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In Georgia, Trump’s Attacks on Election Still Haunt Republicans

ATLANTA — The impeachment charge that House Democrats have filed against President Trump stems from his role in inciting a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol last week. But included in the resolution is another element of Mr. Trump’s behavior that is also drawing condemnation as an abuse of presidential power: His pressure campaign to […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 13, 2021, 12:39 am
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Georgia GOP looks to deliver powerful blow to absentee voting days after Loeffler and Perdue concede

Georgia House Minority Leader James Beverly translated for the wider public. “They lost, and now they want to change the rules to give themselves a competitive advantage,” the Democrat told the AJC. “The pendulum swings, and people can see through this foolishness in the truest sense of suppression and disenfranchisement.” Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has repeatedly […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 12, 2021, 2:40 am
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Opinion | Georgia Senate Race Is Proof: The South Is Really Changing

But Republicans still hold the power in almost all Southern state legislatures (Virginia’s is the exception, and only since 2019), and they will continue to do everything possible to make it harder for Democrats to vote. In Georgia, state legislators are already eyeing new ways to avoid a repeat of the elections that turned Georgia […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 11, 2021, 8:08 pm
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Despite Chaos and Big Losses, Republicans Still Control Most of Georgia

“I think that an overwhelming majority of the voters will come back our direction and reward us,” Mr. Duncan said. “And if they don’t see that as a valuable trait of their lieutenant governor, then I don’t want to represent them. I’ll be perfectly fine getting defeated if they don’t reward or recognize the value […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 10, 2021, 1:20 pm
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Washington Post: Trump demanded Georgia election official “find the fraud” in a December call

President Donald Trump pressured a top Georgia state election investigator, who was in charge of looking into allegations of vote irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, to “find the fraud” in a late December phone call, according to a report by the Washington Post’s Amy Gardner. The Post withheld the name of the Georgia official, […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 9, 2021, 9:20 pm
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Georgia Officials Reveal Third Trump Call Seeking to Influence Election Results

ATLANTA — More than a week before President Trump called Georgia’s secretary of state, pressuring him to “find” votes to help overturn his electoral loss, the president made another call, this one to a top Georgia elections investigator, in which he asked the investigator to “find the fraud” in the state. The earlier phone call, […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 9, 2021, 8:23 pm
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Opinion | I Desegregated the University of Georgia. History Is Still in the Making.

A few months before we enrolled in college, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges exercised her right to enroll in the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her walk, accompanied by federal marshals, was immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With.” (The same painting formed a shadow in Bria Goeller’s photo […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 9, 2021, 8:00 pm
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Trump Demanded That Georgia Elections Investigator “Find the Fraud” – Mother Jones

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 9, 2021, 7:18 pm
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Georgia victories mean a real chance to pass humane legislation protecting all undocumented families

Democrats can finally get to this legislation signed into law to permanently protect these immigrants—and must go even further, putting all 11 million undocumented immigrants who have lived in fear and uncertainty, especially during the past four years, onto a path to legalization and citizenship. “The Democratic victory in Georgia exponentially increases the possibility of […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 8, 2021, 12:15 am
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With Georgia Senate Wins, Democrats Solidify Power in Washington

“I assume in the next couple weeks, Schumer and Mitch will sit down and kind of figure out how this is going to work,” said Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican. “We had a little bit of a pattern back in 2000, but times have changed. It’s different now.” Perhaps the […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 7, 2021, 11:55 pm
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Trump Campaign Drops All Georgia Election Challenges

The Trump campaign has formally dropped all four election challenges in Georgia. The campaign says that they are voluntarily dismissing the lawsuits after they say they reached a settlement to review election data. “We are promptly voluntarily dismissing the following legal actions as per your request and consideration of the settlement,” the letter from Roswell […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 7, 2021, 9:55 pm
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How Unions Helped Georgia Flip the Senate

In the Georgia Senate runoff elections on January 5, Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock unseated Trump-supporting incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue by margins of less than 80,000 votes—abetted by what a UNITE HERE! leader calls an “unprecedented ground game” by labor unions. “Demographics is not destiny. Demographics is opportunity,” she says. […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 7, 2021, 9:02 pm

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