On The Record is a weekly political show hosted by Atlanta News First anchor Rick Folbaum and Doug Reardon. It airs every Sunday at 11 a.m. on Atlanta News First and is available on-demand on ANF+ and as a podcast. Each episode features extensive interviews with Georgia’s most influential political leaders, newsmakers and analysts.
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Vernon Jones, a former Democrat turned Republican who served several terms in the state House and as DeKalb County CEO, is running for secretary of state.
Jones served in the state House of Representative from 1993 to 2001 and again from 2017 to 2021. He was also DeKalb CEO from 2001 to 2009.
Jones began his political career as a Democrat but switched to the Republican Party in 2021 after endorsing Donald Trump for re-election and speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention. He has also made unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate and House, and DeKalb County sheriff.
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On The Record is a weekly political show hosted by Atlanta News First anchor Rick Folbaum and political reporter Doug Reardon. It airs every Sunday at 11 a.m. on Atlanta News First.
The program, which can also be seen on Atlanta News First’s website and all of its streaming and podcasting platforms, features extensive interviews with Atlanta’s and Georgia’s most influential political leaders, newsmakers and analysts.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens cruised his way to an easy reelection this week as the city’s 61st chief executive.
Dickens joins On The Record for Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, to talk about his priorities for his second term; his relationship with Georgia’s GOP leadership; issues such as homelessness as the FIFA World Cup prepares for its Atlanta games; and whether his future plans include running for higher office.
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On The Record is a weekly political show hosted by Atlanta News First anchor Rick Folbaum and political reporter Doug Reardon. It airs every Sunday at 11 a.m. on Atlanta News First.
The program, which can also be seen on Atlanta News First’s website and all of its streaming and podcasting platforms, features extensive interviews with Atlanta’s and Georgia’s most influential political leaders, newsmakers and analysts.
The historically long partial government shutdown is now at 43 days, but it may not last much longer. That is, if U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a bipartisan, Senate-passed continuing resolution to fund the government, a vote that could come as soon as today.
Also, President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 70 alternate electors who were allegedly engaged in an effort to certify the 2020 election in his favor. But what impact do those pardons have in Georgia, only hours before the deadline expires to appoint a new prosecutor in his election interference case.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens cruised his way to an easy reelection this week as the city’s 61st chief executive.
Dickens joins On The Record for Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, to talk about his priorities for his second term; his relationship with Georgia’s GOP leadership; issues such as homelessness as the FIFA World Cup prepares for its Atlanta games; and whether his future plans include running for higher office.
Also in this week’s show:
On The Record is a weekly political show hosted by Atlanta News First anchor Rick Folbaum and political reporter Doug Reardon. It airs every Sunday at 11 a.m. on Atlanta News First.
Georgia Democrats are ecstatic after sweeping two Public Service Commission special elections on Tuesday.
Also: Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens cruised to a second term with a loyalist elected the new city council president; a 24-year-old political upstart almost upset the 78-year-old mayor of Marietta; Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday night's biggest political prize, the mayor of New York City. And today marks the longest partial government shutdown in American history.
Josh McKoon, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, talks about next week's Public Service Commission election, the 2026 midterms, and what the GOP looks like after President Donald Trump's administration.
Benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will expire in a matter of hours if Republicans and Democrats cannot find a way to end the now 29-day partial government shutdown.
Charlie Bailey has the challenging - some might say, unenviable - task of picking up the pieces of Georgia’s Democratic Party after Republicans made a very strong Peach State showing in last year’s presidential election.
Now the executive director of the state party, Bailey goes On The Record about the ongoing government shutdown, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s reelection campaign and how Democrats hope to capture the governor’s mansion next year.
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The latest on the government shutdown and furloughed federal workers.
Gov. Brian Kemp comments on Georgia’s nationally watched 2026 Senate race, in which Republicans have targeted Ossoff’s seat as a seat that could flip from blue to red.
Early voting ends soon ahead of the state’s Public Service Commission election, in which Democrats are hoping to unseat two GOP incumbents.
The NBA’s sports gambling scandal has rocked both the league, fans and members of several major Mafia-related families. What will its impact be in Georgia?
On The Record is a weekly political show hosted by Atlanta News First anchor Rick Folbaum and political reporter Doug Reardon. It airs every Sunday at 11 a.m. on Atlanta News First.
Hundreds of thousands of government workers have been furloughed, and several thousand others have been fired. President Donald Trump is calling Democrats "obstructionists," while Senate Democrats demand Trump meet with them before departing for Asia. And this past weekend, estimates of several million people took to the streets to protest what they call attempts by the nation's 47th president to establish himself as a dictator.
toll being taken on small businesses throughout the United States.
In this week’s episode of On The Record With Atlanta News First, Kelly Loeffler, director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, talks with Political Reporter Doug Reardon about the impact of the political impasse on Capitol Hill on American small business.
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