Southern Politics

The Tragedy of North Birmingham, Alabama

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By Max Blau – Graphics by Shane Loeffler – ProPublica By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens — which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke — had broken off and tumbled to…

Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers

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By Isaac Arnsdorf and Derek Willis – Republished from ProPublica – Two of the leading Republican firebrands in Congress touted big fundraising hauls as a show of grassroots support for their high-profile stands against accepting the 2020 election results. But new financial disclosures show that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.,…

Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks Compared Biden’s Election to the Start of the Civil War: Now He Wants a Senate Seat?

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Editor’s Note: Originally published by ProPublica. Republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license, with a few minor editorial changes to reflect his official announcement in Huntsville on Monday. By Isaac Arnsdorf Mo Brooks, the Alabama congressman who just launched a campaign for United States Senate, has officially said he condemns the Capitol riot…

Yellowhammer News in Alabama Lies Again, Slams Senator Doug Jones for Votes

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By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The biased, right-wing conservative Republican fake news site Yellowhammer, considered the Breitbart News of Alabama, is lying about what’s going on in Washington again, slamming U.S. Senator Doug Jones with two weeks to go before the election simply for standing up for “the people”…

Senators React to Supreme Court Power Play by Trump and McConnell

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By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and other Senators returned to Washington this week to face a power play by President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the Supreme Court seat left open by last week’s death of popular liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 87. “I’m saddened…

The Flood of Outside Money Threatens to Taint Democracy in Alabama

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“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.” – Theodore H. White By Glynn Wilson – “Politics and money go together like whiskey and cocaine,” a Republican friend of mine used to say. “You can do one without the other, but it’s not quite the same.” I could get…

President Trump Makes No Secret of Conspiracy to Gut Mail Voting: Senators Urge USPS to Fix Delays and Avoid Cost Increases Ahead of November Election

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By Glynn Wilson – A group of United States Senators, including Doug Jones of Alabama, is urging President Donald Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to provide answers regarding reports of recent changes to long-standing practices at the U.S. Postal Service, changes that would result in increased delivery times and costs for election mail,…

Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Leads Call for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to Bring the Senate Back to Work to Reach Bipartisan Deal on Coronavirus Economic Relief

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By Glynn Wilson – The deadly, novel coronavirus is still spreading across the land. The number of reported deaths from COVID-19 are still going up. The economy is stalling again, and millions of Americans just exhausted their federally subsidized unemployment benefits. The House is still in session in Washington, D.C. working on a new economic…

America Torn Asunder: 100,000 Dead, 40 Million Unemployed

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Instead of Coming Together to Fight for Survival, Our Cities Are Divided and Wracked by Violence- By Glynn Wilson – One hundred thousand Americans are dead due the novel coronavirus, likely spawned in on outhouse full of human DNA and animal waste at or near a wet meat market in Wuhan, China, where animal-to-human transmission…

From the Sock Capital of the World to God’s Country

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By Glynn Wilson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — For nearly half a century, Dekalb County in the mountainous northeastern region of Alabama along the Georgia line really was the sock capital of the world. It wasn’t just a slogan like some places have, where the chamber of commerce makes something up and struggles to make…