Jessica Wakeman (@jessicawakeman.bsky.social)

Democracy Watch: How the shocking killing of a Charlotte woman has shaped the Republican Party’s strategy for winning North Carolina elections against “soft-on-crime” Democrats • Asheville Watchdog Iryna Zarutska, 23, who hoped to find sanctuary in Charlotte half the world away from her native, war-torn Ukraine, was killed Aug. 22 in an attack that shocked the city and the nation. She was on her... https://avlwatchdog.org/democracy-watch-how-the-shocking-killing-of-a-charlotte-woman-has-shaped-the-republican-partys-strategy-for-winning-north-carolina-elections-against-soft-on-crime-democrats/?mc_cid=455cf77a16&mc_eid=b6d6c4df08