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.
Over the last several weeks people have been amazed by the overwhelming organic groundswell of support behind Colton Moore’s race for Congress in the 14th District. Some are at a loss to explain the army of unpaid volunteers willing to knock thousands of doors across a massive district that ranges from the Tennessee border to the suburbs of Atlanta.
With 15 Republican options, why is there so much overwhelming enthusiasm for Colton Moore?
I believe it is due to his consistent record of moral courage — a rare quality in politics. A brief examination of recent history and his voting record as a State Senator makes this clear.
While serving in the Georgia legislature Colton Moore:
• Sponsored SB 303 to establish election integrity by implementing paper ballots for Georgia elections.
• Was the only Republican Senator to vote “No” to a bill (SB144) giving pesticide makers (like Monsanto) legal immunity if their product harmed consumers.
• Stood up for the lives of babies conceived via IVF, and was the only Republican to vote “No” to the unethical In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) bill that gave IVF companies a “right” to commodify the lives of innocent children without any pro-life ethical boundaries.
• Was the only Republican Senator to vote “No” to HB 268, an outrageous bill that included massive government overreach into the lives of public school students.
• Sponsored a Second Amendment bill, SB 204, this year and was the lead sponsor of the Second Amendment Preservation Act (SB 67 in 2023) and fought hard to protect the rights of gun owners.
When Fani Willis was unjustly persecuting President Trump and the alternate electors, and when most of Georgia’s elected officials remained silent, Colton Moore called for a special session to investigate her and defund her office for its unjust politically motivated law-fare.
Moore’s defense of Trump as a State Senator drew national attention and attracted the praise of the President.
“Highly respected Georgia Senator Colton Moore deserves thanks and congratulations for having the courage and conviction to fight the radical left lunatics,” said Trump.
Moore sponsored legislation called the “Stop Political Persecutions Act” to reform Georgia’s RICO law to make sure it could no longer be abused against one’s political opponents.
Click to listen to State Sen. Colton Moore on the Charlie Kirk Show.
Charlie Kirk, who last year was assassinated for speaking truth on college campuses, said to Colton on his show, “Colton, you have courage, and we appreciate you!”
In 2020, when Northwest Georgia exploded with the second amendment sanctuary movement, where local activists worked with local municipalities to pass resolutions supporting the second amendment and resolving to protect the gun rights of citizens, even if the federal government attempted to strip them away, Colton Moore was right there supporting his constituents. He attended and spoke at the second amendment sanctuary rally in Armuchee in February 2020 as then Representative Moore giving moral support and legitimacy to the activists’ cause.
When Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022, and pro-life advocates in Georgia were clamoring for immediate action to protect innocent pre-born children from abortion, Colton Moore was one of the few legislators that participated in the series of pro-life rallies hosted by the Georgians Ending Abortion coalition. Most legislators avoided the issue and acted like it was business as usual – nothing to see here, despite the corpses of roughly 30,000 dead Georgia babies accumulating each year and the Dobbs decision giving individual states the green light to abolish abortion if they chose. Colton Moore stood out.
When there appeared to be evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, and Georgia officials failed to investigate, certifying the election in spite of valid concerns of fraud, on Dec 4th 2020 Colton Moore called the election “a national embarrassment.”
Like many Republicans, Colton was outraged by the inaction of the Governor and Secretary of State. After 2020 a movement was launched to ditch dominion voting machines and return to paper ballots, hand-counted at the precinct level to deter cheating, and ensure there was a paper trail that could be followed and audited in the event a future election was ever questioned. Sen. Colton Moore was responsive to this grassroots movement, drafting legislation (SB 303) to implement paper ballots. In September 2023 he was one of the very few legislators who participated in an election integrity rally held at Liberty Plaza outside the Capitol, publicly affirming the concerns about fraudulent elections.
In 2024, when 300 or so activists at the 14th Congressional District GOP convention passed a resolution calling for ethical boundaries for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Colton Moore listened. The next year a bill came to the State Senate that enshrined a “right to IVF” and Senator Colton Moore was the only Republican in the legislature to vote “no” in accordance with the expressed will of hundreds of his constituents on that issue.
In March 2024 when the Catoosa GOP began exercising their right to freedom of association by denying fake Republican commissioners a place on the “R” primary ballot, resulting in a lawsuit and a fierce onslaught of negative publicity, Colton Moore supported them with statements affirming their legal and constitutional right.
When Americans everywhere were concerned about open borders during the Biden administration and the outrageous numbers of illegal migrants in the U.S., Colton helped to expose the issue at the Atlanta airport, and was a staunch voice calling for a secure border.
