Seven GRA-endorsed candidates won their Republican nomination out-right last night in the Tuesday Primary. Three state-wide candidates will advance to a runoff.
GRA members have worked hard over the last several weeks to promote these endorsed candidates, door-knocking, phone-banking, donating, and sign-waving.
The winners included State Rep. Charlice Byrd (R-Cherokee), Rep. Noelle Kahaian (R-Henry), Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-District 9), Congressional candidate Matt Day (District 2), Congressional candidate Jim Duffie (District 4), Cobb Commissioner Keli Gambrill (District 1), and Fulton County Commissioner Bridget Thorne (District 1). Each of these have distinguished themselves in various ways as they have stood up to pressure from the Establishment and fought for Republican principles. We are proud to support such candidates and see them to victory — even when facing great opposition! They are fighters and they are helping to make “the Republican Party REPUBLICAN again”!
For example, Charlice won in spite of, reportedly, the local Chamber of Commerce recruiting an opponent to run against her and the gambling lobby raising over $1 million for her opponent. Charlice has often had to break ranks with her caucus to vote against the wasteful and even illegal spending in the state budget. She’s taken hits for it, but it has not bothered her. She had voting record of 98% from 2025, and she’s consistently scored in the 90th percentile in office, when her votes are compared to the GAGOP Platform.
Meanwhile, three state-wide candidates came in either first place or second place on Tuesday in crowded fields of Republicans, and so they will advance to a runoff. Current Lt. Governor Burt Jones came in first place in his race of seven candidates. RINO candidates such as Brad Raffensperger and Chris Carr came in third and fourth, so they are thankfully eliminated from the Republican Primary election. But because none of the seven candidate garnered 50% plus one vote, the gubernatorial race goes into a runoff with Burt Jones and billionaire Rick Jackson.
State Senator Greg Dolezal (R-Forsyth) came in second place in the race for Lt. Governor behind Senator John F. Kennedy (R-Monroe), and so the two of them will face off in the runoff on June 16th. Dolezal has a vastly superior voting record over Kennedy. Dolezal in 2025 scored 98% (83% vote score plus 76+ sponsorship score) while Kennedy only voted for Republican policy 43% of the time in 2025! Kennedy was also openly hostile towards former State Senator Colton Moore (R-Dade), and has been reported to be the one who called for Moore’s ouster from the Senate Republican Caucus after Moore publicly chastised the Senate for refusing to subpoena Fani Willis years ago.
Now GRA members will need to knuckle down and help these three remaining endorsed candidates through what is expected to be a brutal primary runoff. The runoff date is June 16th — the day before Governor Kemp has called for a Special Session to begin!
Thank you to all of our members who have made sacrifices and worked tirelessly on campaigns for the betterment of your community.
Stay tuned for ways you can help bring these principled candidates to victory!
Ringgold, GA – Today the Catoosa County Board of Elections voted to illegally qualify County Commission RINO incumbent Chuck Harris — in spite of his failure to sign the loyalty oath to the Republican Party. A formal elector challenge was filed by Britt Fant, a Catoosa GOP member.
State law allows political parties to require a loyalty oath from all candidates wishing to qualify with that party, and the Republican Party of Catoosa County requires that oath. In previous Catoosa cases argued in state court regarding blocking candidates from qualifying, judges have repeatedly affirmed that the political parties have the power to condition qualifying upon whether the candidate has signed and submitted the oath. Yet the Catoosa Board of Elections voted 3-2 to allow Chuck Harris to appear on the Republican Primary ballot without signing the oath.
Because Harris did not sign the oath as required by law, the Catoosa GOP did not include him on their certified list of candidates that the Catoosa Board of Elections publicly posted after the qualifying period ended. State law says that no candidate shall be removed or added after qualifying ends. However, somehow mysteriously Chuck Harris’ name appeared on the Georgia Secretary of State’s web site as a candidate that had duly qualified.
Joanna Hildreth, Ruth Fant, Alex Johnson, & Britt Fant at the hearing
“The issue here is – did Chuck Harris do the things under the law and under the party rules which are required? And he didn’t,” said Alex Johnson, attorney for Britt Frant.
(3) when he violated section 17 of the Catoosa County Charter by profiting off the county through the sale of medical supplies to the county which is prohibited for elected officials.
However, today’s legal challenge was not based upon the resolution passed at the Catoosa GOP convention. Rather this challenge was based upon the candidate’s failure to sign the loyalty oath.
