It's Never Been More Important

From Congress, NC Supreme Court, State Representative, County Board of Commissioners, Board of Education-- there are no 'little' races. 

The Right has its collective eye on all of them. 

So much is at stake--stuff like Medicare and Social Security (the Right would like to get rid of both), abortion access, aid for Ukraine, tax fairness rather than tax cuts for the wealthy, (this is what's undone Liz Truss, Britain's short-lived Conservative Prime Minister)--even democracy itself, as many candidates of the Right continue to push the Big Lie that the 2020 election was compromised.

I was surprised to see that the candidates for judgeships were identified as R or D. In the past they weren't labeled, presumably for the appearance of non-partisanship. Of course, the current Supreme Court has put an end to that pleasant fiction.

Even school boards have become politicized as the right seeks to intimidate and silence teachers while pushing an agenda of 'patriotic' propaganda.

I felt good voting early.  As one friend put it, I'd rather vote for the party that wants to give fourth-graders free lunches rather than the one that would force a pregnant fourth grader to give birth.