GRA Derangement Syndrome, Part II: “Team Ossoff” and the Unity Fraud

July 23, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Election / Issues

Republicans are allowed to disagree during primaries.¹

They should.

A primary is when Republican voters examine records, compare candidates, challenge weaknesses, debate principles, and select the people they believe should carry the Republican banner into the general election.

But a party cannot function if “unity” means only that grassroots conservatives must support establishment nominees while establishment figures remain free to undermine grassroots nominees.

The 2026 election presents three useful tests:

Mike Collins, whom the GRA endorsed for U.S. Senate.

Greg Dolezal, whom the GRA endorsed for lieutenant governor.

Rick Jackson, whom the GRA did not endorse for governor, but nevertheless wants people to vote for in November, because he’s a Republican.

Together, the three races expose whether unity is truly a principle, or merely a weapon used against one faction of the Republican Party.

THE GRA ENDORSED MIKE COLLINS

Republican nominee for U.S. Senate: Mike Collins

The Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA) endorsed Mike Collins during the Republican primary process.

When Republican voters selected Collins as the nominee, the GRA supported him against Democrat Jon Ossoff. The organization lists Collins among its 2026 endorsed candidates and celebrated his runoff victory.

That is what Republican unity looks like:

Fight during the primary.

Accept the voters’ decision.

Support the Republican nominee.

Defeat the Democrat.

Some of the GRA’s loudest critics chose a different path.

SHELLEY WYNTER CHOOSES “TEAM OSSOFF”

Radio host Shelley Wynter did not merely decline to endorse Mike Collins.

He endorsed Jon Ossoff.

Ossoff’s campaign published the announcement under the headline “Conservative 95.5 WSB Radio Host Shelley Wynter: ‘I Am Team Ossoff.’”

Wynter told Ossoff that he was “Team Ossoff” and promised to use his program to help the Democratic senator win reelection. The Ossoff campaign presented the endorsement as evidence of a Republican defection and a blow to Collins’s effort to unite Republican voters.

The endorsement also received national coverage from USA Today and was amplified by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Democrats understood its value immediately.

They did not treat it as a meaningless personal preference.

They treated it as campaign material.

WYNTER ATTACKS THE GRA

After the GRA criticized Wynter’s endorsement, Wynter used Facebook to attack the organization:

Read Wynter’s first Facebook response.

Read Wynter’s second Facebook response.

Read the GRA article that prompted the dispute.

The GRA’s criticism was not that anyone possessed a particular genetic trait or immutable characteristic.

The criticism concerned Wynter’s judgment.

The article referenced an earlier incident in which Wynter reportedly praised what a Republican leadership slate “looked like,” rather than emphasizing its members’ accomplishments, qualifications, records, service, or adherence to Republican principles.

Wynter and some of his defenders transformed criticism of identity-based evaluation into criticism of the identities themselves.

Those are not the same thing.

Saying that leaders should be judged by ability and principles rather than genetic traits is not an attack on anyone’s traits.

It is a defense of equal treatment and merit.

ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA PRETENDS NOT TO UNDERSTAND

Wynter was not alone in acting as though the consequences of his endorsement were somehow mysterious. …

GRA Derangement Syndrome, Part I: They Said Goodbye. The GRA Kept Growing.

July 21, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Issues

This is Part One of a three-part series examining the attacks against the Georgia Republican Assembly, the collapse of establishment “unity,” and which organizations are actually working to elect Republicans and enact Republican principles.

For years, critics have accused the Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA) of creating division within the Republican Party.

The facts increasingly demonstrate the opposite.

The Georgia Republican Assembly consists of Republicans organizing other Republicans. Its members identify and endorse principled candidates in Republican primaries, encourage conservatives to participate in county and state Republican Party organizations, help elect principled Republicans to party office, and support Republican nominees in general elections.

