Chris Joyner
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Chris Joyner is the deputy politics editor and an Atlanta native. He spent the past three decades as an investigative and enterprise reporter covering local and state government, political extremism, campaign finance and government ethics. He's the author of "The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson," a story about Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn’t commit.
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Ken Martin after being elected the Democratic National Committee Chair, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (Allison Robbert/The New York Times)

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Jan. 6 defendants wait for Trump pardons

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says her DOGE subcommittee will take on government ‘behemoth’

William Fredrick Beals

Trump pardoned him for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot. Now, he’s at Georgia’s Gold Dome

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Prosecutors drop charges against leader of Black nationalist group

From trespassing to violent assault, Georgia’s Jan. 6 defendants have a clean slate

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Trump pardons Jan. 6 defendants, including 44 from Georgia

Georgia Bridgemen rehearsing for inaugural campaign

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