UnmuteAlabama

UnmuteAlabama

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Building an Effective Message for Progressives in Alabama

903 Followers 1,035 Following 1,356 Posts Joined Dec 2024
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The SAVE Act would erase decades of voting‑rights progress to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
I’m not trading real rights for imaginary threats.

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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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We’re told that racism and antisemitism are “over.”
Meanwhile, political leaders are hanging out in group chats where hate is the whole vibe.
Cut DEI, roll back civil rights protections, and guess what happens.
Hate doesn’t disappear. It gets louder.
#UnmuteAlabama

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Steve Marshall signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge to oppose and vote… Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) applauded Alabama Attorney General and Senate candidate Steve Marshall for signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a…

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Signing a “no new taxes ever” pledge sounds good until you remember:
Tariffs are taxes.
Borrowing is a tax on the future.
And refusing revenue means cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and rural hospitals.
A pledge is not a plan.
Alabama families deserve honesty.
#UnmuteAlabama

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Alabama Democrats stood up and called out a calendar with zero minority‑sponsored bills. They made the case clearly and publicly.

But supermajorities don’t share power.

The calendar passed anyway.
#UnmuteAlabama

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Alabama’s school voucher program might go universal despite budget concerns | Alabama Reflector The CHOOSE Act was signed into law in 2024 and gives parents up to $7,000 per eligible student to cover non-public education expenses.

alabamareflector.com/2026/03/02/a...

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Alabama’s CHOOSE Act is set to become universal next year when income caps expire.
Lawmakers are already worried about the cost.
Most recipients weren’t even in public school to begin with.
This was sold as helping poor kids. In practice, it’s subsidizing families who already had ALL the options.

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Pentagon to cut ties with Columbia, Yale, Brown and others Hegseth accuses of ‘wokeness’ Without citing evidence, Hegseth said the universities have become “breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination” that undermine military values.

www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

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Civilian–military education exists for a reason. Leaders learn from each other.

Hegseth using access to education as leverage in a culture war shows he doesn't understand how leadership, readiness, and confidence are built.

Our military leaders can't handle ideas? Really?
#UnmuteAlabama

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Alabama’s energy debate keeps circling the same question:

Who actually has power and who pays the price?

A new “Secretary of Energy” sounds bold, but without stronger accountability to voters, restructuring risks changing everything except the bills.

#UnmuteAlabama

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Veterans group warns of eroding VA health services as private-sector coverage grows Some veterans worry the $1 trillion plan to expand private-sector health coverage over the next decade will hollow out VA coverage.

www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

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Disabled American Veterans is warning Congress that siphoning resources from the VA into private care risks hollowing out the system itself.

When decline is manufactured, it’s later used as justification.

#UnmuteAlabama
#UnmuteVeterans

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Most Americans say health care costs are their top concern, and many expect affordability to get worse.

Medicaid cuts and expiring ACA tax credits have already driven premiums higher for millions.

Context matters.

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Ahead of tonight’s State of the Union, Pew Research shows:

• Most Americans view the economy negatively
• Health care costs are the top concern
• Majorities oppose tariff increases and support health coverage guarantees

Important context going into the speech.
#UnmuteAlabama

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What Trump Won’t Say Tonight About the State of the Working Class President Trump will deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress tonight, and he’s going to use the opportunity to make a lot of outrageous, false, and narcissistic claims – claims like,...

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The Working Class Project has spent the past year talking directly with working-class Americans.

Their finding ahead of the State of the Union:

People feel frustrated, anxious, and financially strained and increasingly disconnected from claims that the economy is “solved.”
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Workers died in a confined-space sewer accident in Mobile.

OSHA found basic safety failures.

This happened as workplace safety enforcement has declined nationwide.

You can’t prove causation in every case.

But regulation isn’t abstract. It shapes the environment workers are asked to survive in.

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Some of the comments on my facebook post are hilarious. Let's bring back DDT! Why not?

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Katie Britt praises TVA changing course from Biden's 'anti-energy policies' by prolonging usage of two coal plants U.S. Sen. Katie Britt believes that the TVA is making the right decision when it comes to extending the life of two coal plants.

But moving backward doesn’t mean the lights stay on forever either.

Reliability requires foresight.

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Sen. Katie Britt is praising TVA for keeping coal plants running longer.

At the same time, Alabama just gave up the ability to set stronger environmental standards than the federal government which is now rolling protections back.

Going green doesn’t mean the lights go out.
#UnmuteAlabama

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3 weeks ago

And anybody in Alabama knew this was coming. We have experience with it. Require voter ID and then close DMVs in the Black Belt.
It is the same crap, different day.
#UnmuteAlabama
#AlabamaVoting

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The SAVE Act in action.
First you raise the requirements.
Then you quietly remove the places people use to meet them.
Then you blame individuals for “not complying.”
That’s not election integrity.
That’s managed exclusion.

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And started rolling back decades of clean air protections.
So we tied our hands.
To a gutted EPA.
On purpose.
How does that protect Alabama?
www.al.com/news/2026/02...

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If "states' rights" means anything, shouldn't Alabama be able to protect our own water and air better than the federal government requires?
Because we just passed a law saying we can't.
And we did it the same week Trump's EPA said climate pollution doesn't count as pollution anymore. 🧵

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