Fact check: The GOP is attacking COVID relief it once supported
Senate Republicans previously supported giving stimulus payments to incarcerated Americans — when Donald Trump was in office.
By Josh Israel - January 26, 2022Senate Republicans previously supported giving stimulus payments to incarcerated Americans — when Donald Trump was in office.
By Josh Israel - January 26, 2022Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was against Georgia Republican Herschel Walker’s candidacy before he was for it.
By Emily Singer - October 27, 2021Herschel Walker’s son, Christian Walker, has called Black victims of police violence ‘ghetto trash.’
By Oliver Willis - September 13, 2021Even the South Carolina senator’s colleagues appear to be against the idea.
By Josh Israel - July 30, 2021Not a single GOP senator attended a field hearing in Atlanta to assess the impact of new voting restrictions from a law Georgia Republicans passed earlier this year.
By Emily Singer - July 19, 2021Georgia Republicans knew that businesses were concerned about the new election law before they passed it.
By Emily Singer - April 12, 2021Activists are threatening to boycott major businesses in the state and Major League Baseball players want the All-Star Game moved out of Georgia over the new law that restricts voting rights.
By Emily Singer - March 30, 2021Three Democratic House members said they are prepared to get arrested to protest what they called a ‘stupid law.’
By Emily Singer - March 26, 2021The Republican-controlled state Legislature passed a law on Thursday that requires ID to vote by mail, shortens early voting in runoff elections, and makes it a crime to give out food and drinks to people waiting in line to vote.
By Emily Singer - March 26, 2021David Perdue did not get the message sent by the Georgia electorate.
By Josh Israel - February 16, 2021Sen. Raphael Warnock was the longtime Georgia Democratic representative’s pastor; Sen. Jon Ossoff served as an intern in Lewis’ Washington office years ago.
By Associated Press - January 31, 2021Three new senators, sworn in by a new Senate president.
By Josh Israel - January 20, 2021Nothing is certain, but Democrats, including President-elect Joe Biden, want the checks ‘out the door’ as soon as possible.
By Amy Lieu - January 09, 2021For the first time in a decade, Democrats will have unified control of the federal government.
By Emily Singer - January 06, 2021If Democrats win both Senate runoff elections in Georgia, they will control the Senate.
By Josh Israel - January 06, 2021Turnout of Black voters was high not just in metro Atlanta, but also in rural and small-town counties across South Georgia.
By Associated Press - January 06, 2021The infighting has begun as Republicans stare down unified Democratic control of Washington, D.C.
By Emily Singer - January 06, 2021Georgia just elected its first Black senator.
By Josh Israel - January 06, 2021‘Let’s show the rest of the country that Asian voters are a force to be reckoned with.’
By Amy Lieu - December 30, 2020The attempt was part of a larger move by the Texas-based conservative group True The Vote, which is coordinating voter suppression ahead of the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs.
By Associated Press - December 29, 2020Loeffler shifted her position just hours after House Democrats passed increased stimulus funds, as Trump had demanded.
By Oliver Willis - December 29, 2020Strong turnout among voters under 30 nationwide helped propel Democrat Joe Biden to victory over Trump in the November presidential election
By Associated Press - December 28, 2020Loeffler claimed attacks on her opponent’s faith were okay because she had ‘simply exposed’ Raphael Warnock’s views.
By Josh Israel - December 21, 2020The majority of the 76,000 new voter registrations since Election Day are young voters who skew Democratic.
By Emily Singer - December 18, 2020A federal judge ruled against a GOP effort to get rid of ballot drop boxes in the critical Jan. 5 contests.
By Emily Singer - December 17, 2020Madison Cawthorn suggested that the Rev. Raphael Warnock isn’t really a pastor.
By Josh Israel - December 15, 2020Her opponent, Democrat Raphael Warnock, is an ordained pastor.
By Josh Israel - December 15, 2020The secretary of state’s office confirmed at least 261,424 mail ballots had already been accepted, surpassing all previous state records.
By Amy Lieu - December 14, 2020Increasing Latino interest and participation has been fed in part by an upswell of political organizing in Latino communities.
By Associated Press - December 14, 2020The prominent white supremacist was also at a rally attended by Kelly Loeffler in September.
By Josh Israel - December 14, 2020