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(Tribune News Service) — A massive brawl broke out on a parade ground at Fort Gordon in Augusta one afternoon last fall, when about 70 teenage recruits of the Georgia National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy slugged it out. Some used homemade weapons, including metal shanks, crudely sharpened toothbrushes and tube socks filled with metal padlocks. Overwhelmed, the academy’s staff — most former military drill instructors — called for help, summoning the military police to break it up and ambulances to treat the injured. Two boys were taken to the hospital, one with a concussion, the other with bruised ribs. Others...

(Tribune News Service) — A massive brawl broke out on a parade ground at Fort Gordon in Augusta one afternoon last fall, when about 70 teenage recruits of the Georgia National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy slugged it out. Some used homemade weapons, including metal shanks, crudely sharpened toothbrushes and tube socks filled with metal padlocks. Overwhelmed, the academy’s staff — most former military drill instructors — called for help, summoning the military police to break it up and ambulances to treat the injured. Two boys were taken to the hospital, one with a concussion, the other with bruised ribs. Others...

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) did not say no to a possible presidential run when asked Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Anchor Jonathan Karl asked, “You waited until after your victory in the runoff to endorse President Biden, so you’re on record endorsing him. If he doesn’t run, is there any chance you would make a run for president? I mean, like I said, you have run five times in Georgia, one of the most important swing states in the past year, and won five times, and any chance you’d consider national office?” Warnock said, “You should take a look...

The VoterGA Fulton County counterfeit ballot case “is back,” according to Garland Favorito. Favorito told UncoverDC in November that an order from the Georgia Supreme court in the Sons of Confederate Veterans et al. v. Henry Cty. Bd of Commissioners would no doubt help his case. The Supreme Court confirmed what Garland already knew—that “citizens in the state have standing to sue government officials who violate the law.” During what he dubbed the “Georgia Supreme Court Victory” press conference on Thursday, Favorito said this “was something he had been saying all along for a year even after our case was...

PETA is calling for the University of Georgia to be “a winner not only in football but also in its treatment of” animals. In the wake of its second straight National Championship, the animal rights organization wants the school to immediately halt its use of its live mascot, an English bulldog named Uga. The group claims that the school’s use of Uga “drives demand for breathing-impaired breeds (BIBs),” like pugs, boxers, and English and French bulldogs. “As the back-to-back national champion, can’t UGA find it in its heart to honestly examine the impact of its promotion of deformed dogs and...

The Joint Study Committee on the Electrification of Transportation has endorsed the Georgia Department of Transportation’s pilot program taxing motorists based on vehicle miles traveled. Charging a mileage tax would recoup what state leaders see as a potential loss in revenue via the gas tax. Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, suspended the gas tax to help Georgians counter rising inflation. So far, the state hasn’t seen much of an impact from not collecting the gas tax, which typically totals about $170 million per month. The state has seen its other revenues increase and has turned to federal handouts for various...

Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams indicated on Monday that she would likely mount a third bid for the state's top job. Speaking in an interview with Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore, Abrams said, "I will likely run again. If at first you don't succeed, try try again. If it doesn't work, you try again," according to The Hill. Abrams first ran for governor in 2018 against then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, but narrowly lost in a close election wherein a victor did not become clear until long after the election had concluded. Abrams loudly cried voter suppression for...

Failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight Action group has been ordered to pay a quarter-million dollars in legal costs by a federal court. Fair Fight Action, a voting rights organization founded by Abrams, was ordered to pay $231,303.71 in legal fees after their longtime predominate case, Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, came to a close with a federal judge ruling against them in their remaining three claims.

Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker closed the year — after his November general election and December runoff — with more than $5 million in cash on hand, new filings show. Walker's campaign filed its campaign finance reports covering the end of the runoff period through the end of the year late last week, documents that provide new transparency into how the campaign ended the political cycle. The campaign spent its war chest significantly in the final weeks — taking in $15 million and spending $19.8 million between Nov. 17 and Dec. 28 (while the runoff was on Dec. 6,...

