Meet the volunteers trying to 'FLIP' North Carolina's courts
What they did was create FLIP NC, an all-volunteer grassroots organization co-founded by Amy Cox and Briana Brough. For the next year they knocked on 20,000 doors and sent 250,000 text messages to prospective voters in legislative districts that were competitive in the 2018 elections. Two years later, they worked even harder, making 400,000 calls and sending 1.4 million text messages to prospective voters.
FLIP’s focus in its first few elections was winning competitive seats up for grabs in the legislature. Volunteers wanted to end gerrymandering, and put legislators in office who were not going to draw districts skewed toward a specific political party.
“We want to be able to fight on a fair playing field for our progressive values, and it doesn’t feel like we can do that in North Carolina without fair maps,” Cox said.
But after the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld Republican lawmakers’ gerrymandered maps last year — the high court’s Republican majority reversed a ruling issued by a Democratic majority just months earlier — it became clear to FLIP NC volunteers that they’d need to focus on different races in the 2024 election: those for seats in the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
“We can’t get fair maps,” Cox said. “Now we have to flip the court, then the legislature, so that we can get fair maps in 2030.”
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