2026 Alabama House race — Gary J. Palmer's seat — polls, candidates & voter guide — IJR

Where they stand

Strong	Moore	Palmer	Rogers
Supports more drilling	Unknown	Supports more drilling	Unknown
Supports strict enforcement	Supports strict enforcement	Supports strict enforcement	Unknown
Supports tax cuts	Supports tax cuts	Supports tax cuts	Supports tax cuts
Supports stricter penalties	Supports stricter penalties	Unknown	Unknown

Felix Barry Moore

REPUBLICAN PARTY · Incumbent

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Stated positions (44) ▾

Abolish Department of Education: Supports abolishing the U.S. Department of Education to return control to states, communities, and parents. [1][2]
Abortion: Opposes abortion rights and supports restrictions on clinics, fetal tissue use, and Planned Parenthood funding. [1][2][3]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports securing the southern border with a wall, enforcing existing laws, and deporting illegal immigrants. [1][2][3]
Budget & Government Spending: Favors careful government spending and reducing the national debt, and voted against large COVID-19 relief packages. [1]
China & trade: Supports reducing U.S. dependence on foreign countries like China and using tariffs to benefit American workers. [1][2]
Civil Rights / Gender Identity: Opposes expanding transgender and LGBTQ+ rights, supports allowing adoption agencies to reject LGBTQ parents, and opposes extending the Equal Rights Amendment ratification deadline. [1][2]
Congressional term limits: Supports congressional term limits to restore competitiveness and responsiveness in elections. [1]
Crime & Law Enforcement: Supports prosecuting violent criminals and antifa-linked groups to the fullest extent and backs full funding for law enforcement. [1]
Crime & policing: Supports fully funding law enforcement and prosecuting violent criminals to the fullest extent. [1][2]
DEI programs: Supports dismantling DEI initiatives. [1]
EV mandates: Challenges the EPA's rule forcing a rapid shift to electric vehicles. [1]
Economy: Supports cutting taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security while reducing regulations. [1][2]
Economy & Taxation: Supports cutting taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, and backs pro-business economic policies aligned with the Trump administration. [1]
Election integrity: Supports measures to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, including the SAVE America Act. [1][2]
Election integrity: mail ballots: Supports requiring mail-in ballots to be counted on Election Day and opposes counting those received after. [1]
Election integrity: voter ID: Supports the SAVE America Act requiring photo ID for voting and citizenship verification for registration. [1]
Energy production: Favors increasing domestic energy production, particularly fossil fuels, for energy independence. [1]
Federal spending & debt: Opposes large COVID relief packages and supports reducing national debt and wasteful spending. [1][2][3]
Fentanyl & drug enforcement: Supports sanctions on Chinese entities involved in fentanyl trafficking and the HALT Fentanyl Act. [1][2]
Free speech & tech censorship: Supports protecting First Amendment rights and opposes gag orders on defendants. [1]
Gun policy: Strongly supports Second Amendment rights and gun ownership protections. [1][2]
Health care: Supports religious or ethical exemptions for health care providers. [1]
Healthcare: Supports repealing the Affordable Care Act in favor of a market-based approach. [1]
Immigration & Border Security: Supports building a border wall, backs ICE, opposes sanctuary cities, and has introduced legislation to codify Trump's immigration agenda including limiting family sponsorships and prioritizing American workers. [1][2][3]
Israel: Supports Israel, including recognition of Judea and Samaria. [1]
Law & Order: Supports law enforcement, prosecuting violent criminals, and opposes radical left groups. [1][2]
Marijuana legalization: Opposes recreational marijuana legalization. [1]
Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes gender identity policies and related medical interventions for minors. [1]
Opposes Sharia law implementation: Introduced legislation clarifying that discrimination via Sharia Law violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [1]
Parents' rights in education: Supports parents as primary decision-makers in children's education, medical care, and moral upbringing. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Supports cutting regulations to shrink government and restore economic freedom. [1][2]
Religious expression: Supports protecting religious expression by students in school and prayer in public settings. [1][2][3]
Religious liberty: Supports protecting religious liberty and Christian faith in schools. [1][2]
Sanctuary jurisdictions: Supports withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities. [1]
School choice: Supports tax credits for parents choosing private schools and educational freedom. [1][2]
Second Amendment: Strongly supports Second Amendment rights and opposes gun confiscation. [1][2]
Small business: Supports small businesses by reducing regulations and taxes. [1][2]
Social Issues (Marriage/Family): Opposes same-sex marriage and supports policies favoring traditional mother-father family structures, including on adoption. [1]
Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting programs like Social Security and Medicare. [1]
Student loan forgiveness: Opposes student loan debt forgiveness as unconstitutional. [1]
Taxes: Supports tax cuts for working families and small businesses, including those in the One Big Beautiful Bill. [1][2]
Ukraine aid: Supports oversight and accountability for U.S. funding to Ukraine. [1]
Veterans: Supports veterans through improved VA services and fraud protections. [1][2]
Women's sports: Opposes men competing in women's sports and supports related protection legislation. [1][2]

