7 Things: Ivey pledges smooth handoff to Tuberville, Massie’s Hegseth impeachment fails, House ALGOP keeps supermajority, and more…

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November 11, 2026

7. A new nonprofit Data Centers Work launched to fight misinformation, citing Alabama’s SB270 as the model requiring large data centers to pay full power costs and highlighting Meta’s $1.5 billion Montgomery project plus Lowndes County’s $33 billion campus.

6. State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) called the $98 million ABC warehouse and state liquor system “a boondoggle” and “absolutely absurd,” and is drafting a phased privatization bill for 2027, expecting support from Governor-elect National Champion U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn).

5. Limestone County Sheriff Joshua McLaughlin announced 14 men have been charged with first-degree human trafficking after Operation Fowl Play, saying they “believed they could hide behind a computer screen… They were wrong” and added, “Our children are not for sale.”

4. Independent Jesse Battles was sworn in as state senator for District 10, leading State Sen. Andrew Jones (R-Centre) by 74 votes pending automatic recount and certification; this race highlights how the anti-Republican wave took out lawmakers in red states, Battles, who carried Etowah County on election night and leads by roughly 0.2 percent, said he is “humbled and honored.”

3. Alabama House Republicans kept a 74-31 supermajority under Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainesville) while Democrats flipped the Texas and Georgia Houses; this pairs with a State Senate supermajority where State Sen. Arthur Orr said Tuberville’s legislative agenda can pass if the governor and legislature work “in concert together.”

2. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) failed in his silly impeachment push against War Secretary Pete Hegseth 211-204; with 11 Democrats no-showing, Governor-elect National Champion U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) called it a “disgrace,” saying Hegseth “has done NOTHING that warrants impeachment.”

1. Gov. Kay Ivey pledged a smooth handoff to Governor-elect National Champion U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), calling it “personal” after her own sudden 2017 start, “Under the unusual circumstances when I first became governor, I had three hours to prepare. To ensure Governor-elect Tuberville and his team have a solid transition, it’s personal to me and is of the utmost importance to our state (to ensure an orderly transition).”

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