While the Washington elite and the “powers that be” in Atlanta often seem out of touch and deaf to the concerns of the grassroots, Colton listens. He cares about the issues that matter to normal Republican families, and champions those issues for them.
In 2025 Colton sponsored the Anti-Corruption Act SB 378 which would end the use of taxpayer dollars to fund lobbying for government agencies, a shocking practice that left many taxpayers stunned that such a thing was ever legal and occurring under our noses.
Moore has served as Vice Chairman of the Georgia Freedom Caucus, the leading voice for sanity and real Republican policies at the Gold Dome.
While individual GRA members may all have a specific pet issue on which Colton Moore earned their trust and respect, the common thread in his record is his ability to say “No” to the lobbyists, and to the RINO Republican caucus, so he can say “Yes” to his political principles and the people he serves.
Many Republicans agree that Congress needs a lot more people with a backbone – more Dave Ramsey and less spending and debt. More loyalty to constituents than lobbyists and foreign interests. More moral courage in the face of pressure and manipulation.
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”
– Robert Kennedy
If moral courage is the need of the hour, Colton Moore fits the bill, and the enthusiasm of his grassroots supporters for the March 10th special election is not at all surprising.
If you live in Whitfield, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Murray, Walker, Paulding, Polk, or the northwest part of Cobb county, consider joining us in supporting Colton Moore in the March 10th Special Election to replace Marjorie Greene. Early voting begins Monday February 16th.
Atlanta, GA — The Fulton County Commission held a long-awaited vote on whether to approve the Republican appointments to the Board of Elections. They had previously defied the law by refusing the appointments, and a judge had ordered the county commission to follow the law and accept the two appointments from GRA member and Fulton GOP Chairman Stephanie Endres. She appointed GRA Election Integrity Chairman Jason Frazier and election integrity activist Julie Adams to serve, but when it came time for the Commissioners to vote, several of the Democrat Fulton County commissioners left the room before the vote was taken.
The final result was 2 in favor and 2 against. Thus, the motion failed.
The Democrats on the commission have labeled Frazier and Adams as extremists simply because they take election integrity seriously. Yet now, these same Democrats are disregarding both the law and a court order—and they may soon find themselves in serious trouble.
The Fulton County Republican Party, with help from attorneys from the RNC, filed a motion on Thursday to find the defiant Democrat commissioners in contempt.
Frazier had also been the one to discover that there were approximately 20,000 duplicate voter registrations in Fulton and approximately 2,000 registrations had no address listed.
State Rep. Noelle Kahaian (R-Henry) is a rising star in the Georgia General Assembly, and her story is remarkable and inspiring. First, she had an amazing win against a RINO incumbent Lauren Daniel (who earned a 34% vote score her freshman year) who out-spent her 6-to-1. Then Noelle survived the pressure-cooker from the Establishment in her first legislative session, developing a reputation has resilient patriot defending our Republican principles in policy-making.
Our GRA President Nathaniel Darnell interviewed her to tell her impressive story, which you can now watch here:
Thank you for all our GRA members for coming out and participating across the state at the many congressional district GA GOP conventions held last Saturday! We are grateful for the blessing of God on our efforts, and are pleased to report the abundant success!
We are pleased to report that in the 11th Congressional District GA GOP Convention, virtually all of the endorsed candidates for various positions were elected. In particular, GRA-endorsed candidate David Oles from Pickens County won re-election as the 11th District GA GOP Chairman by a margin of 153 to 98!
GOP Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch congratulates Richard Jordan for his election as the new 7th District Chair.
In the 7th Congressional District, GRA-endorsed candidate Richard Jordan from Cherokee County won election as the new District 7 GA GOP Chairman. Richard has been serving over the last several years as the North Metro RA chapter President. Several GRA-endorsed candidates and GRA members also won positions on the down-ballot, including Fulton GOP Chairwoman Stephanie Endres, Honey Burfield from Cherokee, Tom Talbot from Hall, Sig Jucknies from Cherokee, and Seanie Zappendorf from Dawson, who were elected to the State Committee.
Kandiss Taylor & Brittany Brown
In the 1st Congressional District, GRA-member Kandiss Taylor passed the mantle of leadership to Brittany Brown as the new District Chairwoman! Brittany has been servinga s the SEGRA chapter President and also the Chatham County GOP Chairwoman for the last few years.
In the 4th Congressional District, GRA-endorsed candidate Jim Duffie won re-election easily as the 4th District GA GOP Chairman. GRA Chairman Alex Johnson, Dr. Kendra Biegalski, William Freeman, and Austin McDonald — all GRA members — were also elected to the state committee in the 4th.
