worst voter suppression bill in the nation. Maybe they are just skilled liars. Maybe they are just seriously deluded. Or maybe they have been consuming a steady diet of their own BS for so long — fed to them by think tanks, Fox News, talk radio and social media — that they actually believe it.

Wednesday night after the second reading vote on the Voter Information Verification Act (House Bill 589) in the NC state senate, a group of protesters sat in at office of House Speaker Thom Tillis:

Six people were arrested following a brief sit-in Wednesday night in House Speaker Thom Tillis' office.

The group was protesting the Senate's proposed voting restrictions and voter ID law. The bill passed the Senate in a second reading Wednesday.

The protesters walked into Tillis' office shortly before 8 p.m. and said they wanted to meet with the Speaker and ask him to stop HB 589 in the House.

"What I witnessed ... was the operation of an oppressive government," said Bree Newsome, 28, of Raleigh, describing the Senate hearings.

Weeks of growing Moral Monday protests have given the fight a national profile. Gov. Pat McCrory said he wanted to rebrand North Carolina. Mission accomplished.