New from me: What would the redistricting scheme to hand the GOP 5 new seats in Texas look like? North Carolina holds the answer. 2 years ago, the GOP majority in the state's high court and legislature maneuvered to eject 3 Dems from Congress. @rawstory rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

He served as mayor of Greensboro for a decade from 1971 to 1981—a period of rapid growth, social change, and shocking violence that, in some ways, continues to define the city. He left office, he would say, but never left service. theassemblync.com/greensborothre…

New from me: However the redistricting war between Texas and California gets resolved, Wiley Nickel 🇺🇸 warns that "it's going to get worse for Democrats" after the 2030 Census. rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

Democratic states must respond in-kind to any mid-decade Republican gerrymandering. The future of our democracy is on the line. Enjoyed talking with Jordan Green, investigative reporter of Raw Story about what’s at stake in this next election. rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

The Pentagon is reportedly planning to mobilize thousands of National Guard forces and deploy them in Chicago for the purpose of crime control. Trump is on even thinner legal ice with this plan than he is in Los Angeles and D.C. 1/12 washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

EXCLUSIVE: Military investigative files show Marines were investigated for ties to pro-Russian neo-Nazi group and retaining a secret military document. Raw Story sued to obtain the records from NCIS. Big props to Dave Levinthal for taking the initiative. rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

NEW: The Base, a neo-Nazi accelerationist group that made waves in the US from 2019 to 2021. Spotlighting the group's reactivation in Ukraine & the US, a new report by Institute for Strategic Dialogue renews questions about whether the Base is a Russian asset. (gift link) rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

Charlie Kirk's murder confronts us with the question of whether we're about to tumble into a downward spiral of political violence. Maybe, but a lot depends on whether we as a collective embrace an enabling culture celebrating violence. With Alexander Reid Ross rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

EXCLUSIVE: Marine Corps Col. Thomas Siverts, assigned to the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, appeared on his younger brother's podcast. The "Berm Pit" podcast has become increasingly extreme, and featured a call for the execution of SecDef Pete Hegseth. rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

BREAKING: Kai Nix, an ex-soldier linked to Patriot Front, has pleaded guilty to selling a stolen firearm to an FBI informant. Government dropping charge for lying on security clearance application that he had never been member of insurrectionary group.rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

NEW: Trump's recent counterterrorism memorandum naming antifascism as the unifying element behind rising political violence puts the leftist John Brown Gun Clubs squarely in the administration's crosshairs. A UNC professor is the first casualty. #NSPM7 rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

#BREAKING: In a letter to city leaders & the mayor, the CharMeck FOP is requesting the National Guard be sent to #Charlotte. The FOP cites 15 homicides since the death of Iryna Zarutska. "The current crime-fighting strategies and strained staffing are unsustainable." WSOCTV

BREAKING: UNC Chapel Hill is reinstating Professor Dwayne Dixon following threatened lawsuit by ACLU of North Carolina for violating his free speech and association rights. Dixon had been suspended in response to a dubious controversy related to Charlie Kirk's death. rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

NEW: The Trump administration has set the precedent that lethal force against terrorists is justified, as it mulls designating "antifa" as a "foreign terrorist organization. The designation would allow the government to prosecute for "material support." rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

Sen. Slotkin connects all the dots. Trump is completely telegraphing all his moves. All we have to do is open our eyes.

I’ve seen this movie before — and I didn’t like the ending. NC Republicans gerrymandered me out of my seat and cost Democrats control of Congress. Now they’re coming for Don Davis. They couldn’t beat him at the ballot box, so they’re going to cheat. That’s not democracy — it’s

South Carolina Republicans are gunning for US Rep. Jim Clyburn's seat if SCOTUS dismantles the Voting Rights Act #SCOTUS #VRA #CivilRightsRollBack

Newly proposed #ncga Congressional redistricting map just dropped. Looks like it swaps a few counties in the east to make NC-1 into a district where Trump got 55% last year, while moving Rep. Don Davis' home county into GOP Rep. Greg Murphy's district #ncpol