In the 3rd Congressional District, Katie Frost was also easily re-elected as the 3rd District Chairwoman. Her brother Brant Frost V, mother Krista Frost, Denise Ognio, and Jim Fernander are each GRA members who were elected to the GA GOP State Committee from the 3rd as well.
The only district where a GRA member was pitted against an Establishment candidate and lost was in the 9th Congressional District.
Although Brian Parker (former Banks County GOP Chairman) was not officially endorsed in the 9th because no GRA endorsement convention was held in the 9th, he is a GRA member and patriot who was preferred over staunch Establishment candidate Stephen Aaron in the northeast corner of the state. It still baffles the mind that a congressional district with a Congressman possessing such an exceptional voting record like Andrew Clyde’s has such a poor track record of picking District Chairs! But Brian was the target of several hit pieces by Debbie Dooley and other Establishment tools in the days leading up the district Conventions.
GRA President Nathaniel Darnell congratulates Angela Rubino.
Another notable win for the GRA came in the 14th Congressional District where the Etowah RA chapter President Angela Rubino defeated the Establishment Floyd County GOP Chairwoman Pam Peters for election to State Committee by a margin of 142 to 78 votes!
Angela had challenged Pam for Floyd County GOP Chair during the county convention but had lost by a margin of 49 to 63.
In addition, GRA President Nathaniel Darnell, GRA Secretary Joanna Hildreth, GRA Assistant Secretary Jackie Harling, Eddie Caldwell, Linda Fowler, Teresa Ray, and Denise Burns are all GRA members who were elected to the State Committee from the 14th.
Even in outlier congressional districts, GRA members experienced wins. For example, Allison Largeman and Tifani Eledge won elected to the state committee in the 2nd District, along with Sam Carnline. Although Sam is not a GRA member, he is a leader in one of our partner organizations, Georgians for Truth. In the 8th District, Mike Niesler is a GRA member who was elected to the state committee, and in the 6th District Matthew Hardwick is a GRA member who was elected to the state committee.
Here is an additional breakdown of our how endorsed candidates for the district conventions fared:
Georgia Republican Assembly members are ecstatic about the results from the General Election this past Tuesday! Obviously, we are thrilled that our NFRA–endorsed candidate for POTUS Donald Trump made history by becoming the first since Grover Cleveland (1837 – 1908) to be elected to two non-consecutive terms. But far more significantly, we are excited about the real policy differences this election win forecasts.
This election revealed that at least 72 million Americans have not been completely brain-washed by MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, and other “fake news” legacy media outlets.
With a newly won Republican majority back in the U.S. Senate and a renewed Republican majority appearing to materialize in the U.S. House, Trump is poised to make strides to accomplish a lot. “With these wins, Republicans need to make hay while the sun shines to implement as many changes as possible while they have the majority,” said GRA President Nathaniel Darnell. “No more playing it safe to try to stay in power (which always eventually back-fires)! They need to get as much good done as possible while they can!”
This election represents not only a warm embrace of the policy changes proposed by the Trump-Vance ticket, but also a firm rejection of the clown world policies that have accelerated under Democrats over the last four years! Americans don’twant the wild Woke policies of trans-your-kids, push DEI, make taxpayers pay for trans surgeries for prisoners, pit the skin colors and the sexes against each other, finance both sides of a war across the world, cutoff energy pipelines in our land, and compel private social media outlets to censor anyone who disagrees!
Americans want to open up our oil pipelines, protect the border, lower our tax burden & inflation, provide a healthy environment for Americans businesses and workers, support medical freedom, cut waste and overregulation in the federal bureaucracy, and many other strong policies that the team Trump is assembling, appear well equipped to advance.
GRA-member Marjorie Taylor Greene also won reelection for her 14th GA Congressional seat with 64.39% of the vote, and GRA-endorsed Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-9) won re-election with 69.02% of the vote in his race. They will no doubt be among the Republicans in D.C. working hard to implement positive changes quickly.
President Trump’s indication to include other notable leaders like Kentucky’s Thomas Massie, Robert Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, Ron Paul, and Joel Salatin in areas of his administration where they excel, gives hope for real progress on the horizon.
There’s no disputing that all eyes were on Georgia Tuesday as the election results arrived. At the latest tally, it appears that Trump beat Harris in Georgia by 117,812 votes.
Several factors contributed to ensure Democrats did not effectively cheat state-wide and to make sure Trump’s success was “too big to rig!”
For one, the legal team did not get caught flat-footed.
