In my next term, I’ll keep pushing with energy and urgency to lower costs for working families, strengthen our public schools, expand affordable housing, and make North Carolina the best place in the country to raise a family.

Proud to be endorsed for a second term by some of Durham’s most principled progressives. Steve, Jillian and Javiera aren’t politicians — they are policymakers, mentors and DOERS.

Today, I’m running to preschool drop off, and also for reelection.

We are now 111 days without a budget in North Carolina. Yet last night, NC Senate Republicans tentatively approved plans to redraw our state’s Congressional districts to benefit Trump and further erode our democracy. But don’t take our word for it. They said so themselves! abc11.com/post/nc-redi...

It passed. Republicans in the NC Senate just drew an unconstitutional new map for our state that will ensure MAGA can continue to destroy democracy. Share this & tag national media outlets & influencers. This affects ALL Americans. The house will vote as soon as this afternoon.

My statement on the Governor signing H307 into law.

“When you think you’re alone, you’re not alone.” That’s what @kamalaharris.com said to Nicole Collier when she called. What she’s doing is so much bigger than her, than Texas. She’s taking back her autonomy, resisting authoritarian tactics, setting an example. Thank you!!

I’m honored to earn the endorsement of @emilyslist.bsky.social, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, for my reelection campaign to the NC Supreme Court!

Congresswoman @crockett.house.gov was just districted out of her seat by a state legislature that is 61% white and 73% male. Representative Nicole Collier is being held hostage by the same legislature. Call this what it is: an attack on Black women and Black communities, full stop.

Do I know if we’re going back to work this month? No I don’t. NC has just one General Assembly, and we’re it. Vacation needs to be over, folks. Democrats are ready to get to work.

By the end of next year, 42 million Americans won’t have healthcare. #republicanvalues

Last week reminded us that the state level is where trust in the political process is built — & where it is lost. We need EVERY Democratic legislator to bring the energy, values alignment, & hard work that it will take to fight for an affordable America. #NorthCarolina

We voted against this budget because it’s not a good budget. It doesn’t fund Medicaid — even as coverage for 3.1 million North Carolinians is threatened. It doesn’t fund raises for our teachers. And it neglects our true constitutional duty: passing a REAL budget for this biennium.

Republicans say a bill to ban books and punish LGBTQIA people for existing is to “protect women” but when given an opportunity to actually protect women…

On the same day that a gunman senselessly murdered four people in New York with an assault weapon, our State Senate voted to give MORE people access to guns, making it more likely for incidents like this to happen here in North Carolina. We all deserve better.

Truly shameful. We know that letting anyone carry a gun means more deaths — HUNDREDS more annually in our state. We must break the supermajority in the Senate so that we can uphold the Governor’s vetoes on gun sense, immigration, corporate greed and LGBTQ rights.

How do we elect @roycoopernc.bsky.social and @anitaearls.bsky.social By turning out more voters *IN DURHAM.* We delivered his win margin once, and we’re going to do it again. 💙🐂💙 @durhamdems.bsky.social

This fired up mom is ready for the 2026 Senate race with pom poms, cartwheels, snacks, shoes with little roller skates in them, the megaphone from the garage, my special clipboard, crystals, electrolytes, you name it.

We’re going back into session next week, and I look forward to upholding these and the Governor’s previous vetos!

Mourning the loss of one of our state’s most storied civil rights leaders, James Ferguson — a trailblazer and one of the primary forgers of the Black-Jewish alliance that accomplished so much during the Movement and beyond. May his memory be for a blessing.

Help vulnerable voters get their voter files ready for the upcoming elections! Join Justice @anitaearls.bsky.social and NCDP Chair @abreezeclayton.bsky.social as we reach out to voters to make updates to their voter registration so they can vote with confidence. mobilize.us/ncdems/event/814003/

With no adjustment of pay for cost of living, NC’s state employees would effectively be getting a pay CUT. If the Republicans in the General Assembly are going to back tariffs that fuel inflation, the least they can do is give folks the ability to be able to buy the basics.

Thank you @joshsteinnc.bsky.social for standing up for the safety of ALL North Carolinians and vetoing these bad bills!

