The New Georgia Project, the once-celebrated voter registration charity founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and later chaired by Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, has now reportedly been dissolved—marking a stunning collapse for what was once a centerpiece of Democratic voter outreach efforts in the South.
The announcement comes just months after the organization admitted to breaking state law by campaigning for Abrams during her failed 2018 gubernatorial bid.
In January, the New Georgia Project confessed to violating 16 Georgia state laws in connection with Abrams’s 2018 campaign. The group agreed to pay a $300,000 fine after acknowledging it had spent $3.2 million that year to operate at least 10 field offices devoted to promoting Abrams’s candidacy. At the time, it presented itself publicly as a nonpartisan voter registration organization.
Founded by Abrams in 2014, the group was hailed by Democrats as a model for mobilizing minority voters and credited with boosting the party’s standing in Georgia.
Yet years of mismanagement, legal troubles, and financial improprieties ultimately brought it down. On Thursday, both the New Georgia Project and its affiliated political arm announced they were dissolving. “We call for strong and courageous leaders to continue building a just and truthful world,” the groups said in a joint statement reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Since 2020, the organizations reportedly burned through more than $81 million in donations from major left-wing funding sources, including the George Soros-backed Center for Popular Democracy and the Tides Foundation.
Despite that financial backing, internal dysfunction and questionable spending decisions plagued the operation.
Warning signs emerged well before the 2022 midterms. The Washington Free Beacon reported that the group suffered from leadership turmoil and the abrupt firing of its chief financial officer, Randall Frazier, in June 2022 after he raised concerns about “potential financial impropriety.” Rather than address his warnings, the organization pressed ahead with plans to purchase a $2.45 million Atlanta compound—a deal managed by a former canvasser making $23 per hour. The purchase ultimately fell through, and by October 2022, the organization laid off much of its senior staff due to lack of funds.
The following month, Abrams lost her rematch against Governor Brian Kemp by a decisive 7.5-point margin. The timing underscored the collapse of her political network, once heralded as the future of Democratic politics in the South.
Senator Warnock, who chaired the New Georgia Project during its unlawful 2018 activities, has distanced himself from the violations. A spokesman said in January that the senator had “no knowledge of the violations” and that “compliance decisions were not a part of his work” as chairman.
The organization’s downfall adds another blemish to Abrams’s record. After refusing to concede her 2018 loss—claiming the race was “rigged” and “stolen”—she launched Fair Fight Action, a nonprofit that later sued Georgia officials for alleged voter suppression. That case ended in defeat when a federal judge ruled the group had presented “no direct evidence” of voter disenfranchisement and ordered it to pay more than $200,000 in legal fees to the state.
Despite her setbacks, Abrams remained a fixture in Democratic politics. She was cast as “President of Earth” in a 2022 episode of Star Trek: Discovery and played what was described as a “pivotal role” in securing a $2 billion grant from the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to fund an electrification initiative. That grant was terminated in March by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
The demise of the New Georgia Project underscores a broader reckoning within Abrams’s political network—once hailed as a model of progressive organizing, now undone by the same lack of transparency and accountability it once claimed to fight against.
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