Gary J. Palmer

Republican · Incumbent

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Stated positions (26) ▾

Abortion: Opposes abortion rights and supports banning most abortions after 20 weeks except to save the mother's life. [1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and supports enforcing the rule of law. [1][2]
Budget & National Debt: Views federal spending, not revenue, as the core problem, opposes stimulus spending, and calls for addressing the national debt. [1][2]
Congressional term limits: Supports a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms. [1]
Crime & policing: Supports capital punishment. [1]
DEI programs: Opposes CRT and DEI initiatives in health care and Medicare reimbursement policies. [1]
Defense: Supports a strong, well-funded military essential to America's security. [1][2]
Education: Opposes nationwide Common Core standards and supports local control and school choice. [1]
Election integrity: voter ID: Supports requiring photo identification to vote. [1]
Energy & Environment: Supports expanded domestic energy development and has worked to limit EPA regulatory authority, including introducing the Stopping EPA Overreach Act. [1]
Energy production: Supports responsibly developing domestic energy resources through free markets rather than federal regulation. [1][2]
Federal spending & debt: Supports real spending cuts, timely single-subject appropriations, and no short-term continuing resolutions. [1][2]
Government Reform: Supports devolving federal programs to the states, requiring photo ID for voting, full disclosure of campaign contribution sources, and once pledged to a 6-year congressional term limit. [1]
Gun policy: Supports protecting the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms from restrictions. [1][2]
Health Care: Opposes government-run, single-payer style health care, citing concerns about wait times and reduced quality based on other countries' systems. [1]
Health care: Supports repealing the ACA and replacing it with free-market, patient-centered solutions. [1][2]
Healthcare: Supports repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with free-market, patient-centered solutions. [1][2]
Immigration: Opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and supports enforcing immigration law. [1][2]
Regulation & permitting: Opposes EPA regulatory overreach and supports reforms to permitting processes. [1][2]
Religious Freedom: Supports protecting religious liberty from federal mandates, including opposing use of federal funds to enforce policies he views as compelling actions against religious conscience. [1]
Religious freedom: Supports protecting religious liberty from government coercion in health care and employment. [1]
Student loan forgiveness: Opposes student loan forgiveness as fiscally irresponsible and unfair to taxpayers. [1]
Taxation: Opposes tax increases, favors cutting corporate and individual tax rates, capital gains taxes, repealing the estate ('death') tax, and eventually adopting a FairTax system. [1]
Taxes: Opposes tax increases and supports replacing income taxes with the FairTax while repealing the death tax. [1]
Veterans: Supports honoring veterans by respecting their service and supporting them upon return. [1][2]
Women's sports: Supports protecting women's sports by prohibiting biological males from competing. [1]

Michael Rogers

REPUBLICAN PARTY · Incumbent

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Stated positions (23) ▾

Abortion: Supports states deciding abortion policy after praising overturn of Roe v. Wade. [1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports Remain in Mexico policy and making legal immigration easier. [1]
China & trade: Warns of economic and national security dangers posed by China and its efforts to steal intellectual property. [1]
Climate Change: Does not support making climate change a top priority, favoring economic growth and technology instead. [1]
Criminal Justice: Calls for strong leadership to combat violent criminal gangs from Central America. [1]
EV mandates: Opposes EV mandates, warning they will eliminate manufacturing jobs in Michigan. [1][2][3]
Education: Supports focusing schools on core academics and vocational training like shop classes rather than social engineering. [1][2]
Election integrity: voter ID: Opposes efforts to overturn fair elections and has stated Biden was lawfully elected. [1]
Energy production: Supports energy independence including nuclear power and letting markets decide. [1]
Federal spending & debt: Advocates curtailing government spending and undoing excessive regulations to fix the economy. [1]
Fentanyl & drug enforcement: Vows to fight the drug war and opioid epidemic drawing on FBI experience. [1]
Government Reform: Advocates getting government out of the way to unleash American innovation and reduce regulation. [1][2][3]
Gun policy: Supports enforcing current gun laws and addressing mental health issues linked to violence. [1]
Health care: Aims to lower the cost of prescription drugs. [1]
Housing costs: Supports expanding 529 plans for home down payments, cutting regulations, and providing tax incentives for new home construction. [1][2][3]
Israel: Supports Israel as a key ally and its right to defend itself. [1]
Manufacturing: Supports bringing manufacturing jobs back to Michigan and protecting the sector. [1][2]
Parents' rights in education: States that schools care more about social engineering than the three Rs. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Supports reducing regulations to lower costs and boost opportunity. [1]
Social Security & Medicare: Supports partial privatization of Social Security allowing individuals to invest benefit funds in the stock market. [1]
Taxes: Prefers lower taxes. [1]
Ukraine aid: Supports a lend-lease program with Ukraine. [1]
Women's sports: Supports protecting women's sports by barring transgender athletes. [1]

