The PoliticsNC Podcast

PoliticsNC is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Transcript: I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 and the Republic is still standing, but your 401(K) is not. Donald Trump introduced blanket tariffs across the globe. He even put tariffs on two islands off the coast of Australia that are in...

Transcript: I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is April 1, 2025 and the universe is smiling down us today. According to reporter Bryan Anderson, Michele Morrow is considering a primary against Senator Thom Tillis. This is not an April Fool’s joke. Morrow is a bat-s**t crazy woman who ran for Superintendent of Public Instruction last year. She took out the incumbent Superintendent in the Republ...

Transcript: I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Thursday, March 27, 2025 and the Republic is still standing but it’s being sabotaged by its own government. The bumbling National Security Team that allowed an independent reporter, Jeffery Goldberg, into a Signal group chat about an airstrike in Yemen keeps stepping on the rake. They’re like a bunch of Keystone Kops. I hear Benny Hill music ev...

Transcript: I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025 and the Republic is still standing–but’s it’s being run by a comically inept government. Yesterday, we learned that our national security team is running our foreign policy on insecure cell phones and commercial apps and while inadvertently leaking classified information to reporters. It seems that National Security Adviso...

Transcript: I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is March 23, 2025 and the Republic is still standing–and the resistance to authoritarianism is taking shape. Over the last few days, Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, better known as AOC, have been touring swing states and drawing huge audiences. Rallies in Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona tapped into the anger Democrats fee...

Transcript: I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Thursday, March 20, 2025 and the Republic is still standing, but it appears to be run by a bunch of racist a******s. The Trump administration repealed Lyndon Johnson’s executive order that banned contractors from having segregated facilities. They claimed the order is part of DEI. It’s really just poking African Americans in the eye, showing th...

PoliticsNC is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Transcript: I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Sunday, March 16, 2025 and the Republic is still standing, though its very foundation is under assault. In North Carolina, Jefferson Griffin and the Republican Party are attacking our democracy by trying to throw...

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Trump is sidling up to Putin and Russia while distancing himself from Western European democracies. Republicans in Congress are complicit in turning the country from liberal democracy toward gangster capitalism. PoliticsNC is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to PoliticsNC at www.politicsnc.com/sub...

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I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Tuesday, February 25, 2025 and the Republic is still standing–but it’s wobbly. Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill has gone dark. Donald Trump is siding Putin and other authoritarians against Ukraine and western democracies. Yesterday, the United States voted with Russia, North Korea, and other dictatorships against a UN Resolution holding Russia accoun...

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