7. The grandfather of a 16-year-old killed in a Decatur police chase is seeking answers, describing the teen as “just a good kid,” but good kids usually don’t run from cops.

6. President Donald Trump wants an Alabama-based military “reaction force” to stop violence in cities; the unit would include a rotation of National Guard soldiers and airmen who are ready to deploy when needed.

5. Texas Democrats have begun to return to the state after fleeing to obstruct a GOP redistricting effort, but their options remain limited, and they have lost.

4. U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) has announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate and says it is “time to make Washington a little more like Alabama.”

3. Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin has criticized aldotcom and their staff for pushing a false narrative about an ICE arrest; Irwin claims the editor of the outlet believes the reporter learned their lesson, but recent coverage makes that a questionable belief.

2. The FBI has made six arrests in Escambia County as part of an immigration enforcement action; they arrested “dangerous individuals,” including one illegal immigrant with 11 previous entries, others with extensive criminal histories, and multiple DUIs.

1. The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows consumer prices rose 2.7%, below the consensus forecast, so the predicted tariff price increases continue to live in the heads of “experts.”

Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.

President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs were met with the typical media derision, mockery, and prediction of doom.

Fortunately, as usual, the experts have shown that they are more interested in politics than they are in getting things right; the doom and gloom has not materialized.

If Trump is actually able to remake the world order on trade, America and Alabama will benefit greatly.

Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.

U.S. Rep Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) is highlighting the current issues that farmers have navigating federal government regulations.

The Alabama congressman, who sits on the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, spoke about the issues of government red tape during the hearing on “Past Breakthroughs and Future Innovations in Crop Production” Tuesday.

Government red tape leads to 12 years and around $300 million just to get products to growers that will improve their yield and better serve the American people. @HouseAgGOP is trying to get government to work alongside producers instead of riding on their backs. pic.twitter.com/fZ19KAqL9w

— Rep. Barry Moore (@RepBarryMoore) July 22, 2025

Moore asked Terry Abbott, Chairman, Council of Producers and Distributors of Agrotechnology (CPDA), about the issue.

RELATED: Rep. Barry Moore: Thank a farmer, pass the Farm Bill

“You know, Ronald Reagan had a saying, and he said, ‘The government’s idea on the economy is when it’s moving, you tax it. If it keeps moving, you regulate it, fails, you subsidize it.’ And very often we see regulations being a huge problem and inefficiency in government. So with that, Mr. Abbott, you testified that more than a half a billion dollars worth of your members products are currently delayed in EPA regulatory review process, products that include both post patent tools and adjuvants critical for crop protection. Can you explain how this backlog is affecting grower access to proven technologies and what consequences that has on production efficiency and cost?”

“Well, as I mentioned already before, it puts a tremendous strain on the tools that are already out there, right? So we need to have access,” Abbott responded. “Or they need to have access to those tools to from a rotational purpose and to continue to apply the adjuvants that are part of that tank mix as well, and they need to have timely access to those as well.”

Moore then discussed how government regulation has just gotten worse over the year.

RELATED: Barry Moore: ‘The death tax is an unfair double tax on American family farms and small businesses’

“The regulatory environment certainly crippling, and we get that in business. I grew up on a row crop farm…the technology has changed dramatically. I can remember standing in a peanut field…an old span sprayer, where the product was in the tank, and you literally just sprayed it out across the field…I remember my dad and uncle complaining about how expensive that stuff was. I can’t imagine what the they were. Always gripping about cost and farming, and we always are right, but with inflation and the restrictions now that government tends to put on production is certainly harassing.”

The congressman concluded that it’s time for the govenrment to get off the backs of farmers and businesses.

“It’d be nice if government would come alongside instead of right on our backs, sometimes guys,” he said.

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) has said multiple times in the past week that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell should lose his job after the latter decided not to lower interest rates.

The senator hasn’t been happy with the chairman since he announced Wednesday that rates would remain between 4.25% and 4.5%. Tuberville believes interest rates should be lowered because the economy is currently in good shape and inflation has remained steady.

Today’s a great day to fire Jerome Powell.

— Coach Tommy Tuberville (@SenTuberville) June 25, 2025

“Well, he’s playing God, is what he’s doing,” Tuberville said about Powell on Fox Business. “And inflation is low as it has been in months, and by the way, he did lower rates right before the election for Kamala Harris. But, FJP — Fire Jerome Powell.”

FJP: Fire Jerome Powell. pic.twitter.com/2jaT0wv5eV

— Coach Tommy Tuberville (@SenTuberville) June 24, 2025

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) asked Powell in a recent Senate Banking hearing if he would concur that the national economy is trending in a positive manner.

