March 2026 - The Georgia Republican Assembly

They Qualified Raffensperger Anyway: “Here’s Your Receipt!”

March 5, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Issues

According to the Secretary of State’s website, the Georgia Republican Party’s elected leadership decided to disregard, disrespect, and betray Georgia Republican voters yesterday by qualifying Brad Raffensperger as a Republican for Governor, despite the Georgia Republican Party (“GRP”) convention delegates, representing all Georgia Republicans, passing a motion prohibiting the party from doing so.

If you want your opinion heard on this, or want to be on record in your opposition: click here.

This so-called “leadership” apparently decided that it is perfectly fine for the Republican Party to falsely advertise Brad Raffensperger as a Republican, and to disregard the delegates that represent all of Georgia’s Republican voters who had decided that Raffensperger should not get to hurt our party’s name and brand by falsely associating with us.

As stated in our last message, the point of the Republican Party is to enact its platform, something Brad Raffensperger has proven in the past he will not do. Our current party “leadership”, however, appears to be silent and complicit in allowing our platform to be disregarded by people like Raffensperger, and happy to disregard our resolutions themselves.

Keep track of anyone silent about this, or claiming that the party is powerless, and make sure they don’t get elected or re-elected to party office.

If it weren’t so appalling, the justification(s) being made by the loud sycophants to the paid political industry would be comical. They state that “resolutions aren’t binding”, which proves that the paid political industry sycophants are incapable of reading.

Roberts Rules of Order (12th ed.) which governs the party according to our by-laws, states in sections 4:4 and 10:13 that a resolution is simply a written motion. Motions that direct action are obviously binding on the body that passes them, while those that simply state an opinion are not. This resolution directed the party to not qualify him, yet they did so anyway.

A few others claim that “state law” is a reason to allow the government to violate the First Amendment, ignoring the copious Supreme Court and 11th Circuit Federal cases that state the obvious: state law doesn’t beat the U.S. Constitution. One small clip from the ongoing Catoosa County case (the entire 11th circuit interlocutory decision attached), which also shows either the paid political industry’s stupidity or maliciousness in making this argument:

“That state law may prevent the Catoosa GOP from excluding primary candidates for ideological reasons, though, simply shows that its right to freedom of association has been burdened. It does not negate the right. After all, a political party’s constitutional right to exclude, “central to its freedom of association,” is not derived from state law. Wash. State Grange v. Wash. State Republican Party, 552 U.S. 442, 445, 128 S. Ct. 1184, 170 L. Ed. 2d 151 (2008).”

This leaves no room for interpretation: current party leadership wants you, and therefore the party, to be and stay powerless. They want you to support whoever buys the primary election, even if those people are repugnant to your values, and are making the party look bad and causing Republicans to lose votes.

The only way we are going to fix this problem is by ensuring that party leadership actually believes in, supports, and will fight for your voice being heard. Ensuring that if you, and other representatives of the Republican Party determine that a politician isn’t upholding the platform, that they don’t get to undermine the brand by stealing your hard work in the Republican Party and by falsely claiming to be like you.

While some are apparently contemplating legal action against the GRP leadership for this betrayal, this would likely not advance the main goal: getting our platform enacted.

Therefore, we must do two things: (1) ensure the best candidates are our nominees on the November ballot, such as through the GRA which is holding an endorsing convention; and (2) figure out who else is infuriated by this betrayal or, at the very least, believes that the Republican Party’s members have an obligation to define the platform and ensure that only candidates who will advance it are on the ballot, so we can work together to strengthen the party

So if you want to make sure this never happens again, and are appalled by what has occurred, please click here and fill out this short form.

The Republican Party: Principles not Politicians

March 1, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Issues

What is the Republican Party for?

Not just “getting Republicans elected.” That’s a means, not the mission.
The mission is bigger — and simpler: to enact a party platform that strengthens our constitutional Republic. Elections are one of the tools we use to get there.

When we forget the mission, the label gets hijacked.

For years, we’ve been sold a toxic idea:

“A Republican is whoever wins a Republican primary.”

That lie turns the principled party into a ballot-access method and reduces grassroots volunteers to cheerleaders for a word, instead of guardians of a platform.

But people don’t join the GOP to worship a label. They join because they believe certain principles, like those reflected in historic GOP platforms and advocated by the Georgia Republican Assembly (https://www.georgiara.com/), are best for Georgia and America.

A party must define its standards and brand or someone else will. You’ll often hear the Establishment lie that the party needs to be “neutral” before the primaries to “help the party” and not take a side. You are one of the ones that pay attention to the politicians, and have been involved in the party: you need to take a side and to lead.

The only reason the Establishment wants you to remain neutral/silent is because they know that you and the party can counteract their money and expenditures when you take the side of principle. The political industry doesn’t lie and demand your neutrality to help the party: they do it because they are afraid of the party actually standing for its platform.

Political parties exist to stand for something. Candidates are not entitled to use the party’s reputation if they won’t honor the party’s principles once in office or support the party between elections to educate the public on the platform.

When the party refuses to set standards and to lead, here’s what happens:
    •    Primaries become shopping malls for ambition and money.
    •    Consultants and vendors (part of the “Paid Political Industry“) profit from bigger fields and bigger spending.
    •    Wealthy interests buy influence — and voters get stuck “supporting the nominee” (“the lesser of two evils“) no matter what.

That’s not unity. That’s surrender.

Georgia can prove a point: the party can draw lines.

Georgia Republicans have taken formal steps to say: you don’t get to attack the party and still wear its jersey.
• The Georgia Republican Party’s State Executive Committee adopted a resolution expelling former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (Jan. 6, 2025). He’s then started running as a Democrat.
• Delegates at the 2025 Georgia GOP convention adopted a resolution prohibiting the GAGOP from qualifying Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger under the GOP banner going forward.

Whether so-called “leaders” are afraid of litigation is a separate question but the principle is correct: the Republican name should not be “for rent” by those who don’t believe in our platform.
The grassroots should define the platform and defend it. We gain more voters by getting others to understand and believe in the platform.

The platform is supposed to be written by Republican citizens, through conventions. The platform should not be by donors, not by lobbyists, not by consultants, and not by backroom pressure.

And once that platform is set, the party should have the courage to say:
    •    If you support it, run with us.
    •    If you won’t, run as an Independent or under another label — but don’t mislead voters by stealing ours.
What you can do right now
    1    Read the principles of the Georgia Republican Assembly and applying to join: www.GeorgiaRA.com
    2    Share this message with friends who care about politics and the party’s future
    3    Get involved in the convention process next year: that’s where the platform is created and protected.

The party exists to serve the people — not politicians, not the political industry, and not the highest bidder. We need the party to stand for basic Republican principles and the politicians work to get those principles enacted.

Let’s make it happen.

If you agree the Republican label should mean something, please forward this to one principled friend today.