Ossoff: They tried to put special needs kids in jail. And then when my investigation brought all this to light, when we held Senate hearings and exposed it all, instead of resigning, or at least leaping into action to fix it, state officials retreated into denial and PR and counterattack. Because foster kids don't have lobbyists or a super PAC. Neither do the women subjected to medical abuse in ICE detention. Neither do the female inmates sexually abused by the warden and the chaplain in their federal prison. Or the young military family neglected by the defense contractor with a fifty-year lease on privatized housing at Ft. Gordon. But they deserve leaders who see them and expose those who abuse them. And that’s exactly what I’ll keep doing.

Ossoff: My office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be treated well. Nancy Lancy's 81 years old in Jesup. Her husband died after years of dementia. She was worn out and alone, and now her affairs as a widow were all wrapped up in this bureaucratic labyrinth, from the VA to the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget what she said about it. She said, "This was a new experience, to have someone caring about me." How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising?

Ossoff: How many times through our history have those advancing progress and justice faced setbacks and reversals and adversity? They did not retreat into despair, they summoned determination. They picked up their power and used it. We have the privilege right now of living in the pivotal battleground state in the country at a pivotal moment in our history. Some people just happen to live at places and in times where what we do matters more. We have the privilege of this opportunity to make history. To make a difference not just for ourselves, but for future generations and our country.

Ossoff: Mike Collins is a Trump puppet who has voted seven times for the disastrous Iran war that has sent gas prices through the roof. He's voted repeatedly for the Trump tariffs that sent grocery prices soaring. And he voted with Donald Trump to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians. He possesses not a shred of independence. He is Donald Trump's puppet, and we will be sure to remind voters of that over the next 40 days. In addition to being Donald Trump's puppet, Congressman Mike Collins is a known bigot with extensive ties to white nationalism and neo-Nazi ideology. And today the Republican Senate Leader John Thune is in Georgia campaigning for Mike Collins, and Senator Thune needs to answer whether he will denounce Mike Collins' extensive ties to white nationalism and neo-Nazi ideology, which again I remind you all, for the sake of your reporting — is not a matter of allegation, but a matter of established fact in independent, credible reporting.

Ossoff: Congressman Mike Collins, in a country awash in scandal, brings something unique — which is that he is apparently surrounded at work and at home by Nazi sympathizers and white nationalists. And as I laid out this morning, the congressman's office, intervening at the Department of Justice and the FBI on behalf of a Holocaust denier, and briefing some of the most notorious white supremacists in the country on that effort… In any other era, this would be the most significant political scandal in the United States. This is a sitting member of Congress now seeking a six-year term in the U.S. Senate, while his office uses official power to carry water for Holocaust deniers and briefs white supremacists on its efforts. Congressman Collins needs to release every email, every text message, every phone record, and every encrypted communication between his office and those white nationalists today.

WXIA: Senator Jon Ossoff, representing Georgia, called on his campaign rival, Republican Mike Collins, to release communications involving his office and white nationalists. That includes emails, texts, phone records, and encrypted messages involving Collins, his staff, and any associates. That call follows reporting about former Collins Chief of Staff Kip Talley. Reports found Talley had communications with white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer.

Ossoff: Let's just step back for a moment and look at this situation. You've got a sitting member of the U.S. House, who we know has had neo-Nazi propaganda produced on his property. Apparently, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that continues to this day. Even if he weren't running for the U.S. Senate, is this not one of the most significant political scandals in Georgia's history? A sitting member of the U.S. House has a neo-Nazi propagandist based on his property. Refuses to say, by the way, how much his business has paid that neo-Nazi propagandist. Now let's add to it. We have leaked communications documenting that the congressman's office sought to intervene with the FBI and the DOJ on behalf of one of the country's most notorious Holocaust deniers. And while doing so, his senior staff briefed some of the country's most notorious white supremacists. These are objectively shocking facts that warrant the full attention of the press corps here in Georgia and that obligate Congressman Mike Collins, who is seeking a six-year term in the U.S. Senate, to come out and come clean and release these records in full.

Ossoff: Did you see this business about Don Jr.'s wedding in The Bahamas?

Ossoff: The Mar-a-Lago mafia really has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But Athens, corruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. And, see, I get why people voted for him. Because even before he came on the scene, American politics was coin-operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money. Both sides. And when members of Congress aren't fundraising from lobbyists and corporate PACs, they're trying to dodge getting bombed by these super PACs. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. And this corruption is why nothing works for ordinary people.

