In a fundraising email to its supporters, Frontline Policy Action (FPA) describes supporters of Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s first Jewish U.S. senator, as “God-haters.”1
FPA is a social-welfare nonprofit that can engage in limited political advocacy. It shares many of its senior leaders, board members and staff with anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Frontline Policy Council (FPC). In recent years, the groups’ leaders and staff have been criticized for ethically questionable lobbying tactics and for endorsing and spending money to elect Gov. Brian Kemp while Kemp employed a member of FPA’s board of directors. Frontline is also a powerhouse fundraiser for electoral causes favored by Republicans in Georgia.
Cole Muzio, the president of both FPA and FPC, has a history of incendiary anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric targeting religious people whose beliefs differ from his. In 2025, he asserted that an Episcopal bishop who preached tolerance toward transgender people and immigrants would have “a special place in hell.”
Previously, Muzio suggested that not supporting the state of Israel was “evil,” writing in support of a state legislative resolution supporting Israel in 2023, “In this time of antisemitism, it was Republicans who showed [they] are willing to stand up against evil.”2 He also suggested that Democrats who criticize Israel are antisemitic, writing in 2024, “Support for Israel and opposition to racism should be consensus positions. Unfortunately, the overwhelming number of Dem leadership has made their choice by indulging and placating antisemitism and ignorant Hamas supporters.”3
By rhetorically establishing itself as a Christian organization whose public policy preferences represent a true path to righteousness, FPA in the fundraising email subtly relies on antisemitism to create a false dichotomy between its interpretation of Christianity and supposedly God-hating supporters of the state’s first Jewish senator.
By singling out Ossoff and his supporters as existential threats to the state, the group props up harmful, antisemitic tropes about Jewish control of society by claiming that “what we love about our state will be gone by this time next year” if Ossoff wins the 2026 Senate election.
Targeting Black and Jewish Democratic candidates
The Feb. 4 email from Frontline responds to a Republican electoral defeat in a special Texas Senate race. According to Muzio, political “angst” rising against the unpopular “party in power” could “flip our state in a wicked direction.”4 The “hope” is for “increased Christian voter turnout,” Muzio wrote.
The implication that Democrats are wicked while Republicans represent Christian values is a false dichotomy that Christian-right political groups have relied on for decades to suggest their political preferences dictate morality and may also threaten a voter’s salvation.5 The strategy also helped Frontline’s progenitors grow their own political power within the Republican Party and push extremist anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion policies into the party’s platform.6
In a 2022 report, the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Family Research Council (FRC), of which FPC is the Georgia partner for its Family Policy Councils, explained, writing: “It is also true in recent years that the two major political parties have adopted clear positions on moral issues addressed in the Bible. … For the sake of intellectual honesty, it is important to recognize that the Republican Party has generally embraced policy positions on abortion and human sexuality that are consistent with Scripture, while the Democratic Party has embraced positions on these issues that are at odds with Scripture.”7
In the Feb. 4 fundraising email, Muzio continued this theme, writing that “Jon Ossoff is outraising our allied candidates by a 10:1 margin” and that the haul was “fueled” by people who “mock God.” Muzio then asked, “Will the Christian response be to show more zeal for freedom, flourishing families, God’s Design, the rule of law, and the value of life than the God-haters zealous hostility toward our values?” According to Muzio, Frontline will “not go gentle.”8
The same year FRC issued its report claiming Democrats are “at odds with Scripture,” Muzio appeared on a Dec. 2 FRC podcast to discuss the runoff election between U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker. During the interview, Muzio told host Joseph Backholm, “Even if you think there are two bad choices on the ballot, you have to remember there is one evil choice that we know is on the ballot. … we have to make sure we oppose Raphael Warnock.”9 Muzio also argued that “the Scripture is clear on the positions of the candidates” and responsibly exercising “biblical citizenship” meant to “go vote for Herschel Walker.” Warnock, who ultimately won the race, has been the senior pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.
