After pressure campaigns from the White House, local activist groups such as the one led by Stacey Abrams, and journalists in the media, Major League Baseball made the decision to move the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Colorado. Atlanta had been selected because the game and festivities around it were meant to honor baseball legend Hank Aaron , but that didn’t matter.

The move was in response to voting reforms passed by the Georgia legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. President Joe Biden called the law “Jim Crow in the 21st century.” Many of the voting reforms in the legislation were misrepresented both by Biden and the media, who portrayed them as a racist attack on voting rights.

However, voting increased throughout Georgia in the midterm elections. Over 1 million people voted early in Georgia, an almost 59% increase from the 2018 general election. Voter turnout for 2022 set all-time records, including 75% of early absentee ballots being returned to the county election offices. The voter suppression touted by Abrams, the White House, and the media didn’t happen, and everyone just sort of moved on without addressing their prior claims. The very same media that helped push these bogus claims just quietly reported on voter turnout increase and did not question Biden on it.

Now, according to a report by NBC News , southern Democrats are rallying together to push the DNC to make Atlanta the host city for the 2024 National Convention. New York and Chicago are the other options, but no one seems to have stopped to ask what happened to “ Jim Crow on steroids. ” There have been no admissions from the White House and no retractions from the media, which perhaps misconstrued the Georgia voting reforms simply to rile up voters. It worked enough to influence MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, so much so that he moved the All-Star Game under a media pressure campaign, without so much as questioning the motives of political actors such as Abrams or Biden.

NBC News reports that notable names lobbying for an Atlanta convention “include Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, along with top Biden allies like South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn and former Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is now a top DNC official and Biden political adviser.”

Richmond once blasted the passing of the voting reforms, stating, “We’re going to keep fighting. The vice president will continue to lead it. You will see us continue to meet with stakeholders, galvanize people. You will see the Justice Department continue to monitor — sue when necessary — to protect the precious right to vote.” Clyburn called them “the new Jim Crow.”

The law is still in place after the midterm elections. Nothing has changed, and yet representatives of the Democratic Party are angling for a state that represents “the new Jim Crow” to host their national convention. The MLB All-Star Game moving out of Atlanta cost the city and state over $100 million , according to state tourism officials.

If you lived in Georgia or Atlanta, you were robbed of a baseball game all because of a political, media-driven campaign. Now, the very same people who led that campaign and purposely misrepresented the effects of the voting reforms to willing journalists want to hold their own private party, without ever admitting that they might have been wrong. They should be made to remember their own words and actions.

Stephen L. Miller ( @redsteeze ) has written for National Review, the New York Post, and Fox News and hosts the Versus Media podcast.