In the 2016 election cycle, total amount the National Rifle Association contributed to congressional candidates: just over $1 million
Percent of Americans who assign a lot of blame for dysfunction in the political system to “wealthy political donors” and “money in politics”: 65
Date on which the administration of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) approved a key water quality permit for his state’s portion…
Trump is proposing to open to oil and gas development vast untouched areas of coastal waters including the Atlantic and the eastern Gulf of Mexico
Number of people who rallied this week in Washington and cities nationwide to call on Congress to pass a Dream Act as…
Organizers will kick off a nationwide effort on Dec. 4 to carry on the work of the first Poor People’s Campaign, launched on the same date 50 years earlier by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Percent of the population within a mile of the ACP’s route through North Carolina that’s Native American: 13.2
Margin by which Northam defeated Gillespie, who ran a racially charged campaign that focused on restricting immigration and defending Confederate statues: 54-45
Trump’s former campaign chair was a GOP operative who worked to build support for the party among whites by appealing to their racism against African Americans
Date on which the deadliest mass shooting by a single person in modern U.S. history took place at a country music festival…
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