“In terms of the strength of the economy, I would strongly agree,” Powell answered. “The labor market’s in a strong place, the economy’s growing, inflation is in a pretty good place, much closer to 2%, so it’s still a pretty solid economy.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

A national Cygnal poll shows more voters trust Republicans than Democrats in Congress despite negative news coverage surrounding the GOP and President Donald Trump.

Both Trump and House Republicans outpace Democrats on the economy (R+2), cost of living (R+2), illegal immigration (R+25), crime and public safety (R+13), cutting waste/spending (R+18), and foreign affairs (R+2). Married women (8%), union members (10%), and Hispanics (4%) also swung to the GOP since April.

“Right now, voters trust Republicans more on the central issues like inflation and immigration, and the Democrat Party’s brand is at a low point,” Pollster John Rogers said. “It is clear that key voter groups feel like Congressional Democrats aren’t speaking to their priorities. Forty-three percent of swing voters say inflation or government spending and waste should be the top priority for Congress, while only eight percent of swing voters think Congress should be focused on threats to democracy.”

RELATED: Alabama pollster details how younger voters are getting their news

“Democrats aren’t connecting with the average voter. Fighting oligarchy is an abstraction, arguing for open borders is a losing message across the board, and neither addresses inflation and the economy.”

When it comes to the economy, the poll did indicate that voters want the president to start focusing more on lowering prices. Fifty-two percent of voters said President Trump should focus the most on reducing the costs of living. No other issue comes even half as close with cutting wasteful spending reaching 21%, bringing jobs back to America receiving 18%, securing the border coming in at 18%, and deporting dangerous illegals also at 18%.

It also revealed most voters support Trump on trade, with 58% supporting his attempts to renegotiate trade deals with foreign countries, including 63% of swing voters. Additionally, 48% of voters support increasing tariffs on China as a way to force better trading terms for the United States.

The President isn’t just getting support when it comes to trade. Most voter groups are fine with the Trump administration aggressively pressing its case in court, but most voters think the federal courts have a legitimate role to play as umpires in the political arena. Many Americans seem to believe the courts are abusing their power to hurt his administration. Fifty-two percent say the federal courts’ injunctions against the Trump administration represent impartial oversight, while 40% think the courts are trying to undermine the White House.

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) batted down speculation Tuesday that he might run for a potentially-open U.S. Senate seat in 2026 if U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) runs for Governor of Alabama, saying bluntly, “No,” when asked.

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m too old for the Senate,” Palmer told Dale Jackson on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show.”

The Congressman’s broader interview focused on his overall happiness with President Trump’s first 100 days, in which he did admit that the administration’s tariff policy might be hurting him in the polls.

Currently, the administration has implemented a 10% baseline tariff on all countries, which could go up in the future if they don’t work out better trade deals with the U.S. There is also a 145% tariff on Chinese products that are imported into the U.S. right now.

“I’m not crazy about them, but I do think that there’s an opportunity here,” Palmer said about tariffs.

“We just have to see how it plays out. But 32% of the people who voted for Trump, last I checked, said that the economy was their top priority. He got 81%, and among rural voters and farmers he got 78%. So I think it’ll be interesting to follow that that sub group of voters, the people who said the economy was top issue for them, and the rural vote, and I think the tariffs are going to impact that, and if they play out the way President Trump hopes they will. I think he’ll be fine.”

RELATED: ‘Restored Common Sense’: Alabama congressional delegation praises President Trump’s first 100 days

Despite not being a fan of tariffs, the congressman is hopeful that it will result in better trade deals in the near future.

“Well, like I said, I’m not crazy about them, but I think the opportunity here is if we can get agreements with countries like India and Vietnam, Japan, where China starts to realize that we have other options,” he explained. “And I really think the opportunity in this is for US and Europe sit down together and have a very clear headed evaluation of our tax structure and our regulatory structure, because the competition is not between US and Europe, it’s between the West and China. I think there’s opportunities in Latin America to near source a lot of our supply chain, which I think that’s the opportunity Dale is to look for options to secure our supply chain for whatever we need from places other than China. And I think if China sees us doing that, that’s going to change the dynamic.”

Palmer said that if he had the opportunity to suggest a trade plan with the president, he would have argued for a more targeted approach.

“I think, if he had called and asked me… I would have suggested that we take a targeted approach and I would have reached out, starting with some of our allies, very quietly, work out some deals or things that we know we have to have, and got that in place before I put the hammer down on on some of these others like China, for instance. I think that would have helped.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee

In an op-ed published early this morning in Fox News, U.S. Senator Katie Britt addressed the Biden Administration’s failures in relation to inflation and domestic energy production. The Alabama lawmaker also emphasized that she has complete faith in President Donald Trump’s ability and potential to solve many of the issues now presented.

“Since January 2021, over the course of former President Biden’s tumultuous time in the White House, the American people have suffered from very similar conditions to those in the late 1970s,” wrote Britt.”The rate of inflation in 2022 hit a 40-year high, and everyday goods and services, like margarine (56.8% increase), car insurance (47.3% increase), and eggs (40.1% increase), cost significantly more than they did in 2020.”

