Record Numbers of LGBTQ+ Candidates Ran For Office in 2022
This year in the United States, more than 90 candidates who identify as LGBTQ ran for Congress, more than ever in history and a 16% increase from the 2020 election.
This year in the United States, more than 90 candidates who identify as LGBTQ ran for Congress, more than ever in history and a 16% increase from the 2020 election.
Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene resigned from his position in front of a packed courtroom in mid-October, several weeks after tapes containing racist remarks he made were released.
The state constitution requires that all candidates for the General Assembly establish residency one year prior to the election. E.C. Sykes does not live in the district he’s running in.
State Sen. Sydney Batch’s opponent Republican Mark Cavaliero, is anti-abortion and supports defunding the state’s largest abortion provider.
“We aren’t going to organize every ‘Housewives’ fan, but people come from all walks of life and there’s a subsection of fans who wanna get political, wanna get active,” said the Working Family Party’s Nelini Stamp.
North Carolina’s Supreme Court races will most likely determine the future of reproductive rights, voting rights, public education and more in our state.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has repeatedly claimed the U.S. is a Christian nation and has used his beliefs to make transphobic comments.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the U.S., has recently launched a six-figure ad buy in key swing states including North Carolina.
People who wanted to dismantle our system of government could soon be the ones in charge of it. North Carolinians could send as many as 10 seditionists to Washington this November.
You may not know their names, but some of the country’s richest people are funneling millions of dollars into Ted Budd’s U.S. Senate race against Cheri Beasley, according to Forbes.