Robert B. Rep. Aderholt

REPUBLICAN PARTY · Incumbent

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Stated positions (25) ▾

Abortion: Supports pro-life legislation. [1][2][3]
Border Security Funding: Supports major appropriations for border security and immigration enforcement agencies, opposing efforts by Democrats to limit funding for ICE and Border Patrol. [1]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports strong immigration standards. [1][2]
China & trade: Supports reducing dependence on imports from China and unfriendly nations. [1]
Crime & policing: Supports courageous police officers and opposes defunding police departments. [1]
Criticism of Biden Administration Policies: Criticizes the Biden administration's handling of the southern border, inflation, foreign policy, and abortion policy, describing them as harmful to the country. [1]
DEI programs: Supports ending diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in federal programs. [1]
Debt Limit and Fiscal Policy: Supports prioritizing payment of U.S. debt obligations, including to trust funds, in the event the federal debt limit is reached. [1]
Defense: Supports increasing defense spending. [1]
Economy and Federal Spending: Supports cutting federal spending and implementing measures to require the federal government to live within its means, citing concerns about a 'spend now, pay later' culture in Washington. [1]
Education: Opposes requiring states to adopt federal education standards. [1][2]
Energy: Emphasizes the importance of energy policy for both economic costs and national security, and has expressed support for restoring U.S. energy independence. [1][2]
Energy production: Supports expanding domestic energy exploration and opposes government funding for renewable energy. [1][2]
Faith and Religious Freedom: Supports religious freedom and opposes government intrusion on churches. [1]
Federal spending & debt: Supports spending cuts and requiring Washington to live within its means. [1]
Gun policy: Supports Second Amendment rights and national right-to-carry reciprocity. [1]
Health care: Supports repealing the Affordable Care Act. [1]
Immigration: Supports securing the U.S.-Mexico border first through physical barriers, technology, and increased enforcement, opposes automatic amnesty for those in the country illegally, and supports funding for CBP and ICE operations. [1][2][3]
Israel: Supports providing military aid to Israel. [1]
Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes federal funding for sex-rejecting procedures and services. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Supports slashing regulations to encourage business growth and job creation. [1]
Religious Freedom: Supports strong protections for free exercise of religion and opposes government actions seen as intruding on religious practice, framing the First Amendment as protecting freedom of religion rather than freedom from religion. [1]
Taxes: Supports lowering taxes and cutting regulations to promote economic growth. [1][2]
Ukraine aid: Supports providing military aid to Ukraine while prioritizing border security at home. [1]
Women's sports: Supports protecting the rights of women and girls to play sports. [1]

Shomari C. Figures

DEMOCRATIC PARTY · Incumbent

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Stated positions (17) ▾

Abortion: Supports codifying federal abortion rights protections from Roe v. Wade and access to contraception. [1][2]
Economy: Introduced legislation for first-time parents tax credit and baby sleep tax relief. [1]
Education: Supports federal investment in public schools and role protecting students' civil rights while opposing federal curriculum standards. [1][2]
Election integrity: voter ID: Supports requiring voter ID to vote. [1]
Federal Budget & Taxation: Voted against the House Republican budget and the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' and introduced tax credit legislation to support new families. [1][2]
Federal spending & debt: Opposes budgets that increase the national deficit while cutting Medicaid and SNAP. [1]
Health care: Supports federal incentives for states like Alabama to expand Medicaid and improve rural health care access. [1][2][3]
Healthcare Access: Identifies poor access to health care as a key issue in his district and supports partnerships to improve health infrastructure. [1]
Immigration & Border Security: Engaged in debate over immigration and border security, emphasizing both legal and illegal immigration concerns while contrasting his approach with Republican opponents. [1]
Immigration - Temporary Protected Status: Supports extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, citing the severity of conditions there as warranting protection. [1]
Infrastructure: Supports federal investments in infrastructure to build up rural communities in the district. [1][2]
Israel: Supports a strong U.S.-Israel relationship for mutual security and sustainable peace. [1]
Rural Infrastructure & Poverty: Advocates for increased federal investment in infrastructure and poverty-reduction programs for underserved and rural communities in his district. [1]
Taxes: Introduced First-Time Parents Tax Credit and Baby Sleep Tax Relief bills to support new families. [1]
Trade Tariffs: Opposes President Trump's global tariffs, arguing they harm everyday people and add to economic burdens on Americans. [1]
Transgender Participation in Sports: States that men should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. [1]
Voting Rights: Criticizes the Supreme Court's rulings as effectively ending protections under the Voting Rights Act and has pointed to evidence of racial bias in state redistricting processes. [1]

Amanda Noelle Pusczek

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (20) ▾

Abortion: Supports reproductive freedom. [1]
Ban on conversion therapy: Supports a nationwide federal ban on conversion therapy for minors. [1][2]
Congressional Term Limits: Pledged to support a constitutional amendment limiting Congress members to three House terms and two Senate terms. [1]
Congressional term limits: Supports a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms and Senators to two terms. [1]
Conversion therapy ban: Supports a nationwide federal ban on conversion therapy. [1][2]
Corporate Power & Economy: Criticizes corporate monopolies and PAC-funded politicians, calling for an economy that rewards labor over corporate consolidation. [1][2]
Economic Policy / Corporate Power: Criticizes corporate monopolies and PAC-funded politicians, advocating for policies that support independent farmers and working families over corporate interests. [1][2]
Gender-affirming care: Supports guaranteeing access to safe and affordable gender-affirming care and mental health services for LGBTQIA2S patients. [1]
Government Reform / Term Limits: Pledged support for a constitutional amendment imposing three House terms and two Senate terms as limits on Congress. [1]
Health care: Supports federal emergency infrastructure grants, reversal of safety-net cuts, and revenue floors to stabilize rural hospitals and expand maternal and mental health access. [1][2]
Healthcare: Supports treating healthcare as a human right, expanding Medicaid, and addressing rural hospital closures across Alabama. [1][2][3]
Housing: Advocates for housing as a human right, including expanding affordable housing, preventing homelessness, and strengthening renter and homeowner protections. [1][2]
Housing costs: Supports treating housing as a human right via federal investment in affordable construction, tenant protections, rent stabilization, and community revitalization. [1][2]
Immigration: Opposes aggressive immigration enforcement practices, calling for reform that protects family unity and due process regardless of immigration status. [1][2]
Justice System Reform: Supports reforming the justice system to ensure fairness and accountability for all, not just the wealthy. [1][2]
LGBTQ rights: Supports passing the Equality Act, codifying marriage equality and parental rights, and expanding hate crime enforcement and resources for LGBTQIA2S youth. [1]
LGBTQIA+ Rights: Supports LGBTQIA+ rights and equality as part of a broader human rights platform. [1]
Medical gender transition for minors: Supports access to gender-affirming care and a nationwide ban on conversion therapy. [1][2]
Veterans: Supports strengthening VA healthcare, expanding mental health services, and increasing affordable housing options to end veteran homelessness. [1][2]
Veterans Affairs: Calls for a renewed federal commitment to veteran care and support, describing a 'new contract' for Alabama's veterans. [1]

