Top McCarthy ally becomes 21st House Republican to announce retirement
‘I’m entering a new season in life,’ Graves wrote in a letter this week.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 05, 2019‘I’m entering a new season in life,’ Graves wrote in a letter this week.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 05, 2019Republicans in Georgia will only see Donald Trump’s name on the ballot, despite others challenging him for the party’s nomination.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 02, 2019Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp plans to appoint Kelly Loeffler to an open Senate seat.
By Josh Israel - December 02, 2019Sen. David Perdue indicated that Senate Republicans will ignore any incriminating evidence the House unearths about Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 21, 2019There’s bad news out of Georgia for Donald Trump, who also faces difficult impeachment numbers in the state.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 13, 2019Georgia’s absentee ballot law ‘will have a disproportionate effect on minority voters,’ according to the lawsuit.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 07, 2019The state’s Medicaid expansion also imposes cruel work requirements that have been proven ineffective.
By Nick Vachon - November 05, 2019The Atlanta Braves discouraged fans from doing the ‘Tomahawk Chop’ after a Cherokee Nation member criticized it as insulting — but that is not why they lost.
By Josh Israel - October 10, 2019More wins include Georgia seeing voter registration skyrocket, and California makeing it easier for parents to run for office.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 04, 2019Many of the new voters are people who tend to vote for Democrats, such as racial minorities or people under the age of 30.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 01, 2019Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia will retire at the end of the year for health reasons.
By Kaili Joy Gray - August 28, 2019Republicans are smearing Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA), one of the nation’s fiercest advocates for gun safety, after her own son was murdered by gun violence.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 08, 2019Trump won both Georgia and North Carolina in 2016, but he now trails a generic Democrat in both states.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 19, 2019Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) voted to give billions to wealthy Wall Street corporations, but thinks America can’t afford Social Security.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 12, 2019‘I think many people who work for us will not want to work there.’
By Dan Desai Martin - May 30, 2019Georgia filmmakers are in ‘panic mode’ because of what their Republican state lawmakers have done.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019Prosecutors in several large Georgia counties are vowing not to enforce a draconian new GOP law attacking women and doctors.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019Brian Kemp is feeling mounting pressure after signing a radical anti-abortion bill into law.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 15, 2019Trump’s approval rating has plummeted in Georgia — a state he needs to win if he wants to be re-elected in 2020.
By Emily Singer - April 12, 2019A radical new abortion ban puts every pregnant woman in danger.
By Emily Crockett - March 26, 2019GOP senators voted to let Trump rob millions of dollars from military families in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, and North Carolina.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 19, 2019Brian Kemp’s years of suppressing the black vote in Georgia might have helped him win his race for governor.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 07, 2019Sen. David Perdue loves adding trillions to the national debt when it benefits the rich and powerful.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 28, 2019Republicans didn’t bother to show up at a hearing featuring Stacey Abrams on voter suppression efforts.
By Oliver Willis - February 20, 2019Polls are already looking good for Stacey Abrams, who is considering running for Senate in 2020 to unseat the pro-Trump Republican David Perdue.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 21, 2019Republicans seem adamantly opposed to the most basic principle in a functioning democracy: Count all the votes.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 14, 2018The seat once occupied by Newt Gingrich will now be held by progressive gun safety advocate Lucy McBath.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 08, 2018Brian Kemp is a liar.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 01, 2018Brian Kemp’s war on voters is much more extensive than recent news suggests.
By Eric Boehlert - October 19, 2018Stacey Abrams is looking out for the Georgia voters that Brian Kemp is trying to cheat.
By Tommy Christopher - October 14, 2018