Why are our politics so messed up?

Gerrymandering.

In 2022, Republicans swept our state court races. They now hold large majorities on both our State Supreme Court (5 of 7 seats) and our Court of Appeals (12 of 15 seats).

The new right-wing majority has been trampling our rights and aiding right-wing lawmakers’ unconstitutional power grabs for partisan gain.

It took the unprecedented step of overturning a prior decision that Republicans’ rigged election maps are unconstitutional, instead ruling that any amount of partisan gerrymandering is acceptable.

We cannot get fair maps and return the power to the people until we take back our state courts. We have a path to take back the N.C. Supreme Court by 2028 – before new maps are drawn for the next decade.