By Jill Nolin | Editor
The latest round of campaign finance reports offered an early glimpse at Georgia’s statewide races. The reports were the first of the general election — and offered a couple of surprises.
The first campaign finance disclosures of the general election were due Friday, offering an initial look at how the Democratic and Republican nominees for some of the most high-profile races are doing. Photo via Getty Images.
2026 ELECTION
By Maya Homan and Alander Rocha
With less than three months until the November election, Republican candidates are outraising Democrats in most of Georgia’s statewide races, according to the latest round of campaign filings.
However, the most recent data comes with a silver lining for Democrats. Candidates outraised Republicans in three statewide races: attorney general, secretary of state and one of the two Public Service Commission seats up for election this year.
The first campaign finance disclosures of the general election were due Friday, offering an initial glimpse into how the Democratic and Republican nominees for some of the most high-profile races are doing as they hurtle toward the general election.
Coastal Georgia’s salt marshes provide a critical buffer against storms and sea level rise. (Alphonso Whitfield / WABE)
ENVIRONMENT
By Emily Jones, WABE News/Grist
In coastal Liberty County, a creekside park nestled between the town of Midway and I-95 is losing its battle with high tide.
“If we walk that way, you’ll be able to see some of the, well, just plain erosion,” said Phil Odom, chairman of Liberty County’s Consolidated Planning Commission, on a recent afternoon. “This is how much it has collapsed. We’ve lost about six, eight feet right here.”
Decades ago, in order to build up a solid foundation for the highway, construction crews dug up earth from this spot and left a deep pit. Although the park is over 15 miles from the ocean, the tide washes up the creek and into the manmade basin twice a day. Over time, the salt water has deposited sediment in the pit, turning it into a shallow mud flat with little islands of marsh grass cropping up in the middle.
But the tide has also steadily eaten away at the land. The grasses halt abruptly where they reach the small, muddy cliff of the bank — shorn away sharply where the tide has battered it.
U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill last month. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
A group of leading anti-abortion organizations sent a letter to newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche urging him to review the U.S. Department of Justice’s authority to use a 150-year-old anti-obscenity law to prevent people from obtaining abortion medication or other related materials through the mail.
The Comstock Act, enacted in 1873, made it illegal to send “obscene material” by mail, which included any “article or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion.” The Comstock Act is considered a “zombie law,” meaning it hasn’t been repealed, but has not been enforced in many decades.
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