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stated on January 14, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Video shows a dam breaking Sept. 28, 2024, in North Carolina.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 3, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on January 24, 2025 in a video on TikTok:

“JD Vance is in North Carolina, and he’s found furnished apartments to put the people in that have been living in tents.”

By Madison Czopek • January 30, 2025
Facebook posts
stated on January 21, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“FEMA has been directed back to North Carolina with $2 billion in emergency funds: ‘We transferred it from the programs that fund welfare for illegals. They don’t be needing it.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 24, 2025
Facebook posts
stated on January 10, 2025 in a post on Facebook:

“So (Los Angeles), Hollywood, and California (get) 100% aid for the next 180 days while Western North Carolina got $750.”

By Madison Czopek • January 16, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on December 4, 2024 in a video:

Mitchell County, North Carolina, sheriff’s deputies “stole” generators intended for Hurricane Helene victims.

By Paul Specht • January 6, 2025
Facebook posts
stated on November 30, 2024 in a video:

Six hundred body bags were “filled the first day” of Hurricane Helene recovery in North Carolina.

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 13, 2024
X posts
stated on November 12, 2024 in a social media post:

“Red Cross is set to close shelters across North Carolina on Nov. 15. Families staying in these shelters are being told: ‘If you don’t have a safe place to take your children, you won’t be leaving with them.’”

By Paul Specht • November 18, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on November 5, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Photo shows 2024 ballots cast for Republicans in North Carolina that a postal worker said he was going to make “disappear.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 6, 2024
Lisa Grafstein
stated on October 12, 2024 in a campaign mailer:

Scott Lassiter “repeatedly campaigned to promote” North Carolina's “largest-ever” school funding cut, sending public school money to “unaccountable private schools” and ending science education.

By Paul Specht • October 25, 2024
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stated on October 17, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster was arrested “for aiding FEMA in deep state’s ‘eminent domain’ takeover of North Carolina.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 24, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on October 11, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“Kamala Harris staged hurricane relief photo op with C-17, no supplies sent to victims.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 17, 2024
Social Media
stated on October 9, 2024 in social media posts:

“FEMA helicopters caught disrupting North Carolina supplies by using a ‘rotor wash’.”

By Mia Penner • October 16, 2024
Terence Everitt
stated on October 11, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:

Republican state Senate candidate Ashlee Adams “campaigned for Mark Robinson and his radical agenda.”

By Paul Specht • October 12, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on October 4, 2024 in Facebook posts:

The government gave $3,500 debit cards to immigrants while giving only $750 to Hurricane Helene victims.

By Sofia Ahmed • October 11, 2024
Social Media
stated on October 4, 2024 in social media posts:

FEMA, FAA are “blocking” delivery of Starlink devices and supplies to North Carolina’s hurricane-hit areas.

By Madison Czopek • October 8, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on October 6, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“Out of the 28 North Carolina counties destroyed by Hurricane Helene, 26 of them supported President Trump in the 2020 election … If you’re wondering why the government hasn’t helped these people, now you know why.”

By Loreben Tuquero • October 7, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on October 6, 2024 in an Instagram post:

FEMA “blocked a runway” at a South Carolina airport and “halted” hurricane relief flights.

By Jeff Cercone • October 7, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on October 2, 2024 in a video on Facebook:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency “is confiscating supplies and donations!”

By Madison Czopek • October 6, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on September 26, 2024 in an Instagram post:

North Carolina removed 747,000 voters from the voter rolls to try to “steal the election.”

By Madison Czopek • October 4, 2024
X posts
stated on August 27, 2024 in a social media post:

The order of candidate names on North Carolina’s ballot shows a “clear attempt at voter manipulation.”

By Paul Specht • August 28, 2024
Viral image
stated on August 17, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Video shows former President Donald Trump thought he was in North Carolina while he spoke in Pennsylvania.

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 22, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”

By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows a pink dolphin spotted off the North Carolina coast.

By Sara Swann • June 24, 2024
Anderson Clayton
stated on May 10, 2024 in a social media post:

“Justice Paul Newby is out here removing judges who were elected to their positions by the voters of North Carolina!!!”

By Paul Specht • June 3, 2024
Kelly Daughtry
stated on April 1, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:

“Brad Knott was a lawyer for Joe Biden.”

By Paul Specht • April 25, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2024 in a speech:

“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that (the 2020 election) was a rigged election.”

By Paul Specht • March 7, 2024
Thom Tillis
stated on January 8, 2024 in a press release:

Police made ‘no arrests’ of protesters who blocked Durham Freeway

By Paul Specht • January 19, 2024
Mark Robinson
stated on November 9, 2023 in a social media post:

North Carolina Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein “supports taxpayer-funded abortion on demand with no restrictions up until birth.”

By Paul Specht • December 11, 2023
Tricia Cotham
stated on September 25, 2023 in an interview on WBT-FM:

The North Carolina state budget includes “the largest cut in our personal income tax that we’ve ever seen.”

By Paul Specht • October 9, 2023
Roy Cooper
stated on August 24, 2023 in a veto statement:

GOP-authored elections bill “requires valid votes to be tossed out … if a computer rejects a signature.”

By Paul Specht • September 1, 2023

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