Alabama

SPLC Action Fund Applauds Alabama Senate Committee Action on 2025 Summer EBT Program Funding

April 30, 2024

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, the SPLC Action Fund applauded the Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee for including essential funding for the 2025 Summer EBT program in the state’s education budget. Last year,...

Alabama

SPLC Action Fund Applauds New State Law Safeguarding Students' Due Process Rights

April 25, 2024

MONTGOMERY — Today, the SPLC Action Fund applauded the passage of Alabama’s HB 188, a new law affirming the due process rights of all Alabama students facing long-term suspension and expulsion from school. “The U.S. Supreme Court...

Alabama

SPLC Action Fund Condemns Passage of Bill that Criminalizes Assisting Alabamians with Absentee Ballots

March 19, 2024

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, Alabama’s legislature passed an anti-voter bill, SB 1 , which would charge individuals with a felony for assisting their neighbors in requesting or applying for an absentee ballot. “Weeks after...

Alabama

SPLC Action Fund Condemns Passage of Harmful Anti-Inclusion Bill in Alabama

March 07, 2024

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the SPLC Action Fund condemned the Alabama House’s passage of Alabama SB 129 , a bill prohibiting local education boards, institutions of higher learning and state agencies from promoting or engaging in...

Alabama

SPLC Action Fund and Coalition Partners Urge Gov. Ivey & State Legislators to Fund Summer EBT Program

February 27, 2024

MONTGOMERY —Today, in a letter to Gov. Kay Ivey, State Sen. Greg Albritton and Rep. Rex Reynolds, a broad coalition of Alabama advocates, including the SPLC Action Fund , urged state leaders to fund the 2024 Summer Electronic...

Alabama

Press Release

SPLC Action Fund to Host Candidate Forum for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District

January 09, 2024

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the SPLC Action Fund announced it will hold a candidate forum in the critical election contest for Alabama’s newly formed 2nd congressional district, just two weeks before the primary election. The forum...

Alabama

Voters in New Alabama Congressional District Want Progressive Representation

December 27, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Voters in the new Alabama congressional district are most concerned about having a representative who will further a progressive agenda prioritizing voting rights, rising costs of living and affordability of...

Alabama

Major Effort Focused on New Alabama Congressional District Announced by SPLC Action Fund and New Southern Majority IE PAC

October 16, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, SPLC Action Fund and its affiliate, the  New Southern Majority federal independent expenditure (IE) PAC, announced a major investment and mobilization effort in the critical election contest for Alabama’...

Alabama

Defense of voting, race and gender equity holds firm in Alabama Legislature

June 16, 2023

Jerome Dees

Alabama

Alabama House Passes Bill Making it a Felony to Deliver Absentee Ballots to Friends, Neighbors

May 04, 2023

Montgomery, Ala. – Today, the Alabama House of Representatives passed an anti-voter bill, H.B. 209 , which would make it a felony for an Alabamian to distribute an absentee ballot application to anyone other than their family...

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SPLC Action Fund Applauds Alabama Senate Committee Action on 2025 Summer EBT Program Funding

SPLC Action Fund Applauds New State Law Safeguarding Students' Due Process Rights

SPLC Action Fund Condemns Passage of Bill that Criminalizes Assisting Alabamians with Absentee Ballots

SPLC Action Fund Condemns Passage of Harmful Anti-Inclusion Bill in Alabama

SPLC Action Fund and Coalition Partners Urge Gov. Ivey & State Legislators to Fund Summer EBT Program

SPLC Action Fund to Host Candidate Forum for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District

Voters in New Alabama Congressional District Want Progressive Representation

Major Effort Focused on New Alabama Congressional District Announced by SPLC Action Fund and New Southern Majority IE PAC

Defense of voting, race and gender equity holds firm in Alabama Legislature

Alabama House Passes Bill Making it a Felony to Deliver Absentee Ballots to Friends, Neighbors

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