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Old North State Report – April 24, 2026

Upcoming Events April 27 Thinkers Lunch featuring Carter Wrenn and Gary Pearce / Insights and Observations on the State's Current Political Landscape May 6 North Carolina Chambe...

Cooper leads Whatley, Earls leads Stevens

Democrats in North Carolina get more good news.

Top NC Democrats want more information about GOP threats over a campus voting site

North Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Anderson Clayton and N.C. House Democratic Leader Robert Reives said Wednesday the public needs to know who pressured the Republicans on...

NC lawmakers still without budget deal three weeks into short session

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Three weeks into North Carolina’s short session, Republican leaders still do not have a final budget deal, but both sides say negotiations are moving in the...

Flurry of new NC constitutional amendments piling up for November ballot

North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders filed two new constitutional amendments Thursday, aiming to load up this fall’s ballot with proposals tailored to attract conservati...

As NC’s US Senate race heats up, GOP lawmakers launch probe of Dem candidate Roy Cooper

Just months before voters cast their ballots in the 2026 U.S. Senate election, North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly announced a committee to investigate the Democratic...

Will map mayhem decide NC’s midterms? One national pollster says not if Democrats stay on message.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a late April decision weakening the Voting Rights Act, several Republican-led states have been rushing to redraw congressional maps ahead of...

NC Democratic Party leader Anderson Clayton runs to the problem – engaging voters

Anderson Clayton, head of the North Carolina Democratic Party, has ambitious goals for a party eager for success after losing control of the state legislature in 2010 and the state...

Amendment to elect State Board of Education members moves forward in NC House

A Republican proposal that would remove the governor’s power to appoint State Board of Education members advanced out of a House committee on Tuesday amid pushback from Democrats t...

North Carolina Democrats Propose Changes to Block GOP Power Transfers and Secrecy

The post North Carolina Democrats Propose Changes to Block GOP Power Transfers and Secrecy appeared first on ProPublica.

The great GOP tax scam continues apace in NC

There are several noteworthy policies and policy choices that have marked the last decade and a half of Republican control of North Carolina state government. Nonstop attacks on vo...

Some NC House Republicans align with Meta to push app store age verification

A group of House Republicans pushing for North Carolina to join other states that have imposed age restrictions on social media use want to go further to require app stores to chec...

NC voters set to weigh in on limiting state income tax and property taxes in November

Each amendment passed narrowly, with unaffiliated Reps. Carla Cunningham (U-Mecklenburg) and Nasif Majeed (U-Mecklenburg) joining the Republicans.

NC Republicans propose banning books, withholding pay over ‘Parents’ Bill of Rights’

North Carolina House Republicans introduced a bill Thursday that would ban books from elementary school libraries and allow the state to withhold salaries from school district lead...

NC Republican leaders announce end to state budget impasse

Republican legislative leaders say they have resolved the major disagreements over tax cuts and spending that have held up passage of a new state budget for more than a year.  Unde...

Supreme Court ruling limiting Voting Rights Act condemned by NC Democrats, lauded by Republicans

North Carolina Democrats mourned Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling severely limiting the protections of the Voting Rights Act, while Republicans celebrated it as a much-needed...

NC Republican legislators have veto overrides on immigration, guns, DEI in their sights

The slate of unfinished business greeting North Carolina legislators when they return to work Tuesday could include consideration of vetoes Republicans want to override.  Vetoed bi...

Republican NC senators propose cuts to the state’s most popular voting method

A state Senate bill filed this week would cut North Carolina’s early voting period by a week, slicing time from the method voters use most in general elections.  Senate Bill 1084 w...

NC Rep Carla Cunningham switches party affiliation after primary loss

State Rep. Carla Cunningham has switched her party affiliation to unaffiliated. The move comes after the Mecklenburg County Democrat lost her primary in March. Cunningham, a seven-...

NC property tax moratorium, on collision course with county budgets, heads for final vote

The North Carolina House on Tuesday approved a controversial proposal to block some local governments from using new property tax revaluations in 2026. Senate Bill 889 was approved...

Heat Turns Up on NC Democrat Senate Nominee After New Database Highlights Criminals Granted Early Release

Plot Twist: NC Democrat Changes Parties, Strikes Back at Governor in Big Time Power Play

Brooks Fuller of Common Cause North Carolina on proposals to make voting in our state harder

  Ever since Republicans captured control of the state legislature at the outset of the last decade, North Carolinians have been witness to a steady stream of proposals designed to...

Republican lawmakers revive effort to elect NC State Board of Education members

Republican lawmakers will once again attempt to change how North Carolina governs public schools, reviving a yearslong debate over who should control education policy in the state....