Charlie Kirk was a lightning rod ... of energy for the conservative base at the younger demographic the GOP sorely needed help with ... of controversy for those he targeted with his rhetoric ... and now, his assassination has exposed deep rifts within our society, empathetically, morally, politically and religiously.I, myself, didn't have a cogent response to share with anyone - for hours Wednesday afternoon. What I knew before he was killed hasn't changed much: he was anti-gay, vehemently

CNN's Victor Blackwell hosted a panel last week to discuss the canary in the coal mine - a notable rise in unemployment among not only black Americans, but black women. On that panel: Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder LaTosha Brown, former GOP Georgia Senate candidate Stephanie Donegan, and Capital B national editor Dalila Paul. First, let's applaud that CNN fielded an all-black and female panel to discuss an issue impacting black women. You'd think it obvious to do that, but cable TV

All the work (to his credit!) that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has done to make Georgia a green energy and electric vehicle manufacturing hub are slowly being undone by Trump 2.0 white nationalist tendencies. The recent Hyundai raid in southeast Georgia performed by ICE was launched to snag Latin American migrant workers but also - oops - ensnared Korean and Japanese visa waiver employees, putting strain on U.S.-Korean and Georgia-Korean relations. It also creates an unnecessary impediment towards

Atlanta's Sunday TV talk diet includes one local program - WAGA-TV/ Fox 's "The Georgia Gang." I watch it occasionally and happened to have some time Sunday to catch the most recent episode, and I'm furious but glad I caught it.Two pundits - Phil Kent and Martha Zoller - notably the right-wing participants, spewed anti-trans swipes, which I suppose should be unsurprising. That they did so with zero pushback from the show's moderator or the two left-wing participants,

Today on The Topping Show Matt Walsh on Trump cracking down on DC’s homelessness, UK Police to arrest men for cat calling, DC chief unable to define chain of commend has DEI hire trending, City run grocery store shut down after wasting millions on it, EPA says Trucks can lay off DEF limping, Ford says it will make a modular EV for all platforms, and Ford recalls more of their trucks, all that and much more on the Topping Show.The Topping Show is sponsored by Topping Technologies & ExpressVPN

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was summoned to a Senate finance subcommittee hearing and was met with bipartisan skewering. The most notable moments being RFK being cornered into explaining his anti-vax actions as head of HHS while also glomming on about his boss' (Donald Trump) "Operation Warp Speed" by GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, and Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock flatly stating that he is "a hazard to the health of the American people." It isn't just the man in the office; it's

Dr. Mehmet Oz warns about Medicare fraud prevention measures, while a look at billionaire distribution in the U.S. reveals California, New York, Florida, and Texas as top states. Red Cat Holdings Inc. supports White House executive orders to boost the domestic drone industry, and President Trump's tariffs aim to revive U.S. manufacturing.

She out-performed Kamala Harris by 13 points and the last candidate to try to win her state Senate district in November by ten percentage points, too. That could be a harbinger of things to come in 2026 (quick, Donald; get on the phone to Kemp to work on those maps!) but it also speaks to candidate quality as voters came out for Debra Shigley in the special election to fill the 21st Senate district seat vacated by Brandon Beach. It isn't just about what the voters did, though; it's about the

How WILD is it that Fulton County's elected commissioners are being compelled - by force - to vote a certain way (why do they have a role at all if merely ceremonial?) in seating election-deniers to that county's elections board? Well, that's what a Brian Kemp-appointed judge decided earlier this week. Here we are, with Fulton County Republican clowns offering up only two appointees - both election-deniers - for Fulton commissioners to (uh) "choose" from. ------If that erosion

In Iowa, ⁠Democrats flipped a second legislative seat to wrest a supermajority from the GOP⁠, last night, and in Georgia, Democrat Debra Shigley paced 13 points better than Kamala Harris and ten points better than the last state Senate candidate in her district in ⁠earning a spot in the late September run-off⁠ to fill Brandon Beach's vacated seat. On today to discuss those eye-popping returns, along with poor polling for Trump and the GOP on immigration, the economy and the state-by-state