WASHINGTON - Saying each had a role in helping preserve American democracy, resident Joe Biden awarded the nation’s second-highest civilian honor to a Capitol Police officer from Georgia and two former election workers from Fulton County. Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a mother and daughter, got some of the biggest applause of the event as the president recounted the abuse they bore after being falsely accused of ballot fraud by then-President Donald Trump and his allies. They later provided testimony to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol where Trump supporters breached the building...

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Over the last two weeks, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has been sounding more and more like an establishment Republican. During the House Speaker voting sessions, MTG emphatically called Rep. Gaetz and Rep. Lauren Boebert along with 18 other Republican lawmakers “destructionist” for voting against McCarthy. Here’s the video for context: Now when a reporter asked MTG if Biden is the legitimately elected President of the United States, she responded “Of course Joe Biden’s the president. That’s always a silly question.” Just watch:

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is done being underestimated. Having vanquished both a Donald Trump-backed Republican challenger and Democratic star Stacey Abrams to win reelection, Kemp is looking to expand his influence in his second term, free from the caricature of the gun-toting, pickup-driving, migrant-catching country boy that emerged during his first campaign for governor. A new vision of Kemp steering his party toward a non-Trumpian conservatism made its debut in his November victory speech after it became clear that he had defeated Abrams by a much larger margin in their rematch than he had in their tight 2018 matchup. “This...

Two Georgia women, who in 2020 were alleged to have hidden suitcases filled with ballots under the table where they worked, were among those honored Friday with the Presidential Citizens Medal. President Joe Biden used the anniversary of the Capitol incursion to honor 14 people for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021 and in the tumult over the 2020 elections. Fulton County poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were later cleared of the allegations. During the ceremony, Biden praised the honorees for their efforts on “July 6th.” “A violent mob of insurrectionists assaulted law enforcement, vandalized sacred halls, hunted...

President Donald Trump shared damning audio tapes on Truth Social that captured several stunning omissions from an embattled election worker in the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, Georgia.“The Ruby Freeman tapes that I put up on Truth Social are AMAZING,” he wrote. “Now they have been heard and seen all over America, together with the actual act of ‘stuffing the ballot boxes’ with far more votes than needed for me, and Senator Perdue, to win GEORGIA.”“I wouldn’t go too detailed into this at all…”“It’s just political…“Maybe it’s a cover up.” pic.twitter.com/ztPDuhMX1l— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) January 4, 2023Freeman has come...

A former staffer for Herschel Walker's failed Senate campaign says he was groped by Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union who is a longtime Republican activist and an ally of former President Donald Trump. On Thursday, The Daily Beast reported that the staffer — who asked to remain anonymous, only sharing that he is a male in his late 30s — was the victim of "sustained and unwanted and unsolicited" sexual contact by Schlapp in October.

A staffer for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign has alleged to The Daily Beast that longtime Republican activist Matt Schlapp made “sustained and unwanted and unsolicited” sexual contact with him while the staffer was driving Schlapp back from an Atlanta bar this October. The staffer said the incident occurred the night of Oct. 19, when Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union and lead organizer for the influential Conservative Political Action Conference, “groped” and “fondled” his crotch in his car against his will after buying him drinks at two different bars. The staffer described Schlapp, who had traveled to Georgia for...

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Allegations from the Georgia Record claim newly uncovered police body cam footage purportedly of Ruby Freeman reveals her stunning admissions that directly contradict allegations made under oath by January 6th Committee witnesses, by certain reporters and show hosts, by members of Congress, and by lawyers in sworn statements to Federal Court. Freeman volunteers to blow the whistle on election fraud. In the body cam, Ruby Freeman alleges a coverup by the Georgia Secretary of State, the DOJ/FBI, the GBI, and the Fulton County DA. The 911 call transcript, body cam videos, and police report were obtained by Open Record Requests....

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV, GETTR, Truth Social, Twitter UPDATE 12/28/22 1300 EST - Full body cam/door cam/video clips added - Full video/audio at bottom of article.Newly uncovered police body cam footage of Ruby Freeman reveal her stunning admissions that directly contradict allegations made under oath by January 6th Committee witnesses, by certain reporters and show hosts, by members of Congress, and by lawyers in sworn statements to Federal Court. Freeman volunteers to blow the whistle on election fraud.In the body cam, Ruby Freeman alleges a coverup by the Georgia Secretary of State, the DOJ/FBI,...