“The United States has been in embarrassing decline on the international stage over the past four years, with Afghanistan falling in disastrous fashion, Russia invading Ukraine, Iran sponsoring large-scale terrorist attacks that killed American citizens, and Communist China threatening territorial expansion.”

Britt drew a parallel between Trump’s election and that of Ronald Reagan, noting the positive effect that the President is already having on national and global affairs just days into office.

“Just as in 1980, the American people in November elected a Republican to utilize the time-worn principle of peace-through-strength policies that restore credible American deterrence in the face of regimes that would do us harm,” she continued.

“Before even taking office, President Trump has demonstrated he will foster a prosperous economy, a vigorous national defense, and – importantly – unleash the power of American energy, where there’s a laundry list of ways to solve the problems government created over the past four years.”

RELATED: As global imports of Russian liquified natural gas surge, Sen. Katie Britt’s warning becomes reality

The Environmental Protection Agency under Biden, according to Britt, had consistently harmed both domestic energy producers and consumers.

“The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to have confused protecting the environment with punishing productivity. The regulations the current iteration of the EPA has proposed are neither constitutional nor coherent; they run afoul of U.S. Supreme Court rulings and would spell disaster for energy producers and consumers – from families and small businesses to farmers and manufacturers.”

“For example, take the agency’s vehicle emissions standards, effectively a heavy-handed plan to phase out gas-powered automobiles and replace them with electric cars. Those punitive rules set targets for the number of electric models produced in the U.S. as a percentage of all light- and medium-duty vehicles created each year. Those standards, as you might imagine, are the strictest in American history.”

Britt revealed data detailing the EPA’s ill intent and nonsensical regulations relating to electric vehicles and high-methane-emitting oil and gas facilities.

“By 2032, two-thirds of new vehicles would have to be electric,” wrote Britt. “For reference, electric vehicles accounted for just 5.8% of new cars sold in the U.S. in 2022. The Biden-Harris EPA wants to kill the gas-powered car industry.”

“The EPA hasn’t stopped with regulations. It issued a rule this past November to institute a “waste emissions charge” on high-methane-emitting oil and gas facilities as part of the poorly named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The “charge,” a tax by another name, starts at $900 per metric ton of “wasteful” emissions in 2024 before increasing to $1,200 in 2025 and $1,500 in 2026 and beyond.”

“While companies could reduce or even eliminate the penalty through using methane-reduction technology, in doing so they would incur expenses that in some cases would be higher than the tax itself.”

She explained that problems with the tax “do not end with energy producers.”

“The costs will – as always – be passed on to the consumer, meaning energy would be more expensive for all Americans if this provision is allowed to stand. It’ll be bad for Alabama, too: The tax applies to offshore and onshore petroleum and natural gas production, two resources with which our state has been blessed.”

The Senator pointed to two possible nominees on Trump’s cabinet that could be game changers in the production and regulation of domestic energy should they be confirmed.

“I firmly expect President Trump’s EPA pick, former Congressman Lee Zeldin of New York, to work to dismantle the agency’s red tape regime of stifling regulations and inflationary taxes. And he will not be the only one working to reverse the unlawful, unnecessary, and undeniably harmful policies of the Biden administration.

“Doug Burgum, the former North Dakota governor and incoming secretary of the Interior who will also lead the newly formed National Energy Council, will unshackle our country’s pioneering spirit and launch us into a new era of American energy dominance just as he’s done in his home state.”

“The nominees and appointees President Trump has chosen to power energy policy in his new administration demonstrate his commitment to fixing the problems ailing us. President Trump will lead us to morning in America once again, and my colleagues and I are ready to help make it happen.”

Austen Shipley is the News Director for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten

You can rename the Gulf of Mexico and work on lowering inflation at the same time

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) thinks his party could have done a better job at winning some of the U.S. Senate elections this past November.

While the GOP secured a 53 to 47 majority in the 2024 elections, Tuberville said Republicans would have won a larger majority if things we done a little differently.

“We took our eye off the ball … We should have 56, 57 Republican senators,” Tuberville said on “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM. “But things were done the wrong way in a lot of these states. The American people are sick and tired of wondering, ‘If we go vote, is it going to count.’ This will be our last chance. So if we don’t do it the first year or so, it won’t get done.”

The senator named a few close races where Republicans should have been able to secure a victory.

“If you look at the underlying elections — one in Nevada, one in Arizona, one in Michigan, and one in Wisconsin – all four of those were in play for the Republicans right at the end,” he argued. “In fact, two of them were way ahead, and they lost in the last few days.”