Ammie Akin

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (22) ▾

Broadband/Internet Access: Calls for improved access to internet service for communities in the district. [1]
Crime & policing: Supports addressing crime as a key issue facing the district. [1]
Economic Development: Supports policies aimed at strengthening small businesses and driving economic growth in the district. [1][2]
Economic Growth and Jobs: Emphasizes the need for more jobs and economic growth, citing support for small businesses and working people in the district. [1][2]
Economic development: Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities. [1][2]
Economic growth: Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities. [1]
Economic priorities: Supports putting Alabama first by prioritizing families, workers, small businesses, and local communities over politics. [1]
Education: Supports strengthening education by building a true partnership between educators, parents, and the community. [1][2]
Education & Community Access: Emphasizes the need for better access to quality education, jobs, internet, and healthcare for district residents, drawing on her background as an educator. [1][2]
Education Access: Advocates for improved access to quality education in Alabama's 7th District, drawing on her background as an educator and administrator. [1][2]
Federal spending & debt: Supports fighting wasteful Washington spending and demanding responsible, accountable use of taxpayer dollars. [1][2]
Government Accountability: Campaigns on a platform of government accountability and results-driven leadership rather than partisan politics. [1][2][3]
Government Accountability & Leadership Style: Advocates for 'fresh, productive leadership focused on results, not scoring political points' and greater government accountability. [1][2][3]
Health care: Supports strengthening rural healthcare by improving access to quality care and helping rural hospitals stay open. [1][2]
Healthcare Access: States that residents of the district need better access to healthcare services. [1]
Parents' rights in education: Believes communities are best positioned to decide what education looks like without federal government overreach. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Supports cutting red tape so Alabama businesses can grow, create jobs, and compete. [1][2]
Rural Community Development: Lists support for rural communities as part of her platform for economic growth. [1]
Rural Development & Economic Growth: Emphasizes support for rural communities and economic growth, including job creation and support for small businesses. [1][2][3]
Rural development: Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities. [1][2]
Rural economic development: Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities. [1]
Small business: Supports prioritizing small businesses and local communities over politics. [1][2]

Andrew Rankin Guyton Sneed

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (26) ▾

Affordability: Supports lowering grocery and gas prices to address cost of living. [1]
Campaign finance reform: Supports overturning Citizens United to remove unlimited corporate money from politics. [1][2]
Congressional stock trading: Supports prohibiting stock trading for members of Congress while in office. [1][2]
Congressional term limits: Supports term limits for members of Congress. [1][2][3]
Cost of living: Supports lowering grocery and gas prices to make life more affordable. [1]
Economy and Cost of Living: Advocates for raising paychecks and lowering everyday costs for working families, small businesses, farmers, and labor. [1][2]
Education: Supports increased funding for schools and teachers and opposes dismantling the Department of Education. [1]
Education funding: Supports increased funding for schools and teachers. [1]
Election integrity: voter ID: Supports voting rights protections, fair representation and stronger safeguards against racial and partisan gerrymandering. [1]
Free speech & tech censorship: Supports an enforceable code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court. [1][2]
Government Reform: Supports congressional reform, transparency, term limits, and campaign finance reform to make Congress more accountable to voters rather than corporate interests. [1][2][3]
Government accountability: Supports reforms to restore congressional balance and accountability to address the trust gap with voters. [1][2]
Health care: Supports more affordable healthcare. [1]
Immigration: Supports comprehensive, humane immigration reform including a pathway to citizenship, ending family separation, restoring asylum protections, and greater ICE accountability while maintaining border security. [1]
Labor: Supports worker protections, collective bargaining rights, and protecting organized labor. [1]
Labor policy: Supports worker protections, collective bargaining rights, and organized labor. [1]
Lobbying moratorium: Supports a minimum five-year moratorium on lobbying after leaving Congress. [1][2]
Lobbying restrictions: Supports a minimum five-year moratorium on lobbying after leaving Congress. [1][2]
Overturn Citizens United: Supports overturning Citizens United to remove unlimited corporate money from politics. [1][2]
Redistricting: Opposes Republican-led congressional redistricting, describing it as unfair gerrymandering that undermines fair representation. [1][2]
Redstone Arsenal and Local Infrastructure: Supports pushing for federal funding to fix staffing and access delays at Redstone Arsenal gates, which he links to prior government funding cuts. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Supports a five-year moratorium on lobbying after leaving Congress. [1][2]
Representation Style: Emphasizes accessible, town-hall style representation and listening to constituents as an alternative to what he calls divisive partisan politics. [1][2]
Supreme Court ethics: Supports an enforceable code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court. [1][2]
Trade and Agriculture: Opposes Trump-era tariffs and related agricultural bailout spending, saying they are hurting Alabama farmers, and wants to restore Congress's power over trade policy. [1]
Voting rights: Supports voting rights reforms, independent redistricting, and protections against partisan gerrymandering. [1]

