Alabama Republicans redrew Shomari Figures' district in May, using a map federal judges had found intentionally discriminatory, and cut its Black voting-age population from about 49% to under 40%. He won anyway, by more than 17,000 votes. Tommy Tuberville won the governor's race 52% to 48%, the narrowest margin since 2002, and Democrats flipped four legislative seats.
In his victory speech, Alabama's governor-elect singled out the state capital and promised troops on its streets. Montgomery's police chief reported in May that violent crime was down 13%, and the mayor is asking Tuberville which numbers he's looking at.
The day after the midterms, Vice President JD Vance said Republicans lost because of the Iran war. Trump called that 'largely true' and said he'd do it again. Fourteen senators and 180 House members on this site voted against ordering the troops out.
Four days before Election Day, Alabama voters got texts inviting them to a 'Vote with Pride' rally with Doug Jones. There was no such rally. The opt-out reply named 'SECPAC' — the super PAC set up by a nonprofit founded by Tommy Tuberville's fundraiser, his campaign manager's wife and a major donor.
Trump's TVA board nominees gave tens of thousands to Blackburn's governor campaign while their confirmations were pending. Blackburn praised them at their hearings. One now chairs the board that sets power rates for 10 million people. Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville and David Kustoff took nominee money too.
A Washington Sun review of financial disclosures found Republicans who publicly defended Trump's tariffs — Tony Wied, Tommy Tuberville, Shelley Moore Capito — had accounts dumping stock in tariff-exposed companies. Tom Kean Jr., Jefferson Shreve and Rob Bresnahan were also named.
Running for governor, Tommy Tuberville told a GOP crowd that some Alabama public schools have 'animals running the zoo' and that taking money away from them will make them better. In the voucher program he backs, about 71% of the students using the money for private school were already in private school.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
At a Mobile County GOP dinner advertised as open to the public, a Lagniappe reporter asked about Tuberville's 2020 pledge to donate 'every dime' of his Senate salary to veterans. Tuberville had sheriff's deputies escort him out. There is still no record he kept the promise.
On October 14, Tommy Tuberville said he's '100% for data centers,' that they use 'as much water as two McDonald's' and won't raise power prices. Six weeks earlier, his own plan said they must replace the water they take and that Alabama ratepayers need protecting from them.
The Republican nominee for governor told a radio host that newcomers to the Huntsville area grew up in 'government-educated schools that have taught socialism and Communism' and need to be 'educated.' A Republican lawmaker from Huntsville says that's not correct.
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Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022, including an elderly man dragged from his car, a journalist shot in the head, and a 20-year-old beaten to death.
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86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks while writing the laws that move the market.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
When a reporter said critics accuse Republicans of punishing 'the least of these,' Tommy Tuberville asked what that meant, said 'we're all getting punished,' and called the removal of 760,000 people from ACA coverage a 'good job' — while experts question how many were cut by mistake.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
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Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville took to the Senate floor to call for bringing back mental institutions, claim trans people are fueling a wave of violent crime, and warn that airline pilots are secretly "furries."
Asked whether Alabamians are willing to pay $6 diesel to keep Trump's Iran war going, Tommy Tuberville told CNN 'Yeah, sure they are.' The Senate has voted 13 times on ending that war; he voted no on 11 and missed the other two.
In a Senate floor speech his office titled 'the Transgender Mental Disease,' the Alabama governor candidate blamed Charlie Kirk's killing and the Butler shooting on trans people, said doctors should spend life in prison, and warned your pilot might be a furry. The FBI and the charging documents say otherwise.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
A group representing FanDuel and DraftKings gave $200,000 to the Southeastern Conservative Foundation, a dark-money nonprofit formed in July 2025 by people at the center of Tommy Tuberville's run for Alabama governor. Online sports betting is illegal in Alabama, and Tuberville says the next governor should leave gambling to the legislature.
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
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Tommy Tuberville is running for governor of Alabama, and he went on national TV to demand that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen for over 26 years, be deported.
On Newsmax, the Alabama senator running for governor said Omar 'wants the president to be dead' and should be sent home. Newsmax's own story noted that Tuberville pointed to no statement in which Omar said any such thing. Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and became a citizen in 2000; a citizen can't be deported unless a court first strips her citizenship.
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Big Tech is building data centers in our backyards.
