Primary results lead to scores of runoffs and some big surprises

In our post-Primary Election Day coverage, we breakdown the many runoffs next month. Plus, some races will not need runoffs after big and perhaps unexpected outright primary wins. We are also joined by the Political Breakfast team.    

2026 Primary Election special

We have a Primary Election special episode where we dive in to the races for Georgia governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general. Plus we'll hear about plans to battle redistricting in Georgia. Primary Election Day in Georgia is May 19.   

The legacy of Ted Turner

We look at the the life of Ted Turner--the billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist, and environmentalist--whose impact stretches from media to nuclear disarmament. Plus, One of the few Black teachers ever hired by a south Georgia school district claims she was the victim of racial harassment and n…

Kemp says Georgia will not delay primary to redraw districts but calls for new lines by 2028

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says he will not delay the May 19th party primaries to allow for a special session to redraw congressional and state legislative lines following the controversial US Supreme Court decision that advocates say weakens the Voting Rights Act. Plus, an environmental group is …

Congressman dead at 80 and wildfires ravage parts of Southeast Georgia

We have a remembrance of Congressman David Scott, who died this week at the age of 80. And we hear what three major candidates for Georgia governor are saying about a significant impending issue: How Georgia will count votes after a 2024 law banned QR codes from being used in tabulation takes effec…

Trump nominates a CDC director and state officials scramble to meet new voting measures

President Trump nominates another potential director of the CDC. And with a deadline looming to change how Georgia's ballots get counted in November, state leaders are scrambling to find a solution. Plus some community members and advocates say they’re frustrated, after no bills related to the data…

Immigrant detention warehouses spark another major issue and are electricity rates creating affordability problems?

A lack of information as the federal government bought Georgia warehouses to detain immigrants has exposed a whole other, non-immigration issue: There is no liaison to navigate between federal agencies and local officials. Plus, a key state lawmaker is raising constitutional questions about the hom…

Taxes, elections and data centers take center stage at the legislative session and gas prices still spiking

We take a look at several high-profile pieces of legislation that passed and failed at the state Capitol as the session wrapped up this week, including taxes breaks, education funding, data center reform and election changes. Plus, Georgia is seeing little relief at the gas pumps even after the sta…

Georgia senators call to abandon ICE facility plans and the state could eliminate daylight saving time

"No Kings" protests are kicking off nationwide, including several in Georgia. Plus, Georgia’s U.S. Senators are calling on new Department of Homeland Security leadership to abandon plans to open an immigration detention facility about an hour east of Atlanta. Also, a bill that would change Georgia’…

City officials cut off ICE's water and some TSA workers call out to take second jobs

Officials in the small city of Social Circle, about an hour east of Atlanta,  have locked the water meter on the warehouse Immigration and Custom Enforcement bought to detain thousands of people. Plus, TSA workers in Atlanta and across the country have now missed one full paycheck, leading to staff…