Three Wins Today (June 8, 2025) 1. Wed 6/4 - @sophiafornc.bsky.social gave a fantastic speech against the anti immigration bill making it’s way through the legislature about how most violence comes from citizens 1/

Vouchers are just tax breaks for the wealthy. www.wunc.org/education/20...

"I'd love to see us focus on the big problems that our constituents have sent us here to solve instead of what I see as bullying our immigrant community into increased fear." - on HB318 in the Judiciary committee yesterday.

Republicans say they want less regulation, but DON’T BE FOOLED. What they really want is total control over every branch of government. First, they took over the legislature. Then, they made that control permanent by taking over the judiciary.🧵

Today is my 36th birthday!🎂🎉  While I am now old enough to have enough candles on my cake to create alarm among fire safety advocates, what I’m really fired up about is… you guessed it… childcare! 🧵

When I hear news like the Federal DOJ is being called in by NC Republicans to disenfranchise voters, I feel mad. Then I tap into my toddler mom frequency and recognize this for what it is: a tantrum. Boundaries and sturdiness end tantrums. And guess what, NC? We won’t budge for bullies.

"...Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles...🇺🇸🧵

Condemnation is a moment, not a movement. For a movement to be possible, we first need what Rabbi Matt Soffer has called “coalitions of common decency.”

Last night, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky — an American-Israeli Jew and an Israeli Christian — were murdered at an American Jewish Museum during American Jewish Heritage month on American soil. The only appropriate response to this horrific event is condemnation.

This photo really captures motherhood for me: beautiful, fleeting, gritty, confining. For me, motherhood has been an exercise in surrender & in the expansiveness of love, boundaries, and sacrifice. 🧵

Next up: we need to reelect @anitaearls.bsky.social in 2026. When we do that, we can take back the Supreme Court in 2028 and finally END Republican gerrymandering.

Let’s CELEBRATE because today the people prevailed, democracy prevailed @allisonjriggs.bsky.social prevailed. The longest temper tantrum in history has ended, and we have the justice and the Justice we deserve.

Congratulations to @allisonjriggs.bsky.social on the upcoming certification of her election to serve a full 8 year term on the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Black Maternal Health Week is this week but I talk about it every week because this is an emergency, and we need to act like it. #BMHW25 @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social

We can’t care for our children without caring for our caregivers. We can’t just keep asking people to do more with less. It doesn’t have to be this way. (My thoughts on the proposed NC budget so far) #NCPol #NCSenate

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to suppress it.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: the Republican-majority on the N.C. Court of Appeals rules to overturn the decision of the Wake County Superior Court (and the voters in the state) in a 2-1 decision to disenfranchise more than 65,000 voters from LAST year’s election. ⬇️ appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&…

If @crawfordforwi.bsky.social can win in WI, we can start taking back our courts in ‘26 with @anitaearls.bsky.social! #NCPol

Bill you should know about: SB516. Today was the last day of filing! Lots of fun & not so fun surprises. The biggest one is SB516, a time machine back to the economic & human disaster of the ‘bathroom bill’. More to come, watch this space! #NCPol

WE WILL NOT GIVE UP. Grateful to advocates from across Durham, including @momsdemand.bsky.social @everytown.bsky.social & our own Sheriff Birkhead for coming to Raleigh to speak out against the disaster that is SB 50. This bill is headed to the floor on Thursday for a vote - come pack the gallery!

🚨Calling all gun sense advocates: the Senate Judiciary Committee is hearing SB50 TOMORROW 3.18 at 11am in room 544 of the legislative building. Come speak out against this disastrous effort to expand concealed carry (w/o permit!) & show your support for gun sense policies that will save lives #NCPol

I am Bill Nye!!! 🧫🔬🥼Toured AstraZeneca with @zackhawkinsnc.bsky.social today to learn about their innovative respiratory therapies that are being created right here in #Durham & to help deepen workforce development connections to make sure that Durhamites have access to jobs in biotech. #Science

NC SENATE BILLS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT: SB 261. This bill repeals the hard-fought statutory requirement for electric utilities to reduce CO2 emissions 70 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 that passed in HB 951.

NC SENATE BILLS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT: SB58. An act to prevent the Attorney General from challenging the president's executive orders in courts. In other words, a full scale attack not just on Jeff Jackson, but on the office of the democratically-elected AG. #NCPol #DurhamNC

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