August 2, 2025

This week, while most eyes were on the GOP’s redistricting gambit in Texas or the Democrats’ U.S. Senate recruitment win in North Carolina, the election denier movement was squarely focused on Georgia.

On Tuesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger continued to burnish his anti-voter credentials by initiating a new purge of as many as 480,000 voters. The secretary of state, once celebrated for refusing Trump's demand that he “find” 11,780 nonexistent votes, has since gone all-in on MAGA voter suppression. 

Not to be outdone, on Wednesday, the far-right dominated Georgia State Election Board passed a 3-2 resolution asking for help from the Trump administration in investigating the 2020 election results in Fulton County. That’s right — the 2020 election results.

Previous attempts to investigate Fulton County have found no evidence of fraud or serious irregularity. But that hasn’t stopped Trump’s election conspiracy machine from peddling lies and disinformation. And now, with Trump controlling the Department of Justice, the game has changed. Truth no longer matters.

Fulton County-Gate wasn’t the only 2020 nostalgia to grip the Peach State...

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