“Three hundred thousand Alabamians will be voting under some new districting lines that I redrew in my college dorm room at 3 in the morning,” he said in an interview. “It’s surreal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...

A closer look at the flurry of all-caps X posts peppered with screaming red siren emojis shows the conclusions from multiple investigations and at least three recounts have not changed: Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Close enough … Quiz: Do You Speak 2025? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/s...

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s run for gov was always going to be tricky given his conflict with Trump over Georgia’s 2020 election. Now, he’ll have to navigate the GOP primary while simultaneously fighting the administration in court. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

This time last year, Sen. Jon Ossoff was considered to be the Democratic Party’s likeliest casualty on the 2026 Senate map. Now, Georgia Democrats increasingly are confident of his midterm chances, and Republicans are the ones sounding pessimistic. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

“I was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs wondering what would happen." Trump’s other Georgia call: Inside his 2020 plea to House Speaker David Ralston. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Geoff Duncan’s biggest challenge might not be money or organization. It’s trust. Can a former Republican who once backed abortion limits, voted to loosen gun restrictions and opposed Medicaid expansion convince Democrats he’s truly one of them? #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and his Republican allies are hitting back against the secretive group airing millions of dollars of ads attacking him. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Of the seven state senators that will question Willis today, four of them are Republicans running for statewide office. Three of them are running for lieutenant governor. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Brian Kemp’s lame-duck dilemma: Swing big or play it safe? #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The Justice Department lawsuit marks a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s investigation into allegations of voting fraud in Fulton County. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The president has pressured GOP-led states like Indiana to redraw maps to expand Republican control of Congress. Georgia isn’t one of them. At least for now. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Libertarians are not guaranteed a spot on next year's ballot, reducing the chances for runoffs in Georgia. Think about how much that could change next year’s midterm, when U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is on the ballot and other statewide offices are up for grabs. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

For years, nail-biting runoffs have been the norm in Georgia statewide elections. But that may change in 2026. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

“In this building, maybe it’s about the politics. But in the real world, and in Georgia, this is life or death,” Ossoff said in Washington this week. “My constituents cannot afford this. Some of my constituents cannot survive this.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

“There are 17 Georgia House districts that were more Democratic than this one last year,” Democratic chair Charlie Bailey said in an interview. “Republicans should be very worried.” www.ajc.com/politics/202...

In a stealth upset, Democrat Eric Gisler flips a GOP-held Georgia House seat spanning parts of Athens and Oconee County. Gisler won 39% of vote last November. He captured 51% tonight to defeat a Republican backed by Gov. Brian Kemp and other GOP leaders.

Brad Raffensperger is challenging a Georgia law that give his GOP rival an edge in the race for governor. But rather than overturn a 2021 law that allows some to raise unlimited cash, he wants to "level up" and extend the privilege to everyone. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The battle over whether to extend subsidies that make health insurance affordable for millions of Americans will come to a head in the U.S. Senate this week — and Sen. Jon @Ossoff is working to make it a defining issue of his reelection campaign. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

As the @ajc.com sunsets its print edition, we’re looking back at the complicated love-hate relationship between Georgia’s political class and its dominant newspaper. Take a look back in my piece with @MurphyAJC. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

A group called Georgians for Integrity spent roughly $1 million on a 30-second ad attacking Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, the early front-runner among Republicans in the race for governor. But the intrigue is less about the content of the ad than who paid for it. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

A teenage GOP official resigns after a vigilante sting group posts a video — and a community confronts the blurry line between citizen activism and amateur justice. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Local GOP sees ‘danger’ in a chaotic race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia’s Democratic U.S. senators have launched an inquiry into the Trump administration’s new policy of restricting lawmaker access to immigration detention facilities. www.ajc.com/news/2025/12...