FPA’s political activity
Anti-LGBTQ+ groups have a long history of using sensationalistic rhetoric in their fundraising missives. Raising money by targeting LGBTQ+ people with outlandish and false claims was effectively pioneered by progenitors of groups like Frontline, including Focus on the Family, the Christian Coalition and Moral Majority.10
In a review of Christian-right organizing in the 1990s, sociologist Sara Diamond hypothesizes that such extreme rhetoric is also intentional because its purveyors believe it will drive people to vote. “The grass roots were burning over homosexuality, ‘baby killing,’ and imagined liberal conspiracies in the public schools,” Diamond writes about the 1990s. “On these matters, heated rhetoric is the name of the game. Moreover, it is difficult to arouse large numbers of committed activists without also encouraging excesses.”11
While the strategy implies Christian-right political groups speak for all Christians, public opinion polling shows that most Christians do not support restrictive anti-abortion12 or anti-LGBTQ+13 policies, which are the hallmark of groups like Frontline.
Vocal opposition to anti-LGBTQ+ and Christian nationalist groups’ wielding of faith as a weapon against LGBTQ+ people has led some, like Muzio, to lash out against co-religionists who advocate for LGBTQ+ people, further suggesting that hate groups often use religious rhetoric to disguise anti-LGBTQ+ ideology.
Hatewatch previously reported that FPA has contributed to conservative electoral causes in Georgia, including contributions to the state’s Republican Party and to a political action committee led by the state’s governor. From 2023 to 2024, the group’s revenues jumped by more than 100% to over $600,000, according to federal tax returns.14
Between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, the group reported $561,000 in political campaign expenditures, including a $350,000 contribution to Kemp’s Georgians First Leadership Committee to help elect then-candidate Andrew Pinson to the state’s Supreme Court. That year, the group also reported about $22,000 in campaign expenditures and about $3,000 in “independent expenditures” to the Georgia Ethics Commission.15 The total amount of contributions represents more than 90% of the group’s expenses that year.16
According to the legal advocacy group Alliance for Justice, “no clear test exists” for determining when a social welfare group’s primary purpose is to conduct political activity. Guidance published on the group’s website, however, says, “To be cautious, a 501(c)(4)’s total expenditures for political activity generally should not exceed 30 to 40 percent.”17
Image at top: Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, waves to attendees during a re-election campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (Photo by Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Citations
1 Cole Muzio, “What Just Happened in Texas,” Frontline fundraising email, February 4, 2026.
2 Cole Muzio, “Republicans Winning Special Session,” Early County News, December 5, 2023.
3 Cole Muzio, X post, May 1, 2024.
4 Cole Muzio, “What Just Happened in Texas,” Frontline fundraising email, February 4, 2026.
5 Duane M. Oldfield, The Right and the Righteous: The Christian Right Confronts the Republican Party (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).
6 Ibid.
7 David Closson, “Biblical Principles for Political Engagement,” Center for Biblical Worldview/Family Research Council (2022), 26.
8 Cole Muzio, “What Just Happened in Texas,” Frontline fundraising email, February 4, 2026.
9 “Cole Muzio Shares the Latest Polling in the Upcoming Georgia Senate Runoff Election.” Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. December 2, 2022. About 2:30
10 Sara Diamond, Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right (Guilford Press, 1998).
11 Ibid.
12 “New 50-State Survey Data: More Than Six in Ten Americans Continue Supporting Abortion Legality,” Public Religion Research Institute press release, April 1, 2025.
13 “New Survey Finds Views on LGBTQ Rights Differ Strongly by State, Party, and Religious Tradition.” Public Religion Research Institute press release, March 4, 2025; Christy Mallory, Ilan H. Meyer, Michelle M. Johns, Christopher Hansen, Stuart Michaels and Sabrina Avripas, “Public Attitudes Toward the Use of Religious Beliefs to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People,” Williams Institute, June 2023.
14 ProPublica. Nonprofit Explorer. Frontline Policy Action. EIN 86-3969505.
15 Frontline Policy Action. Committee Profile. Georgia Campaign Finance System.
16 Frontline Policy Action. Form 990. Tax Year 2023.
17 “Election Year Activities for 501(c)(4) Social Welfare Organizations,” Alliance for Justice.