Readers unfamiliar with the organization can begin with the GRA’s Principles and Goals, the video “The GRA on a Mission”, the official history “12 Years of Progress”, and my earlier article “Who’s Afraid of the GRA?”. The GRA grew from a small state chapter organized in 2013 into an organization with more than 1,000 members.

The GRA’s philosophy is straightforward:

Make sure only people who will enact the Republican platform are on the Republican primary ballot.

Fight hard in the primary.

Build the Republican Party from the precinct level up.

Hold Republican politicians accountable to Republican principles.

Support Republican nominees in November.

That is not division.

That is party building.

What Is GRA Derangement Syndrome?

GRA Derangement Syndrome is the condition in which opposition to the Georgia Republican Assembly becomes more important than defeating Democrats, electing Republicans, respecting grassroots members, or advancing the Republican Platform.

It causes people who constantly preach “unity” to encourage Republicans to abandon a Republican organization.

It causes people who claim to support grassroots participation to attack an organization controlled through votes of its members.

It causes people who complain that the GRA is divisive to organize campaigns intended to weaken it.

And, as Part Two will demonstrate, it eventually causes some of those same people to refuse to support, or even actively campaign against, Republican nominees.

The 2025 “Goodbye GRA” campaign was perhaps the clearest early outbreak. …

The Consultants Think You’re an Idiot. Don’t Prove Them Right

June 11, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Campaign

Georgia Republicans are being flooded with the best campaign money can buy. But money can buy ads, consultants, mailers, and slogans. It cannot buy a record.

I have been interested in politics for as long as I can remember. I have been involved in the actual Georgia Republican Party organization since 2009 — about seventeen years now, in addition to studying politics in college, before law school.

That is long enough to notice a few patterns.

There is the general public — We the People — who usually vote for the party that most closely reflects their values. They may not attend conventions. They may not read every platform plank. They may not know every county chairman or district officer. But they generally know which direction they want the country to go, and in November they vote for the nominee of the party that best represents them, and that party, statistically, tends to be the same one year after year.

Then there are the grassroots volunteers.

These are the people who show up for free. They go to county meetings. They knock doors. They read legislation. They fight over rules. They hold elected officials accountable. They care about whether candidates actually believe and enact what they say. They care about the platform. They care about promises. They care about whether politicians remember the party that sent them once they get into office.

And then there is the paid political industry.

That industry is not primarily made up of statesmen, philosophers, constitutional scholars, or public servants. It’s not made up of people who understand political philosophy, or policy, or history. It is made up of people who say they 1know how to win campaigns. That is a different skill.

They know how to poll test a phrase.

They know how to cut a flattering ad.

They know how to buy enough television time to create a rags to riches story to make a stranger feel familiar.

They know how to make a candidate with no record sound like a movement.

They know how to make a man with a voting record look worse than a man with no voting record at all.

And most importantly, they know this: if they spend enough money, repeat the same message enough times, and flood enough mailboxes, a certain number of voters will eventually believe whatever they are told.

That is the whole business model.

The paid political industry does not need you to be informed. It needs you to be impressionable.

It does not need you to remember what someone has done. It needs you to react to what someone’s ad says this week.

It does not need a candidate with a history. In fact, a blank slate is far easier to sell. A blank slate has no bad votes, no hard choices, no public record, no years of decisions to defend. A blank slate can be whatever the consultants say it is.

That is why this governor’s race matters. …

Click here to read more on Alex’s SubStac k.

Vote Like They Hope You’re Distracted

May 14, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Government / Issues

The political class counts on low turnout. Don’t give them what they want.

Does the Republican Party exist to serve politicians and get them elected? Or does it exist to serve the people?

The Republican Party exists to enact its principled and conservative platform, which serves the people. The paid political industry/Establishment want the party to be weak and to not serve the public. All actions should be taken toward the goal of getting the platform enacted.

The political industry has one favorite voter: the voter who stays home.

They love the exhausted voter.
They love the confused voter.
They love the voter who says, “I’ll get to it next time.”