“I’m very pleased that a former chairman of the Georgia GOP won over 70% of the vote in a city that everyone acknowledges is a very purple place,” said GOP chair Josh McKoon of Sandy Springs, where the mayoral incumbent trounced a progressive challenger. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Trump is promoting a poll by Cooper Jacks, second-vice chair of the Walker County GOP and former state teen GOP chair. He told me it was "by no means a 'professional' poll." It involved 369 voters, most involved in Republican groups. "I did it out of curiosity," he said. #gapol

Georgia Democrats insist that last month’s ouster of two Republicans on the Public Service Commission is a preview of the midterms. Today, they’ll get a few chances to prove the flips were no fluke. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

In some ways, the reactions to last week’s news in the GOP is as complicated as the case itself. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

With the @ajc.com print edition ending, the newsroom looked at some of the breakthrough moments in the paper’s pages that shaped its staff. Here’s mine:

Democratic Party of Georgia Chair Charlie Bailey escalated the pressure this week, calling it “despicable” that Brad Barnes remains affiliated with the state GOP. An RNC committeeman also called for his ouster. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

“It’s the next show of the circus.” I’m in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s northwest Georgia district, where her exit from Congress is fueling another big question: What does she do now? www.ajc.com/politics/202...

She was once President Donald Trump’s most loyal Georgia warrior. Now U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is stepping down from office after a bitter political divorce with the man who once branded her a “future Republican star.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

A Republican activist recently tapped as a “special adviser” to Georgia GOP Chair Josh McKoon to help the party leverage technology to reach new voters has a history of xenophobic and hateful social media posts, according to an @ajc.com review. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia now has the nation’s sixth largest population of unauthorized immigrants, according to the Migration Policy Institute. #gapol www.ajc.com/news/2025/11...

President Trump wanted to abolish FEMA. His own advisers disagreed.

"It's almost inconceivable." The Atlanta Journal Constitution's @bluestein.bsky.social says Marjorie Taylor Greene was the embodiment of MAGA and it's almost inconceivable that she's breaking with Trump.

While Greene has long tried to distance herself from many of her early controversies, what’s notable now is her attempt to distance herself from her own role in fueling negative political discourse. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia’s top Republican US Senate candidates now back release of Epstein files #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Raffensperger launches 1st major policy plan with property tax-relief package #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

“I really just want to see people be kind to one another." Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has built a brand on confrontation and incendiary rhetoric, told CNN she now wants to “put down the knives in politics.” www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The messy public breakup between President Donald Trump and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene marks the collapse of an alliance that has helped define MAGA politics and could have consequences for Georgia Republicans headed to a volatile midterm. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Trump cuts ties with MTG - and says he’ll back a primary challenge if the “right person” emerges. No credible Republican has floated a challenge, and Greene has easily beat opponents from both sides of the aisle. Time will tell if this encourages a serious contender to emerge.

“It’s really the melting pot of Athens.” ‘Automatic for the People:’ Weaver D’s still bonds the Classic City as era nears end www.ajc.com/news/2025/11...

A veteran prosecutor said Friday he is appointing himself to take over Georgia’s election interference case against President Trump and more than a dozen others because he couldn't find another prosecutor to take the case. But will he move forward? www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Ossoff pledges not to use deepfake campaign videos, while Collins digs in. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The U.S. penny died on Wednesday at the age of 232. A former Georgia state senator read the last rites at a ceremony in Philadelphia. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

So much for the calls for Republican unity in the race to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The Democrats are echoing one of the loudest messages in the latest @ajc.com poll: Opposing Trump is one of the top priorities for likely Democratic primary voters, and not doing so risks infuriating their most loyal supporters. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Cost of living takes center stage at the AJC’s 2026 gubernatorial race forum: "Get away from the foolishness and focus on what people are most concerned about." www.ajc.com/video/news/2...

The Democrats are echoing one of the loudest messages in the latest @ajc.com poll: Opposing Trump is one of the top priorities for likely Democratic primary voters, and not doing so risks infuriating their most loyal supporters. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...