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Equality, Rights & Justice Issues

Ga. youth and minority voting through the roof

Early voting has increased all over the United States, in just about every demographic within every state. In Georgia, over 2 million early ballots were cast, which is more than double the number of early ballots cast in 2014. Every demographic appears to be sending more voters to the polls. Around the U.S. the youth vote appears to have doubled, with 40 percent of people aged 18-25 saying they are definitely voting, compared with less

Kemp Abrams
Environment

The final word

This election is about rebuking white nationalism. It’s about whether or not we have to worry that we’re all just one medical emergency away from losing our homes or declaring bankruptcy. This election is about whether we, as a society, value the lives of our students, teachers and neighbors over the profits of the gun lobby. Will we elect leaders who will fight back when our drinking water is dirty, our air is toxic and

Abrams voters
Brian Kemp

Kemp’s voter suppression isn’t working

Kemp and his conservative cronies are using every trick in the book to try to hold on to their power in Georgia. They’ve purged voters from the rolls at alarming rates, thrown out absentee ballots, and turned around a bus of elderly black voters. A longtime architect of voter suppression, Kemp should not have been allowed to oversee his own election when it’s clear that he’s using power to try to sway the outcome of

Economy

Commit to a governor that will finally help rural Georgia

Politicians have been failing rural Georgia for decades. Since Nathan Deal was elected governor, we’ve seen six rural hospitals close, making it the third highest state in the nation for hospital closures. Long after most of the United States has bounced back from the Great Recession, rural Georgians are still having a difficult time finding quality jobs and rural schools are still suffering. In Georgia, rural unemployment rates are double the rest of the state. Rural

85 Primary Election Results

 Today on the Better Georgia Podcast, we’re going over the results of the recent primary elections in Georgia. Various progressive candidates have upset Republican expectations of a stop to the Blue Wave, and we see the movement growing ever stronger. Listen in to learn more about the various races and their outcomes, how gerrymandering has affected the races, and the state of the Blue Wave in Georgia. You can Subscribe and Listen to the

Elections

Let’s bring honesty to the insurance commissioner’s office

Although it lacks the flash of the governor’s office, Georgia’s Insurance Commission has the ability to transform the lives of Georgians by protecting Georgia families and overseeing insurance corporations. The Insurance Commissioner chooses whether to help insurance companies to continue to rake in obscene profits by taking advantage of consumers or whether to help improve the safety, health and well-being of Georgia’s citizens. In the twenty years leading up to 2010, when Hudgens was elected,