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About On Jan. 6, 2021, protesters in Atlanta descended on the Georgia state Capitol building to protest what they viewed as an unfair election that had been fraudulently stolen from Trump. The protest was held under the banner of the Stop the Steal movement, which had held numerous protests in Washington and around the country … Read more
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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is a right-wing extremist who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, serving Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. She ran for her second term in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in her solidly Republican district.
Greene is a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.
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Jody Hice (R-Ga.) is an evangelical who represented Georgia’s 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015–22. He was a member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, and chose to run for secretary of state in Georgia in 2022 instead of campaigning to keep his congressional seat.
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In August 2023, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants on 41 counts of criminal racketeering to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Burt Jones is a former Republican state senator (2013–23) in Georgia who helped spread the Big Lie and fraudulently appoint “fake electors.”
In 2022, he won election as lieutenant governor with Trump’s endorsement and is already presumed to be a likely 2026 candidate for governor.
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About William Ligon is a Georgia state senator who supported efforts to call a special session of the Georgia General Assembly into session in order to overturn the state’s election results in favor of President Joe Biden. Ligon also has ties to some of the most prominent election deniers in circles close to former President … Read more
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John Lott is an author, economist, gun rights advocate, and former Trump advisor who attempted to help him overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) is a Trump loyalist who has served Georgia’s 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. He ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and easily won in the solidly Republican district.
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David Perdue (R-Ga.) served in the U.S. Senate from 2015–21, and in 2022, with Trump’s endorsement, he made an unsuccessful bid to run for governor of Georgia but lost the GOP primary in a landslide to incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
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About Brad Raffensperger (R) has served as Georgia’s secretary of state since January 2019 . After refusing to give in to pressure from Trump to “find” enough votes to alter the actual outcome of the 2020 presidential election, he not only gained national notoriety but won reelection in 2022 despite a primary challenge from a … Read more