Austin Sidwell

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (26) ▾

Anti-Establishment Political Stance: Positions himself as an outsider opposing career politicians and the political establishment, aligning with an 'America First' approach. [1][2][3]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports stronger border enforcement and reforms to reduce incentives for illegal entry. [1][2][3]
Congressional Term Limits: Pledged to support a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three two-year terms and Senators to two six-year terms, and to self-limit his own time in office. [1][2][3]
Congressional stock trading: Supports transparency regarding congressional stock trading. [1]
Congressional term limits: Supports term limits to ensure fresh leadership and accountability in Congress. [1][2][3]
Economy, Taxes & Small Government: Supports limited government, free-market solutions, keeping taxes low for small businesses, and opposes what he calls overregulation and excessive federal spending. [1][2][3]
Energy Independence: Prioritizes energy independence as part of his platform for economic freedom and national security. [1]
Energy Policy: Supports energy independence as part of his broader economic and national security platform. [1]
Energy production: Supports free-market solutions and energy independence while opposing subsidies for green energy projects. [1][2][3]
Federal spending & debt: Opposes runaway federal spending and supports disciplined budgeting to address the national debt. [1][2]
Fiscal Responsibility & Government Spending: Advocates cutting federal spending, addressing the national debt, curbing lobbyist influence and the 'administrative state,' and ensuring tax dollars are used wisely. [1][2][3]
Fiscal Responsibility & National Debt: Emphasizes reducing the national debt, blaming lobbyists and the 'administrative state,' and calls for stricter fiscal discipline in federal spending. [1][2][3]
Foreign policy: Supports Congress declaring war per the Constitution and cautions against unnecessary foreign interventions. [1]
Health care: Supports market-based approaches to reduce health insurance and other costs. [1]
Healthcare: Favors market-based approaches to lowering health insurance and healthcare costs rather than expanded government programs, and wants to reduce government overreach in the sector. [1]
Judicial Policy: Criticizes what he calls activist federal judges and says he would support confirming judges who adhere strictly to the Constitution. [1]
Judicial Reform: Criticizes what he calls activist federal judges and supports confirming judges who adhere strictly to the Constitution. [1]
Judicial reform: Opposes judicial overreach by activist judges and supports confirming judges who follow the Constitution. [1]
National security: Supports rebuilding the military, securing supply chains, and prioritizing cyber and space defense. [1]
Political Establishment & National Direction: Positions himself as an outsider and 'America First' Republican opposed to career politicians and the political establishment in both parties. [1][2][3]
Regulation & permitting: Supports deregulation to foster competition in insurance markets and reduce costs. [1][2]
Social Security: States a goal to stabilize and secure Social Security, though specific policy details are not elaborated in available sources. [1]
Social Security & Medicare: Supports stabilizing Social Security by cutting waste and fraud without raising payroll taxes or the retirement age. [1][2]
Taxes: Supports keeping taxes low for small businesses and fiscal responsibility. [1]
Taxes & Economy: Supports limited government, free-market solutions, and keeping taxes low for small businesses while opposing overregulation and excessive federal spending. [1][2]
Term Limits: Supports a constitutional amendment to limit Congress to three House terms and two Senate terms, and has pledged to self-limit his own time in office. [1][2][3]

Candice Duvieilh

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (32) ▾

Childcare: Supports expanding access to affordable childcare. [1]
Defense & Aerospace: Supports stable and responsible defense funding to protect local jobs and partnerships between military installations and communities. [1]
Defense & Veterans: Favors stable, responsible defense funding to protect local jobs, improved veteran transition programs, expanded PTSD/mental health resources, and reduced VA wait times. [1][2]
Defense & aerospace: Supports stable defense funding, partnerships with military installations, and STEM pipelines for aerospace and defense careers. [1]
Defense / Veterans: Supports stable defense funding to protect local jobs, improved veteran transition programs, expanded PTSD and mental health resources, and reduced VA healthcare wait times through telehealth and staffing. [1][2]
Economy & Agriculture: Calls for protecting farmers from unstable trade policies and supporting small businesses and veteran-owned businesses. [1]
Economy / Trade: Supports protecting farmers from unstable trade policies and backing federal funding streams (USDA grants, defense/aerospace contracts) that sustain the district's economy. [1][2]
Education: Supports investing in public education from early childhood through career training, with expanded funding for rural schools and fair pay for teachers. [1][2]
Family & Social Support: Supports expanding affordable childcare, paid family leave, food security programs, and investment in maternal health to address Alabama's maternal mortality rate. [1][2]
Family Policy & Labor: Supports expanding paid family leave, affordable childcare, workplace safety protections, and livable wages for working families. [1][2]
Federal spending & debt: Supports strong oversight so taxpayer dollars are used efficiently and responsibly. [1]
Health care: Supports protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions, lowering prescription drug costs, expanding rural health clinics and telehealth, and strengthening mental health support. [1][2]
Healthcare: Supports protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions and lowering prescription drug costs. [1]
Housing: Supports secure housing options for working families. [1]
Housing costs: Supports ensuring working families have secure housing options. [1]
Infrastructure: Supports investing in rural broadband, roads, and clean energy infrastructure. [1][2]
Labor & Workplace Safety: Supports strengthening workplace safety protections (including OSHA enforcement) and expanding paid family leave for workers. [1]
Maternal health: Invests in maternal health to reduce Alabama’s high maternal mortality rate. [1]
Mental health: Strengthens mental health support, including resources for veterans and families. [1][2]
Paid family leave: Supports expanding access to affordable childcare and paid family leave for working families. [1][2]
Rural healthcare access: Supports expanding rural health clinics, telehealth services, and access close to home. [1][2]
Small business: Supports small businesses and entrepreneurs through access to funding and tax incentives. [1]
Small businesses: Supports small businesses and entrepreneurs through access to funding and tax incentives. [1]
Taxes: Supports corporations paying their fair share of property taxes to support schools. [1]
Teacher pay: Supports fair pay and classroom resources for teachers. [1]
Teachers: Ensures fair pay and classroom resources for teachers. [1]
Veterans: Ensures veterans and seniors receive the care they deserve and supports VA access. [1][2]
Veterans & military families: Supports strengthening mental health resources and care for veterans and military families. [1][2]
Veterans healthcare: Supports ensuring veterans and seniors receive the care they deserve and VA access improvements. [1][2]
Workforce development: Champions career and technical programs and STEM pathways tied to local industries. [1][2]
Workforce training: Supports expanding STEM learning, workforce training, and career pathways tied to local industries. [1][2]
Workplace safety: Supports workplace safety measures. [1]

