Raphael Warnock
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Georgia Just Can’t Quit Trying to Suppress the Vote, Reduces Early Voting Locations by Half in 3rd Largest County
Georgia Republicans can’t help but be Georgia Republicans, and in what is totally not voter suppression, the third largest county in the state announced plans to significantly reduce early voting locations for the upcoming Senate runoff election. According to the New York Times, election officials in Georgia’s Cobb County have announced plans to substantially reduce…
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The Real Race Card: The White Identity Politics of Georgia's Senate Race
If America were truly colorblind, could it see whiteness? Both races in Georgia’s heated Senate runoffs are essentially tied and many are wondering which metrics Georgia voters will use to cast the votes that will decide which political party controls America’s most exclusive legislative body. In case you haven’t noticed, Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and…
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Activists Are Primed to Fight GOP Voter Suppression Tactics In Georgia's Runoff
A report in September revealed that nearly 200,000 people have been purged from the voter rolls in Georgia, and investigative journalist Greg Palast, Black Voters Matter and other activist organizations are trying to make sure those folks have a right to cast their ballots in the Jan. 5 runoff, which will determine who controls the…
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I Guess We’ve Got to Talk About the Kelly Loeffler and Raphael Warnock Debate
This debate was doomed before it started. On one side, you have Raphael Warnock, a sensible Black pastor and politician who rose to prominence on the Atlanta political scene after a push to expand Medicare under the Affordable Care Act. On the other side, you have Kelly Loeffler, a Karen, Trump enthusiast who co-owns the…
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Kelly Loeffler and the GOP Should Denounce Georgia's Radical, Anti-Christian Socialist Senate Candidate
Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-Ga.) incessant attacks on her Senate opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, can all be condensed to Republican red-meat talking points: Radical ideology is dangerous. People who twist the word of God to further an extremist agenda should be condemned. Government handouts are terrible because America is not a socialist country; it is a…
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Raphael Warnock, Truth and the 'Radical' Enemies of White Supremacy
On Sept. 15, 1965, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, a top deputy in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sat down to detail his strange day. DeLoach had just attended a planned meeting in the office of Sen. Strom Thurmond, a staunch segregationist who left the Dixiecrat Party to become a Republican exactly a year prior to…
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Efforts to Make Voting Harder in Georgia’s Senate Runoff Surprisingly Rejected by State Leaders
The fate of the Senate is in the hands of Georgia voters, and state Republicans were hoping to bust out their tried-and-true tactics of just straight up not letting people vote. Surprisingly, Georgia’s Republican governor and noted election thief has pushed back against those attempts. AJC reports that Gov. Brian Kemp released a joint statement…
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Tired of Mitch McConnell? The Future of His GOP Majority Lies in the Georgia and North Carolina Senate Races
On Thursday afternoon, the future of the Senate still remained hazy thanks to two tight races in Georgia. Going into Election Day, Democrats needed to pick up four seats in order to win control of the Senate, though, in the event of a Joe Biden presidency, three seats would suffice. Ballots were still being counted…
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Jamie Harrison Is Going to Beat the Brakes off Sen. Lindsey Graham (Votingly) and 4 Other Down Ballot Races We Need to Watch
My mother taught English in D.C. Public Schools for more than 50 years. One day, I went to her class to help her carry some boxes down to her car when I saw “Let’s get that pizza” written on the chalkboard. I laughed because my mother, who is a wizard of words and a waste…
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Here's How to Protect Yourself From GOP Voter Suppression Tactics
Donald Trump has made one thing clear: he doesn’t care about democracy or protecting your right to vote. With an on-going pandemic hampering local and state government’s capacity to run safe elections, Trump and the GOP at every level are making it harder for people to vote. In Florida, people who are formerly convicted of…