Former State Senator Phil Williams of Gadsden has become a familiar voice on conservative Rightside Radio.
Since Williams has now been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Rightside Radio is welcoming new leadership and new voices.
Rightside’s ‘changing of the guard’ was announced recently. It will take three leaders and three voices to take the place of Williams:
Allison Sinclair and Amie Beth Shaver, conservative personalities, and Rightside’s Justin JP Plott, as in-studio host.
Allison Sinclair is the founder of LOCAL Alabama, a grassroots organization partnering with community leaders to promote opportunities and solutions to restore freedom, liberty and constitutional values at the local level.
Amie Beth Shaver is a speaker, columnist, and media commentator. She is a former Miss Alabama and a past member of the Alabama Republican Party Executive Committee.
Justin “JP” Plott is the Production Manager for Rightside Media, and Producer for Rightside Radio. JP joined the Rightside team in late 2024 after working at WVNN talk radio in Huntsville, Alabama. He quickly became a top-notch multimedia producer and a voice of young American conservatism.
“As the President of Rightside Media and host of Rightside Radio, the honor of answering the President’s call meant that my time behind the microphone had to come to an end,” Williams said. “But I couldn’t be happier with the outcome.”
Beginning in the first week of November, 2025, Sinclair, Shaver and Plott will take over the daily broadcast. Sinclair and Shaver previously co-hosted the highly regarded “Alabama Unfiltered” broadcast in the Montgomery market.
“Amie Beth and I love speaking truth to power, and mixing our conservative world view with laughter and a bit of mayhem.” Sinclair noted. “We were looking for our next step into conservative broadcasting, and the timing could not have been more perfect. God has truly opened this door, and we are stepping right on in.”
“With a keen, incisive, and often humorous ability to examine world events at the local, state, and national level, both women were top-ranked show hosts in their previous market. Rightside Media, under their leadership will continue to grow its various mediums via radio, podcasting, social media and the written word.”
“Allison and I have been active in our own state and local issues for years.” Shaver said. “The opportunity to take the reins at Rightside is a dream come true. We are truly seeing God expand our territory and give us a chance to engage a much broader audience. This is going to be awesome.”
Said Plott, “The mantra is that we’re ‘solid, conservative, and just plain right!’ and our audience has a great time with commentary and guests that we like to say are designed to educate, enlighten, empower and entertain folks on what it means to be a conservative in today’s crazy world. I look forward to being a part of this next layer of the Rightside mission.”
Based in North Alabama, Rightside Media was originally an adjunct of the Alabama Policy Institute. Beginning as a syndicated live radio broadcast from 2-5 pm weekdays across multiple AM and FM outlets across the state, Rightside Radio quickly gained a strong following with audiences in north Alabama, and parts of Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi.
The listeners refer to themselves as “Rightside Ruffians”.
The company then branched into a series of conservative podcasts in both long and short form, as well as written content published regionally and nationally. The live show is also podcast after each broadcast and currently has well over 360,000 downloads.
“From the moment we formed Rightside Media, the goal was to bring quality conservative input to the general public.” Said Williams, “The live daily show began over four years ago and quickly took off regionally. The growth of Rightside and its message is reaching its next phase now with Allison, Amie Beth and JP. I am so thankful to know that it is in such capable hands. “
“As an everyday event, Rightside Media reminds its listeners of the values of faith, patriotism, personal liberty, a free society, and the benefits of living in the greatest nation on earth.”
Jim Zig Zeigler is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News. His beat includes the positive and colorful about Alabama – her people, events, groups and prominent deaths. He is a former State Auditor and Public Service Commissioner. You can reach him at [email protected]