Case Dixon

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (23) ▾

AI Data Centers & Corporate Subsidies: Opposes taxpayer subsidies and special regulatory treatment for AI data centers, favoring state/local control and equal permitting standards. [1]
AI Data Centers and Corporate Subsidies: Opposes special tax breaks or regulatory exemptions for AI data center projects, arguing such developments should follow standard permitting and zoning rules and not rely on taxpayer subsidies. [1]
Abortion: Supports a nationwide ban on abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. [1][2]
Congressional stock trading: Supports banning congressional stock trading by members and their families. [1][2]
Congressional term limits: Supports imposing term limits on members of Congress. [1][2]
Federal Spending & Government Size: Advocates for smaller government and reduced federal spending, criticizing both parties for failing to address the national debt. [1][2]
Federal Spending and Debt: Advocates for smaller government and reduced federal spending, criticizing both parties for failing to address the national debt. [1][2]
Federal spending & debt: Supports cutting reckless spending, rejecting budget gimmicks, and addressing the national debt to protect Medicare and Social Security. [1][2]
Government Ethics & Accountability: Lists ethics reform and protecting liberty as campaign priorities, positioning himself as an accountability-focused outsider candidate. [1]
Gun policy: Supports gun rights and constitutional liberties. [1][2]
Health care: Supports expanding telemedicine, home visits, repealing anti-competition laws, and allowing nurse practitioners full practice authority. [1][2]
Healthcare: Supports expanding telemedicine, home visits, repealing anti-competition laws, and allowing nurse practitioners to practice at the top of their training. [1][2]
Healthcare & Health Freedom: Supports patient and family autonomy in healthcare decisions and has accepted endorsement from a health-freedom advocacy group. [1]
Healthcare and Health Freedom: Supports patients' and families' rights to make their own healthcare decisions and has been endorsed by a health-freedom advocacy group. [1]
Iran Policy: Opposes U.S. military engagement with Iran, citing concerns over cost, escalation risk, and lack of clear justification for intervention. [1]
Iran/Middle East Policy: Opposes U.S. military engagement with Iran, warning of costly, prolonged conflict and lack of clear justification for escalation. [1]
Marijuana legalization: Supports increasing access to cannabis and rescheduling it to respect states' rights. [1][2]
Opposition to war with Iran: Opposes U.S. military engagement with Iran, citing debt, lack of clear national interest, and constitutional requirements for congressional authorization. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Opposes special treatment, subsidies, or exemptions for AI data centers and crony capitalism. [1]
Taxation: Supports tax cuts as part of a broader push for reduced government size and spending. [1]
Taxes: Supports simplifying the tax code, cutting rates across the board, and reforming the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. [1][2]
War Powers & Venezuela Action: Argues that military action against Venezuela's Maduro required explicit congressional authorization, asserting Congress's constitutional war powers. [1]
War Powers and Executive Authority: Argues that military actions like the Venezuela operation require explicit congressional authorization and that criminal indictments cannot substitute for constitutional war powers processes. [1]

