BIRMINGHAM — Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, the Democrat mayor of South Bend, Indiana, met with community leaders in Birmingham on Wednesday morning during a discussion which was moderated by Richard Rice, an attorney in Birmingham with ties to Mayor Randall Woodfin. The Democratic presidential candidate emphasized his support for raising the minimum wage to $15, […]

The United States Supreme Court this week heard its first major Second Amendment rights case in almost a decade. As previously reported by Yellowhammer News, the case, N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, will determine if the state of New York’s ban on transporting a handgun to a home […]

Wiregrass businessman Jeff Coleman has released another television ad in the Republican primary to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02). Coleman, a former chairman of the Business Council of Alabama (BCA), this week announced his campaign is going up on TV with its second ad of the cycle already. No other candidate in the […]

Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) on Tuesday released the first television ad for his 2020 Republican U.S. Senate campaign. The ad, set on Byrne’s family farm, emphasizes his deep Alabama roots, core values and record of voting with President Donald Trump about 97% of the time over the course of his career. The Byrne farm in […]

In a new video ad posted Sunday on social media, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore vaguely blames “Washington insiders” for his 2020 U.S. Senate campaign polling in fourth place. In the 30-second ad, Moore says, “The same Washington insiders who don’t like President Trump are trying to stop our campaign. They just […]

In suspending his 2020 GOP campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sunday effective immediately, Secretary of State John Merrill made it clear what his main goal is: to see a Republican defeat Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in November 2020. In a statement to Yellowhammer News, Merrill outlined, “I have spoken to tens of thousands of […]

Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senate field will officially have one less candidate. Early Sunday afternoon, Yellowhammer News learned Secretary of State John Merrill would withdraw his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat up in 2020. In a statement provided to Yellowhammer, Merrill confirmed and explained his decision.

Winning for Women, an organization that supports conservative women leaders across the country, on Wednesday announced their endorsement of Prattville businesswoman and attorney Jessica Taylor, a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Alabama’s Second Congressional District. This comes after Value in Electing Women Political Action Committee (View PAC), an organization “founded in 1997 […]

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 […]