7. The Justice Department announced three arrests in Alabama as part of a national crackdown that charged 16 people with illegal voting, fraudulent registration, and related crimes.

6. Democrats insist on declaring U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is above the law and reproach after federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched her Washington, D.C., home, with the Department of Justice saying the raid was “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”

5. Republican Secretary of State nominee Caroleene Dobson is laying out how  U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) “routinely voted against the most basic ballot box protections,” including opposition to the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to register, warning that he and allies “would subject Alabama and the rest of the nation to fraudulent ballot harvesting, rampant election fraud, and allowing illegal immigrants to register to vote,” additionally, Figures registered to vote in east Montgomery after the district no longer includes his Mobile home, yet his wife remains registered in Mobile and cast an absentee ballot there, meaning she will not vote for him in November.

4. Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District race between U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) and State Rep. Rhett Marques (R-Enterprise) is widely seen as competitive after redistricting turned a Black-opportunity seat into a whiter, more rural district that Trump carried by roughly 14 points, with Auburn professor Joseph Aistrup saying, “It is a huge imperative for Figures to get Black voters to turn out in very high numbers,” and Sabato’s Crystal Ball rates it “lean” Republican.

3. Failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate and election denier Stacey Abrams, at a Huntsville rally for Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit, who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person, who will never be governor, attorney general, or U.S. Senator again, loves crushing ice cream sandwiches, and is definitely maybe a furry, warned that if Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is elected, “data centers try to take over Alabama,” while urging voters to “take our power back” after saying  Republicans have controlled the state since 2003, which is not true.

2. Democrat transgender House District 96 candidate Terri Osborne responded to Alabama Republican Party Chairman Scott Stadthagen’s description of two transgender candidates as “men who have mental disorders” by saying, “Being transgender is not a mental illness,” and “I have letters from mental health professionals stating that I am of sound mind,” while in a totally unrelated and separate case, 18-year-old Levi Clifton Belcher, who identifies as a “white transgender female,” was arrested in Huntsville after posting “I’d gun down an ICE agent on sight” and “Trans people should all be picking up arms now,” and was charged with possession of an unregistered NFA weapon and interstate transmission of threatening communications.

1. Alabama Republican Party Chairman Scott Stadthagen (R-Hartselle) warned that “Democrats are more fired up than they ever have been,” noting May 19 Republican primary turnout fell about 25 percent from 2022 while Democratic ballots nearly tripled in Madison, Mobile, and Tuscaloosa counties, and a recent report identified eight GOP-held legislative seats, mostly in Huntsville suburbs and Over the Mountain areas, where a national Democratic wave could first hit, including open Senate District 2 where Trump’s margin fell to 1.5 points and lean-Democrat voters outnumber lean-Republicans 24,401 to 14,410 among reliable voters.

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