One of the most critical things was the success by GA GOP Chairman Josh McKoon(working with RNC Chairman Michael Whatley) to expedite an appeal to the Georgia State Supreme Court over the weekend. The high court responded by ruling that no non-military absentee ballots could be counted if they were received after Election Day. That cut off an avenue for the Democrats, in places like Fulton County, to stuff sufficient ballots in Georgia to overturn the results. If it wasn’t for that accomplishment, we might still be in suspense today, awaiting the final election outcome.
For another thing, GRA members who have been positioned in key county and congressional district GOP leadership positions worked hard with their teams to get out the vote. The massive early voting by Republican voters in all counties was crucial. Even in counties in metro-Atlanta that are now eclipsed by majority Democrat voters, the Republican raw vote was essential.
For example, Gwinnett County brought in 172,812 votes for Trump, Cobb County brought in 168,286, and Fulton County brought in 142,912. If you subtract those results from any of those counties, Trump would not have won. Even DeKalb County with its 62,482 votes for Trump helped to push the margin of victory far enough from the Democrat’s clutches so as to render it too significant to steal the election.
That is why it was valuable to have so many Republicans running in down-ballot races, even in places that were considered too blue to win. We are grateful for all of those who put in the effort to recruit candidates before March this year!
In addition to the top-of the ticket victories, our GRA members in local GOP leadership also enjoyed other hard-fought wins in their communities. For example, in Whitfield County, GRA member Eddie Caldwell (Whitfield County GOP Chair) and his team defeated a Democrat who has held office as Sheriff for 32 years!
In Cobb County, GRA-member Salleigh Grubbs (Cobb GOP Chair) resoundingly defeated an M-SPLOSTincrease proposed by the Democrat commissioners and helped Republicans retain majority control of the county School Board. Brad Wheeler and Randy Scamihorn were incumbent Republicans on the school board who had been targeted for removal by the Southern Poverty Law Center after they opposed trans and other perverse indoctrination taking place in classrooms behind parents’ backs.
Meanwhile, Middle GA RA Chapter leader Troy Cook overwhelmingly won his race for Crawford County Commissioner District 2 with 67.45% of the vote.
The third main contributor to success on Tuesday was that so many GRA members and other grassroots activists have worked tirelessly and vigilantly over the last four years to push hard for real election integrity reformin our state. Although not everything we’ve been fighting for has yet been accomplished, the wins we have experienced definitely made our election systems much less vulnerable to the Democrats’ potential cheating efforts than they were in 2020.
The Georgia Freedom Caucus has another member among its ranks at the State Capitol. In spite of opposition and harassment from the Republican Establishment in Atlanta, our GRA-endorsed State House candidate Noelle Kahaian came out on top in her election for State House District 81 with 19,122 votes to the Democrat’s 14,392 votes. Noelle has been a patriot activist for several years working on common sense legislation to protect children from obscenity and harmful gender ideology in government schools and libraries. Her victory is particularly notable because she defeated a R.I.N.O. incumbent in the primary earlier this year.
In other local down ballot races, several GRA-endorsed candidates also clinched it. For example, GRA member Keith Bowen won election as Miller County Commissioner, receiving 84% of the vote! Endorsed candidate Clyde McDaniel for Whitfield County Cornor won his race with 73% of the vote.
Still more GRA-endorsed candidates won without opposition in the general election, including State Rep. Charlice Byrd (R-20), Tony Abernathy for Murray County School Board, and Ken Pullin for Pike County Board of Commissioners.
After the huge attendance of election integrity advocates at the state capitol for the last several State Board of Elections meetings, Governor Kemp’s appointed Chairman for the Board, John Fervier announced that the next meeting(s) would only be virtual online.
The next Board Meeting is scheduled for August 19th. “I wonder if the first item of business,” said GRA Chairman Alex Johnson, “should be to vote to have all in-person meetings in the future unless there’s an emergency agreed to by at least three members?”
By making the SEB meetings virtual they are preventing election integrity activists from providing in-person, demonstrable proof of concerned voters, holding signs and getting media attention for election reform, thus making them easier to ignore. No doubt the Chairman probably hopes to squelch the growing momentum within the movement and prevent the morale boost that results from seeing hundreds of fellow activists joining forces from around the state. But election integrity activists have decided to double down.
He also suggested the board members who are not afraid of concerned citizens perhaps book a room at the Capitol where they can log in to the virtual call and allow the public to join. This would help the voters participate who are technologically challenged. Please suggest this option in your email to the SEB members. Frazier also suggested everyone contact Governor Kemp as well.