Because when regular people stop voting, the paid political industry: consultants, lobbyists, bureaucrats, PACs, and career politicians, they do not stop working or getting paid. They just get a smaller group of people to decide more power for everyone else.

That is why the message is simple:

Go vote. Bring someone with you. Vote like the Democrats and Republican establishment are counting on you to forget.

Georgia’s May 19, 2026 Primary is not a boring election. It includes major statewide races, congressional races, and statewide judicial races.

And yes: please vote in the judicial races.

Normally, I am rightly skeptical of incumbents. Incumbency is the political class’s favorite shield. But the statewide judicial races are different this election cycle. In these races, the statewide judicial incumbents have done the far better job and need to be supported.

As an attorney, I can attest that bad appellate judges can cause a lot of harm.

The statewide judicial seats up this cycle include Georgia Supreme Court seats held by Sarah Hawkins Warren and Charlie Bethel, along with Court of Appeals seats held by Trenton Brown and Elizabeth Gobeil.

Do not skip those races. Do not leave them blank. The election for them is happening now and ends on Tuesday. Judicial races matter because courts decide whether written law means what it says, and whether constitutional rights are protected.

Then, for Republicans who want to send a clear message in the partisan races, support the GRA-endorsed candidates. The Georgia Republican Assembly’s 2026 endorsement list includes the following statewide and congressional endorsements and was decided by actual volunteer activists who are more immune to the effects of candidates trying to buy the election with millions of dollars of ads. …

Click here to read more of Alex’s article on his Substac k.

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.

GRA Chairman Calls Out Brad Raffensperger’s Misleading Attacks Against GRA President

February 26, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Government / Issues

“Since at least 2021, the Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA) has been opposed to Mr. Raffensperger lying to voters by attempting to qualify for elected office as a Republican. Last year, GRA members and other good Republicans successfully supported a motion within the GAGOP that prohibits the Republican Party from qualifying him as a Republican.

“It is my understanding that Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA) President Nathaniel Darnell’s own family was victimized by the alleged ponzi scheme by First Liberty, which is conveniently ignored by Raffensperger’s office’s independent and misleading attacks on Mr. Darnell with unproven claims in Raffensperger’s filings/correspondence.

“We hope that all victims of the alleged ponzi scheme receive justice and are fully compensated, while the political industry opportunists like Mr. Raffensperger cease trying to trick voters into thinking they are entitled to Republican votes, support, or ballot access.” – Alex Johnson, GRA Chairman

Did YOUR district GOP leadership just choose Raffensperger over the GOP platform?

February 17, 2026 by Alex Johnson in Issues

As you can see in the image above, the people wishing to destroy the GAGOP and lead us into irrelevance are finally revealing themselves, as they know they are losing control.

Four district parties are deciding to support the philosophy that helps Brad Raffensperger and others like him controlling your state and ruining our Republican Party.

In our last e-mai l, we made it clear the recent action by the GAGOP in allowing the RNC to potentially support a candidate for governor showed the clear and logical philosophy that the Republican Party’s number one goal must be to get its platform enacted into law, and to do so by getting candidates elected who will actually enact the platform.

The GAGOP actually taking a stand regarding candidates is extremely similar to the GAGOP’s past action in b anning Geoff Duncan from running as a Republican (leading him to run as a Democrat this time), and the vote to ban Raffensperger from running as a Republican this year (which would be a logical extension of the party allowing RNC support for Burt Jones in Georgia).

In essence, the Republican Party/GAGOP is making it clear we are not a tool to be bought and sold by the political industry or whatever candidate thinks they can pay enough money, to trick enough voters, to get ballot access in November. The GAGOP must set the platform and standard, to maintain the brand, and ensure that our nominee in November is going to actually enact the party’s platform when elected. Which includes allowing the RNC to support a favored candidate. Or blocking Raffensperger from the primary ba llot as the delegates demanded.

