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Mar 11, 2020: ICYMI This Week

THANK YOU to everyone who helped us meet our fundraising goal! Thanks to you, we expect to be able to fully fund our fall election postcard blasts to help get out the vote for Democratic candidates. Forward to November! Democracy NC just put out

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Feb 5, 2020: ICYMI This Week

WE NEED YOUR HELP! PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO "KEEP THE LIGHTS ON" THRU 11/3/2020! Don't need the details? Contribute here. Need the details? Find them here. THANKS for giving what you can and sharing! Neighbors on Call is one of the canvassing groups

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Jan 22, 2020: ICYMI This Week

WE NEED YOUR HELP! PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO "KEEP THE LIGHTS ON" THRU 11/3/2020! Don't need the details? Contribute here. Need the details? Find them here. THANKS for giving what you can and sharing! Absentee voting by mail has started, ballot request deadline

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Dec 4, 2019: ICYMI This Week

The only appropriate ICYMI This (two) Week(s) has to include both Patti's post from last Monday and Michelle's post from this Monday. They teach us something we could always relearn: that gratitude and compassion are necessary states of mind for people like all

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Nov 6, 2019: ICYMI This Week

Join Flip NC for the December 8th SUPER Canvass! On December 8, 2019, FLIP NC is coordinating with grassroots volunteers across North Carolina for a statewide SUPER CANVASS. The message is simple: When we knock, we win! View the results of the election yesterday

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Oct 30, 2019: ICYMI This Week

Join Neighbors On Call for voter registration/ID training on Nov. 7, 6:30 - 8 pm, Durham SW Regional Library. Have you voted in your municipal election? If not, click here for info about early voting sites and hours (now through Nov 1)

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Oct 9, 2019: ICYMI This Week

UPDATE: View the results of the NC municipal elections here! Frustratingly, the Duke rate hike bill has new life again and has cleared the state Senate. Among other things, it would allow "the North Carolina Utilities Commission [to] approve electric rate increases up to

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Jul 31, 2019: ICYMI This Week

ACTION ALERT: Tell the NC Board of Elections to keep its promise to secure our elections, to NOT certify any new voting machines, and to commit to making hand-marked paper ballots the standard in North Carolina. Details below. As we all know, things in

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April 18, 2019: Bills we're watching at the NCGA

Lots going on at the NC General Assembly this week what with the House bill filing deadlines of April 16 for non-budget-related bills and April 23 for budget-related House bills. The Senate bill-filing deadline has passed already. As you can imagine, it's raining bill

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Apr 17, 2019: ICYMI This Week

ACTION ALERT: Both chambers have passed SB359, the so-called “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act". It now goes to Governor Cooper. This bill is unnecessary and redundant (laws already exist to criminalize killing a living infant, whether by force or neglect) and only gives Republicans

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March 20, 2018: NC's Environment - Does solar energy have a sunny future in NC?

We continue our series on environmental issues that may be of concern to voters in the 2018 elections with a look at the status of solar energy in North Carolina. NC ranks third in the country for solar energy and that growing industry currently

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March 19, 2018: NC's Environment - Is our groundwater clean?

We are starting a series of week-long looks at key issues that matter to many voters in the 2018 elections. This week, we'll focus on some of the major environmental issues that North Carolina faces. Find out more about these topics by reading the