One state senator can't pass sweeping legislation alone. And a supermajority can bury bills without a hearing. But every seat at the table matters. And I can put on the record what "yes" would look like.
Require all redistricting proceedings to be conducted in public, with at least 30 days of public comment before any vote. All proposed maps must be published with supporting data at least 14 days before a committee vote.
The 2023 maps were drawn behind closed doors. I'm not asking for an independent commission yet. I'm asking for sunlight.
Politicians don't pick their voters. A 15-member citizens commission draws the maps. Elections are competitive. Legislators have to listen because they could actually lose.
HB 20 (2025), backed by 39 House Democrats, would put it on the ballot for voters to decide. Even Republican John Blust filed independent redistricting bills when his own party had control.
🪑 Play the game Earn Your Seat →Every private school receiving Opportunity Scholarship funds reports standardized test scores, graduation rates, and annual financial audits to the state. No reporting, no funding.
This has already been filed as SB 744 (2025). It already died. File it again. Make them kill it again, on the record.
NC is a top-15 state in teacher pay and per-pupil funding. Teachers don't need second jobs. Class sizes are manageable. The voucher program either has real accountability or it doesn't exist.
Fund the Leandro plan. Raise teacher pay to the top 15. NC is 43rd. Every bordering state pays more. Restore advanced degree pay supplements that NC eliminated in 2013. We were the first state in the country to tell teachers their education doesn't matter.
$0 Deep dive Fix Our Schools → 🍎 Play the game Teacher Run →Require the legislature to appropriate Medicaid funds at the level DHHS determines is necessary to maintain current services. No more manufactured funding crises.
This isn't new spending. It's not expansion. It's "fund what you already promised to fund." The $319M gap happened because the legislature chose to underfund the program, not because the money wasn't there.
Medicaid is fully funded. Reimbursement rates keep providers in the system. Rural hospitals stay open. 650,000 people kept their expansion coverage. Nobody skips medication because they can't afford it.
Expand residency slots at community hospitals. Fund rural loan repayment for doctors who stay 5+ years. NC is projected to be short nearly 8,000 doctors. 92 of 100 counties are health professional shortage areas.
Public, searchable database of every state tax incentive, grant, and economic development deal. For each one: what was promised, what was delivered, and whether clawback provisions were triggered.
I'm not raising taxes. I'm not killing incentive programs. I'm just turning the lights on. The John Locke Foundation agrees with me on this one. That matters in an R+25 district.
Every tax break gets a clawback provision. The corporate income tax phaseout is frozen before it hits 0% in 2030. That's $2 billion a year in lost revenue, and 75% benefits out-of-state shareholders.
Duke Energy's $24.8 million cost shift to residential customers is reversed. If the plant isn't built yet, you don't pay for it yet.
NC already has a property tax relief program, but it's limited to people 65+ or disabled, with a low income cap. And it defers taxes as a lien, which scares people off. Nobody uses it.
Expand eligibility to all ages for owner-occupied primary residences below area median income. Eliminate the lien so excess taxes are forgiven, not deferred. The NC Association of County Commissioners already supports this.
Property taxes don't push longtime homeowners out. Childcare is treated like essential infrastructure. The state stops cutting its own revenue and blaming local governments for raising taxes to fill the gap.
Make childcare costs deductible on state taxes. Reenact the state child tax credit. A bold state CTC would reduce child poverty by nearly one-third, lifting over 100,000 NC kids above the poverty line.
And fix the tax code itself. No state income tax on the first $100,000 you earn. Progressive rates above that. A 6% corporate rate with the first $500K in profits exempt. Sales tax on professional and luxury services, not haircuts or healthcare.
I trust corporations to make money. That's their job, and they're great at it.
But I wouldn't hire a cost-cutting consultant to raise my kids. And that's basically what we're doing when we hand quality-dependent public services to entities whose job is to find efficiencies.
Education. Healthcare. Utilities. When the whole point is quality and access, someone has to be checking the work. The current General Assembly has decided to go all in on corporations for everything. Hand them the schools. Hand them the hospitals. Hand them the power grid. But corporations answer to shareholders, not patients or parents or ratepayers. That's their job. The flaw is pretending they'll do yours.