In response to this positive philosophical decision, the 8t h, 10t h, and 12th distric t Republican party leadership decided to reject the grassroots and publicly declare their support for Brad Raffensperger with resolutions demanding that the party always maintain neutrality and “follow the primary voters”. As this was being drafted, the 9th distric t passed a similar resolution as well.

At least one of the resolutions falsely claims that “maintaining strict institutional neutrality in contested primaries protects grassroots participation”, even though, ironically, many of these people were opposed to Trump, opposed to the GRA, wanted to drive off the scores of people involved due to election integrity, and refuse to have the party do anything different to regain relevance.

They passed these misleading resolutions while falsely claiming to suddenly go from being politicians’ sycophants to being “grassroots”, knowing fully well that almost all primary voters do not even know the GAGOP exists, that almost all primary voters do not know how to be involved with the GAGOP, and that almost all primary voters falsely believe that the GAGOP has more requirements to run for office as a Republican than simply falsely claiming to be a Republican and paying some money.

Transparency + Accountability Win Elections!

December 19, 2025 by Alex Johnson in Issues

We’re disappointed to see Democrats win races we should never be losing — but we’re also grateful for the Republican victories that were secured.

Here’s the honest takeaway:

When grassroots conservatives show up early, organize locally, and stay involved between elections, we win.
When we don’t, the Left fills the vacuum — and we all pay the price.

So no doom-and-gloom today. Just determination.

Below are FOUR important updates (a quick read), plus simple action steps to take right now.

THE GA GOP “SURVEY” LINK WAS PULLED, RE-POSTED — AND RESULTS WERE RELEASED WITHOUT THE REAL SUBSTANCE

In response to our last email, the “advisory committee” that published the survey took it down and replaced it with a new link.

Initially, I believed the purpose of the survey was to gather information to help the elected State Committee do its job between conventions, so issues could be debated at multiple business meetings with full discussion.

But the survey was taken down to avoid hearing your thoughts/opinions. And results were later released WITHOUT the written commentary that actually explains WHY ideas are good or bad (here is the link to the “results”), and what the real impacts/drawbacks would be (such as those described, partially, in the last e-mail). Even worse, the last State Committee business meeting appeared to be shut down in a way that avoided discussion of issues State Committee members were trying to raise.

If we want better outcomes, we have to insist on transparent process — and refuse to be managed by “feedback” that’s reduced to first impressions and stripped of context.

GA GOP ENDORSED BY PUTTING OUT A MAILER SUPPORTING A CANDIDATE IN A CONTESTED FULTON COUNTY MUNICIPAL RACE — WITHOUT A VOTE — AND THAT’S A PROBLEM

Recently, the Georgia Republican Party endorsed in a contested Fulton County municipal race where multiple Republicans were running. This mailer from the Georgia Republican Party states:

“The Georgia Republican Party is encouraging citizens to support its endorsed candidates for statewide office, including the Public Service Commission, and to stay in engaged in local city elections… Make a plan to get out and vote to reelect John Bradberry.”

That’s the exact opposite of how you keep volunteers energized.

Compare that with the Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA):
• Members vote on endorsements.
• A 2/3 vote at an endorsement convention is required to earn endorsement.
• The process is driven by active grassroots conservatives — not backroom decisions.

When endorsements happen without buy-in, you alienate the very volunteers who knock doors, make calls, give money, and deliver margins — and that helps us lose elections.

JOIN THE GRA (and have a vote):
www.GeorgiaRA.com

2026 STATEWIDE PRIMARIES ARE ALREADY TAKING SHAPE — SLOW DOWN AND CHOOSE WISELY

Statewide primary races for next year have begun.

Good news: the GA GOP Executive Committee voted to ban Geoff Duncan from qualifying as a Republican — and he is now campaigning as a Democrat (where he belongs).

At the same time, Brad Raffensperger — despite a State Convention vote to ban him from qualifying as a Republican — is attempting to campaign as a Republican. Hopefully the GAGOP carries through and stands up for your rights by keeping him off the ballot.

