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ROME, Ga. — When a man threatened in November to use a sniper rifle to assassinate Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican’s team responded by swiftly shutting down her congressional district office in Dalton, Ga.

And it wasn’t the first time that Greene shut down an official district office — her Rome, Ga. office quietly closed a year prior and remains closed.

Greene’s one remaining district office is publicly unlisted and unadvertised, her congressional spokesman confirmed. In order to visit, constituents must fill out a meeting request form on Greene’s website or set up an appointment by phone, where only then they will be given the physical address of her office, said Nick Dyer, who requested the office address not be publicized citing security concerns....

POLK COUNTY, Ga. — Northwest Georgia is such a deep red part of the country that sometimes Democrats don’t even bother taking a shot at the congressional seat in the state’s 14th Congressional District.

That was the case in 2016. And when conservative firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) came along in 2020, she captured nearly 75 percent of the vote after a primary runoff and cruised to reelection in 2022.

But now, in 2024, the election landscape looks a bit different....