The loyalty oath reads: “I do hereby, swear, or affirm my allegiance to the Republican party.”
Chuck Harris and his attorney Tom Weldon both pretended like Catoosa GOP had mistreated him by not informing him about the loyalty oath missing from his paperwork.
But the law doesn’t require the party to hand him any documents. Furthermore, why should the Republican Party encourage a candidate to sign a loyalty oath to the party when they truly believe the candidate would be guilty of false swearing if he did sign it?
Even those who disagree with Catoosa GOP and believe the delegates are mistaken about Harris’s loyalty to the party would likely acknowledge that the Catoosa GOP volunteers sincerely believe Harris is a Democrat in disguise.
During the hearing, Catoosa Board of Elections member Jim Coles asked excellent questions that forced Harris to acknowledge that he had run for office twice before. He was present at the hearings in 2024 where the legal requirements surrounding candidate qualification were discussed at great length, yet he claims that he did not remember signing the loyalty oath to the Republican Party when he previously ran and did not remember that step being one of the requirements for being qualified on the Republican ballot.
Alex Johnson pointed out in his closing statement that candidate Chuck Harris even included a copy of the loyalty oath required by the party rules in a document he filed on Thursday with the local court the week of qualifying!
“Chuck Harris is an elected official who makes laws — who should know the law,” said Johnson. “He had a copy of it. He filed it in court on Thursday [the week of qualifying]. He didn’t sign it. He didn’t submit it, and his attorney was there and should have known it.“
Indeed, Harris’ attorney, Weldon is a former State Representative who would have also had experience signing the loyalty oath each time he had previously run for office. Weldon was present with Harris at the Catoosa Board of Elections office when Harris’ paperwork was transferred from the Catoosa GOP to the Catoosa Board of Elections, and he had the opportunity to help Harris inspect the paperwork and make sure that the loyalty oath was included. But he did not.
Truth is often stranger than fiction, but it appears highly suspicious that both Harris and his attorney would overlook this essential step in qualification given the fact that Harris still has colleagues engaged in ongoing litigation with Catoosa GOP where their fundamental argument is that they, in 2024, met all the legal requirements to qualify as a Republican candidate: they “filed the paperwork, paid the fee, and signed the oath.” Harris has attended many of those hearings and publicly commented on them.
Weldon argued that Harris was not being treated fairly by the Catoosa GOP since they did not remind him to turn in his loyalty oath. Weldon pointed to other candidates that the Catoosa GOP had sent reminders in order to assure they submitted all the required documents in time. But the Catoosa GOP had already communicated publicly that they did not want to qualify Harris and so he had no reasonable expectation that they would go above and beyond to remind him of his obligation to turn in a loyalty oath — particularly since they had already stated that they did not believe any such loyalty oath would be anything other than disingenuous.
“The other side is mocking civil rights law every time they say ‘you need to be treated equally. You can’t have disparate treatment.’ That is talking about race and sex discrimination,” said Alex Johnson. “It’s not talking about political parties. Political parties have a right to associate with people who support their platform. That’s the point of a political party is to get your platform enacted. The Republican Party doesn’t want Chuck Harris because Chuck Harris isn’t supporting the platform! Rightly or wrongly, that is what came out of their convention.”
Alex continued: “I think Republicans and Democrats both agree that we should follow the rule of law. The rule of law is what has been presented today by us. … There is no requirement in the law that the Republican Party provide anything to candidates. That is not in the law.”
“We have to have parties that treat people the same,” said Tom Weldon, attorney for Chuck Harris.
Weldon argued that Catoosa GOP was “an acting governmental agency” while conducting candidate qualifying, because the party receives a portion of the qualification fee paid by the candidates, and therefore did not have a legal right to discriminate. This theory is absurd and not supported by law or precedent. A political party does not temporarily become a governmental agency just because they are allowed by law to conduct candidate qualifying. Legal precedent shows clearly that political parties have the right to not associate with candidates with whom they do not wish to associate. This was affirmed just last year by the 11th Circuit Court ruling which stated: “[A] political party’s right to freedom of association encompasses the right to exclude candidate[s] in the party primary in order to protect itself from those with adverse political principles. (Duke v. Cleland).”
If Weldon’s argument is true, and political parties cannot discriminate in which candidates they qualify, then Socialist Bernie Sanders could run on the Republican primary while spouting socialism. This would mean a Libertarian could also run on the Democrat ballot and undermine their platform and destroy their credibility on issues that are important to Democrat voters. This would result in chaos.
