By Max Blau – Graphics by Shane Loeffler – ProPublica By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birminghamâs 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens â which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke â had broken off and tumbled to…
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Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers
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?
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…
Dark Money Group Targets Mo Brooks in Run for Richard Shelby’s U.S. Senate Seat
By Glynn Wilson – Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Huntsville, Alabama, was in on inciting the Capitol insurrection Jan. 6 and we’ve already written that he should be investigated for his role in that. Related: The American Public Deserves the Whole Truth: Will All Those Involved in the Capitol Insurrection Be Held Accountable? In the…
Alabama Senator Doug Jones Still in Contention For Biden’s Cabinet as Attorney General
By Glynn Wilson – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is still in the running to be picked for President-Elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet, in the Department of Justice perhaps as U.S. Attorney General, according to knowledgable sources in Washington. Jones’ three main advantages are his well established record on civil rights, his long standing personal relationship…
Yellowhammer News in Alabama Lies Again, Slams Senator Doug Jones for Votes
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”…
White Supremacy Rises as a Political Factor in West North Carolina Congressional Race: A Microcosm of a Nation Divided
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Strongly Opposes Voting to Replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg This Close to an Election
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama says in no uncertain terms that he does not support voting on a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this close to the 2020 presidential election. “It is a poor reflection of the state of our national politics that, just hours after Justice…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Sponsors Bipartisan Bill to Help Combat Suicide by U.S. Veterans
Staff Report U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama introduced a bipartisan bill on Thursday to help combat suicide among America’s veterans. The bill, which is also cosponsored by Republican Senators Joni Ernst of Iowa and Democrat Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, would designate one week per year as “Buddy Check Week” to organize outreach events…
Senators React to Supreme Court Power Play by Trump and McConnell
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
Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Adjourns the U.S. Senate Past Labor Day With No Coronavirus Relief Deal
Democrats in the Senate Respond – By Glynn Wilson – Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell single-handedly adjourned the United States Senate on Thursday until September 8, the day after Labor Day, without reaching a deal for a new round of coronavirus relief. In response, along with other Democrats in the Senate, U.S. Senator Doug Jones…
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
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,…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Blasts President Trump for Trying to Defund Medicare and Privatize Social Security
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama blasted President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a statement Saturday night in the wake of the president’s signing of executive orders claiming to extend unemployment benefits, in the absence of action in the Senate to provide a second round of stimulus…
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
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…
The Race for Control of the U.S. Senate is On: Alabama’s Doug Jones Now Has an Opponent
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The race for the United States Senate is on now that U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama has an opponent, a former Auburn football coach endorsed by President Donald J. Trump with no experience in politics and government. Related: Alabama Senator Doug Jones Holds the Key to Victory…
Alabama Senator Doug Jones Holds the Key to Victory in 2020 for Democrats in the United States Senate
By Glynn Wilson – As the countdown begins in earnest to see what party runs the country for the next four years, setting the agenda for public policy in Washington and leading America beyond the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession, the hidebound red state of Alabama has a chance to play a surprising role in…
America Torn Asunder: 100,000 Dead, 40 Million Unemployed
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…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Calls on President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to Set a Leadership Example by Wearing Masks
By Glynn Wilson – While members of the Trump administration continue to send mixed signals to people around the country and the world about the novel coronavirus, the amount of testing going on and its economic impacts, at least one moderate Senator from a very conservative state in the Deep South continues to send the…
From the Sock Capital of the World to God’s Country
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…