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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyRepublican state legislators In North Carolina are establishing a new investigative body that Democratic critics have aptly compared to a “secret police force.”This new entity, formally known as the Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations, or “Gov Ops” for short, will be chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R). It grants the state the authority to investigate vario...

There's a genuine movement to impose dictatorship in America — and it goes well beyond Donald Trump

“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane.”Now, however, the senior lecturer at Penn State University’s D...

A partisan state committee is empowered to seize “any document or system of record” from anyone who works in or with state and local government. Oh, and they can enter your home without a warrant.

Democrats are sounding the alarm about the "punitive power" given to a key investigative committee.

"North Carolina’s new $300 billion state budget contains a provision that gives extraordinary investigative powers to a partisan oversight committee co-chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R)," Popular Information reports."The Joint Legislative Committee on Gov

“This consolidation of force and coercion is very worrying,” one critic of the provision said.

They are exercising rights theyve had for 50 years, but why should that matter?

The budget our legislature has passed is the cherry on top of the upside-down power grab cake our lawmakers have been baking since January. I say upside down because instead

Misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance