Drew Swanson is Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Distinguished Professor of Southern History at Georgia Southern University. This interview is based on his new book, A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North...
Mark Robinson is running for governor of North Carolina. Watch his speech at Ralph Reed’s Road to Majority conference: Robinson was the first non-candidate to make an endorsement: The right move [for America] is to get someone into office who...
Check out Jornter’s piece, “The Supreme Court’s biggest case this term threatens American democracy.” Here is a taste: Moore v. Harper is perhaps the most significant case of the U.S. Supreme Court term beginning Monday. At stake is the question of...
On Tuesday, North Carolinians dumped evangelical frat boy Madison Cawthorn. Yesterday he gave us more evidence as to why he wasn’t fit to serve in Congress. Perhaps some of you have already heard about the “Dark MAGA” Instagram post. In...
The Washington Post video team is running a mini-documentary on pastors running for political office. The piece features Cameron McGill, a Bladen County Commissioner and pastor of White Lake Church. McGill was “recruited and trained” by the American Renewal Project....
Lance Greene is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wright State University. This interview is based on his new book, Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (University of Alabama Press, 2022)....
The pro-Trump Congressmen may be disqualified from running again. Here is Kyle Cheney at Politico: The North Carolina attorney general’s office says a constitutional prohibition on insurrectionists seeking federal office could be applied to GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn if a...
North Carolina House Bill 324 forbids K-12 teachers from teaching: One race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex. An individual, solely by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive,...
I found Amy Gardner’s piece at The Washington Post through Tom Sullivan’s post at Hullabaloo. There was once a time when the GOP loved mail-in voting. No more. Here is Gardner: Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine...
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham seems to think so. And, sadly, he may be right. If Marjorie Taylor Greene can get elected to Congress, why not Lara Trump? Both her and Greene embody GOP values right now. Here is Ray...