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) won against her Republican opponent Eric Hovde by less than 1 percentage point, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) defeated Republican Sam Brown by less than 2 percentage points, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) beat Republican Kari Lake (R-Ariz.) by 50.1 percent to 47.7 percent, and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) won against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) by less than half a percentage point.

Despite the slim majority, Tuberville said he is hopeful about what President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Congress can accomplish in the next couple of years.

“Help is coming. The cavalry is on its way,” he said. “We’ve got somewhere around 40 days when we got to take this country back over. And not President Trump and his administration, but the American taxpayer, they deserve relief…But help’s coming. It’s not going to happen overnight, but we’ve got to get President Trump’s coaching staff, as I would call it, all together, all his nominees together. We’ve got to turn them loose.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

A meeting of the Alabama Public Service Commission held this week in Montgomery will result in a 1.88% reduction in overall retail rates in 2025, thanks to action taken by Alabama Power and the commission, the company reports.

The reduction comes at a time as Alabamians grapple with inflation-driven household expenses. According to the company, Alabama Power has cut its costs by more than $100 million since 2017. The move to lower rates forebodes well for the coming year amid rising costs in the U.S. energy industry.

Alabama Power reports a 204% increase in transformer costs, a 56% rise in power pole prices, and a 134% spike in electrical wire costs over the past five years.

In July, the commission announced a 2.04% rate reduction due to lower fuel costs. This month, the commission announced an additional 3.27% reduction for the same reason.

The commission is also returning $96 million, or a 1.44% reduction, to Alabama Power retail customers in 2025 based on a legal judgment awarded to the company in 2024. These funds will be distributed as bill credits to customers from January to March 2025. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded Alabama Power damages resulting from the federal government’s failure to meet its obligations for the handling of spent nuclear fuel.

A Rate Stabilization and Equalization adjustment of 4.87% was made to account for the rising cost of electricity due to inflation, as well as long-term investments Alabama Power is making in grid resilience and power generation.

Additionally, the commission approved Alabama Power’s request to keep Rate CNP-C flat in 2025, which further lessens the impact of rising costs on customer bills. Rate CNP-C represents compliance costs associated with federal government mandates and environmental regulations.

Electric companies across the nation are dealing with higher cost pressures. Since January 2021, electricity prices in the U.S. have risen 29.4% — 50% more than overall inflation, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Grayson Everett is the state and political editor for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) thinks the strong victory by former President Donald Trump in the Presidential election was a rebuke to the radical left in America.

Trump won the electoral college and popular vote on Tuesday, while his party also regained control of the Senate.

Palmer discussed the election results Friday on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program.”

“Well, I think there’s a simple answer to this, and that is the Democratic Party has become the party of extremes,” Palmer argued. “I mean, they’re the party that thinks it’s okay for men to play women’s sports, to go in women’s restrooms and showers, and that children can be given gender altering drugs without a parent’s knowledge. I mean, [this is] the Democratic Party that thought [it] was a good idea to leave our borders open and have this mass migration that has taken place over the last three years and nine months. And so they’ve become the party of extremes. And this is not a nation of extremists. We’re a center right nation.”

The congressman said Americans want “common sense” governance.

“What you saw with the breaking of the blue wall, the tearing down of the so called blue wall, is that our country, I think, wants common sense government,” he said. “They want national security. They want to get inflation down. They want to go about their lives, make a living, raise their kids and be able to afford to continue to live in this country.”

Palmer explained what he hopes Congress will be able to accomplish if Republicans win back the majority in the U.S. House.

“I think we’re going to pass a boatload of resolutions rolling back regulations. We did that the first time Trump was elected,” he said. “I think the first 14 or 15 bills we passed were all Congressional Review Act bills. We’re going to immediately work with the White House,  with the Trump administration, to secure the border….And we’re going to address energy costs. Energy is the most inflationary commodity in the entire economy. Everything that people use, eat, or consume has an energy cost… And we’re also working to make permanent the tax cuts and Jobs Act, which is set to expire next year. If that were to expire, it would result in about a $4 trillion tax increase over the next 10 years.”

Palmer also said the election was a condemnation of the mainstream media in the country.

“I just think it’s the extremist positions that they took in the rhetoric,” he explained. “You had Kamala and her surrogates out calling Trump Hitler and saying that this was a threat to democracy. There were two assassination attempts on him. And I think so largely because of this insane rhetoric, and people didn’t buy that. You had every major network outside of Fox, every major mainstream media on board with them. It was like free advertising for her, yet you saw a mandate election.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) believes Americans are ready for the change that the new Republican majority will bring to the U.S. Senate next year — a flip that Britt fought hard to make happen.

“America is ready for a change,” Britt said this week. “The want secure borders, they want stable prices, they want a strong defense understanding peace through strength, no new wars like we had under President Trump, and people are ready for common sense policies.”

