“Politics is the science of human happiness - and the felicity of societies depends on the constitutions of government under which they live."

- Founding Father, John Adams, writing in early 1776 in response to a request from drafters of North Carolina’s Constitution, some of whom would go on to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Five years ago this summer, volunteers across North Carolina started working on a plan to help Break the State Legislative Supermajority and restore balance and moderation to the forward-looking State we’ve known, culminating in the formation of Now or Never NC.

We’ve backed 7 new State House members thus far, a majority of whom are women or African-American.    

On Memorial Day, we remembered those who have died in service to our nation. Every day, we honor their sacrifices by exercising the freedoms they helped secure, freedoms enshrined in our federal and State Constitutions.

Today, the unconstitutionally-gerrymandered Supermajority is ramming through a $24 Billion budget released by them just last night, without input or debate for the first time in recent history.

As in the past, we’re in a political struggle for the heart and soul of our State and nation, and we choose to fight here at home.

With 5 years behind us, and the election just 5 months away, we’re envisioning victory, inspired by the words of John Adams, incredible candidates, and your ongoing support. 

Together, we’re built for this moment, and we’re preparing for the sprint to the finish, lifting up and endorsing candidates across the State, and engaging with North Carolinians and friends of the Tar Heel State across the nation.

So, rest up. Prepare to sprint, with victory in mind. 

(May 29, 2018)

Despite hollow protestations from vulnerable State Legislators to the contrary, our citizens have been on the receiving end of unwanted advances from an overreaching disaster of a Legislative body.  Whenever wise investment has been needed to advance our people, or North Carolinians need a hand up, our Legislature has responded with one misguided move after the other, and recently another one came to light.

Hurricane Matthew has decimated part of our State, and we are reminded that our “leaders” raided the our State’s “rainy day fund” of $500,000 needed for disaster relief.  Our elected officials are now contemplating a special session in Raleigh next week; the last time they did that they passed the unmitigated job-killing disaster that is HB2.  We have a suggestion (a "special suggestion" to the Legislature) for any special session: first do no harm. 

Please join us in supporting winnable race challengers who can break the Legislative supermajority and who will go about the actual business of restoring our State. 

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Our journey home continues and the list of candidates who can return us to the North Carolina we know is expanding. 

As selected early this year, Now or Never NC’s initial wave of endorsed candidates for the State Legislature are running in the most winnable of districts based upon historical data (and strategically overlapping districts in the west and northeast): candidates Ball, Beasley, Judge, Schandevel, Futrell, and Hipps.

It is bittersweet to share with you that, because of the continued intransigence and boneheaded moves of our State Legislative “leaders”, and thankfully great challengers running exceptional campaigns in a Presidential election year, our electoral map for State Legislative seats is expanding!

Recently, we have compiled and shared information with you on increasingly competitive State House races, and met with emerging State Senate challengers who are now in a position to defeat incumbents. The result is that Now or Never NC anticipates making additional endorsements and statements of support in additional House and Senate races in the very near future.

In the meantime, please support our first wave of winnable race candidates: Ball, Beasley, Judge, and Schandevel for NC House,  and Futrell and Hipps for NC Senate.

Of course, even with positive trends, precision gerrymandering means there are no shoe-ins. Victories must be earned. So, will you join us? It’s Now or Never for North Carolina, and we’re going home.

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In the coming weeks, we start our journey home to the North Carolina we know. Yes, there may be bumps along the way, though we know who we are, and we know where we’re going.

Election Day is less than ten weeks away, with early voting starting sooner. This Labor Day weekend, as we celebrate the contributions workers have made to our nation, let’s also take a moment to strategically plan for a destination: a North Carolina that is once again a forward-looking beacon in the South and leader in the nation.

In doing so, we recognize leaders past of both parties, and their extraordinary sacrifices and contributions not merely to improving themselves, but to those around them, their communities, and far far beyond. North Carolinians in our greatest tradition. 

By contrast, we know all too well the work of our State’s current “leaders”, and the litany of their senseless, self-inflicted wounds is too long and deep for us to stir over yet again.

There is real work to be done in North Carolina. Our citizens face numerous difficulties in their lives. Each circumstance is unique, though there are many common threads, none of which are solved by Legislators bent on destroying, among other things, public education, jobs, and Constitutionally-protected rights and opportunities.

It is for those reasons, and a grateful recognition of our own various opportunities and talents, that we band together for a purpose greater than ourselves: to reclaim and restore the North Carolina we know.

But we must earn it.

So, will you join us? It’s Now or Never for North Carolina, and we’re going home.

Now or Never NC

P.S. Please click here for a listing of - and to support - our 2016 endorsed candidates.

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Independence Day provides a moment to reflect on our great freedoms, and how by exercising them, we make them more of a reality for all of us. 

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From the mountains to the coast, Now or Never NC is accelerating efforts to support State Legislative candidates who can win.  In June, we will focus in particular on important winnable races in northeast and northwest NC, where House and Senate districts strategically overlap in each region. We encourage you to participate and join us for these and other upcoming events: 

 An evening with northeast NC’s top Legislative prospects.

Our State Legislative leadership has been accelerating the implementation of a social agenda that has been and remains an unmitigated disaster for our State and its people.

Now or Never NC’s supporters overwhelmingly believe that diversity is a national asset, and reject HB2 as an overreaching, discriminatory, and job-killing measure.

Now or Never NC and the Host Committee invite you to join Attorney General Roy Cooper at a Reception to Elect Cynthia Ball, candidate for NC House District 49. "One of the most competitive seats in NC" -- Politics NC