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Counting on an nonpartisan Census

In 2020, the state of Georgia will lay the foundation for its reshaping. The decennial census will take place next year in which every man, woman, and child in this state will be accounted for, along with anonymized statistics on age, race, household income, and many others. The tallying of our population and its data will have two major implications. One, it could mean the addition of a congressional district/electoral college vote and two, it

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Brian Kemp

Brian Kemp’s horrible history of map rigging

Brian Kemp is a master architect of map rigging and voter suppression. He understands that low voter turnout is generally a good thing for the Republican Party in Georgia. But as a political strategy, low voter turnout is difficult to engineer and it can backfire. More ominously, Kemp understands that map rigging is the best political safeguard against demographic changes that increasingly tend to favor Democrats. He supported map rigging when he was in the

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Brian Kemp

Kemp might not be racist, but racists sure love him

Hateful, xenophobic rhetoric have become the norm amongst the Right. Trump has been fanning the flames of fear and vitriol since before he was elected. He treats women, especially female reporters, disrespectfully and encourages violence toward the free press. He’s denigrated Jews, Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans, the disabled and members of the LGBTQ community. In the past two weeks, we’ve seen horrific events unfold in the U.S. A Trump supporter mailed bombs to people and

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Brian Kemp

Brian Kemp’s $800,000 insider loan debt

During the official start of the Great Recession, many of us were struggling just to hold on to our homes and our jobs. But Brian Kemp was able to secure more than $2,000,000 in loans from First Madison Bank and Trust in Athens, Ga. What’s unique about these loans is that Kemp is a founding board member and stockholder. What’s more, it’s clear from a Fox 5 investigative report that the loan terms have been

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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