Republicans were able to win back the majority by flipping three seats red while also retaining their incumbents. Part of that effort included a victory for incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who Britt recently traveled to Texas to campaign for Cruz in the pivotal Houston suburb of Montgomery County.

Introducing Cruz to hundreds of Texans at a rally in Conroe, Britt said, “We want to keep Texas, Texas. And we don’t want America to become San Francisco. So, folks, you have a decision to make. Texas is the last line of defense for our country. We need you now. … Senator Ted Cruz is a fighter. He’s a fighter for our values – the values of faith, family, and freedom.”

In his remarks that followed, Cruz said, “And then to my friend Katie Britt. Let me just say, Katie Britt is a rock star. She is smart, she is talented, she is principled, she is ferocious, and she is doing a phenomenal job representing the great state of Alabama. And I’m grateful that she came all the way to the state of Texas.”

RELATED: Britt to RNC: American opportunity in decline – ‘Just like Joe Biden’

In addition to her stumping for Cruz on the campaign trail, Britt has also helped Texas’ junior senator raise critical reelection funds. Britt this summer held a fundraiser in Birmingham that raised more than $250,000 for Cruz. She also held a separate fundraiser in Birmingham that raised more than $2 million benefiting Republican swing-state Senate candidates, including Bernie Moreno, Tim Sheehy, Dave McCormick, and Mike Rogers.

Britt said the new majority will be “so helpful in ushering in President Trump’s agenda, ushering in his cabinet appointments, really getting to be able to move things if there’s a Supreme Court vacancy among other things.”

Overall, Britt has been at the forefront of Republican Senate fundraising since taking office in January 2023. During the 2024 cycle, Britt has contributed or raised nearly $5 million for Republican Senate incumbents and candidates.

Britt has also financially supported Republican campaign efforts for the White House and the House, including contributions to the campaigns of President Donald Trump and to Trump’s White House political director, Brian Jack, who is running to serve as the next U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District.

“If we’re able to hold the House…that means we can use reconciliation to hit the ground running on day one,” Britt explained. “And look, I think the American people have spoken, they’ve spoken loudly, and they’re going to expect us to actually achieve results and get things done, and I think that’s exactly what you’re going to see.”

RELATED: Britt raises $500k for GOP Senators – ‘It’s time to make Senator Schumer the Minority Leader again’ 

In addition, Britt donated $20,000 to the Mighty Alabama Strike Force, which knocked doors in the crucial swing state of Georgia for Republican candidates. As a Trump-Vance surrogate, Britt headlined a Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition dinner in the Atlanta area in September, after which she traveled on Trump Force Two with Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). Britt previously headlined an Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition dinner as a Trump campaign surrogate earlier this year.

Britt has been a top campaign surrogate for Trump this year, landing a primetime speaking role on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in July and serving as a campaign surrogate in the spin room before and after the Vice Presidential Debate in October.

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) is blasting billionaire Democrat Mark Cuban over a recent comment he made about women and former President Donald Trump. Cuban, who is openly supporting for Vice President Kamala Harris, recently said on “The View” that, “You never see [Trump] around strong, intelligent women ever.”

Palmer reacted to the comments Friday on FM Talk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show.”

“I think the Harris campaign and her acolytes keep screwing up,” Palmer said. “I mean, Biden calling Trump supporters garbage, and then Mark even going on television and saying that Trump doesn’t have strong women around him, and maybe the definition of a strong woman in Mark Cuban’s mind, the Democrats mind, is a transgendered man. I mean, here he is talking about women and supporting a party they can’t define what a woman is, and thinks that men ought to be able to play women’s sports. So, I don’t think that’s working out all that well for him.”

Palmer believes these kind of attacks from Democrats are patronizing to the average American voter.

“Well, it’s also, I think, indicative that they don’t have a very high regard for the average person’s intelligence,” he said. “You know, they’re out there getting 10 year olds to say they that they think Trump’s Hitler. And my guess is they don’t even know who Hitler is, but they’re out there saying this stuff, hoping that that people are so dumb that they’re not going to remember the four years that he was in office.”

RELATED: WSJ: Gary Palmer influential in Trump’s energy policy plans for next administration

Palmer thinks Trump needs to be reelected because of the disastrous record of the Biden-Harris administration.

“In the four years he was in office, Jeff the Trump administration cut regulatory cost by over $200 billion that saved the average household almost $11,000 and and hidden taxes. And that’s what regulations do. They impose a hidden tax on you wherever. I mean, however, on Biden Harris, they impose $2.12 trillion in regulatory costs. That’s almost, that’s a little over $47,000 per American household. It’s hidden in the price of your groceries. It’s hitting the price of your appliances, your power bill, I could go on and on. And people know that they’re struggling to make ends meet because of this.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee

Voters in thirteen South Alabama counties in the 2nd Congressional District will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect the state’s newest representative in Washington D.C. This election is of the utmost importance to all Alabamians.

