By Glynn Wilson – Students across the country walked out in a symbolic protest on Wednesday to focus the nation’s attention on gun violence one month after a gunman killed 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students in a number of schools across Alabama participated in the protest. When asked…
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Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox Campaigns for Governor in Mobile and Baldwin County
By Glynn Wilson – DAPHNE, Ala. — The “unwavering hero” of the massive tornado that struck Tuscaloosa in 2011, Walter Maddox, at 45, may be the early front runner in a crowded field of candidates for governor of Alabama. On a campaign swing through Baldwin County and Mobile Thursday night, the Tuscaloosa mayor said why…
Still Unrepentant for Grievous Sins, Former Judge Roy Moore Appeals to Christians for Money
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It is unclear why the national press should care now, other than the fact that the story is a bit of traffic driving sensational tabloid clickbait, yet a story is making the rounds on Twitter this morning quoting former Ten Commandments judge and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore…
Senator Doug Jones Urges People in Alabama to Keep the Movement Going
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — His history changing campaign for the United States Senate was a state and national “turning point” and a “watershed,” Senator Doug Jones said to a packed house of supporters on Southside Sunday who came out to celebrate his victory with hot dogs, barbecue and beer. “We were on…
Chris Christie Runs for Attorney General to Make Alabama Great in Government, Not Just Football
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nothing gets the people of Alabama fired up like football. It’s even been called the state religion. But in the best piece of journalism ever published on the subject, Rick Bragg debunked that notion a few years back in Sports Illustrated. “They say college football is religion in…
Democrats Qualify in Statewide Races Hoping for a ‘Blue Wave’ in 2018 Midterm Elections
By Glynn Wilson – When Birmingham attorney Doug Jones tossed his hat into the ring as a Democrat to run for the United States Senate last year and ended up beating the radical, right-wing conservative Republican former judge and alleged teen sexual molester Roy Moore in December, Democrats all over the state and country saw…
Gutting the EPA Confirms Trump’s Damning ‘Alabamafication’ of America
ANALYSIS By Glynn Wilson – President Trump needs a new slogan. Instead of declaring that he wants to “make America great again,” if he was an honest man he would say instead: “Let’s make America more like Alabama.” That’s what’s going on as his administration guts the Environmental Protection Agency. If it was possible to…
President Trump, Senate Republicans Fail to Make a Deal: U.S. Government to Shut Down
#Trumpshutdown By Glynn Wilson – One year to the day after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president of the United States on a promise to “make America great again,” he proved to be a failure as a deal maker and only made the governing crisis in Washington, D.C. worse. Republicans and Democrats proposed…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Hits the Ground Running in Washington
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The newest member of the United States Senate, Democrat Doug Jones of Alabama, is hitting the ground running in Washington, D.C., already sponsoring more legislation than his Republican counterparts in just his first month in office. On Tuesday, Jones announced that he will co-sponsor legislation to repeal the…
Alabama Democrat Doug Jones Sworn in as U.S. Senator
By Glynn Wilson – Birmingham attorney Doug Jones kicked off the new year by making history on Wednesday, being sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence as the first Democrat in the United States Senate from Alabama in a quarter century. He reclaimed the seat long held by his mentor, Howell Heflin, narrowing the Republican…
Election of Doug Jones as Alabama’s New U.S. Senator Certified in Montgomery
By Glynn Wilson – The election of Birmingham attorney Doug Jones as the next U.S. Senator from Alabama was certified in Montgomery Thursday at 1:10 p.m. by unanimous vote of the State Canvassing Board in spite of a last minute lawsuit to try to stop it by Roy Moore. The board, consisting of Gov. Kay…
Doug Jones Not Waiting on Roy Moore to Concede U.S. Senate Election
Doug Jones Wins Historic Senate Election Over Defiant Judge Roy Moore
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Doug Jones and his supporters in Alabama pulled off a historic election victory Dec. 12 that sent reverberations around the political world in a reprimand to President Donald J. Trump, a repudiation of Roy Moore’s style of racist-religious politics, and a major blow to Steve Bannon of Breitbart…
One More Day: Doug Jones Opens 10 Point Lead Over Roy Moore
One Week to Go: Doug Jones Takes Off the Gloves and Comes After Roy Moore in U.S. Senate Campaign
Meanwhile Breitbart ‘Fake’ News Millionaire Steve Bannon Joins Roy Moore at Tea Party Rally in Fairhope – Editor’s Note: We wanted to present both of these events with seven days to go in the campaign side-by-side, just in case there are readers out there who are still undecided and want to compare and contrast these…
Trump is Running Scared: Doug Jones Could Be Key Vote on Senate Judiciary Committee in His Impeachment Trial
Ten Days to Go: Doug Jones Pulls Ahead of Roy Moore in U.S. Senate Race
Editor’s Note: New American Journal editor and publisher Glynn Wilson is an expert at analyzing public opinion data having studied survey research at the University of Alabama as an undergrad in the early 1980s and a grad student in the mid-1990s. He has covered public opinion and politics as a specialty for newspapers, wire services…
Southern Baptists Embrace the Senate Candidacy of Former Judge Roy Moore
By Glynn Wilson – Editor’s Note: Wilson is a native citizen of Alabama, who grew up a Baptist, but got a college education and has more than 35 years of experience as a journalist, operating under the free speech and press clauses of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. THEODORE, Ala. — Roy…
Gadsden Alabama Unfairly Targeted by National Media in Roy Moore Sex Scandal
Roy Moore’s Wife Kayla Not So ‘Pure’ – By Glynn Wilson – A national storm cascades down upon the town of Gadsden in the northeastern part of Alabama like nothing seen here perhaps since President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. A social misfit from Etowah County named Roy Moore has landed…