Doug Jones pointed at Tuberville's Senate financial disclosures and asked whether Alabama's likely next governor personally profits from data centers. The disclosures show a China critic who traded a Chinese AI giant's stock and options, and broke the STOCK Act reporting it.
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
Applied Digital owns 1,300 acres in Brookwood and won't say whether it's building a data center there. On August 7 it wrote Tuberville's campaign a $25,000 check. The town's own mayor has signed a non-disclosure agreement, so residents can't find out either.
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
Abdul El-Sayed said Tuberville's push to ban Sharia targets Muslims for being different. Tuberville's answer, on X: 'Sounds like something a terrorist sympathizer would say.' He is running for governor of Alabama.
S. 5202 would bar federal funds from any research or publication on gender transition in minors. Blackburn and Tuberville cosponsored it on July 30 — two weeks before Medicare's agency published the rule ending Medicaid coverage for the care itself. Both are running for governor.
71% of Americans don't want a data center near them. Rather than answer them, these members asked the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate who's funding the opposition — while researchers who actually looked for a Chinese campaign said: 'We haven't found much.'
Alabama's ACA enrollment fell 23% after Congress let the enhanced tax credits expire. Four Alabama Republicans voted for a bill that didn't extend them, one skipped the vote, and Tommy Tuberville helped filibuster the real fix.
A Washington Post investigation found lawmakers outsourcing their work to chatbots with almost no oversight. Tuberville uses ChatGPT on policy. Anna Paulina Luna's office shipped an amendment summary with 'Claude responded:' still in it. Mike Flood asked a bot about housing.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
The Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill died 10-11. Tuberville was present for other parts of the markup but not for the final vote. Updated August 22: all eight of Alabama's food banks asked him by name for a SNAP waiver. Britt — who isn't on the Agriculture Committee — replied. Tuberville, who is, did not.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
Alabama's senator told a podcast the state might need its own border wall because 'they want to take this country over.' His office says he meant 'radical Islamic terrorists.'
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Federal immigration agents have killed American citizens in the street. These Republicans took the money, wrote the checks, told agents to shoot back, and refused to say a word against it.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
Senate Republican leaders sent members talking points telling them to change the subject when asked about the stalled SAVE America Act. Tuberville binned them and demanded the bill pass, claiming 80 to 90 percent of Americans want it. Asked about the bill's actual requirement, barely half do.
Alabama's senator stood on the Senate floor and called Social Security a government-approved Ponzi scheme. Tax records show he drew nearly $100,000 from it in his first three years in office — on top of his Senate salary.
Tuberville claims Fauci 'killed millions' and wants every one of the '20 to 30,000' Alabamians he says were lost to sue him. Alabama's entire COVID death toll is about 21,100 — and a Republican-led House investigation found no evidence linking Fauci to wrongdoing, the AP reports.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
At least ten Alabama communities have pushed back on data centers over water, power, and noise. The Republican nominee for governor says those neighbors are repeating Chinese propaganda.
Tuberville says his transition team has no lobbyists. It does have the founder of NaphCare — a prison healthcare firm banned from New York — and the team will be reviewing prisons and healthcare.
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville called New York's mayor a 'thug' who should be put in handcuffs and shipped to Gitmo — once Mamdani does something "stupid" enough.
He called people who live in cities 'inner-city rats,' says Islam 'is not a religion,' and backed a bill Alabama clean-energy advocates warn will destroy solar jobs in the state.
Alabama already ranks 46th of 50 on the measures we track — and its members of Congress just voted to cut health care, food, and public health on top of it.
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
On Newsmax, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville claimed several of his Senate colleagues were elected illegally. He gave no evidence — because there isn't any.
Alabama's Tommy Tuberville is running for governor on housing costs. To justify voting against a bipartisan bill to lower them, he told Fox News it would build homes for people 'here illegally.' PolitiFact rated that False.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, now running for Alabama governor, is throwing a party for the Supreme Court ruling that ended Roe — the same ruling that gave Alabama one of the harshest abortion bans in the country.
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.
Tuberville is fighting to throw out a lawsuit that says he didn't meet Alabama's seven-year residency rule — while he owned a beach house in Florida and voted there.
Alabama's senator, now running for governor, says he wants to bring down housing costs. But when a rare bipartisan bill to lower them came up, he voted against it — twice.
Alabama's senator ran on a promise to donate his whole Senate salary to veterans. Six years and over $1 million later, his own tax records show no sign it happened — and his foundation's treasurer says that's on him.