This news broke as Attorney General Chris Carr announced that he would follow the State Board’s recent vote calling for him to investigate evidence of problems with the Fulton County elections from 2020. Carr said in a statement: “The State of Georgia will investigate specific claims of voter fraud. Based on the facts & the evidence, we stand ready to prosecute any voter fraud found in the State of Georgia.”
But Kandiss Taylor, GRA Member and First District GOP Chairwoman, remains skeptical. She discovered donor records showing the Republican Attorneys General Association gave Governor Kemp over $1.8 Million in four donations. She believes this is why there has been no investigation of voter fraud.
Atlanta, GA — An estimated over 300 election integrity activists from every corner of the state showed up at the State Board of Elections Meeting and a Press Conference (organized by Georgians for Truth) Tuesday at the State Capitol, filling up three rooms! Many of us from the GRA were pleased to be among them. With so many items on the agenda, the meeting progressed into a second day.
Chairman JohnFervier (appointed by Governor Brian Kemp) displayed what appeared to be hostility to the election integrity activists by throwing a curve ball in changing the process for how people could sit in the main room. In the past, access to the main room has been based upon first-come-first-served, but the Chairman imposed a new system whereby attendees had to receive tickets to get a seat, and priority was given to members of the press and state legislature in order to have access to the main room. Several who arrived early to get a seat were told they had to move to an overflow room because they did not have a ticket.
Jason Frazier
The GRA’s Election Integrity Action Group Chairman Jason Frazier observed about the meeting: “I would be surprised if Fervier makes it to the end of his term. Pressure is building. Meetings went from quarterly to 3-4 days/month. He is no longer the alpha in the room. Hundreds of people are showing up, thousands more watching. He has lost control of the meeting. People that know him and his family say that he wasn’t like this, etc.” He described Fervier’s actions as “Waffle House,” a play on Fervier’s career as an Executive at the company.
GRA-member & 1st District Chairwoman Kandiss Taylor summarized the situation on the State Elections Board well when she wrote on X that it “has [three] ethical, moral, election responsible members. They have a liberal [D]emocrat as well as a Kemp appointed Chairman that both are fighting the Georgians who just want truth and accountability.”
So far both Republican Party appointed Dr. Janice Johnston and GA State House appointed Janelle King have been the most reliable leaders of election integrity reforms on the SEB, although even they mused aloud that some of the rule proposals presented this week crossed the line, in their minds, from rule-making into possible legislating, in particular one that would have substituted Dominion computer voting for paper ballots under particular circumstances. State Senate appointed member Rick Jeffres is increasingly voting with Johnston and King in favor of rule reforms. Democrat appointed member Sara Tindell Ghazal and Kemp appointee Chairman Fervier are more often finding themselves voting together in the minority.
GRA-member and Cobb GOP Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs pointed out the problem of the SEB not having their own legal counsel, but being strapped to the counsel of the Secretary of State. “How many times are y’all going to allow a data breach form the Secretary of State’s office before you do something about it?” she asked.
GRA-member Matt Rowenczak testifies at the SEBMeeting Tuesday.
Eyebrows were raised when a lawyer from Washington, D.C. was brought in Tuesday to testify against the need for certain election integrity reforms. Dr. Johnston asked who invited him to speak for 30 minutes in front of the Board, and Chairman Fervier replied somewhat testily that that was his decision.
The Georgia SEB received national attention this week for voting to pass a rule that would require “a reasonable inquiry” before certifying an election where there were signs of possible fraud or miscalculation. Detractors of the rule argued that the rule provision was ambiguous and could keep election results tied up in court for months.
Former President Donald Trump praised the development. “I won Alabama by a record,” he said of the 2020 election. “I won South Carolina by a record. You don’t win Alabama and South Carolina by records and lose Georgia. It doesn’t happen. All we want is honest elections. If we have honest elections in Georgia, if we have honest elections in Pennsylvania, we’re gonna win ’em by a lot.”
Update: In a 3-2 vote Wednesday, election board members Rick Jeffares, Janice Johnston and Janelle King voted to report findings from the Fulton County investigation of double balloting, missing ballot images and a host of other violations tied to the controversial 2020 presidential election to the Attorney General. The vote Wednesday referred the Fulton case to Attorney General Chris Carr‘s office for investigation into 17,852 reported missing ballot images, the double-counting of more than 3,000 ballot vote images, and other election-related violations.
Remember that Trump only allegedly lost Georgia in the presidential race of 2020 by about 12,000 votes. If there were double votes on some of those, that would reduce the number to about 9,000 votes. If there are over 17,000 ballot images missing that were in favor of Trump in that election, then he would have rightfully won that presidential election — contrary to what has been reported.
Above are images of the three full rooms with attendees at the State Board of Elections Meeting Tuesday.
