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Obama officially endorses Figures in CD2 race, records message for Alabama voters

Obama's endorsement follows a string of high-profile Dems who have campaigned for Figures in a race that carries national and historic significance.
November 1, 2024

The heavy weight of racist words

Oops! He did it again. Donald Trump just can’t pass up a chance to demonstrate how racist he is. We’ve known all along that Trump has a history of racism. This racism didn’t just show up when he decided to run for president in 2015. Remember the Central Park 5, five young Black and Latino … Continued
June 25, 2020

Alabama Democratic Women will be holding their first annual State Conference

Alabama Democratic Women announce that they will be holding their first annual State Conference on Saturday, January 25, 2020 at the Hoover Country Club (3140 Club Drive Birmingham, AL 35226). The SOLD OUT event will consist of various trainings, speakers, panel discussions, and feature keynote speaker, Valerie Jarrett. Valerie Jarrett was the longest serving senior … Continued
January 20, 2020

Celebrate wildly and get an equal paycheck

I’m glad the U.S. Women’s World Cup soccer team celebrated after each goal in its 13-0 win over Thailand. I’m happy about that. I’m thrilled, in fact. I’m for the Women’s World Cup soccer team. I hope they beat every opponent by 13-0 and celebrate each goal as if it’s the first. The criticism of … Continued
June 14, 2019

Jones criticizes CFPB proposal to roll back payday lending regulation

Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal to remove a key regulation on the payday lending industry introduced in the final year of President Barack Obama’s term. The CFPB said Wednesday that it is rolling back plans to put into place a rule intended to protect the most vulnerable payday loan … Continued
February 7, 2019

Should Medicaid expansion be on the 2019 legislative agenda? Experts say it has to be

In Alabama, Republican politicians have ignored the question of Medicaid expansion or rejected it outright, refusing to bring the issue to the floor of the state Legislature, but an outgoing Republican senator and hospital officials are pushing for it to be on the 2019 legislative agenda. Voters appear to be on the side against expansion, … Continued
December 7, 2018

King asks, “Where is Steve Marshall?

Former Attorney General Troy King held a press conference at 8:30 Monday morning asking where is former disgraced Gov. Robert Bentley’s appointed Attorney General Steve Marshall? King and Marshall are facing each other in the Republican runoff for Attorney General on July 17. As it turned out, Marshall was at an exclusive golf resort in … Continued
June 12, 2018

Chelsea Manning granted clemency

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, January 17, 2017, President Barack Obama continued a whirlwind of pardons and sentence commutations as times runs out on his eight years in office. In what is perhaps his most controversial commutation yet, the President commuted the majority of the sentence for Chelsea Manning, a trans army … Continued
January 18, 2017

Sessions Shocked By President’s Comments on Illegal Immigrants Voting

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Sunday, November 6, 2016, US Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) said that he was shocked by comments by President Barack H. Obama (D) which he alleges encouraged illegal aliens to vote. Sen. Sessions said, “I am shocked that the President of the United States—who is the chief law enforcement officer … Continued
November 8, 2016