Weldon’s argument displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of political parties. If a party has no ideological boundaries by which they discriminate, they cease to be a political party. If everyone meets the definition of Republican, then the term has no meaning. Your “big tent” ceases to be a tent at all.
“It would be atrocious for the government to say that the Democrat Party has to support Donald Trump. It would be atrocious for the government to say that the Democrat Party has to qualify some Trump supporter to run in this county as a Democrat. That wouldn’t be right. That wouldn’t be fair.”
On the vote as to whether to qualify Chuck Harris as a Republican without requiring him to sign a loyalty oath by the deadline, Jim Coles and Jennifer Motter were the only two members of the Catoosa Board of Elections who voted “no.” Harris was allowed on the primary ballot by a vote of 3 to 2. Coles and Motter are the Republican-appointed members of the county Board of Elections.
It is disappointing that the Board of Elections would dismiss the clear text of the state code and override the will of a majority of about 200 delegates at the Catoosa Convention. They wanted to stop publicly associating with Chuck Harris. Harris indicated he was willing to sign the loyalty oath today, but the Catoosa Elections Board didn’t even make Chuck Harris’ qualification conditional upon his signing the loyalty oath today.
Republicans across America are becoming increasingly concerned about undercover Democrats running under the Republican label. We saw it in Ohio, and North Carolina just recently, where self-identified Democrat progressives attempted to run on the Republican primary. Nevertheless, the Catoosa BOE was willing to force a candidate on the Republican ballot while the party delegates go down kicking and screaming that they don’t trust he is a Republican.
“We are disappointed to see the Board of Elections once again violate our freedom of association rights guaranteed by the First Amendment,” said Joanna Hildreth, the Catoosa GOP Chairwoman. “This is America. Just as the government can’t force a Baptist church to accept a Muslim as a pastor, the government should not force Catoosa GOP to associate with someone who does not share our values and didn’t even sign an oath of allegiance.”
If Chuck Harris is loyal to the Republican Party, why would he ignore the party platform and raise taxes?
If Chuck Harris is loyal to the party, why would he ignore the pleas of party activists to enjoy the basic freedom to keep chickens on their own property?
If Harris is loyal to the Republican party why would he not honor the will of 100+ Catoosa GOP delegates who didn’t want his name on their ballot? Why didn’t he try to please them while he was in office before they felt the need to take such an extreme measure as to demand he “cease and desist” from calling himself a Republican?
It took a lot of nerve for the Catoosa Board of Elections to do this and was a huge insult to the Republican Party of Catoosa County. This sent a message to the party that if the BOE is convinced that someone is a Republican, who cares what the 100+ Catoosa delegates who operate the party think?
But the Catoosa County Republican Party is not discouraged. Britt Fant intends to challenge today’s decision in an appeal to Superior Court.
Click to watch attorney Alex Johnson’s closing arguments at the Catoosa Board of Elections hearing.
Dawsonville, GA — Today the GRA’s Election Integrity Action Group Chairman Jason Frazier successfully brought to light several examples of flaws in the Fulton County election system. At the Georgia State Board of Elections Meeting held today in Dawsonville at the courthouse, Jason presented a complaint listing numerous examples.
Among other things in his complaint he pointed out 20 people who were registered twice in the county and voted twice. An attorney for Fulton County appeared to argue against Frazier’s findings. However, the state Board of Elections ultimately agreed that at least ten people were double registered and had voted twice in the same election. There are clearly flaws in the system that need to be repaired.
“We were all here when one of the individuals said ‘Yes, I had a mail-in ballot. My wife turned it in, and I voted in person.’ That’s a double vote. … These are called lies!” said Frazier.
Jason has been nominated to serve on the Fulton County Board of Elections by GRA member and Fulton County Republican Party Chairwoman Stephanie Endres, but his nomination has been repeatedly held up by the Fulton County Commission because they don’t like how much much evidence of election fraud Frazier has brought to light.
“We need to get to a system with full legal name, full date of birth is verified, and real addresses,” said Frazier. “Not P.O. Boxes. … Those could be very very simple checks. It’s going to greatly reduce the duplicates.”
“If we want ‘one voter, one vote,’ we need ‘one voter, one registration’!”
Atlanta, GA – Today Brandyn James and Harvey Wysongfiled a “Writ of Mandamus“ petitioning Fulton County Superior Court to compel Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to hold a hearing for their electoral challenge to the qualification of Brad Raffensperger as a gubernatorial candidate in the Republican primary. This case is unique in that Raffensperger is both the candidate in question and the elected official responsible to facilitate electoral challenges whenever a voter asserts a candidate did not meet the legal requirements to qualify for a specific office.
