March 2026 - The Georgia Republican Assembly

Congratulations to Our Endorsed Candidates!

March 23, 2026 by Georgia Republican Assembly in Candidates / conventions

Congratulations to all the Republican candidates who won the GRA’s endorsement this past weekend at the 2026 GRA State Endorsement Convention in Gainesville!

Thank you for everyone who participated in our endorsement convention as well. We had a great time interacting with many candidates for various offices, voting on who to endorse, and passing resolutions.

GRA conventions have been a great opportunity for fellow grassroots patriots from across the state to network and be encouraged that they are not the only citizens who are passionate about ensuring the Republican Party actually stands for the policies and principles it professes!

Here is a list of the candidates the membership chose by a two-thirds majority to endorse:

State-Wide Endorsed Candidates

• Governor: Burt Jones
• Lt. Governor: Greg Dolezal
• Secretary of State: Kelvin King
• U.S. Senate: Mike Collins
• State School Superintendent: Mesha Mainor
• Public Service Commissioner: Carolyn Roddy

Endorsed Candidates for Congressional Office

• CD 01: Eugene Yu
• CD 04: Jim Duffie
• CD 09: Andrew Clyde
• CD 11: Chris Mora
• CD 12: Tori Branum

Check out our Facebook page to see images of all of our endorsed candidates! You can also observe there all of the resolutions passed at the convention, and see other photo highlights!

Attendees enjoyed hearing from Burt Jones about some of his accomplishments in the Georgia legislature and about his commitment to voter integrity. Jones reminded the audience that he was one of the alternate electors unjustly targeted by Fani Willis.

“I’m the only person in this race,” said Jones, “who has a business background, a legislative background, and is endorsed by President Trump, is endorsed by Turning Point USA…”

“If there is a silver lining about this race for Governor, it is the fact that it’s going to give us a new Secretary of State. Right?” said Jones.

The audience enjoyed hearing from three of the candidates for Secretary of State: Vernon Jones, Ted Metz, and Kelvin King.

*Vernon Jones speaks at the GRA Convention.*

King highlighted the fact that the scanners that scan ballots are not reading the text on the ballot, but are reading a QR code, which is not verifiable by the human eye. He reminded the audience that he was endorsed by the GRA when he ran for U.S. Senate and that his wife is known for being a fighter on the State Election Board.

“We all know that there are problems in the Secretary of State’s office,” said Kelvin King. “Right now we don’t have trusted elections, obviously. The Secretary of State’s office is responsible for our elections, they’re responsible for our election system, our elections, and our voter rules. We gotta clean up all of those.”

Attendees heard from four of the candidates for Lt. Governor: Sen. Blake Tillery, Dr. Brenda Nelson-Porter, Rep. David Clark, and Sen. Greg Dolezal.

Dolezal noted: “As you consider your endorsement today, I would point you to your scorecard. Last year my score was 98, the year before that 92, the year before that 94. …You will see scores on there in the 50s, from my opponents – you will see scores in the 40s!”

The audience voted overwhelmingly to endorse Greg Dolezal for Lt. Governor. We are grateful to all of the candidates who took time to share with our members.

“I’m proud to say that the GRA endorsed strong candidates who won’t compromise on their conservative principles and will follow through on their small-government platforms — unlike the RINO uniparty establishment figures they’re running against!” said GRA 1st Vice President Nick Cooper.

“These folks are legitimately good and principled candidates running for important offices in Georgia who won’t sell out to big-money interests.”

You can also now watch the speeches from the candidates captured at the 2026 GRA State Endorsement Convention on our YouTube channel:

Watch the video of Burt Jones’ speech.

Watch the video of Greg Dolezal’s speech.

Watch the video of Kelvin King’s speech.

Candidate speeches are still being uploaded to the channel, so check back to see more over the next several days.

Now comes the work of helping to campaign for and support our endorsed candidates in the up-coming May 19th Republican Primary. Thankfully, most of the races will not have to endure the chaos of a jungle primary as we recently experienced in the 14th Congressional District. We urge all of our GRA members from across the state to do everything you can to help our endorsed candidates win their Republican nominations!

Anything you can do to contribute can make a world of difference: Donate, put a candidate’s sign in your yard, phone-bank, canvass door-to-door, sign-wave, or more! Let us know if you would like to be put in touch with a particular campaign, and we will be happy to connect you.

Two GOP Delegates Legally Challenge Raffensperger’s Qualification in Republican Primary, Claiming “Illegal” and “Abuse of Authority”

March 21, 2026 by Georgia Republican Assembly in Candidates / Election / Government

Atlanta, GA — On Friday, two Republican Party members, Harvey Wysong from Whitfield County and Brandyn James from Catoosa County filed a legal challeng e to the Republican Party’s qualification of current Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s candidacy for Governor. The challenge is based on the motion passed by the Georgia Republican Part y state convention last Summer that officially instructed party employees and officers to not allow Brad Raffensperger to qualify for office on the Republican primary ballot. Brandyn James is a 31-year-old African-American and Harvey Wysong is a retired Marine veteran. Both are Republican activists from Northwest Georgia.

The challenge states “The qualification of Brad Raffensperger as a Republican candidate by Georgia Republican Party staff or officers was arbitrary, characterized by an abuse of discretion…”

“The Georgia Republican Party has a constitutional right to associate with whom it wishes, especially who it qualifies to run as a candidate for public office through its party ballot access. As a corollary, the Georgia Republican Party has a constitutional right not to associate with Brad Raffensperger. The actions of the staff or officers of the Georgia Republican Party have violated the Georgia Republican’s Party right of association.“

*Brandyn James waves signs outside the Ringgold Courthouse Catoosa GOP.*

“I hope that this challenge results in the overturning of Mr. Raffensperger’s qualification,” said Brandyn James.

Georgia law § 21-2-5 requires this challenge to be considered by the Secretary of State, and then the elector may appeal that decision to a judge.

Some would suggest this effort is futile since Brad Raffensperger is both the candidate in question, and the government official being appealed to for remedy, and he is unlikely to disqualify his own candidacy for Governor. One would hope that an elected official who wants to operate with integrity would recuse himself from deciding a challenge involving his own candidacy (or that of his rival), due to his conflict of interest, and defer the question to another authority.

Wysong and James see this challenge to be the first step in the legal process, and probably want to be able to use this challenge as proof that they pursued all their options in search of a remedy.

“There’s a Latin maxim, ‘Non se jugulabit porcus,’ meaning, a hog won’t butcher itself,” said Wysong. “If that happens, we’ll have to turn elsewhere for relief. We knew that at the outset.”

Brandyn James has been a supporter of Catoosa GOP and enjoyed a front row seat to their legal battle for freedom of association these last two years.

“To those who say that this effort is futile, I simply ask: if not now, then when? If not us, then who?” said James.

Election integrity has become a central goal and major priority of the Republican Party of Georgia as evidenced by the numerous resolutions passed by party delegates at various levels over the last 5 years.

Brad Raffensperger has a record of opposing basic election integrity policies that Republicans have been clamoring for in their resolutions and goals. He actively resisted attempts to audit other races when the Dominion Voting System declared the wrong winners in the 2022 Dekalb District 2 Commission primary.

He filed an Amicus Brief in the Fulton County counterfeit ballot case to prevent citizen plaintiffs from examining the ballots.

Raffensperger also allowed Zuckerberg’s CTCL to provide $45 Million dollars, called “Zuckerbucks” in politically partisan funds to Georgia’s counties.

He employed Voting Works, a company receiving funds from George Soros, to conduct the hand count audit of the 2020 Presidential election.

The list of Raffensperger’s infuriating betrayals of the Republican Party is lengthy. It is no wonder delegates at the 2025 state GOP convention were willing to take such an extreme measure as to ban him from running for any office on the Republican primary ballot again.

