Letter from the Chair

To My Fellow Solidarians:

It has been an extreme pleasure to serve this party in our great state of Georgia for the last year as the state chairman and I look back on all of our accomplishments and growth with a glowing pride in our party, our membership, and our beliefs. Today, our party is stronger, more focused, and ready to take on new challenges. It is with this positive outlook, and knowing the strong leadership in our Executive Board, that I must submit my resignation effective April 1, 2021. I do this with a heavy, but hopeful, heart as I am embarking on new paths of service for our state and country. I know that our executive board will continue to lead the state party into new frontiers.

In Solidarity,

Joshua A. Watson

In Response to the Impeachment of Donald Trump

This week our nation witnessed a solemn and historic moment as President Donald J. Trump was impeached by a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives for inciting an insurrection through his words and actions leading up to the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a pro-Trump mob. We commend our representatives and leaders from both major parties for their forceful condemnation of the violence as well as for holding the President accountable. The President and his surrogates’ continual insistence that he won the 2020 November election in a landslide in spite of evidence to the contrary and his inflammatory rhetoric at the January 6 rally served as catalysts for an insurrectionist mob.

Fanciful conspiracy accusations such as mass vote manipulation and the QAnon theory have only served to further radicalize and foment violence and distrust in the foundational principles of our republican system of governance. These do not serve as an impetus to true reformation and restoration of our country and its potential but only as a furtherance of the goals of our enemies, foreign and domestic. While we do believe that many of our states are in need of electoral reform so that all Americans can be represented fairly and fully, we in no way find that those systematic inadequacies are indicative of mass voter fraud. Some reform can be accomplished through non-partisan redistricting committees to prevent gerrymandered districts and increased security on all election hardware. The American Solidarity Party of Georgia calls on our state legislature Georgia to begin to review the current system’s gaps for improvement or correction, not as a knee-jerk reaction to the 2018 Gubernatorial or 2020 Presidential elections, but thoughtfully and with much due consideration.

We also vow to hold the incoming administration of President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris accountable for their policies, words, and actions. We will continue to pressure them, along with our other national and state leaders and representatives, both to enact whole-life policies and to not forget or neglect the poor, vulnerable, and voiceless among us. We hold loyalty to our country, not to a president, leader, or personality and will continue to call for it to be better than it is currently and ever was because to love your country, just as to love another person, is not only to recognize its current beauty but to also see and desire its betterment. We pray that this and every future administration shall see boundless success in building a stronger, healthier, and more just United States of America.

In Solidarity,

Joshua A. Watson

Chairman, American Solidarity Party of Georgia

January 15, 2021

In Response to the Events at the Capitol

I have written and rewritten several drafts of this letter today as I watched the horrific events unfold in our Nation’s capital. I have grown angry as I watched symbols of hate be paraded through the halls of the United States Capitol Building. These actions by, what can only be described as, insurrectionists and domestic terrorists disrupted and threatened a tradition that our country has long held – the peaceful transition of power.

As the Chairman of the American Solidarity Party of Georgia, and speaking for the executive board, we unequivocally condemn all insurrectionist, seditious, and terroristic activity which seeks to overthrow the rule of law or to interrupt the constitutional processes of the United States of America, whether they be taken by civilians or elected leaders, foreign or domestic. We call for the Justice Department to prosecute those arrested, for the violence at the US Capitol, to to the fullest extent of the law. We call for the current Administration to denounce in more explicit terms the violence and to commit to a peaceful transition of power. We also call for Congress to exercise its Constitutional duty to hold the Executive Branch accountable for its actions.

On a personal level, I ask for prayers for the healing of the deep and dangerous divides that have been and are occurring in our nation. May God bless America and guide us in these trying times.

In Solidarity,
Joshua A. Watson
Chairman, American Solidarity Party of Georgia
January 6, 2021