Bottom line: don’t let anyone pressure you into early endorsements. Do your homework. Wait for proven, principled Republicans.

One of the best tools for cutting through the noise is seeing who GRA members vote to endorse at our endorsement convention early next year. If you want a vote in that process, and want to be a part of the only Republican group the liberals at the AJC *and* the GAGOP Establishment are continuously attacking, apply to join the Georgia Republican Assembly now:
www.GeorgiaRA.com

GAGOP ASSISTANT SECRETARY RESIGNED — AND THE REPLACEMENT PROCESS NEEDS SUNLIGHT

GAGOP Assistant Secretary Ja’quon Stembridge resigned:

That position is being filled by a vote of the GAGOP Executive Committee later this month. We are told the top three finalists are being chosen TODAY, Friday, December 19, 2025, with voting beginning at 5:00 PM and ending at 9:00 PM.

Because there does not appear to be a clearly published, transparent process, you should immediately contact your Executive Committee members and tell them:
• if you want to run (and ask how to submit your name), and/or
• who you want them to vote for.

GAGOP leadership / Executive Committee list:
https://www.gagop.org/about

(As of December 17, the list we’ve seen of declared candidates is attached to this email here.)

ACTION STEPS (DO THESE ASAP)

Join the GRA so you can vote on endorsements and help drive accountability:
www.GeorgiaRA.com
Contact your GAGOP Executive Committee members TODAY about the Assistant Secretary vote:
https://www.gagop.org/about
Commit to doing your homework before the 2026 primaries — and don’t let insiders rush you.

If you’re tired of politics being done TO you instead of WITH you, then you already know what time it is.

Let’s organize. Let’s grow. Let’s win — and let’s earn it the right way.

Two Candidates DENIED Republican Title / Brand

October 8, 2025 by Alex Johnson in Government / Issues

The Georgia Republican Party (on the state level) has done two things in the past year to maintain the Republican Party’s reputation and brand.

One, was when the State Executive Committee of the GAGOP voted to adopt a resolution (“resolution” = “written motion”) to ban Geoff Duncan from running as a Republican .

The second, was when the State Republican Party Convention voted to adopt a resolution (again, “resolution” = “written motion”) to ban Brad Raffensperger from running as a Republican .

For those of you who don’t know Roberts Rules of Order, a motion is a proposal within an organization (be it a board of directors, a convention, the state committee, or any other governing body or committee) to take some sort of action and it requires the organization to enact any commands within it.

Geoff Duncan, is running for Governor as a Democrat . He decided NOT to try to lie to voters and claim he’s a Republican, possibly due to the party making clear that he was not welcome.

Brad Raffensperger, on the other hand, has decided to run for Governor and lie to voters claiming he’s a Republic an. While qualifying has not happened yet, some within the State GOP are making statements that mislead people about the role and power of the GAGOP. Simply because the GAGOP has failed for years, due to wanting to work for politicians that are leading us closer to Democrat victories, to exercise its ability to ensure Republican politicians are accountable to you, that does not mean that the Republican Party does not have the power to do so.

There is extensive Supreme Court and federal caselaw that holds that the Republican Party cannot be controlled by state laws, including being forced to qualify people it does not want to associate with for office. The First Amendment guarantees a right to freedom of association. The law is clearly on our side.

There are lawyers that have been helping the Catoosa GOP, pro bono, in getting favorable court rulings that affirm that right. The idea that the party needs millions of dollars to exercise a basic constitutional right is not only false, but also belies the inability of those pushing it to actually reach out to attorneys that are willing to help save the country without charging the party millions of dollars.

If we want to win elections not just next year, but for years into the future, the Republican Party must have a good, consistent brand that enacts great policies into law. Not one that’s sold to the highest bidder and seen as bad, but only better than the alternative.

What type of GOP do you want to see? Cheerleaders for the highest bidders? Or a principled organization that encourages accountability?