How a Legacy of Organizing Among Domestic Workers Helped Turn Georgia Blue
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.“You ever been here?” Yterenickia Bell asks me as we wait for the door to the Cascade Skating Rink to be unlocked. “It’s historic,” she says, ushering me out of the…
Raphael Warnock Wins Historic Georgia Senate Race
Ben Gray/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The Reverend Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, won a historic victory on Tuesday against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a tight runoff election to head to the US Senate, according…
“We Come Together Stronger”: Black Greek Organizations Are Showing Up for Raphael Warnock
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris campaigns with Democratic Senate candidate the Rev. Raphael Warnock in Georgia.Ben Gray/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.At events and rallies for the Reverend Raphael Warnock, there are a few constants: a…
Here’s What It’s Like to Be a Staunch Democrat in a Deep Red Georgia County
Mother Jones illustration; TheMillCreek/Wikipedia Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Andrea Baerwalde is the interim chair of the Democrats of Paulding County, Georgia, a subdivision-filled exurb about an hour northwest of Atlanta. Baerwalde and the other Democrats…
“Voting Is Life or Death”: How Georgia Democrats Are Organizing in One of the Earliest COVID Hotspots
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.“People here lost a lot of people,” Amna Farooqi tells me, “and it was kind of like, shock after shock after shock.” The 26-year-old political organizer…
We Can’t Talk About Corruption in the Georgia Runoffs Without Talking About David Perdue and Dollar General
Spencer Platt/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Back in 2002, after two years of bankruptcy proceedings, a North Carolina pillow manufacturer hired a Reebok executive named David Perdue to right the ship. For Pillowtex, Perdue’s experience…