More than 45 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus. 730,000 sons, daughters, mothers and fathers never recovered. As the pandemic drags on, America needs a long-term game plan to deal with COVID and any new variants. If a sweeping shutdown made sense in March of 2020, it’s not an option today. The bruising […]

Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) on Monday issued an executive order aimed at assisting the state in pushing back against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate. The governor’s order provided the state government’s executive branch with directives geared toward benefiting the Alabama Attorney General’s office in legally combatting the mandate’s enforcement within the state. Additionally, the executive […]

Thousands of migrants have formed a caravan in Mexico and are rapidly approaching the U.S. southern border with the intention of illegally crossing into the nation’s interior. Fox News reports that this flood of foreign nationals is the largest and most organized caravan that has formed this year. Video footage had surfaced which showed the […]

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Monday took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to issue a stark warning over the growing threat the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to the United States. To confront the Chinese threat, Tuberville called for the United States to hold the communist regime accountable for its subversive actions […]

The Chinese government of late has come under intense scrutiny for its attempts to infiltrate American institutions in efforts to obtain information of value. Such efforts have reached the state of Alabama. Xiaoming Zhang, an Air War College professor at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents regarding a […]

7. Ivey doesn’t include vaccine mandate ban in the special session The redistricting special session is set to start on October 28. Governor Kay Ivey has officially outlined that other than redistricting, the session will include “appropriations for pandemic-related healthcare service.” Ivey didn’t include any ability for the legislature to address vaccine mandates, as she […]

Perhaps he wasn’t supposed to, but State Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa) posted the maps being considered by the joint legislative committee on reapportionment on Monday. England told his followers they now had everything he had, which will be considered later on Tuesday. If approved, it is expected the committee would release a more detailed map […]

Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) has earned the praise of leadership from both chambers of the Alabama Legislature over her willingness to combat President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate by way of executive action. The governor on Monday utilized her executive authority to take aim at the Biden administration’s vaccine decree, saying that the White House has […]

FORT PAYNE — U.S. Senate candidate Katie Britt on Monday took her campaign to the Mountain Lakes region of the Yellowhammer State. In a well attended event at Fort Payne’s Iron and Coal Building, the first-time candidate brought her “Alabama First” message to a packed room of Republican voters, many of whom were local DeKalb […]

Late Monday, Gov. Kay Ivey released the official proclamation calling the legislature into a special session on October 28 at 4 p.m. to address reapportionment. Also included in the Governor’s call was language to deal with “appropriations for pandemic-related healthcare service.” However, any language pertaining to President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate was not included […]

Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) on Monday issued an executive order aimed at combatting President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate. Executive Order No. 724 entitled, “Combating Overreaching COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates,” cites an array of actions that are to be undertaken by state government with the intention of ensuring Alabamians are protected against the enforcement of the Biden […]

GUNTERSVILLE — State Rep. Kerry Rich (R-Albertville) on Monday formally announced that he would not seek another term in the Alabama House of Representatives. The North Alabama lawmaker holds 20 years of service in the legislature’s lower chamber. Additionally, Rich served over two years in the administration of former Governor Fob James (R-AL) as legislative […]

An ardent opponent of President Joe Biden’s vaccine decree, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), is seeking to shield the Farm Service Agency (FSA) from the requirement to become inoculated against COVID-19. In late September, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) personnel received a memorandum detailing the Biden administration’s requirement for full and part-time employees to […]

This week, the Alabama Legislature will gavel in the second special session of the 2021 calendar year for redistricting, a decennial constitutionally mandated responsibility of the legislature, which will not be without some controversies. The legislature was delayed by late-arriving U.S. Census data due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced Gov. Kay Ivey to call […]

A few days beyond 22 years ago, Alabama voters rejected then-Gov. Don Siegelman’s referendum to create a state lottery in Alabama. The measure fell by a 54% to 46% margin. However, had the vote swung the other way for Siegelman, Alabama’s gaming dilemma may have been a long-solved problem by now. Once again, however, the […]

7. Obama is supporting the voter suppression narrative President Barack Obama has been campaigning for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and recently said that Republicans are trying to keep people from voting while arguing Democrats are trying to help people vote.  Obama said Republicans are “trying to systematically prevent ordinary citizens from making their […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and political consultant Mecca Musick take you through Alabama’s biggest political stories, including: — Will Mike Durant’s entry into the U.S. Senate race change the race significantly? — Businesses, small and large, ask Governor Kay Ivey not to interfere with the vaccination mandates some Alabama businesses are implementing. — […]

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) blasted the filibuster, which she says is a hurdle to so-called police reform measures considered by the U.S. Congress. Sewell called the filibuster, which has been a staple of the U.S. Senate throughout the history of the country and in its current iteration […]

Earlier this week, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell insisted Alabamians should be concerned about the machines used to tally votes in elections. Lindell argued that despite safeguards put in place in Alabama for elections, votes could be flipped unknowingly by those machines. During an appearance on FM Talk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show,” Secretary of State […]

During the Great Depression and coming out of World War II, the Deep South had immense power in Washington. We were fortunate to have a cadre of southern senators, who were seniority laden and knew how to bring home the bacon. This group of Deep South Southern Democrats controlled most of the prominent and consequential […]

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) in late September announced legislation which would block a Biden administration proposal to increase the federal government’s ability to monitor Americans’ banking activity. If implemented, the administration’s proposal would have forced financial institutions to remit all consumer transactions in excess of $600 to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes […]

On Friday, Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl spoke out for the legislature, which is set to convene a special session on reapportionment next week, to use that session to address a vaccine mandate imposed by President Joe Biden earlier this month. “Vaccine mandates are fundamentally flawed,” Wahl said in a press release. “No entity […]

U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) has sounded the alarm over some Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) employees’ intentions to resign or retire rather than conform to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate. Should the administration’s COVID-19 vaccine decree cause TVA employees to prematurely leave the quasi-governmental electric utility, Alabama nuclear facilities including Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant and […]

The Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) on Thursday announced that it had formed a leadership team implement and execute outreach strategies in an effort to communicate the party’s message to minority communities. Over 20 conservative minority leaders gathered at the steps of ALGOP’s headquarters in Hoover in a display of support for the party’s new initiative. […]