If the Democrat nominee for the seat, Shomari Figures is victorious instead of Republican Caroleene Dobson, it will not only be a defeat for Alabama values but also a huge factor in the battle for overall control of Congress. Here’s what is at stake:

Every household in America is feeling the impact of rising prices and record inflation. Figures will vote in lockstep with the Democrat’s agenda that has caused record fallout. After all, he worked for the Obama Administration and Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice.

Republican Caroleene Dobson, on the other hand, understands the negative effect of the current economic outlook on middle-class households and will work to reverse the policies that have led to a multi-digit increase in the price of groceries.

Figures grew up as the son of two liberal politicians and joined them in the family business: Democrat politics. To say he is a true believer in the liberal policies that would provide transgender medications to children and restrict the rights of parents is not an understatement.

By comparison, Dobson is a mother of two young children. She was born and raised in rural Alabama and did not grow up at the feet of political royalty. Caroleene is just like the rest of us and understands that we must protect the most vulnerable among us, our children. She also understands that parents should not be excluded from their children’s medical decisions, educational curriculum, or religious teachings.

Many people may believe that because Trump has Alabama locked up Christian Conservatives have no reason to go to the polls on Tuesday. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every conservative Republican in the 2nd Congressional District must go and stand up for our economy, our rights, and our values and vote for Caroleene Dobson on Tuesday. For those of us who do not live in the district but love this state and this nation, it is up to us to reach out to every person we know in South Alabama and encourage them to do what we can’t and vote to send Caroleene Dobson to Congress.

Corey Hill is a small business owner and the Mayor of Douglas, Alabama.

President Joe Biden’s remark describing Trump supporters as “garbage” is being met with a rancid response.

During a telephone rally on Tuesday night, Biden said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump’s] supporters.” Democrats and Republicans alike have condemned the comment and Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to distance herself from his choice of words.

Alabama Congressman Dale Strong says Biden doesn’t have to look far to see real garbage.

“If working Americans wonder how liberal elites view them, look no further than Biden’s comments last night,” U.S. Rep. Strong (R-Monrovia) said.

“I’ll tell you what garbage is: it’s passing spending policies that threw the country into decades-high inflation, giving the drug cartel free rein over our southern border, weaponizing our justice system against its political enemies, and forcing woke ideologies on a silent majority.”

RELATED: Dale Strong: Harris, Mayorkas devastated their own state with illegal immigration – ‘Why would they care what is happening in Alabama?’

Former President Trump compared Biden’s remark to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 “basket of deplorables” comment, which stuck to voters’ minds as they cast their ballots. But, Trump characterized Biden’s words as “worse” than Clinton.

“That didn’t work out. ‘Garbage,’ I think, is worse. But he doesn’t know—you have to please forgive him. Please forgive him,” Trump said at a campaign rally the same night Biden made the comment. “For he not knoweth what he said.”

Exactly one week away from the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Governor Kay Ivey channeled former President Ronald Reagan’s iconic call to action when asked how Alabama would benefit under a potential Trump or Harris administration in Washington.

“My favorite president, President Reagan, once asked the famous question,” Ivey said, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

“If you ask most Americans, they’d say ‘No.’ And it’s also important to remember that we have two campaigns, two folks in the White House that we can compare one with another. And I think for sure: Trump stands out for being successful. He’s had success, prosperity and security.”

Caroleene Dobson and Shomari Figures squared off in the final debate for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District last night hosted by FOX 10 News in conjunction with the Mobile Chamber.

Dobson made the case that she is the true defender of manufacturing and highlighted the massive number of industry jobs that have left the state in a little over two decades.

“I’m running to make life better for Alabama families, and there is no doubt that the manufacturing industries in this district have been suffering over the last four years due to energy policy, due to increased inflation, and part of that is also ensuring that we have to have fair trade,” said Dobson. “Since 2001 Alabama has lost 42,000 manufacturing jobs, so we have to ensure that we have an even playing field for our manufacturers here in Alabama. We also have to acknowledge that we have companies here in Mobile within a few miles of where we’re standing right now, Airbus, also Evonic, that rely on components from foreign countries. So we have to ensure that what’s good for this district is good for the families in this district, and fight for fair trade.”

Figures argued that the difficulty in the manufacturing industry has been caused by the Trump administration.

RELATED: Latest FEC filings show big money battle in Alabama’s 2nd District as Dobson, Figures enter home stretch

“This is one of those issues where we can specifically point to the previous administration,” he said. “The last four years did not cause nearly as much harm as the Trump tariffs did to many businesses, especially in the manufacturing and industrial industries. Those tariffs hurt manufacturers. Those tariffs led to inflation.”

Dobson disagreed.

“What’s hurting manufacturing has been the policies of the fast past four years that have called skyrocketing inflation due to reckless government spending policies that my opponent helped put in place when he was part of the Biden transition team that crushed American energy.”

