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Mike Collins

Running for Senator in Georgia

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Increased Our Cost of Living

Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.

Mike Collins has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:
  • Half of all Americans struggling to afford groceries
  • 47% struggling to afford their utility bills
  • 47% struggling to afford healthcare
  • 48% struggling to afford housing
  • 1 in 4 Americans saying they have skipped a medical checkup due to affordability
  • 23% skipping a prescription dose
  • Gas prices skyrocketing

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We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Mike Collins doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.

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Reduced Our Access to Healthcare

We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.

Mike Collins disagrees:
  • He voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
  • He voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
  • He wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
  • He supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary, which has proven to be disastrous for American health.

We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Mike Collins doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.

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Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security

Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.

For years, Mike Collins and his party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
  • They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
  • We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
  • They already started. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Mike Collins supported cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
  • Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
  • It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Mike Collins and his party are now preparing to do exactly that.

These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Mike Collins wants to break that promise so he can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.

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Cut Taxes for the Rich

We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.

But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
  • The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
  • The 25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014-2018 — a "true" tax rate of just 3.4 percent on $401 billion of income.
  • 23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
  • The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Mike Collins supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans.

Mike Collins is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
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Rolled Back Environmental Protections

We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.

Mike Collins has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.

He has a 0% score from the League of Conservation Voters in 2025, and a 1% lifetime score. He sits on the House Natural Resources Committee and votes against protecting it every chance he gets.

EPA Pollution EPA Climate Change We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
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Cut Access to Food Programs for the Poor

I think we can all agree that nobody in America, the richest country in the world, should go hungry.

Mike Collins disagrees.
  • He supported the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that dramatically cuts funding for SNAP, and the people that need food assistance most.
  • About 39% of SNAP participants are children, and 20% are elderly
  • 42.1 million Americans receive SNAP benefits every month

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Mike Collins doesn't care if we go hungry. We deserve better.
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Destroyed Jobs

A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.

Mike Collins supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
  • There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
  • 55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
  • The unemployment rate is 4.6%, the highest level since the pandemic
  • In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
  • Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
  • 58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.

Job losses
We can't live the American Dream without well-paying jobs. Mike Collins doesn't care. We deserve better.
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Worked for Billionaires and Big Business and Not for Us

Our elected officials should work for us, the people.

Mike Collins works for big business and special interests, not for us. He co-founded a trucking company — and his top donors are in trucking, oil, and fossil fuels. Look at who some of his top funders are:

Mike Collins is funded by billionaires and big business. No wonder he's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
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Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $667 MILLION from Georgia

We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.

That's not what we got.

Mike Collins stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Georgia suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.

Elon Musk and DOGE:

Collins talked up DOGE's case while DOGE's own website listed five Georgia Social Security offices for lease termination — in Brunswick, Columbus, Gainesville, Thomasville, and Vidalia — alarming seniors across the state. On a Republican Study Committee podcast, he backed DOGE's argument for gutting federal agencies, claiming government buildings sit mostly empty.
  • Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
  • Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
  • Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
  • Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
  • Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
  • Cut more than $667 million dollars worth of grants and leases from Georgia.

We'd like to thank you, Mike Collins, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
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Does Whatever Donald Trump Tells Him to Do

As a member of Congress, part of Mike Collins's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from Georgia have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
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Opposed Common-Sense Gun Safety Laws

We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.

In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Mike Collins has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
  • A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
  • Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
  • Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
  • Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.

Gun violence
Mike Collins is OK with our kids dying, as long as he has his guns. We deserve better.
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Wants the Government Control to Control Our Bodies

America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.

Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Mike Collins thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.

Mike Collins:

Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Mike Collins thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
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Is Trying to Take Away Our Voting Power

In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.

Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Mike Collins's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.

Mike Collins has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.

SAVE Act
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Mike Collins and His bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
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Supported America's Secret Police Force, ICE

Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.

But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Mike Collins, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing absolutely nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
  • ProPublica: They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
  • ProPublica: Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
  • New York Times: Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
  • They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Mike Collins have to say? Nothing.
  • They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
  • And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Mike Collins says nothing:
    • On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
    • On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
    • On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.

If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Mike Collins going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
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Voted for an Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran

War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.

In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:

The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Mike Collins supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Mike Collins work for Israel or the people of Georgia? We deserve better.
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Avoids His Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls

Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Mike Collins doesn't want to hear what we have to say. He only wants to talk to his rich donors or people who agree with him.

