TODAY: We're hours into #CrossoverDay at the Georgia Capitol, one of the longest, most consequential days of the session.
It’s the deadline for bills to pass one chamber to stay alive this year – unless you're in the majority with tricks up your sleeve.
Follow along from the Gold Dome 🧵
PASSED: #SB410, which deals with Georgia Power and the massive energy demand from new data centers popping up across Georgia, just cleared the Georgia Senate.
This bill leaves Georgians on the hook for billions in energy costs while claiming to address the affordability crisis.
We’ve been laying the groundwork for young people across Georgia to organize around the issues that actually matter to us. In just four months, we’ve launched 16 GYJC chapters in high schools, campuses, and neighborhoods across Georgia—and we’re not slowing down.
FANTASTIC conversation with @melodyoliphant.bsky.social of the @georgiayouthco.bsky.social and how the wild election results two weeks ago looked from the ground. First state level win for Dems in GA since 2006!
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lol, nothing like hearing more about how Tim Echols said the quiet part out loud this year on his racism and on rate hikes… huge props to @melodyoliphant.bsky.social of @georgiayouthco.bsky.social for breaking it *down* on what PSC victory means for the everyday Georgians we’ve spent the year with!!
2/ In Georgia, AMP supported @georgiayouthco.bsky.social as they knocked more than 110K doors to flip TWO public service commission races and lower utility costs for families. This is the first time Democrats have won a non-federal statewide race in nearly 20 years!
Leaving Georgia out of the story of last night is a mistake. Young people in this state are building a movement that’s already delivering historic victories - and we’re not done. We’re coming for that governor’s seat.
When we organize, we win.
When we show up, we change what’s possible.
When we lead with courage, Georgia turns out.
Last night’s victory was proof that when we fight for each other in Georgia, we can never lose.
Here’s what many folks can’t tell you today because the NY Times and the Associated Press didn’t even cover our election results last night: 22 counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2024 just voted for Alicia Johnson last night.
Tim Echols tried to denigrate Dr. Alicia Johnson as a “DEI specialist” and then he doubled down, telling Georgia voters, “That’s not a dog whistle, it’s a whistle.” Well, Georgia heard it—and voted for equity and affordability instead.
This year, GYJC showed up in Fayette County day in and day out, showing up at school board meetings and pushing back on the politics of white supremacy that led white students to show up in blackface to a volleyball game just two months ago.
Once the reddest county in Georgia in 1980 for Ronald Reagan, Fayette’s transformation shows what happens when communities organize—not just every two years or every four years, but every week of every year, in rooms where power is built and defended.
In Fayette County alone, GYJC made 6,792 calls in the final two days, delivering a 3,025 vote margin of victory, flipping the county for the first time in nearly 50 years.
The last time Fayette voted for a Democrat? 1976, when our beloved Governor Jimmy Carter was running for President.
Those possibilities became reality last night when for the first time in nearly twenty years, Democrats won a statewide race at the state level in Georgia.
This victory wasn’t by chance—it was built door by door, call by call, by young organizers who refused to give up on Georgia.
Last night’s story in Georgia is a story about voters reclaiming our power. GYJC knocked on 132,491 doors to educate folks on the Public Service Commission race.
In Fayette, Houston, & Paulding County–communities long written off as unwinnable–GYJC showed up and changed what’s possible in Georgia.
i miss fireflies
When the flash flood warnings hit Atlanta and I see Moreland Avenue flooded, I’m reminded of which neighborhoods have received investment from completed voter approved infrastructure projects and which neighborhoods have not.
@gasenatedems.com let us know what you have planned next 👀
enormously grateful for Democrats in Georgia using every avenue possible tonight. real opposition looks like picking every goddamn procedural fight.
“At least let democracy have some daylight in this august chamber.” - Leader Harold Jones II
Lt. Gov Burt Jones may have called @gasenatedems.com out of order, but we know that’s just a cover to stop good trouble in Georgia and silence opposition against #HB27. This fight ain't over y'all. 12/12
“I rise to oppose #SB36. I grew up in Catholicism and it has been a wellspring of how to treat people... While we are allowed to believe as we choose, we have to respect the way that others believe and not impose our values on others, especially when it causes harm.” - Rep Marvin Lim on #RFRA. 4/x
“If this bill is about stopping religious discrimination, then why were amendments to ban discrimination repeatedly rejected?” - @ruwaromman.bsky.social pointing out the hypocrisy of #SB36 and the Georgia GOP's so-called religious freedom bill. 3/x
“We cannot keep messing with people’s lives like this.” - @ruwaromman.bsky.social speaking powerfully about the role government ought to play in our lives compared to the role this Georgia General Assembly actually plays with bills like #SB36 that provide a license to discriminate. 2/x
RIGHT NOW: RFRA is on the floor of the Georgia State House–this bill claims to protect freedom of religion, a right already guaranteed by the First Amendment. #SB36 actually provides a license to discriminate against people of faith, LGBTQ+ Georgians, women, and more. 1/x
The Mayor Office's announcement fulfills a key demand from the astroturfing NIMBY group Better Atlanta Transit and developer Portman Holdings just days after Dickens launched his reelection campaign.
Since the 2016 passage of the More MARTA referendum, exactly zero projects promised have opened!
getting hyped for crossover day by doing my robotics prelab 💥🤖‼️, such is the life of young Georgians trying to get politicians to actually represent us. if you have no midterm exams in your life, pls help and come to the Capitol with me
WATCH & SHARE: This morning's full remarks from Pastor Bryant in the Georgia State Senate in advance of hearing #SB1, a broad bill that bans trans youth from participating in all school sports. Props to our partners at @progressgeorgia.bsky.social for this video. 10/x
TODAY: We’re in the Capitol where we expect the Georgia State Senate to take up SB1, a broad bill that bans trans youth from participating in all school sports and ban trans athletes from using the correct restrooms and locker rooms. Follow this thread and @gaequality.bsky.social for updates! 1/x
there’s something so sobering about being in middle school watching Trump get elected for the first time and realizing that in the years I took to learn to organize, my party just learned to roll over
incredible to watch us sink into one constitutional crisis after another while Democrats just make solemn little statements or vote for Trump’s agenda