Harvey Wysong & Brandyn James
The motion claims that Brad Raffensperger violated state law ( O.C.G.A. §21-2-5) when his office “refused to perform its duties in referring a challenge to the qualifications of a candidate for governor to an administrative law judge.”
The Secretary of State (SoS) office replied by letter on March 30th stating that there was no legal challenge and no action would be taken. State law does not give the SoS the authority to summarily dismiss a candidate challenge without a hearing.
The challenge asserts that the qualification of Brad Raffensperger by the Republican Party was illegal and an abuse of authority since the party administrators who conducted the qualification had been strictly forbidden by the highest authority in the GAGOP – the state convention – to qualify Brad Raffensperger as a Republican candidate due to his anti-Republican record.
“Raffensperger’s record is inexcusable!” said Brandyn James.
“If someone repeatedly plays Benedict Arnold and betrays his own party and the party’s commitment to fair, honest elections, the party shouldn’t be expected to accept his candidacy for the next election—and we didn’t,” said Wysong and James in an online fundraiser campaign for their legal battle.
They further expose that “Brad Raffensperger was responsible for allowing $45 Million from a Zuckerberg funded Democrat non-profit (called “Zuckerbucks”) to influence Georgia elections.”
“Fool me once, shame on you,” said Brandyn James. “Fool me twice, shame on me… We had to do something!”
Ted Metz speaking at the 2026 State GRA Endorsement Convention
Interestingly, when Garret Ashleyfiled a similar candidate challenge last month against Ted Metz, a candidate for Secretary of State, claiming he was affiliated with the Libertarian Party, not the Republican Party, Ashley received a hearing without question. Metz defended himself and the challenge was not sustained, and Metz officially qualified as a Republican candidate. However, Ashley’s case received a hearing even though there was not nearly as strong a case for his challenge as there is here against Raffensperger’s candidacy. There was no documented majority vote by hundreds of Republican Party delegates banning Metz from qualifying as a Republican for any office, as there was with Raffensperger. Why the double standard? It seems obvious.
Some have claimed the motion passed by the GA GOP Convention banning Raffensperger was illegal and therefore the party had no responsibility to enforce it. However, constitutional rights, like the right to Freedom of Association, supercede state law.
“If their view of the law is correct and the directive illegal,” said GRA 1st Vice President Nick Cooper, “then that resolution kicking Geoff Duncan out of the Republican Party was completely meaningless — meaning that Geoff has some kind of ‘right’ to run as a Republican! If she wanted, Stacey Abrams could show up and qualify to run as a Republican, and there would be no legal means for the party itself to stop her!”
This is, of course, absurd. There is no “right” to run as a Republican anymore than there is a “right” to be a pastor of a specific church when the church doesn’t want you and voted to ban you. The government cannot force a political party to accept candidates who do not represent their ideology.
Fox News reported this week that the Ohio Supreme Court blocked a RINO candidate who was “caught publicly admitting that his candidacy was part of a calculated strategy to run Democrats as Republicans in “deep red districts” to “get a foot in the door.””
In North Carolina, a candidate named Kate Barr ran as a Republican but stated: “I’m not a real Republican… I’m running as a progressive in a Republican primary.” This kind of contradiction naturally infuriates real Republicans, who believe in the principles of the party and the timeless truths that shaped the party platform.
Why do some Georgia Republicans continue to ignore this problem and oppose accountability in the party? Political parties in other countries – countries with far less freedom – like India and the UK are not at all ashamed to expect ideological adherence from candidates representing their party, and remove those who deviate from the stated ideology of the party. This is a fundamental and we contend a necessary aspect of what it means to be a political party.
“This discussion is over the idea of whether someone has a right to run as a Republican — not whether they want to run at all,” said Cooper. “It would be perfectly fine for Brad Raffensperger to run as an Independent.”
Brandyn James and Harvey Wysong have courageously stepped up to take on this legal battle, but they cannot do it by themselves. They need their fellow Georgia patriots to support them. Can you pitch in to help cover their court costs and attorney fees? If you would like to support this effort you can donate to their GiveSendGo here:
Atlanta, GA — On Friday, two Republican Party members, Harvey Wysong from Whitfield County and Brandyn James from Catoosa County filed a legal challenge 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 Party 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.
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.”
“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.”
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:
