Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) announced Tuesday that four teams will have the chance to propose how they would build the three new prisons that are the centerpiece of Ivey’s plan to improve the state’s much-maligned correctional facilities. The state is expecting to receive the detailed proposals in the spring […]

Alabama State Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed (R-Jasper) announced Tuesday that his communications director and policy advisor, John Rogers, will be joining Jeff Sessions’ campaign for the U.S. Senate. “John Rogers has been a trusted confidant since joining my office in 2015. He has done an outstanding job directing the communications and policy strategy for […]

GREENVILLE — On Monday evening, four of the Republican U.S. Senate candidates vying for a shot at running against U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) appeared at a forum at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College to make their cases to the assembled voters. Haleyville businessman Stanley Adair, U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), Secretary of State John […]

The Alabama Farmers Federation’s political action committee, FarmPAC, on Monday announced endorsements of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Yellowhammer State’s March 3, 2020 primary election. FarmPAC, as of this point, still has not made an endorsement in the open races in Alabama’s First Congressional District and Second Congressional District. However, one non-incumbent […]

Club for Growth Action, the federal super PAC associated with the Washington, D.C.- based Club for Growth, is set to run a television advertisement opposing Congressman Bradley Byrne’s (AL-01) Republican 2020 U.S. Senate candidacy. According to a source with direct knowledge, the ad, which is already available online here, will first run on TV during […]

Prattville businesswoman Jessica Taylor, a candidate for Alabama’s 2nd congressional district, was endorsed Monday by the Value in Electing Women Political Action Committee (VIEW PAC). According to the organization’s website, View PAC “was founded in 1997 by female Republican Members of Congress and professional women to help elect qualified, viable Republican women to Congress.” The […]

Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), a candidate for U.S. Senate, announced in a press release on Monday that he is signing The Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayers Protection Pledge. The pledge amounts to a public promise that a candidate will never support a net tax increase on the American people while in office. Byrne is the […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D–Mountain Brook) appeared Monday on FM Talk 1065’s “Mobile Mornings” and discussed the ongoing intraparty battle in Alabama’s Democratic party. Jones began the interview by asserting Rep. Chris England (D–Tuscaloosa) was the head of the state party. Both England and longtime party head Nancy Worley have recently been voted by different […]

It has been just over two weeks since qualifying closed in the race for the 2020 GOP U.S. Senate nomination in Alabama, and as expected, President Donald Trump has been a focal point of discussion. Much has been made about former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a late entrant into the race, and his falling […]

After publicly professing his staunch support for keeping secret the whistleblower who initiated the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) raised the stakes by claiming the individual’s life could be at risk “in this day and age.” In an interview with WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show,” Jones advised that the Senate […]

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) has been a very vocal opponent of what President Donald Trump’s supporters have called a “sham,” and now he seems to believe the tide is turning for Republicans. Brooks summed up the hearings during a Friday radio appearance on WVNN by saying, “[T]he Democrats are doing their utmost to use federal […]

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who filed papers Thursday to run for president in 2020 as a Democrat, will spend at least $490,582 on TV advertising in Alabama next week, according to NBC’s Gary Grumbach. The Alabama purchase is part of a nationwide push that includes over $31 million worth of ad time […]

Jessica Taylor has got some game. During a recent trip to Washington, D.C., the GOP candidate for Alabama’s second congressional district race stopped by an outdoor court to play Daily Caller reporter Will Davis in a game of H.O.R.S.E. Except, since they were in D.C., Taylor changed the acronym to S.W.A.M.P. Taylor, who drew national […]

In a video ad released on social media on Friday, former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville takes aim at former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has become synonymous with kneeling during the national anthem. Tuberville, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, tweaked his first ad to produce this latest 60-second […]

Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) appeared on Fox Business Network’s “Trish Regan Primetime” Thursday evening to discuss the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. To Brooks’ mind, the Democrats’ impeachment effort is “about using taxpayer dollars to help fund an opposition research effort that in turn the Democrats believe will help them in the […]

Republican Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) last week said that Hoyt Hutchinson, the man who popped the “Baby Trump” balloon in Tuscaloosa the day of the Alabama-LSU game, deserves a “patriotism medal” for his action — after facing the legal ramifications for it. However, in an interview with Yellowhammer News on Thursday, Hutchinson said that he […]

Former State Rep. Paul DeMarco (R-Homewood) was unanimously elected chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party on Wednesday night, the ALGOP announced in a press release. “I am excited to get to work with our outstanding members and affiliated organizations as we enter the 2020 election cycle. We are committed to campaigning on behalf of […]

JASPER — The Alabama Rural Broadband Coalition (ARBC) announced Thursday morning that a fiber-based high-speed internet network will be installed in 2020 to serve the town of Jasper and the surrounding community. The internet services on the network will be provided by Mississippi-based technology company C Spire. In a first of its kind of partnership, […]

The Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination met in Atlanta on Wednesday night for a debate. Yellowhammer News reached out to the Alabama Senate candidates to find out what they thought of the debate, which mostly focused on ideas that Alabama’s Senate candidates agreed was a threat to conservatism.

In a Washington, D.C. television interview on Wednesday, Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) emphasized his support for the whistleblower who initiated the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Gray’s D.C. bureau asked Jones about impeachment twice in the interview, which lasted almost three and a half minutes in total. While Alabama’s junior senator outlined that it […]

Hoover City Council President Gene Smith on Wednesday announced that he is running against first-term incumbent Mayor Frank Brocato, who is seeking reelection at the helm of Alabama’s sixth-most populated city. Smith made the announcement in a launch video on Facebook. He will hold a campaign launch reception Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. on the first […]

In an email on Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) unveiled exclusive Christmas wrapping paper for those looking to show their support of President Donald Trump as Democratic impeachment proceedings continue in the U.S. House of Representatives. This unique wrapping paper comes in three different variations, which can be viewed at the landing page […]

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Greg Griffin has scheduled the next episode in the ongoing Alabama Democratic Party leadership saga, according to a report by the Montgomery Advertiser. The hearing will reportedly take place on December 5. Nancy Worley, who has served since 2013 as the head of the state party, filed a lawsuit claiming she […]

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday posted an open letter to star University of Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who underwent right hip surgery on Monday after being injured in the Crimson Tide’s game against Mississippi State. In the letter, Woodfin wished Tagovailoa a “speedy recovery” while sharing sage advice on his situation. Saying he was […]