Today in Georgia, a state Senate vacated when Brandon Beach took a Treasury job with the Trump administration was up for grabs in a "jungle primary" election. In this scenario, there were six Republicans and one lone Democrat vying for the seat. Naturally if one standalone candidate were to have secured 50%-plus turnout, the seat would go to them.Could that lone Democrat - Debra Shigley - flip the district? Melita Easters - executive director at the Georgia WIN List - thinks the work's

An anonymous AI-skilled cartoonist (allegedly) sent a Cobb County defense attorney this 16-page comic - depicting newly elected district attorney Sonya Allen as a clown. That elicited a response from Cobb County Democratic Party chair Essence Johnson, labeling the comic "Jim Crow–era propaganda once used to diminish Black leadership."For some reason, the Cobb GOP chair, Mary Clarice Hathaway, decided to jump in with a long list of easily refutable nonsense. Essence Johnson joined the show

Jake and his new co-host Cat Hartley sit down to discuss two subjects that Cat is passionate about, the inevitability of AI and the lack of a major third party presence.Official Podcast of the Libertarian Party of Georgia, airing Mondays @ 8PM EasternA weekly podcast hosted by Jake Green & Cat Hartley that focuses on the state of Georgia. From politics, to news, to business, to culture, Jake, Cat, and their guests highlight stories from around the state to shed light on little-known issues,

Friday afternoon in Atlanta became chaotic, with ambulances and emergency vehicles all screaming and racing their way to the campus of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Those personnel from multiple jurisdictions arriving to the scene of a lone, mentally unstable gunman carrying a grudge triggered by vaccine skepticism - the kind Trump's Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been stoking for a decade or more. On that note, current and former CDC staffers

We're at the "elected local officials could be jailed for their votes" portion of the slow-roll to full-on MAGA authoritarianism in the United States. Fulton County Democrats are refusing to seat two election denier Republican nominees to its election board, with the county and state GOP now seeking legal recourse which could include fines and jail time for commissioners who keep voting to refuse seating those nominees. They're not refusing to seat Republicans, period; just these

Earlier this week, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) addressed the Georgia Chamber of Commerce while many of the GOP hopefuls seeking to oust him in 2026 were working the room. Also working the room - Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who hasn't said what office (if any) he'll be running for soon.But he was in the room schmoozing, so of course he's running for something. The question is: is there an avenue for him to win the GOP nomination in either the Senate or gubernatorial primary

Listen, I'm all for prospective students and parents having some insight into a college course syllabus but the general public? The University System of Georgia is arming MAGA's "anti-D.E.I." and "anti-woke" cult with access to professors' course outlines, and those professors believe they'll face harassment - or worse - because of it. Even worse, the USG is leaning on member schools to erase sexual orientation and gender identity from non-discrimination policies

I've hosted this show - for what is just six weeks shy of three years - on AmericaOne Radio. To let you behind the curtain a little, I and its owner wanted to be candid about its current and future.In essence, Jeremy reached out to me last week to tell me he was going to close up shop. AmericaOne has been a labor of love/passion for Jeremy and less about making money. In fact, it's cost him. For that reason and with the general fatigue many are feeling after last November, and because he has

Last week, Georgia Recorder columnist Jay Bookman wrote a well-measured op/ed asking why Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Burt Jones looks to Florida and Tennessee for ideas on tax & economic policy when Georgia is already superior to them? Answer: to put an even greater tax burden on the working class by eliminating the state income tax. He and I caught up to go over that, the newest entry into the 2026 governors' race, Mike Thurmond, the shape of the field as it stands now,

Not in chronological order as you (I hope) listen along, but the LEAD story for this chapter is and should be this:New Georgia US Senate hopeful Mike Collins' chief-of-staff - the dog-kicking Brandon Phillips - also seems to have a nepotism problemL namely that he hired & paid his girlfriend for work she allagedly never did. If that's not bad enough, he fired the whistleblower. On Collins' watch. So uh, all those Georgia Republicans bucking Brian Kemp's endorsement-in-waiting for