Mike Collins claims to hold quarterly town halls. But when constituents in the 10th District wanted to ask him hard questions about DOGE cuts and federal layoffs, more than 300 people showed up to a town hall in Athens — without him.

Collins was invited and didn't come. Constituents wrote their questions on cards to send to his office. His office responded that Collins has "hosted a town hall nearly every quarter" — pointing to an event held weeks earlier.

Georgians deserve a senator who shows up and answers to them directly — not one who hides behind a phone screen.

Mike Collins is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
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Took a $920,000 Government Loan — Then Funded His Own Campaign

We should hold our leaders to high standards. Mike Collins apparently does not.

In 2020, Collins' trucking company received a $920,000 federal PPP loan — money meant to save workers' jobs during the pandemic. Then, within months, Collins loaned his own congressional campaign $465,000.

The federal government eventually forgave the loan entirely. Collins used his company's windfall to buy himself a seat in Congress.

We deserve leaders who put Georgians first — not ones who pocket government money and use it to fund their own political careers.
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Blamed Foreign Drivers While His Own Truckers Killed 5 People

Mike Collins says noncitizen truckers are making America's roads unsafe. But a ProPublica and Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found that truckers for Collins' own companies have been involved in crashes that killed 5 people and injured more than 50 others over 25 years.

Collins' companies have a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations than most trucking companies. And while his truckers were killing and injuring Georgia families, Collins fought proposed truck safety rules — like speed limiters and automatic emergency braking — that experts say would reduce serious crashes.

Collins warned about the danger of unsafe truckers while his own fleet was killing and injuring Georgia families.
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Kept a Criminal as His Chief of Staff

We should hold our leaders to high standards. The people they hire tell us a lot about them.

Collins' longtime chief of staff, Brandon Phillips, had a criminal record going back to 2008 — attacking a man, slashing his tires, and pulling a gun on a woman. In 2022, Phillips was arrested for kicking a dog hard enough to lacerate its stomach.

Collins kept him on through all of it. The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation after finding that Phillips had used congressional funds for personal expenses and hired his own girlfriend as a no-show intern paid with taxpayer money.

Collins only fired Phillips after Phillips used Collins' campaign account to mock a political opponent's wife's alleged sexual assault.

Phillips' successor as chief of staff, Kip Talley, was later reported to have been in a group chat with white nationalists, where he said he would use his government position to help free an alt-right internet troll from prison.

We deserve a senator who surrounds himself with people of integrity — not one who enables abusers until it becomes politically embarrassing.
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Spread the Big Lie and Whitewashed the January 6 Attack

Mike Collins built his political career on Donald Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen — and he has spent years trying to rewrite the history of the violent attack it inspired.

We deserve a senator who respects the truth and the will of voters — not one who rewrites history to excuse an attack on our democracy.
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A Pattern of Bigoted Online Posts

We should hold our leaders to high standards. Mike Collins is known for inflammatory posts on social media — and several of them have targeted people for their religion or background.

We deserve a senator who treats all Georgians with respect.
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Used a Fake AI Video of His Opponent

In November 2025, Collins' campaign released a deepfake video of Senator Jon Ossoff — an AI-generated fake showing Ossoff mocking farmers and defending a government shutdown. Ossoff never said any of it.

When called out, the Collins campaign didn't apologize. It said it plans to keep using AI, promising to be "at the forefront embracing new tactics."

If a candidate has to put fake words in his opponent's mouth, what does that tell you about his real case?
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Gambled Six Figures on a Meme Coin While in Congress

While Georgians struggled with rising prices, Mike Collins was trading a joke cryptocurrency called "Ski Mask Dog."

Starting in December 2024, Collins reported a dozen trades in the meme coin — purchases worth up to $165,000. The coin hit its all-time high two days after he disclosed his first purchase, then crashed about 98%.

His explanation? "I liked the coins, so I bought them."

We deserve a senator focused on our grocery bills — not his meme coin portfolio.
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  • Violent Crime: #26
  • Murder: #40/49
  • Firearm Death: #37
  • Incarceration: #44
  • Overall Health: #38
  • Life Expectancy: #40
  • Food Insecurity: #38
  • Obesity: #26/48
  • Women's Health: #45
  • Child Well-being: #39
  • Teen Birth Rate: #38
  • Maternal Mortality: #29/39
  • Infant Mortality: #43
  • Household Income: #23
  • Poverty Rate: #36
  • Public Education: #17
  • Voter Turnout: #15
Overall Rank: #36
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