The resolution passed by the GOP delegate s stated:

“It is resolved that the Georgia Republican Party shall not qualify, allow to be qualified, or take any action to allow Brad Raffensperger to qualify as a Republican or run for any elected office unless and until a GAGOP Convention removes this restriction; and,

*Contrary to the order of the delegates at the convention, Brad Raffensperger was allowed to qualify as a candidate on the Republican Primary ballot.*

“Be it further resolved that the Georgia Republican Party shall fully defend against any future litigation or legal action taken by Brad Raffensperger or others that in any way claims that the Georgia Republican Party is or can be required to allow Brad Raffensperger to run for public office as a Republican.”

James and Wysong argue in their candidate challenge that qualifying Brad Raffensperger with the “Republican” label is “misleading the public.”

Furthermore they write: “If non-republicans use the Georgia Republican Party brand in their quest for political power, and regularly betray the party’s principles and interests, it hurts all Republican candidates.”

The complaint cites both the official Rules of the Georgia Republican Party as well as Roberts Rules of Order. The challenges argued that the staff and/or officers of the GAGOP did not posses the authority to certify Raffensperger and violated the chain of command specified in the Rules of the Georgia Republican Party – Rule 2.1.

Both Wysong and James mention in the complaint that they were among the duly qualified delegates who served in the 2025 Georgia Republican Party State Convention, and voted with the majority to prevent Brad Raffensperger from being allowed to qualify as a Republican in future primaries.

“This fact undergirds my standing to make this legal complaint,” they say.

While some have suggested that resolutions are not binding and are mere toothless “expressions of sentiment”, Roberts Rules of Order says differently. Roberts Rules of Order section 4:4 says clearly that resolutions are motions and binding. “For more important or complex questions, or when greater formality is desired, he presents the motion in the form of a resolution. . .”

The candidate challenge says: “By ignoring these rules of the Georgia Republican Party and working in concert with the state government to qualify Brad Raffensperger, they have done exactly what is forbidden by the Rules of the Georgia Republican Party and the First Amendment – namely, forcing the Georgia Republican Party to associate with a candidate that it did not want and who does not uphold its values.”

Colton Moore Thanks GRA Volunteers

March 11, 2026 by Georgia Republican Assembly in Campaign / Election

Last Tuesday, the GRA’s endorsed candidate for the 14th Congressional District race, former State Sen. Colton Moore came in third place out of 17 candidates! Colton was severely out-spent in the race — even by those who garnered fewer votes than him on election night. He spent roughly half a million dollars in comparison to Clay Fuller’s roughly $2 million (including PAC money spent on his behalf) and Democrat Shawn Harris’ $4 million. Both President Donald Trump and the late Charlie Kirk have praised Colton for his “courage”!

Colton ran a clean campaign. However, some crude and unsubstantiated attacks on one of Colton’s opponents were sent out as text blasts by an unknown entity late Monday evening — and made to look as if they came from Colton’s campaign. Colton assured voters they were not from his campaign. The GRA also decried the absurdly exaggerated texts, which were clearly designed to hurt Colton more than the other candidate.

But the race is not over. Colton has also qualified in this race to run in the May 19th Republican Primary. At the Watch Party last Tuesday evening, Colton gave this thank-you message to all the many GRA members who volunteered over the last five weeks for his campaign, door-knocking, sign-waving, and phone-banking:

“There are no greater patriots in the state than GRA members,” said Moore. “You stood fast against any type of adversity and any type of threat to our freedom. You work harder than anyone else… Stay in the fight because, ultimately, the next generation depends on it!”

Democrat Shawn Harris will now face a runoff with the candidate who came in second place on April 7th. Colton stressed how important it is for Democrat Harris not to win this election. “I’m definitely going to be supporting whoever the Republican nominee is,” Colton said at the GRA 14th District Regional Endorsement Convention. “I guarantee you that. Because these Democrats, this guy [Harris] claims to be a cattleman, [but] he can’t even define what a man or a woman is! I mean, these people are on looney-tune land.”

The candidate who wins the April 7th runoff will serve the remainder of Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s term for only this year. Many of the same candidates who ran in the special election will face off again in the Republican May 19th primary, and whoever wins that and the general election in November will represent the 14th Congressional District for the next two years. The 14th Congressional District has been considered a ruby-red Republican district, so any loss to a Democrat there would be shocking.

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.