Dobson also touted her support from Manufacture Alabama, the state’s top organization solely devoted to the manufacturing industry and advocating for its employees.

“That’s why I’ve been endorsed by Manufacture Alabama because they know that I will get American energy back on track,” Dobson said. “I’ll bring down inflation by cutting reckless government spending and help the manufacturing industry in this district.”

Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten

Senator Tommy Tuberville had the opportunity to speak with Alabamians in the forest industry on a multi-stop tour he recently led across the southern portion of the state.

During his travels, the Senator visited a logging site in Monroe County, forest land in Fulton County, Harrigan Lumber Company in Monroeville, Westervelt Lumber in Thomasville, SmartLam North America in Dothan, and Peak Renewables Bioenergy also in Dothan.

https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/1846302381841015215

According to Tuberville (R-Auburn), the majority of conversations were centered on over-regulation, the need for land stewardship and voluntary conservation practices, and also how rising input costs are hurting foresters’ and producers’ bottom lines.

“This week, we’ve been traveling the state where we have over 23 million acres of forestland,” Tuberville, a member of the Senate Agriculture committee, said. “Along the way, we heard about sky-high costs of energy and gas, crippling EPA regulations, and unfair trade deals that are hurting Alabama businesses. Our foresters and Ag producers are some of the best conservationists we have, yet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are trying to regulate them out of business.”

“Under the Biden-Harris administration, it is more difficult for some of our foresters to thrive and contribute to Alabama’s economy. We need to lower inflation, get red tape out of the way, and enter trade deals that put American and Alabama businesses first.”

To make the tour possible, Tuberville and his team worked in partnership with the Alabama Forestry Association and the Alabama Forestry Commission.

Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten

7. Alabama head football coach Kalen DeBoer acknowledged on his radio show that he’s heard fan complaints about wearing a t-shirt during the Vanderbilt game, though he didn’t respond strongly to the criticism. Some fans felt his casual attire lacked decorum, and it will be interesting to see if he adjusts his wardrobe for the upcoming game against South Carolina or if winning makes the non-issue go away.

6. Alabama has launched a website, chooseact.alabama.gov, to help families apply for up to $7,000 in education savings account (ESA) funding through the state’s new CHOOSE Act. The program, starting in the 2025-26 school year, provides financial support for eligible K-12 students to cover tuition, tutoring, and other educational expenses, prioritizing students with special needs and military dependents.

5. Alabama State Rep. Patrick Sellers (D-Birmingham) has pre-filed legislation that would create a “rebuttable presumption” favoring joint custody in Alabama divorce cases, unless evidence shows it is not in the children’s best interest. The bill aims to increase joint custody agreements while allowing judges to consider extenuating circumstances such as abuse or parental cooperation. Sellers said, “I have no doubt that judges in Alabama go into divorce cases with the best interest of the child in mind, but I think they should be required to consider joint custody unless there are extenuating circumstances.”

Several Republican leaders in Alabama are pointing figures at the Biden-Harris administration after the latest inflation numbers were released this week.

According to the latest report from the U.S. Labor Department, the consumer price index increased a seasonally adjusted 0.2% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate higher than expected at 2.4%.

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Auburn) said the latest numbers reveal that the economic policies of the administration have been a failure.

“Americans’ real average weekly earnings decreased once again in September,” Britt said. “Since the Biden-Harris Admin took office, prices have now increased 21.8% for Alabamians. That’s already cost the average household in our state $26,121.”

https://x.com/SenKatieBritt/status/1844398090054402263

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said in the release that most of the increase in inflation came from a 0.4% jump in food prices and a 0.2% gain in shelter costs. U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) said Vice President Kamala Harris still has no plan to lower these prices.

RELATED: Rep. Jerry Carl: The Inflation Reduction Act and Kamalanomics

“Kamala Harris when asked how she will bring down prices: “Prices are still too high, and I know that. And we need to deal with it, which is why part of my plan—you mentioned groceries—part of my plan is what we must do to bring down the price of groceries.” Groceries are expensive, but word salad remains cheap,” Aderholt said.

https://x.com/CongAderholt/status/1843722285666185607

Republican candidate for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District also used the latest numbers to blast her Democratic opponent Shomari Figures during their debate on Thursday.

“People are struggling with the high cost of groceries and runaway inflation that Shomari Figures and his D.C. buddies have created,” Dobson said. “We need change in Washington, and my opponent represents the failed policies of the last four years. I am that change.”

https://x.com/DobsonForAL/status/1844425124742824003

Beyond the increase in inflation, the report also showed unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 258,000 for the week ending Oct. 5, the highest total since Aug. 5, 2023.

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went on strike at midnight last night, halting operations at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts from Maine to Texas. The Alabama Port Authority, which oversees the Port of Mobile, is one of the many impacted.

