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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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Mar 4, 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 hosting Meet the Candidates with

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Feb 26, 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! IT'S TIME!! Absentee voting by mail is underway, ballot

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Feb 19, 2020: ICYMI This Week

Absentee voting by mail is underway, ballot request deadline is Feb 25. Details here. It's time!! Early voting is underway and ends on Feb 29. VOTER ID IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THE MARCH 2020 ELECTION! Make your plan to vote NOW! Check out Patti's

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Feb 12, 2020: ICYMI This Week

The 2020 primary is around the corner: absentee ballot by mail voting has already started (request deadline is Feb 25), early voting is Feb 13-29,  and election day is March 3. Voter ID is NOT NEEDED for the March 3  primary as long as

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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 29, 2020: ICYMI This Week

Absentee voting by mail has started, the ballot request deadline is Feb 25. Details here. VOTER ID IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THE MARCH PRIMARY. WE NEED YOUR HELP! PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO "KEEP THE LIGHTS ON" THRU 11/3/2020! Don't need the details? Contribute

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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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Jan 15, 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! Thurs, Jan 23, 6:30pm, Chapel Hill Public Library,

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Jan 8, 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! This week's ICYMI is actually three weeks' worth, so

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Dec 18, 2019: ICYMI This Week

Urgent addendum: do you live in Bladen, Cumberland, Currituck, Durham, Franklin, Guilford, Lincoln, Moore, New Hanover, Pitt, Randlolph or Union Counties? The NC Board of Elections will debate and decide on your county's proposed early voting plan this Friday at 11am. Use this online

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Dec 11, 2019: ICYMI This Week

On Friday the 13th, UNC's Board of Governors is meeting to orchestrate their $2.5 million payout to white supremacy. The racist cowards at the BOG negotiated behind closed doors "settle" a lawsuit that had no legal standing and had not yet been filed.

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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 20, 2019: ICYMI This Week

There's still time to register with Flip NC for a December 8th SUPER Canvass coordinating with grassroots volunteers across NC. Join an existing canvass or knock on doors in your area with a few friends! One would be forgiven if one were to compare

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Nov 13, 2019: ICYMI This Week

The public comment portal on the redrawing of Congressional districts is still open! If you haven't left your comment yet, now is your time to ask the NCGA to: Draw Congressional maps that protect voters of color and other  targeted populations by drawing districts

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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 23, 2019: ICYMI This Week

Join Neighbors on Call on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8  PM at Orange County Public Library (137 W. Margaret Ln., Hillsborough,  NC) for Taking on NC Environmental Policy,  a look at environmental justice, climate change action, and the state  level

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Oct 16, 2019: ICYMI This Week

ACTION ALERT: Contact your representatives and urge them to vote AGAINST the Duke Energy rate hike bill, SB559! It could get voted on next week! The NCGA is on break until Monday October 21st, but as we all know, that by no means guarantees

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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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Oct 2, 2019: ICYMI This Week

Republican-sponsored SB250 got a committee hearing yesterday. This bill, alternatively titled “Remove Foreign Citizens from Voting Rolls,” requires state and county boards of elections "to identify non-citizens on the voting rolls...by using records of excusal or disqualification from jury duty.” What it actually

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Sep 25, 2019: ICYMI This Week

Democracy NC has created a wallet card guide for voting in 2019. Hand them out to friends and family-- and strangers! They're free and super handy! Knock on wood, this week will continue to be calm. The NCGA is on break until the end

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Sept 18, 2019: ICYMI This Week

I'll be honest with y'all, I'm (almost) at a loss for words on how to sum up this past week in the NCGA. Two major events happened concurrently: the House and Senate redistricting meetings in the wake of the courts' demand to redraw the

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Sept 4, 2019: ICYMI This Week

VICTORY!! In the gerrymandering case we've all been watching closely, Common Cause v. Lewis, Common Cause, Democrats, and opponents of partisan gerrymandering have won! Read Common Cause's statement here. Read summaries of the ruling on Twitter from Sam Levine of HuffPost and Ari Berman

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Aug 28, 2019: ICYMI This Week

Like a prairie dog popping out of its hole every once in a while, the McCrae Dowless story surfaces again. This time, one of his accomplices, Ginger Shae Eason, said in court on Monday that she had not known what Dowless paid her to