Clyde W Mr. Jr Jones

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (25) ▾

Affordability: Supports policies to lower costs of gas, healthcare, rent, and groceries. [1]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports immigration reform with secure borders, limits on ICE quotas, and a path to documentation for law-abiding immigrants. [1][2][3]
Campaign finance: Supports overturning Citizens United and removing corporate money from politics. [1][2]
Campaign finance reform: Supports banning congressional stock trading, overturning Citizens United, and rejecting corporate PAC money. [1][2][3]
Checks and balances: Supports restoring congressional checks and balances on executive power. [1]
Congressional stock trading: Supports banning stock trading by members of Congress. [1][2]
Congressional term limits: Supports a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms and Senators to two terms. [1][2][3]
Government Reform / Ethics: Advocates for greater government transparency, ethics reform, and removing stock trading by members of Congress from politics. [1][2][3]
Government Reform/Ethics: Advocates for greater government transparency, adherence to constitutional law, and ending congressional stock trading by members of Congress. [1][2][3]
Government reform: Supports restoring checks and balances, constitutional adherence, and accountability to constituents over parties or corporations. [1][2]
Health care: Supports Medicaid expansion in Alabama and enhanced ACA premium tax credits. [1][2][3]
Healthcare: Supports Medicaid expansion and ACA enhanced premium tax credits to improve access and affordability for Alabamians. [1][2][3]
Immigration: Supports secure borders along with immigration reform providing a clear path to documentation for law-abiding immigrants. [1][2][3]
Immigration reform: Supports secure borders with reform providing a path to documentation for law-abiding immigrants. [1][2]
Livable wages and union rights: Supports a livable wage and the right to unionize for Alabamians. [1]
Redistricting: Opposes racially discriminatory congressional maps and supports fair districting. [1][2]
Restoration of Checks & Balances: Supports restoring congressional checks and balances and holding the executive branch accountable without corporate influence. [1][2]
Restoration of checks and balances: Supports restoring checks and balances in Congress and holding other branches accountable without corporate PAC influence. [1][2]
Veterans: Supports fighting for veterans' earned benefits, care, and respect from leaders with military experience. [1]
Veterans Affairs: Supports strengthening veterans' benefits, care, and respect, drawing on his own military service background. [1]
Veterans affairs: Supports leaders who understand the costs of war and will fight for veterans' earned benefits and care. [1][2]
Veterans/Defense: Supports stronger benefits, care, and respect for veterans, drawing on his own military service. [1]
Wages: Supports a livable wage and the right to unionize for Alabamians. [1]
Wages / Job Benefits: Supports livable wages and the right to unionize for Alabama workers. [1]
Wages and Cost of Living: Raises concerns about wage stagnation relative to cost of living, citing the gap between the federal minimum wage and living expenses in Baldwin County. [1]

David Matthews

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (37) ▾

Agriculture: Supports Alabama farmers and producers with better access to markets, credit, reliable disaster assistance, and fair federal rules. [1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports strong border enforcement, more support for Homeland Security, action against human trafficking, and a serious crackdown on fentanyl and criminal networks. [1][2]
Congressional Redistricting: Argues Alabama's prior congressional map linking Mobile and the Wiregrass did not reflect real communities and favors district lines based on shared local interests. [1]
Crime & policing: Supports law enforcement, rural first responders, and policies that hold criminals accountable. [1]
Criminal Justice & Public Safety: Supports law enforcement, aid for rural first responders, and policies to hold criminals accountable while helping prevent crime. [1]
Criminal Justice / Public Safety: Supports law enforcement, rural first responders, and policies that hold criminals accountable while helping communities prevent crime. [1]
Defense & Veterans: Backs support for military families, housing, schools, health care, and infrastructure for Alabama's defense and aviation communities. [1]
Defense / Veterans: Supports military families with good housing, schools, health care, and mission readiness infrastructure. [1][2]
Defense and Veterans: Backs support for military families, housing, schools, and health care, as well as infrastructure for aviation and defense readiness in the Wiregrass region. [1]
Defense and veterans: Supports military families with good housing, strong schools, reliable health care, and infrastructure to keep aviation and defense strong. [1][2]
Economy: Supports rural jobs, broadband, and investment so families can build a life at home in Alabama. [1]
Education: Supports parental rights, local control, strong academics, safe schools, career training, and trades education. [1][2]
Family Affordability & Taxes: Supports tax relief, lower everyday costs, and policies to ease the financial burden on Alabama families raising children. [1][2]
Family Affordability / Cost of Living: Supports tax relief, lower everyday costs, and policies to ease expenses like groceries, housing, child care, and utilities for Alabama families. [1]
Federal spending & debt: Supports a leaner, accountable government that cuts waste and delivers real results. [1]
Fentanyl & drug enforcement: Supports crackdown on fentanyl and criminal networks at the border. [1][2]
Free speech & tech censorship: Supports defending faith, free speech, and constitutional freedoms. [1]
Government accountability: Supports a leaner, accountable government that cuts waste and delivers results. [1][2]
Infrastructure: Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, warehousing, cold storage, rural logistics, and domestic manufacturing to fix supply chains. [1][2]
Military families: Supports military families with good housing, strong schools, reliable health care, and infrastructure for mission readiness. [1][2]
Military families and mission readiness: Supports military families, good housing, strong schools, reliable health care, and infrastructure for defense. [1][2]
Parents' rights in education: Supports parental rights, local control, strong academics, safe schools, career training, trades, and agriculture education. [1]
Political Alignment: Identifies as a battle-tested conservative aligned with President Trump's America First agenda, citing service in two Trump administrations. [1][2]
Political Identity / Trump Alignment: Identifies as a Trump-aligned conservative citing service in two Trump administrations, while stating he will continue his campaign despite Trump's endorsement of a rival. [1][2]
Regulation & permitting: Supports fixing supply chains through stronger infrastructure and reduced dependence on foreign imports. [1][2]
Religious liberty: Supports protecting religious liberty, free speech, and constitutional freedoms. [1]
Rural economic development: Supports rural jobs, broadband, and investment so families can build a life and economy that lets people stay in Alabama. [1]
Rural economy: Supports rural jobs, broadband, and investment so families can build a life in Alabama. [1]
Small business: Supports small businesses with lower taxes, less paperwork, and easier access to funding. [1][2]
Social Security & Medicare: Supports ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security. [1]
Supply Chain & Infrastructure: Supports strengthening ports, roads, rail, trucking, and domestic manufacturing to lower costs and reduce reliance on foreign imports. [1][2]
Supply Chain / Infrastructure: Supports strengthening ports, roads, rail, trucking, and domestic manufacturing to reduce costs and reliance on foreign imports. [1][2]
Supply chain: Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, and domestic manufacturing to reduce foreign import dependence. [1][2][3]
Supply chain and domestic manufacturing: Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, warehousing, rural logistics, and domestic manufacturing. [1]
Supply chain and infrastructure: Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, warehousing, cold storage, rural logistics, and more domestic manufacturing to cut costs and reduce foreign dependence. [1][2]
Supply chain infrastructure: Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, and domestic manufacturing to fix supply chains. [1][2]
Taxes: Supports tax relief and lower everyday expenses to make raising a family more affordable. [1][2]