Ossoff: Our whole government made a corrupt tool of one man's vengeance and power and wealth. The president’s critics prosecuted or bullied off the airwaves. Prices soar while the president rakes in billions. Cancer patients lose insurance while the rich get another tax cut. We sink in the quicksand of reckless war as immigrant families are torn apart, and private prisons grow in size and in squalor. The Justice Department and even our intelligence services are twisted to serve the president's vendettas. But in one month, Athens, we will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. In one month, we’ll vote to defeat the bigot congressman, Trump puppet Mike Collins.

Ossoff: Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars, widely known for his poor character and low integrity, and unfit for any elected office in the United States… Now the bigot wants a promotion. But this year we’ll end his political career instead.

Ossoff: You've got this war spiraling out of control in the Middle East. My constituents in Georgia, paying all-time record prices for diesel, while 300,000 of them have lost their health insurance so that the president's allies in Congress could fund yet another tax giveaway for the rich and corporate America. Total tariff chaos. It costs more now than ever before in American history to stock your fridge, to power your home, to buy school supplies for your kid. They throw a two-day party in Texas and claim this is a golden age. It's a disgrace, and we have the opportunity in a month and a half to change the course of history.

Ossoff: As grim as things have been, there really is so much that we can accomplish as a nation once we come back together. Look, the American people, not just Democrats, are opposed to secret corporate money in politics. The American people, not just Democrats, believe that insurance companies shouldn't be able to deny us the health care that we need. The American people, not just Democrats, want us to take AI seriously and our obligations to govern on behalf of our national security and the security of future generations seriously. And I hope that the example of these conservative Republican mayors in Georgia backing my campaign gives people some hope that we can come together again as a country and achieve great national things together.

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A capable president would move swiftly to secure and reassure the American people, rush inspectors into frontier labs, fortify the nation against bioterrorism, demand legislation from Congress, and lead the world toward an AI treaty. But President Trump is compromised.

Ossoff: Five days after his father was reelected, Prince Don Jr. becomes a partner at 1789 Capital, a venture firm founded by right-wing activists and Trump donors. 1789 Capital then buys a stake in Vulcan Elements, a tiny startup that says it plans to produce the high-tech magnets needed in drones, missiles, and satellites. And about a month after Don Jr.’s venture firm buys its stake in Vulcan Elements, Pentagon officials learn that Peter Navarro — a convicted criminal, Don Jr.’s close friend, and a top White House official — wants the Pentagon to give your tax dollars to Vulcan Elements. One Pentagon official said, "The call came from the White House: We have to get this done." And, Athens, to be clear, "getting this done" means funneling your money to the president’s son’s investment.

Ossoff: ​​Now remember, Trump promised to lower prices on day one. But last week, the broken old man threw a two-day party in Texas, while it costs more than ever to fill up your truck, to stock your fridge, and to power your home. Under the failed President Donald J. Trump, food, diesel, and health care all just hit their all-time highs. They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for their corporate donors and the ultra-rich. They made you pay more for everything. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile. All while the crook president and his crook family raked in billions from all over the world.

Ossoff: ​​This week we were warned again of existential risk to the human species. Did you see it? And what fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the new intelligence they're creating risks human extinction. Congress debates youth sports, and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient establishment, barely capable of email, sleepwalks into a technological revolution, while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. Just listen to this: On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr.'s 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs. Four days before inauguration, the Emirati spy chief committed $500 million to the Trump family crypto business, and four months later, the Trump administration granted the Emirates the rights to buy our most sensitive AI chips.

Ossoff: I suspect many of you are here because you're so deeply troubled by the pain so many of our fellow human beings are enduring right now. The terror of a child watching ICE take away her mother. The despair of a cancer patient losing coverage mid-treatment. The silent panic of a grandmother when she sees the receipt for her groceries and then remembers there's three weeks left until her next Social Security check. And that ache in your heart, that pit in your stomach, that's what reminds us we're all in this together, that we're not just one United States, we're one united people.

Ossoff: Just think, 250 years on, what the founders would see if they visited us today. They'd see that slavery had been abolished. They'd see that Americans without land and then women and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights. They'd see that our science and technology propelled human knowledge to unimaginable heights and that those thirteen colonies had grown into a superpower that defeated the Nazis and communism. They'd see a pluralist democracy, people of all colors descended from every point on Earth, stitched together out of many nations into one. But they'd also see a nation that, at the height of its wealth and power, fell into the very traps they most feared, consumed by bitter conflict between factions captured by special interests. Losing touch with the great national spirit that defeated fascism, with the spirit that landed men on the moon and passed civil rights laws.