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Elections

Racist mailer surfaces in special election

Republicans are up to their same tricks, relying on racist tropes to try to draw out their base for a special election in portions of Henry and Newton Counties taking place on Tuesday, January 9. The special election covers seats for both the State Senate and State House of Representatives. Senate District 17 and House District 111 are up for grabs, check the Secretary of State’s My Voter Page to find which districts you live

General Assembly

Pee cup for your thoughts?

One of the great escapades in Better Georgia’s formative years was delivering pee cups to policymakers at the State Capitol after they tried to pass a bill mandating drug tests for welfare recipients. The year was 2012. As per usual the state legislature was up to no good. The likes of Gov. Nathan Deal, state Sen. John Albers, state Rep. Matt Ramsey, former state Rep. Doug McKillip and far too many other Republican leaders were

Chip Rogers

Hide and Seek with Sen. Bill Heath

Elected officials in Georgia on far too many occasions say and do outrageous things, sometimes with no consequence. But one state Sen. Bill Heath not only sent a condescending email to thousands of concerned Georgians, he hid from a reporter when she approached him to ask about his email. He literally ducked into the nearest office and hid behind a printer. He was willing to send an email to taxpayers, describing petition signing as “childish

General Assembly

We’ll never stop fighting for equality

When politicians won’t listen, you have to bring the message to them. And when you want to make sure they can’t miss your message, there is nothing quite like a mobile billboard circling the State Capitol all day. During the early days of the so-called “religious freedom” debates — before the issue became one of the most well known at the Capitol — Better Georgia was pushing back against the anti-LGBT, anti-woman measure. The “Religious

2016 Legislative Session

Scott Holcomb and Elena Parent standing up for rape victims

In a state like Georgia, progressive wins can seem too few and far between. But State Rep. Scott Holcomb and Sen. Elena Parent fought hard to address the state’s backlog of untested rape kits and they won, with the help of survivors, advocates, Samantha Bee and progressives like you. In 2016, it came to light that there was a breakdown in the process of handling rape kits, and thousands were left untested, stored in hospitals

Ethics

White state rep. threatens black former colleague over Confederate statues

State Rep. Jason Spencer told his former colleague LaDawn Jones that people “go missing in the Okefenokee” when they talk about removing statues commemorating the nation’s Confederate history. Threats like this are absolutely unacceptable, particularly in a political climate where people of color are experiencing deadly violence at the hands of white supremacists. After Spencer posted a picture of himself on Facebook posing near a Jefferson Davis memorial, Jones commented that Confederate memorials would ultimately