Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s field director, Brad Hughes, sat in on lobbying meetings between the governor, his policy staff and two political groups that Hughes is affiliated with, emails from a public records request show. Frontline Policy Action, the lobbying arm of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group that Hughes helps lead, endorsed and funded efforts to reelect Kemp in 2022, finance records show. Hatewatch previously reported that in 2024, the group also gave $350,000 to Kemp’s Georgians First Leadership Committee.
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Hatewatch has identified a previously pseudonymous author and ideologue whose writings in the 2000s and early 2010s heavily influenced the “manosphere,” a loose network of blogs, forums, websites and influencers who support rolling back women’s rights, reject feminism and advocate for rigid gender roles.
