The Georgia Hour, episode 190: Rigged Red Hats: Swampy Endorsements and the 2026 Fight to Reclaim the Peach State

In this raw, unfil­tered episode of The Geor­gia Hour on VoiceofRuralAmerica.com, host BKP (a staunch MAGA voice from rur­al Geor­gia) deliv­ers a blis­ter­ing mono­logue laced with sar­casm, his­tor­i­cal hind­sight, and urgent calls to action, fram­ing the 2026 elec­tions as Geor­gia’s last shot at dis­man­tling a “total­ly rigged” polit­i­cal machine before it locks in the 2028 pres­i­den­tial cycle. Broad­cast­ing on Octo­ber 29, 2025, amid rainy weath­er and flick­er­ing pow­er lines, BKP kicks off by mock­ing the blurred lines between “good” and “bad” can­di­dates, using foot­ball coach Derek Doo­ley as a punch­line: Kemp fam­i­ly allies are fun­nel­ing cash his way for the U.S. Sen­ate race, but BKP doubts Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp would ever ral­ly behind a true Trump-endorsed nom­i­nee like Mike Collins if push comes to shove—calling it a clas­sic case of elite maneu­ver­ing over grass­roots loy­al­ty.

BKP trans­ports lis­ten­ers back to Octo­ber 28, 2017—a piv­otal “what if” moment when Don­ald Trump endorsed Kemp in a crowd­ed GOP guber­na­to­r­i­al pri­ma­ry, obliv­i­ous to the storms ahead: no COVID, no “stolen” 2020 elec­tion, no Diebold-to-Domin­ion vot­ing machine fias­co, no SB 202 or elec­tion integri­ty bat­tles. In hind­sight, that slate of can­di­dates (includ­ing Casey Cagle, Brad Raf­fensperg­er, and oth­ers) hand­ed pow­er to insid­ers who “rigged the sys­tem” through cam­paign finance loop­holes, lead­er­ship PACs, and leg­isla­tive con­trol. Fast-for­ward to today: With open pri­maries every eight years, BKP sees eerie par­al­lels in the 2026 line­up for gov­er­nor, lieu­tenant gov­er­nor, sec­re­tary of state, attor­ney gen­er­al, and more. He admits past regrets—like grind­ing for Kem­p’s nar­row 2018 win over Stacey Abrams by just 54,723 votes (the clos­est since 1966)—and now ques­tions the “MAGA” cre­den­tials of Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, despite the red hat: “I don’t dis­like Burt Jones, but I’m find­ing it hard to locate MAGA in him.” The host floats wild cards like a Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene guber­na­to­r­i­al run as a chaot­ic but poten­tial­ly salvif­ic dis­rup­tor, while slam­ming the cur­rent GOP slate: do-noth­ing AG Chris Carr (who “reac­ti­vat­ed his law license” for the gig), busi­ness­man fron­trun­ners with “minor prob­lems,” and Raf­fensperg­er’s crew ped­dling the same Ful­ton Coun­ty “squir­re­ly” irreg­u­lar­i­ties that flipped 11,780 votes in 2020.

Div­ing deep­er into the “rigged” under­bel­ly, BKP rails against cam­paign finance as a Ponzi scheme that crush­es out­siders. Pulling FEC data, he con­trasts Sen­ate hope­fuls: Mike Collins ($1.8M raised, but taint­ed by chief of staff Bran­don Phillips’ ties), Bud­dy Carter ($2.8M war chest), and Derek Doo­ley (up to 16% in polls with $1.7M fun­neled via Kemp con­nec­tions). In con­gres­sion­al races, he laments under­dogs like Kan­diss Tay­lor (just $7,236 cash-on-hand vs. Jim Kingston’s $1.17M dynasty inher­i­tance) and Rea­gan Box ($3,890 after scrap­ing $51K), declar­ing, “I did­n’t cre­ate the system—the sys­tem is rigged.” Even in safer red dis­tricts, incum­bents like Collins and Carter face Demo­c­rat attack ads on health­care (ACA cred­its expir­ing, pre­mi­ums spik­ing 345%) and util­i­ty prof­i­teer­ing, with BKP scoff­ing at GOP inac­tion after 15 years of Oba­macare: “Stop believ­ing they want to help you.”

Weav­ing in real-time Geor­gia dra­ma, BKP spot­lights a Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion ad war against incum­bents Tim Echols and Fitz John­son, the res­ig­na­tion of Rep. Mar­cus Wiedow­er (the sports bet­ting bil­l’s cham­pi­on, bail­ing for real estate), and Tyler Harper’s star-stud­ded “pig pickin’ ” fundrais­er draw­ing the full GOP circus—including weasels like Greg Dolezal lurk­ing near. He jabs at Kem­p’s “world stage” schmooz­ing in Korea (com­plete with “Mar­ty Antoinette” digs at the first lady) and for­eign invest­ment deals that feel like sell­outs. Clos­ing with shoutouts to allies like the “moun­tain leg­isla­tive” watch­dog team and reminders of RINO foes (e.g., “albi­no rhi­no” Brant Frost V, tied to a Ponzi scan­dal; “what the Futch” Jack­al of Geor­gia Den­nis; untrust­wor­thy Jon George as Trump’s region­al gate­keep­er), BKP urges vig­i­lance: “We can’t fall into the 2017 trap again—if I knew then what I know now.” It’s a rol­lick­ing, ral­ly cry to “get out and vote,” watch every bill, and back true out­siders to “set the record straight” before the elites lock in anoth­er cycle of con­trol. Catch the full unhinged Q&A on Voice­ofRu­ralAmer­i­ca’s Face­book or Small Town Under­ground for the beer-spilling bridge-cross­ing vibes.