Mike and his son Joaquin live in Cary. Mike is a preschool director/owner, and Joaquin is a junior at Enloe Magnet High School. Mike was active in local and national political campaigns in college and previously taught high school civics. They have enjoyed discussing politics since Joaquin was very young, and they decided this election would be a great opportunity for them to put that love for politics into action. Joaquin has canvassed three times with FLIP NC, and Mike has canvassed twice.

Check out this Q&A with Mike and Joaquin, and then sign up to join them at an upcoming canvass!

NC Newsline featured FLIP NC in a story that was published on April 18.

We appreciate Kelan Lyons’ reporting on the history of FLIP NC and our recent pivot to focus on judicial elections so that we can end gerrymandering in North Carolina.

Read the full story here.

Lopa lives in Durham her husband, Neelesh, their 9- and 12-year-old kids, and their two rescue dogs. She works 150 hours a week as a personal assistant, driver, chef, therapist, life coach, maid, tutor, mind reader, and more. “Being a stay-at-home parent is seriously the hardest job ever,” she says. In what little free time she has, she also volunteers with FLIP NC. We are so glad she does!

Check out this Q&A with Lopa, and then sign up to join her at an upcoming canvass!

On March 7, FLIP NC was represented on the airwaves, via an interview with Aaron Keck of WCHL.

Republicans currently control both our State Supreme Court and our Court of Appeals. We have an opportunity to take back both courts by 2028. Thankfully, we have some outstanding Democratic candidates for all of the seats up for election this year!

In January, we sat down with Justice Earls, one of two Democrats and the only Black judge on the N.C. Supreme Court, to discuss her civil rights background, how the state courts affect the day-to-day lives of North Carolinians, what cases are expected to come before the court in the coming weeks, and more. Read part two of our interview.

In January, we sat down with Justice Earls, one of two Democrats and the only Black judge on the N.C. Supreme Court, to discuss her civil rights background, how the state courts affect the day-to-day lives of North Carolinians, what cases are expected to come before the court in the coming weeks, and more. Read part one of our interview.

One of the most effective ways to turn out voters who might not otherwise vote is direct contact from someone they know. Your friends and family are much more likely to take your call or respond to your text than to a volunteer’s. The chances are good that you know someone who hasn’t voted yet, doesn’t plan to vote at all, has questions about how/where to vote, or doesn’t plan to vote the full ballot. Or you know someone who knows someone who plans to sit this one out. Maybe you can be the spark. If every North Carolinian talked with three friends about voting between now and the election, our democracy would be healthier for it. And the chances of a blue wave would increase, because Democratic voting increases when turnout is higher.

A Bay Area attorney, Sara discovered FLIP NC through Vote Save America’s Adopt a State program, selecting North Carolina as the state to focus on because she has family here, attended school here, and first voted and organized in Durham. “I have been appalled at the rampant disenfranchisement in the state over the past several years,” she says. “I am determined to help change that course.”

Sara’s hobbies include surfing, learning new languages, traveling, and running – plus she’s been working on a lot of DIY projects during the pandemic. She has been politically activated for most of her life and has never missed an election.

Read this Q&A with Sara, and then join her as a FLIP NC volunteer in these final days before the election!

Andrew lives with his wife, their 11-year-old son, a chocolate lab, and “what is arguably the worst cat in the greater Chapel Hill area.” He works as an enterprise architect for a financial services company, specializing in architecture governance and standards.

He is a part of FLIP NC’s Social Voter Program, tracking the many productive conversations he is having with friends, relatives, and acquaintances around voting in North Carolina this fall. Voter outreach isn’t just about talking to strangers! Read this interview with Andrew, and then sign up for our next Social Voter Program information session on Saturday, Oct. 3 at noon.

Callahan is from a very conservative part of South Carolina and understood from an early age that she was a feminist who supported a woman’s right to choose, knew climate change was real, and believed people shouldn’t be discriminated against based on race, sexual orientation, gender, and all the other factors of identity.

When she went to college in Massachusetts, she left one bubble for another – on the opposite side of the political spectrum. There, she learned to question her own beliefs and understand her privilege. Joining the university student government really jumpstarted her interest in politics.

“Like much of the country, I’ve been all consumed for the last four years,” she says, “but it’s only in the last year when I started actively volunteering to make sure Democrats win in November.”

Check out this Q&A with Callahan, and then sign up to join her for an upcoming virtual phone bank!

Voting amidst a pandemic has generated a lot of questions – and led to a rise in popularity of voting by absentee ballot. As of Sept. 21, about 950,000 North Carolina voters have requested the absentee ballot.

Here’s a quick guide to voting by absentee ballot in North Carolina in 2020.

Michal is a retired cancer epidemiologist who came to us through a DC/Maryland/Virginia grassroots political group called 31st Street Swing Left. She has been married 33 years to a bioethicist/lawyer. They have two adult children – both are politically active through their work and outside of it.

Michal says she has been “intermittently politically engaged.” For several years – before she went back to school to become an epidemiologist – she helped run the issues office of Common Cause. More recently, she’s been active with the Sierra Club on climate change. And, of course, she’s made herself indispensable as a FLIP NC phone banker!

Check out this Q&A with Michal, and then sign up to join her for an upcoming virtual phone bank or text bank!