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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.
As the 2026 election approaches, the GOP’s Trump-driven gerrymander campaign isn’t just unfolding in state legislatures. It’s also playing out in federal courtrooms where challenges to new congressional maps will be decided.
From Virginia up to Maine, New Jersey out to California, and plenty of places in between, Tuesday was a great night for democracy — and an awful night for President Donald Trump.
The North Carolina election board on Thursday announced a raft of new hires with backgrounds in the state’s Republican politics, including a former aide to the GOP lawmaker who led the state’s recent gerrymander.
Another week, another Republican gerrymander rammed through at the expense of minority voters.
North Carolina voters are once again asking a federal court to step in after Republican lawmakers pushed through what they call an “unnecessary, mid-decade redistricting” that dismantles long-standing Black opportunity districts.
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