Friend:

Help save the North Carolina Green Party from the wide-spread attacks of well-funded corporate Democrat operatives. The NCGP spent almost our entire budget on getting on the ballot for 2022. Now we are in a fight for our survival against voter intimidation and harassment and partisan ruling from the State Board. At this point we don't have the funds to have booths at tables or quality flyers. Please donate whatever you can toward our legal and other vital expenses. 

DONATE to our defense fund

The Democratic Party machine is exerting powerful pressure from its highest levels to attempt to crush our candidates—in particular our US Senate candidate, Matthew Hoh, but the Democrats also aim to stop the NCGP from running future candidates. More on that below.

The NCGP successfully submitted more than 22,500 petition signatures by the May 17 deadline this year, and the county boards of election certified nearly 16,000 of them as valid. That's 2,000 signatures more the required amount of 13,865. (which doesn't even include hundreds of signatures we strongly feel should not have been invalidated.) Despite our huge volunteer-led achievement, last Thursday the State Board of Elections outrageously refused to grant NCGP ballot access in a 3-2 vote, with the board's three Democrats voting against our certification. Not only did those 3 Democrats overturn the will of our 22,500 petition signers, but they also overturned the hard verification work of the county boards of election.

The NCGP is driven by volunteers, so your contributions are needed even more. Help us to affirm our democratic rights by standing up for truly independent politics!

Unprecedented Voter Harassment and Intimidation

To counter the NCGP's huge grassroots organizing feat of collecting over 22,000 signatures, Democratic Party operatives shamelessly obtained copies of our petition signatures by requesting them from the State Board of Elections and then began one of the most aggressive voter harassment campaigns in our state's history: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has enlisted spammers to systematically call and text thousands of our petition signers several times a day to pressure them to retract their signatures from the NCGP petition.

Many of these spammers have outrageously claimed to be representatives of the Green Party, and many have been rude and refuse to say which organization they're with. Even more chilling, the harassers have even been sent to our supporters' homes, including to the homes of NCGP officers. In some of these intimidating encounters, the Democratic operatives defame the NCGP, claiming our petition drive was fraudulent and that we misled people who signed.

Watch CBS17's coverage of the harassment.

This harassment and intimidation have already caused irreparable damage to the petitioning process for candidates and other initiatives in our state—will voters continue to sign petitions, knowing that DSCC operatives might misuse public records to hound them with calls and texts and even show up on their doorsteps? The good news is, the NCGP is fighting back and has received an outpouring of support from third parties, independents, hundreds of Greens, and other folks who signed our petition and have been subjected to the Democrats' harassment. If you have been subjected to harassment or intimidation please submit this intake form. 

Without organizing under the banner of a political party that secures ballot access, progressives, socialists, and others in this state cannot run for most offices due to antidemocratic petitioning laws that make the signature requirements for independent campaigns next to impossible. That is why you rarely see independent candidates in North Carolina for partisan races, such as federal offices, all statewide offices, state assembly, county commissioner, and even council and mayoral seats in several cities. So in order to run strong independent, pro-worker, antiwar candidates, we must run as Greens.

Your contribution to the NC Green Party's Ballot Access Defense Fund will help us:

• Pay for legal fees and other expenses toward getting the NCGP on the ballot and protecting our members and supporters from further harassment
• Pay stipends to petitioners
• Hire phone bankers and text bankers
• Pay tabling fees at fairs, festivals, and other events to get the word out
• Cover materials, printing, and transportation costs
• Run strong NC Green Party candidates for office and fight for political independence from the parties of Wall Street and war!

No one else will fund this work except Greens like you. Please contribute what you can today.

Warm regards and solidarity,

Tony Ndege
NCGP cochair
www.ncgreenparty.org