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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...
July 21, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) joined The Will Cain Show on Fox to defend her decision to pass the $9 billion recissions package. Britt said that it is not Washington's money; but the American people's money. "Look, we have to answer the call of the American people," said Senator Britt. "They know that spending is out of control. Donald Trump has found some of the most egregious things out there, packaged that together and said, let's get started. Now is...
July 22, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - As the race for the United States Senate begins to take shape, newly released polling data has placed Steve Marshall firmly in the spotlight, positioning him as the early frontrunner in the early field of contenders. With voters across the state beginning to pay closer attention to the upcoming election, Marshall's campaign appears to be resonating with a broad coalition, at least in these initial stages. Political analysts caution that early leads are just...
July 23, 2025 – OPELIKA, AL - The Alabama Cannabis Coalition announced that we have endorsed Democrat Dr. Will Boyd for Governor of the state of Alabama. "We are so grateful to finally have a voice of reason for the freedom of the citizens of Alabama to have "legal" access to Hemp/Cannabis in Alabama," the grassroots cannabis groups said in a statement. "We have a long road to 600 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, AL but we are inspired , committed and we hope to inspire the citizens of Alabama to f...
July 29, 2025 – BESSEMER, AL - As of now, no arrest has been made in the case involving the Alabama Department of Human Resources contract worker who left 3-year-old Ke'Torrius "KJ" Starkes Jr. in a hot car in Birmingham on July 22. The worker, employed by Covenant Services, was terminated following the incident. According to police, she picked up KJ for a supervised visit with his father, then ran personal errands-including stopping for food and visiting a tobacco store-before going home and l...
June 15, 2025 – Alabama leaders released statements expressing condolences to the two Minnesota legislators – who along with their spouses – were shot early Saturday morning. They also condemned political violence. Speaker of the Alabama House Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) said on his X social media account, "Heartbroken to hear that former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were murdered earlier today," said Speaker Ledbetter. "Violence of any kind has no place...
June 18, 2025 – Republican State Auditor candidate Dadeville businessman Robert McCollum has been taking fire on and off social media for angry social media posts that he made in which he compared the College Republican Federation of Alabama to the Nazi Party. "The College Republican Federation of Alabama Chair can be compared to Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin," Robert L. McCollum posted on his X social media account. That was followed by, "The College Republican Federation of Alabama can be c...
Washington, D.C. – June 26, 2025 - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision that reshapes the balance of judicial power in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on Wednesday that federal district judges may not issue nationwide injunctions. Liberal attorney generals and activist groups had been judge shopping for liberal district judges to issue injunctions blocking President Donald J. Trump's policies across the country. The court's ruling ends the judicial usurpation of ex...
June 26, 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right. The Court also held that the District of Columbia handgun ban was unconstitutional. In the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual's right to possess firearms. This decision affirmed that Americans have a right of self-defense...
June 20, 2025 - Dr. Nicole Jones Wadsworth – an economic developer and site selector – is a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Dr. Wadsworth recently joined the Heart of Dixie Podcast with Brandon Moseley and Harry Still III to discuss her campaign and her vision for the office and the state of Alabama. "Economic development is a broad-based term, and it encompasses job recruitment, retention, quality of life, and infrastructure," explained Dr. Wadsworth. "The whole goal of an eco...
June 26, 2025 – Montgomery, AL - In a sweeping enforcement action that has sent shockwaves through Alabama's hemp industry, state and local law enforcement agencies raided multiple CBD and vape shops this week, just days before a controversial new hemp regulation law is set to take effect. The Alabama Gazette spoke to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chad "Chig" Martin about this issue. Martin and his daughter operate Honeysuckle Hemp - a hemp store in Dothan. Martin said that he shut his stor...
June 24, 2025 — There have been a series of immigration enforcement actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across Alabama this week. U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) said on social media, “The Biden Administration knowingly released Iranian illegal aliens into the interior of our country for four years. Open border policies don’t just threaten our communities, they put our national security at risk. Grateful @POTUS continues to secure our border and our nation.” ICE has...
June 24, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C.- This is the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the controversial 1973 Roe versus Wade decision that created an abortion right in the U.S. Constitution - where none had ever existed before. Congressman Robert Aderholt released a statement on the anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: "Today marks the third anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs...
