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Recently Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey (D) added his voice to those calling for Congress to not cut funding for victim services. Bailey shared a statement from the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) calling on Congress to prioritize continued funding for victim services amidst dwindling funding. The coalition is concerned that without immediate congressional intervention, millions of victims, including abused children, battered women, and survivors of crime, will be left...
On Tuesday, former President Donald J. Trump (R) clinched the Republican nomination for President of the United States after Republicans in the Georgia, Mississippi and Washington held their party primaries, and Hawaii held it's Republican caucuses. This is the third time in a row that Trump has won the Republican nomination for President of the United States. The former President released a statement on Truth Social. "It is my great honor to be representing the Republican Party as its President...
On Wednesday CNN had to retract a story that it had written attacking the truthfulness of a story told by U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) in her Republican response to the state of the union address. On Thursday Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth (R) slammed CNN for the attack on Britt and said that it was because she (and the demographics she represents) scares them. "Its liberal bias is bad enough, but CNN was forced to retract, rewrite, and re-edit a story about @senkatiebritt after its...
Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) and Carol Miller (R-West Virginia) celebrated as their Bipartisan Kidney Patient Access to Technologically Innovative and Essential Nephrological Treatments (PATIENT) Act passed 41 to 1 in the House Ways and Means Committee. Reps. Sewell and Miller introduced the legislation to provide access to critical care and affordable oral medicines for chronic kidney disease patients. "It is critically important that we protect access to oral-only therapies for...
On Thursday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) questioned Air Force General Gregory M. Guillot, Commander of the United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, and General Laura J. Richardson, Commander of the United States Southern Command, about what the military is doing to secure the border during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "What about the border?" said Tuberville. "Are you getting any pushback from the border – the northern border? We h...
On Wednesday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) voted in favor of the bipartisan Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. Sewell (AL-07) released a statement following her vote for the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act: "Throughout my time in Congress, I have fought to ensure that every American can cast their vote in free and fair elections," said Sewell. "Our elections are sacred, and we cannot allow our adversaries to...
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it is reversing course on a preliminary decision that would have reduced the non-market economy (NME) anti-dumping duty from $2.39 per kilogram to just 14 cents per kilogram for all producers controlled by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) had informed the administration that this 94.1% reduction in the tariff would have severe economic impact on U.S. catfish farmers, including those in Alabama....
On Friday embattled Georgia prosecutor, Nathan Wade, has stepped aside from the prosecution of Donald J. Trump (R) on allegations that the former President unlawfully entered into a conspiracy with more than a dozen of his team to overturn the Georgia 2020 election results. "I am offering my resignation in the interest of democracy, in dedication to the American public, and to move this case forward as quickly as possible," Wade wrote in his statement. "I am sure that the case, and the team,...
During the Republican primary one congressional challenger in Alabama used artificial intelligence to create a fake video of Donald J. Trump endorsing him and denigrating his incumbent opponent. The fake was done in jest, was obviously not real, and was not intended to deceive; but there are fears that rapidly improving AI technology could make real election interference a very real possibility and could be very problematic in this election. Congresswomen Terri Sewell (D-AL07) and Shontel Brown...
The U.S. House of Representatives recently unanimously passed Representative Dale W. Strong's (R-Huntsville) bill, H.R. 6174 – the "DHS Biodetection Improvement Act." Strong explained that his legislation will bolster U.S. biodefense by ensuring that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is positioned to combat bioterrorism threats. "I am glad that my colleagues recognized the importance of this legislation and passed it unanimously," said Rep. Strong. "Threats from America's enemies have c...
An estimated 10 million migrants, including 617,000 with known criminal records, have crossed the U.S. southern border since Joseph R. Biden (D) has been in office. That is double the population of the state of Alabama. Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) voted in favor of H.Res.1065, a resolution sponsored by Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) denouncing the Biden Administration's immigration policies. Rep. De La Cruz recently highlighted the disaster at our southern border in her Spanish...
On Friday, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) spoke with Capitol Journal's Todd Stacy about his work in Congress representing Alabama's Fourth Congressional District. Last week Aderholt voted in support of legislation that would require the social media platform, Tik Tok, to find new ownership within six months or be shut down. A majority stake in Tik Tok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese owned corporation with alleged ties to the Chinese military and Chinese Intelligence. Aderholt voted...
Horse racing is the "the sport of kings" and for decades it was the dominant form of legal gambling. For the first seven decades of the Twentieth Century the three biggest sports in this country were boxing, baseball, and horse racing. The Alabama House of Representatives is poised to vote on a constitutional amendment to allow a massive expansion of legal gambling in the state; but Alabama's horse owners say there is nothing in either version of the bill for horse racing. The Alabama Gazette...
