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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Third-quarter finance reports dropped Tuesday, November 2nd, and with them came insight into one of North Carolina’s biggest questions for election day, will Republicans regain supermajorities in the state legislature?
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2022 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Don’t be surprised when Republicans retain control of both houses in our legislature in the upcoming November 8th elections. They should.
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 @ 1:33 am
By: Tom Campbell
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“Republicans will need to win two of the five lean Democratic districts to retake a supermajority in the Senate, and eight of 13 lean Democratic districts in the House,” said Jim Stirling.
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new Civitas poll shows that Republican candidates running for U.S. Congress and the state legislature in North Carolina are in good shape heading into the 2022 midterm election.
Published: Thursday, April 28th, 2022 @ 9:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected state congressional and legislative election maps with a party-line 4-3 vote. The court’s four Democratic justices agreed to strike down maps drawn by a Republican-led legislature.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Republicans of the N.C. General Assembly have once again delivered a budget that cuts taxes for all, leaving even more of North Carolinians hard-earned money in their own pockets.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
By: Jeff Moore
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Legislation Will Help Students Who Have Fallen Behind Due to Remote Learning
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 7:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican senators have introduced a bill that would require lawmakers to sign off on any deal settling a lawsuit in which the legislature is a party.
Published: Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In an incredible act of acrobatics, the so-called “fact checkers” bent over backwards this week in order to simultaneously protect Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper from facing the political ramifications of his actions and take shots at the Republican leadership of the state legislature.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The overhaul of North Carolina’s Medicaid’s infrastructure is caught in the stand-off between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican legislature.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 @ 1:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper insists that Medicaid expansion be part of North Carolina’s budget deal for 2019-20. Republican leaders of the legislature disagree.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state government entered its 2019-20 fiscal year on July 1 without a new state budget in place. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led legislature haven’t agreed to one, yet.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper says he won’t sign a new state budget unless the North Carolina General Assembly says yes to Medicaid expansion. The Republican-majority legislature has said no to Medicaid expansion. So far, now weeks into the new fiscal year, neither side has budged.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two Former Republican Legislators Each Shot Dead - In Unrelated Incidents - Within Day Of Each OtherIn a disturbing coincidence, two former state senators – both Republicans – were shot and killed in separate, unrelated incidents in the past week.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 2:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. Supreme Court Friday closed one chapter in a two-year legal battle between Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly. The legislature prevailed
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2018 @ 10:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The main reason Gov. Roy Cooper and other North Carolina Democrats cited for opposing the Republican-led legislature’s new budget plan was that it saved too much and cut taxes too much
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative redistricting reform proponents on the Left have become more vocal since Republicans took control of the legislature in 2010
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2017 @ 9:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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After an extremely close series of elections that inflamed passions on both sides of the aisle, the Republican legislature has proposed something we can all agree on
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 3:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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According to initial voting returns, Republican legislators seem likely to keep clear control of the North Carolina General Assembly, losing one seat overall in the House of Representatives but gaining a seat in the Senate
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2016 @ 10:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Republican state Sen. Tom McInnis expects a "Trump Bump" to send him back for a second term in the North Carolina legislature
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 @ 3:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Republicans have tapped Former Congressman and Party Chairman Robin Hayes to lead the North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) through the 2016 elections.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 11:50 am
By: Christopher Maye
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It has been four years since Republicans took control of our legislature. They now control all three branches of state government.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 11:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 2:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 2:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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For years, the news has been peppered with stories about politicians setting up study panels and commissions to deal with a certain issue.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 11:11 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As Republicans begin their fourth year leading our state legislature it is fair to assess how they and we are doing under their control.
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 10:44 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Last week, the News & Observer published an op-ed by Angela Scioli, a history teacher at Leesville Road High School in Raleigh and founder of Red4EdNC. The piece took aim at the Republican-led legislature for "no longer investing in our students." One of her main points was that things were so muc
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that Republicans are leading both chambers in Congress and in the North Carolina legislature, intra-party differences will garner more attention than they have in the past - particularly from those hoping the new GOP majorities will be chaotic, disastrous, and short-lived.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 5:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Published: Monday, October 27th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When Republicans took control of the legislature in January 2011, North Carolina's economy was struggling, the unemployment rate was 10.4%, citizens and businesses were burdened with a 1930s Depression-era tax code, and the state owed the federal government $2.5 billion.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 10:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Sorry, trick question. No such event ever happened, except in the fevered imagination of liberal editorial writers. While it is true that Republicans, running as fiscal conservatives, took control of the state legislature in 2010 and a majority of North Carolina's county commissions in 2012, the...
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 10:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On July 28 the liberal and uninformed Washington Daily News did an article implying the Republican majority in the Legislature was doing things behind the public's back.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 @ 12:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The meeting of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors on August 9 will be a milestone. Sixteen new members of the UNC Board of Governors will take office - and for the first time in North Carolina history, all voting members have been selected by a Republican legislature (the first 16 w
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2013 @ 2:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Liberal politicians, activists, and commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature. While occasionally goading their targets into making unwise comments, the obstructionists have failed to keep...
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2013 @ 11:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is the state government of North Carolina illegitimate? Based on the volume of emails and Facebook messages I've received lately, liberal politicians and organizations are shopping the idea that the Republican-led legislature and McCrory administration lack the moral authority to enact...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 5:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and political commentators have spent months prodding, baiting, and criticizing new Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-led state legislature. While occasionally goading their targets into making unwise comments, the obstructionists have...
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As should be obvious by now, North Carolina is undergoing dramatic change in 2013. A new Republican governor and legislature are pursuing new approaches to...
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 4:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the run-up to the 2010 elections, we heard a lot of sob stories from NCGA Republicans about how heavy-handed and unfair the Democrats were to them when they ran the legislature.
Published: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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