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August 13, 2025 - HOOVER, AL – The Alabama Republican Party applauds President Donald J. Trump for appointing three exceptional judicial nominees to federal court positions in Alabama. Each nominee brings a wealth of legal experience, a proven record of integrity, and a strong commitment to the Constitution. The nominees-Justice Bill Lewis, Edmund "Eddie" LaCour, and Harold "Hal" Mooty-were recommended to the White House by Alabama's U.S. Senators Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville after careful c...
August 12, 2025 - CULLMAN, AL - Voters in portions of Cullman County went to the polls today for the Special Republican Primary Runoff in Alabama House District 12 and voted to elect Cindy Myrex as the Republlican choice to lead HD12 going forward. 100% of precincts are reporting. Clint Hollingsworth: received 2,160 votes, 41.47%; while Cindy Myrex received 3,048 votes, 58.53%. Myrex had almost won without a runoff four weeks ago so Tuesday's results were not unexpected. Lee Haynes, president...
August 11, 2025 – Tuscaloosa, AL - Coach Kalen DeBoet has named redshirt Junior Ty Simpson the starting quarterback ending an eight month quarterback competition. Simpson was the experienced backup. Simpson was named QB1 for the opening game against Florida State. Critics of Simpson question if he has the arm strength to push the ball down the field. They also question his athleticism and ability to take the ball and run it for more than a minimal gain. Supporters of Simpson point out that t...
On Monday, August 11 the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham held their Annual Memorial Mass and Reception to honor the life of Father James E. Coyle. The 104th Memorial Mass is held each year at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Birmingham, Alabama. The 104th Memorial Mass was celebrated by Bishop Steven J. Raica. Father Coyle was murdered in broad daylight in Birmingham by a Ku Klux Klan member on August 11, 1921. The KKK was then at the ascendancy of their power in Alabama, so they hired famed...
August 12, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who is running for U.S. Senate in 2026, has joined a coalition of 23 states challenging what they describe as a "radical and potentially unlawful" effort to impose net-zero carbon emission standards on American industries-including agriculture. In a letter led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, Marshall and his counterparts are demanding answers from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a global climate...
On August 7, 2025, a three-judge panel from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama unanimously ruled that the state must continue using a congressional map created by a court-appointed special master. This map, implemented for the 2024 elections, includes two racially gerrymandered districts where Black voters get to decide there congressional representation -an outcome the court claimed was necessary under the 60-year-old Voting Rights Act of 1965. The panel-comprising...
State Senate candidate Amy Minton recently joined the Heart of Dixie Podcast with Brandon Moseley and Harry Still III to talk about her campaign. Minton is a member of the Alabama Public Library Board, a member of the Alabama Republican State Executive Committee, and she is the Vice Chairman of the Etowah County Republican Party. Minton is a wife and mother. She lives in Rainbow City. Minton is running for Senate District 10 challenging incumbent Senator Andrew Jones (R-Centre). "One of the...
August 3, 2025 – NASHVILLE, TN. - The 2025 Young Republican National Convention was held July 30 to August 3 at the Sheraton Music City. The event drew hundreds of energized delegates from across the country for a weekend of networking, training, and high-stakes leadership elections. The convention included a sizable contingent from Alabama led by Alabama YR Federation Chair Stephanie Petelos Nabavian. "The Young Republicans will continue to lead the charge on the ground to make gains for R...
Matthew 24:6-13 NIV 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains. 9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith a...
Chad "Chig" Martin is running for Governor of Alabama in the Democratic Primary. Martin recently joined the Brandon and Christopher Show podcast to speak at length about his chances in the Alabama gubernatorial race and how a Martin administration would bring change for Alabama after ten years of Governor Kay Ivey (R). Probably the biggest area where Martin would be different would be in marijuana policy, "I am going to free the weed up in Alabama," said Martin explaining how he supported...
August 7, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) celebrated the accomplishments of his friend and political mentor President Donald J. Trump (R) in the first 200 days of his second term. "Here's what 200 days of WINNING looks like:" Tuberville said on his X social media account. "– Securing the border. – Kicking men OUT of women's sports. – Permanently extending the largest middle-class tax cut in history. – Unleashing American energy production. – Bringing Amer...
July 31, 2025 – RUSSELL COUNTY, AL - The state of Alabama has ordered the closure of a livestock processing facility in Russell County, citing regulatory noncompliance and public health concerns. The processor, located in Seale and known as The Russell County Butchery, had served as a USDA-inspected site for beef, pork, goat, and sheep processing since its founding in 2022. The backlash to the closure has reached all the way to the Governor's race. 2026 Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken M...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken McFeeters recently joined the Heart of Dixe Podcast to discuss his campaign for governor and the issues that he feels are confronting the state of Alabama moving forward. "There's three things that I'm really concerned with running for governor. It's farming, education, education, and medicine," McFeeters said. "Farming is the only way we can have independence." McFeeters discussed how he is concerned that Alabama has become reliant on other states for...