The strike is the first major labor action by the ILA since 1977. The union’s opening offer is a 77% pay raise to make up for inflation, the Associated Press reports.

“The ILA is fighting for respect, appreciation, and fairness in a world in which corporations are dead set on replacing hardworking people with automation,” Mobile ILA President Mark Bass told WKRG 5.

With approximately 900 ILA members at the Port of Mobile, the strike’s impact is being felt close to home as operations come to a standstill — and the repercussions could be severe.

In Alabama alone, the daily cost of containers idling due to the strike is estimated at $10 million. Nationwide, these costs reach $500 million per day. Each day a ship sits at anchor costs between $80,000 and $120,000. The ultimate burden of these costs will likely fall on consumers, Axios reports.

More than half of the nation’s containerized cargo — 56% — moves through East and Gulf Coast ports. West Coast ports will be unable to absorb the sudden surge and disruptions could cause supply chain backups until mid-November if the strike lasts just one week.

A two-week strike could take until 2025 for normal operations to resume.

Grayson Everett is the state and political editor for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270

The Republican Party has long been accused of being ineffective by the media and the other side of the aisle. Despite calling out the crisis at our southern border from the beginning and passing effective legislation for border security, this Administration and Democratic lawmakers have only enabled waves of illegals crossing into our country.

On top of failures at the border, we cannot forget Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ responsibility in the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. House Republicans are addressing the Democrats’ laundry list of failures and America last policies by holding all parties accountable for their actions. 

Democrats’ woke agenda has led to cities full of illegal immigrants receiving free healthcare, housing, and debit cards. Last week, House Republicans passed H.R. 5717, the No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act, which stops any tax dollars from going to cities, counties, and states that provide benefits to illegal immigrants. My Republican colleagues and I understand that Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars should not be handed out to illegal immigrants by Far-Left, open-border-loving politicians.

Despite this bill being commonsense, 186 Democrats voted against it. That’s 186 Democrats putting Americans last.  

With Kamala’s green light, illegal immigrants walk over our border into American communities, receive free benefits and services in sanctuary cities, and committ crimes across our country. My Republican colleagues and I are standing up to these backward policies and passed the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, which makes any illegal alien who commits violent offenses against women a deportable offense.

Not only should illegal migrants not be residing in the United States, but they should be removed for committing violent crimes. Again, over 150 Democrats voted against this bill. 

This week, my House Republican colleagues and I will be holding the Biden-Harris Administration accountable for their disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers are on their hands, and Biden and Harris must be held responsible for their reckless, fatal actions. They ignored serious security concerns resulting in arming the Taliban with our highly advanced artillery. My Republican colleagues and I are taking action because senior officials in the Administration have yet to truly be held accountable. 

The accumulation of Democrat failures and woke policies has put Americans in the position we are in today. Cities simply cannot keep up with the rising rates of migrants and crime, and Americans cannot afford to fund the lives of illegal migrants or face the brunt of migrant-related violence. From all fronts, House Republicans are holding the Biden-Harris Administration and Democrats accountable for their disastrous policies and actions. I will not stop fighting to put the American people first and hold all parties accountable. 

Jerry Carl represents Alabama’s First Congressional District. He lives in Mobile with his wife Tina.

Alabama Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Reed is no fan of Democrat presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. This time, Sen. Reed highlighted California’s “Dream for All” plan, which would offer home loans to illegal immigrants – as one of the many reasons Americans are leaving “liberal states like California” to move to Alabama and states across the Southeast.

“Not only has [Kamala Harris] refused to take any action to curb illegal immigration at our southern border, her home state is openly incentivizing it,” Reed (R-Jasper) said. “No wonder Americans are fleeing radically liberal states like California to come to places like Alabama.”

https://x.com/SenatorGregReed/status/1828117770514616639

Reed was reacting to a report on the “California Dream for All” plan that would approve $150K loans for illegal immigrants to help purchase homes. The California Legislature is expected to vote on the plan this week, although Gov. Gavin Newsom has not said if he will sign the bill into law.

The data also supports Reed’s argument that many people are moving to Alabama from California. According to data released in July by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the state of Alabama gained tens of thousands of net residents and hundreds of millions of dollars in adjusted gross income (AGI) in 2022. The report revealed that California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey were all among the top five states for outbound migration.

Reed has been very critical of Harris in recent weeks as she continues her campaign for President in the race against former President Donald Trump. Last week Reed blasted her over the rising costs of groceries.

“Americans are struggling each day to afford groceries, pay for their housing, and budget for other daily basic needs,” he said. “[Kamala Harris] has failed to mention how she will address this problem for Americans because she doesn’t have a plan for it!”

https://x.com/SenatorGregReed/status/1827014670361805260

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” Weekdays 9-11am on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee