Chop Wood, Carry NC 1/31

Hi, all.

I want to quickly spotlight a really important Substack piece on the election theft attempt in NC from Court Accountability Action. It goes into background, the stakes, and current updates on Griffin’s efforts to get over 60,000 North Carolinian votes discarded. And spoiler alert: there’s some incredibly shady stuff happening behind the scenes in this case. The article does a great job of unpacking some of it—here’s an excerpt:

What is happening in North Carolina follows the playbook of what the right-wing dark money groups backing Griffin were planning if Trump had lost the state. Griffin is relying on a theory that “was originated and championed by far-right activists working with a conservative organization that was secretly preparing to contest election results if Trump had lost the 2024 election,” as ProPublica reported… If the networks backing Griffin get away with it in North Carolina, it will become the blueprint for how to steal an election and could become the new normal for other states and in other elections.

In short, the stakes are really high. The more eyes we can get on this, the better, so please send it in your group chats, repost it, etc.

Thanks so much for your work. I know this has been dragging on for a while now, but we can’t let Griffin and the GOP wear us down on this one. Keep fighting.

More soon.

Jess and Una (Jess’s helper on the state newsletters)