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A three-year-old boy saved his money to buy pizza for two separate Georgia law enforcement agencies.

An inmate from a Georgia jail is on the run after reportedly escaping the Telfair County Jail yard on Friday afternoon.

The White House confirmed on Thursday that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams during an upcoming trip to the state.

Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the United States as racist, xenophobic, and sexist on Friday during remarks at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she and President Joe Biden had traveled to show solidarity with the Asian American community.

Hollywood celebrities are rushing to blame the shooting deaths of eight people in the Atlanta area on anti-Asian racism, despite the police indicating that race wasn’t the motive. According to a law enforcement official, the suspect has claimed the shootings at three massage parlors were related to an apparent sex addiction and his desire to eliminate his sexual temptations.

Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-GA) voter integrity group issued a statement Tuesday in support of a judge’s decision to conditionally allow for the unsealing and review of absentee ballots in Fulton County, Georgia.

GOP leaders in the Georgia General Assembly are attempting to reconcile differences between election reform bills passed separately by the two Republican controlled chambers of the Georgia General Assembly earlier this month.

Democrats used the Washington Post’s false “find the fraud” quote in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump in February.

Former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s”State of the Union” that Republican election proposals in her home state were a “redux of Jim Crow, in a suit and tie.”

Lieutenant Gov. Geoff Duncan (R-GA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans did not need to pass election reform bills. Instead, he argued they needed to move past former President Donald Trump’s “tone and strategy.”

Several police officers in Atlanta, Georgia, put themselves in harm’s way recently to rescue a dog trapped near a burning vehicle.

The Trafalgar Group released a poll Friday morning showing Herschel Walker, the former NFL running back from Georgia, leading Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) by 2.2 percent in a potential bid for a Georgia Senate seat, which Warnock recently flipped in a hotly contested runoff.

A “porch pirate” bill making package theft a felony is headed to the Georgia Senate floor after passing the House on Wednesday.

A Decatur County Georgia Sheriff’s Deputy who was shot Saturday following a high speed chase succumbed to his wounds on Monday morning.

A coalition of conservatives in Georgia issued a statement applauding the Georgia State Elections Board calling on the state’s Attorney General Chris Carr to investigate Stacey Abrams’ New Georgia Project, a voter registration organization founded by Abrams in 2014.

The Georgia State Senate passed a bill Tuesday requiring voters in the state to present a photo ID prior to receiving an absentee ballot.

The Faith Protection Act making Georgia a “sanctuary state for people of faith” is enacted into law, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) announced Tuesday he will not run for U.S. Senate in Georgia, a decision that impacts the field of potential Republican candidates who will vie to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in 2022.

The Special Committee on Election Integrity of the Georgia House of Representatives held hearings Thursday and Friday on HB 531, which includes a provision designed to ban private funding of election administration of the sort practiced by the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life  (CTCL) in that state in 2020.

Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) announced Monday she is launching Greater Georgia Action, Inc., a voter registration effort, in her first political move since her narrow defeat in the high-profile Senate runoffs in January.

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) said “every state in the union,” should eliminate the private donor funding of election administration in an exclusive interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday with host Matt Boyle.

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners left the future of Elections Director Richard Barron in doubt Wednesday evening when it failed to either confirm or reject a vote earlier this week by the Fulton County Board of Elections to fire the controversial Barron.

The Fulton County (Georgia) Election Board voted to fire controversial elections director Richard Barron in a three to two vote Tuesday evening.

Former Sen. David Perdue has filed to challenge Sen. Raphael Warnock for U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2022, according to the Federal Election Commission.

State Rep. Joseph Gullett introduced a bill to the Georgia House of Representatives that would ban private funding for the administration of federal, state, and local elections.

The Center for Election Innovation and Research, a nonprofit organization that received a $50 million donation from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in September, released a survey on attitudes of Georgia voters on election integrity Wednesday.

15 attorneys general signed onto a letter asking President Joe Biden to reverse his decision to halt construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state’s office on Monday opened an investigation into a phone call between Donald Trump and the state’s top elections official in which the then-president said he wanted to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in the state, an official said.

Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) celebrated Vice President Kamala Harris’s first tie-breaking vote in the Senate, passing President Biden’s partisan $1.9 trillion coronavirus spending package, proclaiming it is “what democracy looks like.”

Georgia’s rapid “demographic changes” spurred by mass immigration are “transforming” the state from a battleground to a blue state, left-wing activists tell the Washington Post.

More than 700,000 Georgia residents who voted in the November election did not turn out for the Senate runoff election, according to an analysis from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Georgia secretary of state’s office is investigating if attorney Lin Wood violated the state’s residency requirements for voting in the 2020 general election, a source from the office confirmed to Breitbart News.

Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) expressed outrage over state Republican lawmakers moving to end no-excuse absentee voting, automatic voter registration, and ballot drop boxes, calling the proposals “shameful.”

Rapper Silentó, known for the hit song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” was arrested Monday in Georgia for the murder of his cousin, according to local news sources.

Twitter users criticized President Joe Biden recently, demanding he send the $2,000 stimulus checks he promised while campaigning during the Georgia Senate runoffs.

A Republican group announced the launch of “Stop Stacey” on Monday as strategists prepare for Stacey Abrams’ potential run for governor.