Bryan Tyson

🚨2030 Apportionment Forecast🚨 +4: TX +2: FL +1: AZ, GA, ID, NC, UT -4: CA -1: IL, MN, NY, OR, PA, RI, WI * Based on the 2025 Census Population Estimates released January 27, 2026.

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

Marty, the girls, and I would like to wish all Georgians observing a peaceful and safe first night of Hanukkah. As we face the reality of growing antisemitism around the world, with last night’s horrific tragedy just the latest reminder of its horrible presence, we pray this holiday brings peace and light to you and your families over these next eight days and nights. Chanukah sameach!

The Board of Georgia Life Alliance is deeply saddened by the passing of our Executive Director, Claire Bartlett, on December 13, 2025. After years of making a difference for Georgia families in a variety of roles, Claire dedicated the last few years to the mission of GLA, building a culture of life in Georgia. She did that work with grace, humility, and a spirit of generosity and sacrifice. We remember Claire's joyful countenance, her poise in difficult situations, and her genuine love for the vulnerable and the 'least of these.'  We extend our deepest condolences and prayers to the Bartlett and Sinian families. We pray the Lord's peace over them as they walk through this journey of grief and have no doubt that Claire was greeted by her Savior with the joyful affirmation of her good and faithful service to Him.

SCOTUS has postponed consideration of a cert petition in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe over whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is enforceable by private parties. It was originally set to take up the petition on 11/7, but is now "Rescheduled."