At the Alabama State House today for the Prison Oversight Committee. The movie #TheAlabamaSolution on HBO shone a light on the continuing failure of Alabama's prison system. They had to move the meeting into a bigger room to accommodate all the interested parties. 🧵 First speaker is a pastor doing prison ministry. He's telling stories of rape, of men being bullied out of their bunks & forced to sleep on the floor. He is asking for safety, for consistency in their daily schedule, for ministries to be able to access the men to help.

Let's do a line-by-line review of Alabama's new Divisive Concepts bill. The big debate is around what is meant by a divisive concept, so let's dig in. 🧵 Let's be clear who is impacted: All state agencies, all public colleges, all school districts.

Highlights from tonight's #AL02 candidate forum with Napoleon Bracy, Merika Coleman, Anthony Daniels, Shomari Figures, and Jeremy Gray...🧵 When asked about immigration policy, Coleman says Alabama is a border state.

I'm at the Jefferson County Democratic Convention where Democratic nominees are being selected. Why aren't they being elected in a primary, you ask? 🧵 To get on the ballot (as a major party nominee), a candidate must a) submit forms to the party, b) pay a qualifying fee, c) submit forms to the Secretary of State. The deadline for qualifying is 116 days before the primary. (Which was Nov 10, 2023)

Second Congressional district candidate forum is about to start at Hutchinson Missionary Baptist in Montgomery. I'll be live tweeting! #alpolitics Now getting started. Crowd is about 75 people. Candidates in attendance tonight: Daniels, Coleman, Averhart , Gray, Harvey-Hall, Bracy, Figures, Patel, and Lenard. All seated VERY close to each other at a single table.

Want more information about the new Congressional map(s) proposed for Alabama? Let's zoom in closer, shall we? #redistricting #alpolitics This is Map 1.
google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie… All three maps keep Montgomery wholly in District 2 and remove Autauga and Elmore from District 2 (adding them to D6). All three move Macon & Russell counties (including the city of Tuskegee) from D3 into D2. (Below is Map 2)
google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie…

Curious how it all works? How do Alabama Democrats select delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention? I lay it out in this hour-long video, and summarize it in the 🧵below.
via @YouTube First off...
What's the point of the Democratic National Convention? The Convention happens every 4 years in order to…
- Officially nominate a candidate for president and vice president,
- Adopt a comprehensive party platform, and
- Unify the party.

Alabama's first Legislative meeting on 2021 Redistricting is happening RIGHT NOW. You can watch with me online here: legislature.state.al.us/aliswww/audiov… Members of the committee:
Sen. Allen
Sen. Holley
Sen. Livingston
Sen. McClendon (Chair)
Sen. Melson
Sen. Orr
Sen. Roberts
Sen. Scofield
Sen. Singleton
Sen. Smitherman
Sen. Williams

Let's talk for a minute about "Rescission" and what it means for the federal deficit and for CHIP, Hurricane Sandy Relief, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. businessinsider.com/trump-rescissi… Republicans are doing this because while claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility, they passed a $1.3 Trillion spending bill AND a massive tax cut, which together has thrown our deficit into spectacular overdrive.