Demonstrators at the Women's March in Atlanta, Georgia (Jan. 21, 2017)

A key special election in Georgia’s 6th District is right around the corner. No, you haven’t clicked on a post from five months ago or fallen into some wormhole that’s thrown you back in time. Georgia’s 6th state Senate District is open because its GOP occupant, Hunter Hill, recently resigned to run for governor, and a special election to replace him will happen on Nov. 7.

It so happens that Senate District 6 is in the same region of the state—Metro Atlanta—as the congressional district with the same number, but it’s much bluer territory: The Senate seat went for Hillary Clinton by a 55-40 margin (making it the bluest GOP-held seat in the state) and gave Hill just 52 percent of the vote last fall. Democrats not only have a real chance to flip this district, but if they win, they’d also break the GOP’s veto-proof supermajority in the Senate.

What’s more, the GOP field in the special election is badly fracturted, featuring no fewer than five candidates. And Democrats had been excited that the guy who’d held Hill to that tight 4-point margin in 2016, Jaha Howard, was back for a return engagement. But it turns out that Howard isn’t the “moderate” he’d portrayed himself as in his previous campaign—not by a long shot.

Earlier this month, a long and disturbing series of anti-LGBT and misogynistic social media posts by Howard came to light. A few of the most hideous entries: