Georgia 2025 Legislative Finale: Election Reforms, Transgender Laws, & 2026 Campaign Buzz

Unpack the chaot­ic end of Georgia’s 2025 leg­isla­tive ses­sion as Sine Die hits mid­night on Fri­day. Dis­cov­er the rush to pass elec­tion bills, includ­ing a major over­haul empow­er­ing the State Elec­tion Board, pulling Geor­gia from ERIC, and push­ing for paper bal­lots, leav­ing Brad Raf­fensperg­er fum­ing. Jon Ossoff jumps into the 2026 Sen­ate race, taunt­ing Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene (MTG) while she dodges Georgia’s cor­rup­tion spot­light and she rants nation­al­ly. Sat­ur­day launch­es the 2026 cam­paign sea­son, with races for US Sen­ate, state offices, and local seats heat­ing up. Ossoff grabs head­lines attack­ing Rat­cliffe, out­pac­ing Repub­li­cans eye­ing next week’s entry. Mean­while, trans­gen­der bills SB39 and SB30—banning gen­der-affirm­ing care cov­er­age and set­ting strict puber­ty block­er rules—near the fin­ish line, stir­ring debate. Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp and Chris Carr go full MAGA, tout­ing a his­toric fen­tanyl bust, though Carr’s stance on tax­pay­er-fund­ed tran­si­tions rais­es eye­brows. Get the lat­est on Geor­gia pol­i­tics, elec­tion integri­ty, and trans­gen­der rights as the swamp faces scruti­ny!

• Sine Die is Fri­day and the end of the 2025 leg­isla­tive ses­sion at mid­night where they can not do any more harm to the peo­ple of Geor­gia and the swamp dis­si­pates. There are elec­tion bills in the mix. 
• Jon Ossoff is run­ning for Sen­ate. He is say­ing that MTG doesn’t have the guts to run for Sen­ate. Now she will yell about the cor­rup­tion nation­wide but when it comes to GA when was the last time she point­ed any of its cor­rup­tion out. 
• Sat­ur­day morn­ing will kick off cam­paign 2026 in Geor­gia. We have one US Sen­a­tor, all con­sti­tu­tion­al offices, all state sen­ate and state house, not to men­tion the local races. 
• Ossoff went after Rat­cliffe so he could make the head­lines last week. He is get­ting a jump­start in the media before repub­li­cans get in the race. Repub­li­cans will jump in as ear­ly as next week. 
• Brad Raf­fensperg­er is very upset because we are going to remove the state from ERIC and there is going to be more con­trol in the State Elec­tion Board. We are still try­ing to get paper bal­lots through the fin­ish line. The GA Gen­er­al Assem­bly is work­ing fast to get the elec­tion over­haul bill through before Sine Die. Right now the coun­ty elec­tion offices are basi­cal­ly run by the Sec­re­tary of State and no com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the State Elec­tion Board. GA bill gives pow­er to State Elec­tion Board and enacts its rules. The Sec­re­tary of State office is angry. 
• There is noth­ing about school safe­ty in HB268. 
• Trans­gen­der Geor­gians, repub­li­can law­mak­ers have held on to bills reg­u­lat­ing trans­gen­der peo­ple until the final week of the leg­isla­tive ses­sion. SB39 would ban the state health ben­e­fits plan and med­ic­aid from cov­er­ing gen­der-affirm­ing care for state employ­ees and their fam­i­ly mem­bers. The bill was approved by a house com­mit­tee last week, but it is expect­ed to go back to com­mit­tee Mon­day to be amend­ed. A house com­mit­tee approved SB30 last week. The bill estab­lish­es guide­lines that must be met by physi­cians, men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als and par­ents before trans­gen­der minors could receive puber­ty block­ing med­ica­tions to aid in their tran­si­tion. They are going to put a sec­tion in there that before a physi­cian can pre­scribe puber­ty block­ers par­ents have to be noti­fied. Here is what will hap­pen, a child will go into a coun­selor con­fused, the par­ent will be called in and giv­en the fear tac­tics to approve the tran­si­tion. Don’t be fooled by what they are doing. 
• Kemp is sound­ing awful­ly MAGA. He has got­ten the big truck out. GA law enforce­ment makes biggest fen­tanyl bust in state his­to­ry. Looks like Chris Carr is going MAGA as well. Although, he did not fight to stop the tax­pay­er fund­ing gen­der tran­si­tion for GA state employ­ees.