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North Carolina’s GOP-controlled election board announced it’s sending letters to hundreds of thousands of voters whose registrations were flagged in a database review — a move that puts them at risk of disenfranchisement.
This week, President Donald Trump and the GOP kicked their intertwined anti-voting crusades — promoting lies about the 2020 election, and restricting voting in 2026 and beyond — into high gear. And we tracked them every step of the way.
North Carolina election officials are considering a plan to flag voters as “presumptive noncitizens” and potentially strike them from the state’s voter rolls.
A group of North Carolina students sued Republican state officials to restore early voting sites on three college campuses across the state, including at the U.S.’ largest historically Black college.
From California to Virginia, this was a good week for voting rights and fair elections. And we kept you up to date on all of it.
As Black students silently protested, Republican state officials denied their request to provide a primary election early voting location at North Carolina A&T State University, the largest of the country’s historically Black colleges and universities.
Republicans on county election boards are advancing proposals to the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) that would make it harder to vote — especially for student, minority and working-class voters.
A federal court ruled Wednesday that North Carolina’s new congressional gerrymander — pushed by President Donald Trump to give Republicans another U.S. House seat — can be used for the 2026 elections.
“College students can just roll out of bed, vote, and get back into bed,” Cleta Mitchell said, falsely claiming that “students are going to vote 95 percent [for] one party.”
Opponents of the GOP-backed map in North Carolina got their day in court Wednesday, asking a panel of three federal judges to block what they describe as a racial gerrymander drawn at the expense of Black voters.
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