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Georgia’s gift to Trump is a lump of coal in his stocking | Jay Bookman

BY: - December 16, 2022

Georgia’s role in protecting American democracy may have yet another important chapter.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene moves in same circles as Trump’s anti-Semitic dinner guests | Jay Bookman

BY: - December 2, 2022

The Georgia lawmaker has her own well-documented history of anti-Semitism.

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Top Republicans embrace Marjorie Taylor Greene’s violent rhetoric | Jay Bookman

BY: - October 21, 2022

Greene has appeared alongside Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano among others.

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Recent polls indicate incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp holds a healthy lead over Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams in a renewal of their 2018 rivalry. Bazemore-Pool/Getty Images (2018)

National politics, career arcs explain why Kemp polls ahead of Abrams | Opinion

BY: - October 3, 2022

Why does a Democrat have the advantage in one statewide race while a Republican leads in the other?

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Georgia DA builds 2020 election conspiracy story from bottom to top | Jay Bookman

BY: - September 18, 2022

Never before have we witnessed a serious, multi-pronged attempt to halt the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

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A man shoots AR-15 rifles and other weapons at a shooting range during the “Rod of Iron Freedom Festival” on October 12, 2019 in Greeley, Pa. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

Responsible gun owners know it’s nuts to permit firearms that scare police | Jay Bookman

BY: - June 7, 2022

If more guns made us safer, we’d be the safest society in the history of Planet Earth, but we’re not.

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Private school vouchers provide students a better chance to excel? Prove it | Jay Bookman

BY: - April 3, 2022

Voucher advocates think they can monetize everything. That's just not the case

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‘We the people’ are in dangerous territory | Jay Bookman

BY: - March 6, 2022

if we believe that it’s none of my business what happens to you, and none of your business what happens to me, then we have thrown upon the doors to chaos and we are lost.

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Eastman memo shows how close Georgia GOP chair came to enabling Trump coup | Jay S. Bookman

BY: - September 24, 2021

This is not a storm that has passed. This is at best the eye of the hurricane, the deceiving pause before the storm resumes.

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Threats against nurses, school boards rage on as mainstream GOP stands by | Jay S. Bookman

BY: - September 3, 2021

You could argue that this is only the lunatic fringe of the GOP. But we have seen too many times how yesterday’s GOP lunatic fringe becomes tomorrow’s GOP mainstream

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Top Trump DOJ official’s letter staked out Georgia as path to a coup | Jay S. Bookman

BY: - August 6, 2021

We need to expose those who were willing to subvert the law and the Constitution.

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Violence at the Capitol: It was always going to end this way | Jay Bookman

BY: - January 8, 2021

Character is fate, and given Trump’s character it was always fated to end this way.