Analysis of the May 11, 2026 Moms for Liberty press conference outside Cabarrus County Schools On the evening of May 11, 2026, a coalition of activists, elected officials, and political operatives gathered outside the Cabarrus County Schools building for what Moms for Liberty billed as a community press conference on bathroom and locker room policy. … Read more
What does power actually look like in a small town? Not the ceremonial kind — the gavel at a town council meeting, the ribbon-cutting at a new development — but the structural kind. The kind that shapes what gets built, who benefits, and whose phone calls get returned. That question is what the Wake Forest … Read more
This site has been running in the background since March. The work has been happening longer than that. We’re making it public now. Ground Truth NC is a civic intelligence practice based in North Carolina. We help communities, institutions, and coalitions understand the operating environment — what’s actually happening, what it means, and what options … Read more
The phrase is descriptive, not nihilistic. It is a description of the conditions a North Carolina community is operating in right now — federal withdrawal, climate transition, institutional pressure — and a framing that makes space for the practices BIPOC communities have always had to know.
Ground Truth NC describes its work as safety, not security. The choice is operational, legal, and values-driven — in that order. A note on why the language matters and what changes when you change the word.
Civic intelligence is intelligence work in the service of civic life. The same craft — collect, evaluate, structure, present — calibrated for community clients and held to a different set of values than the IC version that produced the discipline.
A strategic assessment of North Carolina’s structural fractures—from the Tuscarora War to the climate siege—and what the current trajectory means for the state through 2060.