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Race & Racism

Militarized police target counter-protestors at Nazi demonstration in Newnan

Members of the Neo-Nazi hate group, National Socialist Movement, demonstrated in Newnan, Ga .over the weekend. The group had obtained a permit to host a rally in Newnan about a month ago, supposedly to discuss “hot button” issues. An estimated few dozen Neo-Nazis filled the streets, dressed in black and carrying shields and NSM flags. Members of loose-knit anti-fascist groups, joined by Newnan citizens, also showed up to demonstrate against the white supremacist group’s messages

Brian Kemp

GOP gov. candidates parrot Trump’s lies about immigration and crime

Trump infamously slithered into the White House by building support for his presidential campaign in part by using xenophobic slurs particularly those against Mexican immigrants. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” he claimed. While we know these statements are simply false, Georgia’s conservative gubernatorial candidates in Georgia haven’t gotten the message. Or, more likely, they just don’t care about the truth. They’re still spewing Trump’s bogus, backwards anti-immigration sentiments, regardless of the story

2018 Legislative Session

Why are conservatives afraid of more voters?

Yesterday, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill that would carve out a new city, called Eagle’s Landing, from the existing city of Stockbridge, along racial lines. The bill was amended slightly from the Senate’s version, so now it’s headed back to the Senate for another vote. So far, it seems the vote has been split on party lines — it’s clear that Republicans in the state legislature are determined to carve out a

Healthcare

Everything Trump says about the opioid epidemic is wrong

Trump has no understanding of addiction. His own brother was an alcoholic who died a premature death because of alcoholism and yet his solution is to tell people “just don’t do it.” When prompted for evidence, he has said that he doesn’t drink alcohol and it isn’t that hard. Trump’s new emergency solutions to the opioid crisis look a lot like the old “war on drugs,” and we all know how that turned out: unnecessary

2018 Legislative Session

Guns in Georgia: What to expect in the 2018 legislative session

Across the country, state legislators are revisiting gun legislation in the wake of yet another tragic mass shooting. But what are Georgia legislators doing, and how do their efforts stack up? Right now, there are three separate proposals in the Georgia Legislature that would allow people to carry firearms without a permit into parks, historic sites and recreational areas. Passage of any of these bills would continue the dangerous pattern of expanding gun owners’ rights at

Healthcare

Celebrating 45 years of Roe v. Wade

Today, Jan. 22, marks the the 45th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. In the years since the ruling, opponents have worked tirelessly to push abortion care out of reach by any means necessary; and their new, anti-abortion allies in the White House have reinvigorated the anti-abortion movement. Rosie Jiménez was one of the first victims of the relentless anti-abortion politicking that the right so self-righteously promotes. The Hyde Amendment, passed in