Blount County District Attorney and Republican candidate for Attorney General Pamela Casey recently joined the Heart of Dixie Podcast with cohosts Brandon Moseley and Harry Still III. Casey was recently awarded the District Attorney of the Year award from the Alabama Association of District Attorneys.' "I used to kid that that I would never get that award and then I got it," said Casey. "I think it just goes back to a lot of work we've put in in our office prosecuting child sex crimes and...
July 25, 2025 – RAINBOW CITY, AL – Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry spoke to the Etowah County Republican breakfast about his campaign for Public Service Commission. Gentry is retiring from law enforcement and is seeking a new challenge. "I am a Marine veteran and three-time Sheriff," said Gentry. "I am running for the Public Service Commission Place 1." Gentry has been married to his wife Suzie for 22 years. "Our deputies were involved in a shooting this morning," said Gentry. "I would ask...
August 6, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama Republican Party has held a commanding supermajority in both Houses of the Alabama Legislature since the red wave election of 2010, which ended 135 years of Democratic Party domination of the Alabama House and Senate. The 2026 election is still 15 months away; but there has been no sign that Democrats are mounting a credible challenge to the GOP's commanding supermajority in recent campaign finance reports detailing the efforts of the two parties i...
July 16, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) has raised over $406,000 in the first month of his 2026 U.S. Senate campaign – more than both of his GOP rivals combined according to his FEC filing. Marshall has raised $391,318 from individual contributions. He also raised $15,000 from three PACs. Marshall reports $23,364 in total spending, with $13,364 going towards his campaign's operating expenses. Marshall's campaign emphasized that 87% of his donations came...
July 17, 2025 – CULLMAN, AL – In House District 12 third place finisher Heather Doyle has endorsed first place finisher Cindy Myrex in the special Republican primary runoff against Clint Hollingsworth. Myrex finished just a handful of votes shy of winning the HD12 GOP primary outright on Tuesday. Heather Doyle received 150 votes - 3.51%. Hollingsworth had 1,848 votes - 43.24%. Dan McWhorter received 147 votes - 3.44%. Cindy Myrex got 2,090 votes - 49.81%. Heather Doyle's campaign released the...
July 15, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Armed Services Committee passed a bipartisan version of H.R. 3838, the Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26 SPEED and NDAA). Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks) is the chairman of the committee. He released a statement praising the bipartisan vote. or decades, American deterrence has protected our homeland and been a powerful force for peace," said Chairman R...
June 19, 2025 – Lieutenant Governor candidate Dean Odle joined the Heart of Dixie Podcast with Brandon Moseley and Harry Still III to discuss his campaign for the Republican nomination for Alabama Lieutenant Governor and other topics. Odle is a pastor and school master in Lee County. He has garnered a lot of publicity in this race. We asked him about his biblical views from which he bases his alternative takes on subjects like astronomy, history, and astrophysics. "There is figurative and s...
June 28, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - Beginning on Tuesday psychoactive hemp products will become heavily regulated by the state of Alabama. July 1 is the date that House Bill 445 goes into effect. Chey Garrigan is the founder and President of the Alabama Cannabis Industry Association. She joined the Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast. HB445 taxes and regulates psychoactive cannabinoids derived from hemp – which had previously has been an entirely unregulated market since its legalization by Con...
July 17, 2025 - U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) has been an outspoken critic of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Tuberville wrote a column in the Daily Caller in which he outlined his concern with Powell's refusal to lower interest rates. Tuberville believe this decision is hurting hardworking American families. "After four years of disastrous open-border policies, skyrocketing inflation, and woke bureaucrats running wild, the tide is finally turning," said Senator Tuberville....
July 15,2025 – CULLMAN, AL – Republican voters in Cullman County went to the polls today in the Special Republican Primary in Alabama House District 12. Cindy Myrex came within a handful of votes of winning the four candidate primary outright Instead it appears in unofficial results that she will face Clint Hollingsworth in a special Republican primary runoff election. Heather Doyle received 150 votes - 3.51%. Hollingsworth had 1,848 votes - 43.24%. Dan McWhorter received 147 votes - 3.44%. Cin...
July 17, 1936 – Spain - General Francisco Franco launched his revolt against the Spanish government from the Canary Islands, where he was stationed at the time. This military uprising quickly spread from Spanish Morocco to mainland Spain, marking the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Franco's rebellion was part of a broader coup by conservative military officers who opposed the leftist Popular Front government which had recently been elected. Within days, Franco emerged as the leading figure a...
July 18, 1863, during the American Civil War, the Battle of Fort Wagner was fought. The assault on Fort Wagner on Morris Island ended as a crushing victory for the Confederacy; but the role that the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment played in the assault was so heralded in the northern press that the battle ultimately helped secure a Union victory in the Civil War. The 54th was the first formal African American regiment raised in the North. Most White Americans, even many who staunc...