On Monday, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann went to the social media platform now known as X to say that there is "always hope" that former President Donald J. Trump (R) would be assassinated. Olbermann was responding to a post on X by the Biden-Harris campaign flagging a clip of President Trump saying he had been persecuted worse than any president in history, including Abraham Lincoln. "Trump says he has been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated," the Biden campaign...
The Alabama Republican Party Candidate Committee has selected Elmore County District Judge Patrick Pinkston to be its nominee for the 19th Judicial Circuit, Place 1. The position became open following Governor Ivey's appointment of Judge Bill Lewis to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Pursuant to state law, the Party is tasked with choosing a nominee to replace him on the General Election ballot. Judge Pinkston is unopposed in the general election, and stands ready to take office for the full...
House leadership from both parties, Senate leadership from both parties, and the White House are working on crafting a bipartisan bill to keep the federal government funded through September 30. Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) joined 41 of his Republican colleagues in a letter to his colleagues asking for an appropriations deal that does not fund Biden's ongoing border crisis. The letter states that the failure to negotiate a deal that includes H.R.2 means that if Republicans support...
On Wednesday, Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks) spoke on the challenges that the U.S. faces in the Indo-Pacific Region. "The Indo-Pacific is home to our nation's greatest threats," Rep. Rogers said during a committee hearing. "In North Korea, we have a mad man who would rather build an illegal nuclear arsenal than feed his starving people." Rogers said that North Korean leader Kim last year, "Announced that South Korea is now a "hostile country", and that North Korea can legally "annihilate"...
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) spoke on the floor of the U.S/. Senate to remember more Americans killed by illegal aliens under the Biden Administration's open borders policies. This is not the first time that Tuberville has delivered a speech on this. In fact, it is the third time that Tuberville has gone to the floor to deliver a speech about more Americans who were tragically taken from us far too soon. "Here we go again. I cannot believe I am on the Senate floor,...
On Wednesday, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl issued a statement praising the Governor, Secretary of State, and Legislature for passing the ballot ban bill (SB1) and for Governor Kay Ivey (R) for signing SB1 into law. "Securing and maintaining the integrity of the electoral process is of the utmost importance to the Alabama Republican Party," said Chairman John Wahl in a statement. "No one's vote should ever be stolen or usurped by illegal ballot harvesting, and SB1 is a major step...
Alabama has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation; but it also has one of the worst workforce participation rates in the country. On Thursday Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) was joined by legislative leaders as they unveiled a new package of bills to encourage more Alabamians to enter the workforce. "In the last session and we spent a lot of time following the governor's lead on a plan that she named the gameplan, that created some of they, maybe the best, incentives in the nation,"...
Former Deputy Attorney General Shomari Figures and House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels are in a battle to be the Democratic nominee in Alabama Second Congressional District. The newly redrawn CD2 stretches from Mobile to Montgomery and from Phenix City to Troy. The district, which was redrawn by the courts along racial lines, is enormously diverse with both very rural counties and very urban neighborhoods in Montgomery and Mobile. Figures left his position with the U.S. Justice Department in W...
On Thursday Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl thanked the Alabama Republican Party for the passage of the Curriculum Transparency (SB48) into law: Senate Bill 48 (SB48) was sponsored by Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Reed (R-Jasper). "The Alabama Republican Party firmly believe that parents should be in the driver's seat when it comes to the education of our children," said Chairman Wahl. "Senator Greg Reed's curriculum transparency bill is a significant step towards achieving this...
Attorney General Marshall Announces Conviction of Etowah County Woman for Financial Exploitation Stole more than $2.5 Million from Elderly Mother (Montgomery)—Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the conviction and sentence of an Etowah County woman for Financial Exploitation of an Elderly Person in the First Degree. Gina Cook Gilbert, 63, of Gadsden, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of Financial Exploitation in the First Degree, a Class B felony, of her elderly mother while she was t...
On Friday Congressmen Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), Dale Strong (R-Huntsville), and Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) voted against a bipartisan spending bill to keep the government funded. All six of Alabama’s House Republicans voted against the compromise measure. The 1,012-page, $1.2 trillion spending package was crafted on a bipartisan basis between the House leadership, the leadership of the Senate, and the Biden White House. It has passed both Houses and has been s...
An estimated 110,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023. Illegal drugs have long been a prominent part of modern American culture; but drug over doses have climbed exponentially over the last decade – much of it due to fentanyl. In the last five years drug overdoses have risen to be one of the leading causes of death for 18 to 45 years old. It also kills a number of pregnant women. Far too many Americans, use drugs and alcohol to artificially alter or enhance their moods and fentanyl f...
