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The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) revealed on Thursday that there were marked improvements across several benchmarks in the 2025 school year compared to 2024.

Katherine Robertson has picked up an endorsement from Club For Growth, the nationwide conservative advocacy group, less than a week away from the Republican primary.

Governor Kay Ivey announced on Thursday that the state capital would host a summer kickoff event to mark the beginning of the season and honor the United States' 250th birthday.

An attack from Derek Chen, a political newcomer and challenger for the state’s auditor position, recently garnered a fierce response from the incumbent Andrew Sorrell ahead of the May 19 primary.

The Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) is hosting a prayer event on the steps of ALGOP headquarters ahead of the May 19 primary election.

The left-leaning group MoveOn(dot)org has launched a petition challenging state and federal actions taken against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

Democrats and voting rights activists across the nation are trying to organize a protest in Selma and Montgomery, opposing the recent series of events that have allowed for the possibility of Republicans regaining a congressional seat.

Hampton Harris, a Republican candidate for Alabama's Congressional District 2 (CD-2), recently reaffirmed his pursuit of the seat in light of the last-minute voting map shakeup.

Governor Kay Ivey officially announced that the state would hold a special election for a handful of congressional seats, a path paved by the Alabama Legislature last week.

In the ongoing drama surrounding Alabama’s efforts to use maps that the federal courts previously banned, Democrats and left-leaning activists have continually levied the accusation of racism against the Republican supermajority legislature.

Things have heated up in the race for the Republican nomination for Alabama's House District 85 (HD85), as campaign literature continues to flood mailboxes in the lead-up to the May 19 primary.

State Rep. Russell Bedsole (R-Alabaster) recently came out in firm condemnation of the antics of his Democratic counterparts’ involvement in antics that saw Democratic lawmakers side with protesters who were clashing with police and security.

The weekend following last week’s very contentious special session was filled with a bevy of accusations against House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville), based on a highly exaggerated interpretation of a comment he made following state action related to voting maps.

Friday was a highly emotional and tense day in the Alabama House of Representatives, after lawmakers passed legislation allowing the use of currently court-barred maps in a special election if courts remove the injunctions.

After lawmakers advanced two pieces of legislation that would compel a special election in specific congressional and State Senate districts, all eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court to see if the state wasted time and money in this recent special session.

House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) is optimistic that Republicans could win all seven of the state’s seats in Congress, after the legislature paved the way for the state to use a congressional map that federal courts have blocked for years.

After lawmakers adjourned for the final day of the special legislative session, the Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) swiftly applauded lawmakers' and state leaders' efforts to possibly allow a special election using the currently court-banned district maps.

Democratic members of the House of Representatives wrestled with law enforcement and security staff in the gallery of the House of Representatives as protestors began chanting and causing a disruption in Friday's special session proceedings.

Democratic leadership continues to accuse Republican lawmakers in the state of being furtive with their true motivations, which include a stifling of black votes and seizing total control of the state’s seven congressional seats.

ProgressPAC, a political arm of the Business Council of Alabama (BCA), has recently had to broadcast a retraction for an attack on Mo Brooks, walking back accusations that the former Congressman was guilty of “insider stock trading.”

The Alabama Legislature is one day away from concluding the special legislative session and granting a possible electoral advantage to Republicans in the state after advancing legislation that would force the state to use currently-blocked electoral maps should federal courts act.

In response to calls from her opponent in the race for state attorney general to retract previous attack ads, Katherine Robertson recently released another ad attacking Jay Mitchell for a ruling he made on the Alabama Supreme Court.

The special session on Alabama's congressional map has been marked by a peculiar silence from Republicans while Democrats continue to voice strong opposition.

The Alabama House of Representatives was especially testy on Wednesday morning as lawmakers voted to invoke cloture during deliberations on a bill that would allow the state to utilize district maps it is currently federally enjoined from using.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) popped up in Montgomery on Tuesday morning, alongside Democratic state lawmakers, to bemoan the legislature's current efforts to clear a path for using congressional maps in the 2026 election cycle that have thus far been blocked in federal court.

Members of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee approved legislation introduced during the specially called legislative session on Tuesday that would require the state to hold a special election using a 2023 congressional map currently blocked by a federal court.

Minutes after the Alabama House of Representatives adjourned for the first day of the recently called special session to address the state’s congressional map, House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) spoke about his expectations moving forward and addressed speculation surrounding the legislature’s actions.