Hampton Harris

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (23) ▾

Abortion: Supports strict pro-life policies with no exceptions, believing life begins at conception. [1][2]
Agriculture: Supports lowering off-road diesel costs for farmers, expanding crop insurance, and labeling American-grown products. [1]
Birthright Citizenship: Expressed disappointment with a Supreme Court ruling affirming birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. [1]
Border Security and Immigration: Supports increased border security to address drug trafficking, human trafficking, and illegal immigration. [1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports securing the border to protect against drugs, human trafficking, and violent criminals. [1]
Education: Supports moving the Department of Education to the state level. [1]
Federal Spending: Advocates reducing federal spending by targeting waste, fraud, and abuse, including concerns over SNAP benefit fraud. [1]
Federal spending & debt: Supports reducing federal spending by targeting waste, fraud, and abuse. [1]
Gun policy: Supports virtually no restrictions on the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms and opposes red-flag laws. [1]
Military and Veterans: Supports increased resources for veterans and military families, and says he would work to remove 'woke ideologies' from the military. [1][2][3]
Parents' rights in education: Supports parents' rights to direct their children's education and opposes government overreach. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Supports limiting regulations on small businesses. [1][2]
School choice: Supports school choice and moving the Department of Education to the state level. [1]
Support for veterans: Supports strengthening resources for veterans and eliminating woke ideologies in the military. [1][2]
Support for veterans and military: Supports strengthening the military, caring for veterans and their families, and eliminating woke ideologies in the military. [1][2]
Support our military and veterans: Supports strengthening the military, aiding veterans and families, and eliminating woke ideologies in the military. [1][2]
Taxation and Small Business Regulation: Supports lowering taxes and reducing regulations on small businesses to help entrepreneurs. [1][2]
Taxes: Supports lowering taxes on small businesses. [1][2]
Veterans: Supports strengthening resources and care for veterans and military families and eliminating woke ideologies in the military. [1][2][3]
Veterans and Military: Supports increased resources and legal assistance for veterans and opposes what he calls 'woke ideologies' in the military, citing recruitment and readiness concerns. [1][2][3]
Women's Sports / Title IX: Praised a Supreme Court ruling upholding state laws barring biological males from competing in girls' and women's school sports. [1]
Women's Sports and Title IX: Praised the Supreme Court ruling upholding state laws barring biological males from competing in women's and girls' school sports. [1]
Women's sports: Opposes allowing biological males to compete in women's sports. [1]

Jeremy Devito

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (21) ▾

Abortion: Supports reproductive freedom including access to abortion, birth control, and maternal care with no exceptions. [1][2]
Abortion and Reproductive Rights: Supports unrestricted access to abortion, birth control, and maternal care, opposing any restrictions on reproductive healthcare. [1][2][3]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports immigration reform with due process, dignity, and a pathway to citizenship; criticizes current ICE enforcement practices. [1][2][3]
Crime & policing: Supports funding local police departments along with mental health services and community programs to reduce crime. [1]
Economic Policy: Emphasizes economic fairness for working families, addressing rising housing costs, stagnant wages, and disparities between urban growth and rural economic conditions. [1][2]
Economy / Working Families: Focuses campaign on economic fairness, addressing rising housing costs, stagnant wages, and disparities between tech-driven growth and rural economic conditions in North Alabama. [1][2]
Federal spending & debt: Supports accountability in federal spending and reducing waste based on procurement experience. [1]
Foreign Policy/Presidential Accountability: Called for Congress to impeach President Trump following his threats of military action against Iran, citing constitutional concerns. [1]
Government Reform: Supports overturning Citizens United to reduce money in politics and pledges to support impeachment of officials who violate their oath to the Constitution. [1][2]
Government Reform / Campaign Finance: Supports overturning Citizens United to reduce money's influence in politics and increase transparency and accountability in elections. [1]
Government accountability & ethics: Supports breaking the grip of dark money to restore integrity to Congress. [1]
Government integrity: Opposes dark money and corporate influence in Congress; supports restoring integrity and accountability to government. [1]
Health care: Supports universal healthcare as a human right, funded by cutting waste and requiring the wealthy to pay fair share. [1]
Healthcare: Supports establishing universal healthcare, funded by cutting waste, negotiating drug prices, and raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations. [1][2]
Housing costs: Supports policies to address rising housing costs and support working families facing economic pressures. [1]
Immigration: Supports immigration reform with due process, dignity, and a pathway to citizenship; opposes current ICE enforcement practices. [1][2][3]
Our Democracy: Opposes corporate and special interest influence in Congress; supports restoring integrity and defending the Constitution. [1]
Presidential Accountability / Impeachment: States he would support impeachment of officials who violate their oath to the Constitution, and called for Trump's impeachment over threats of military action against Iran. [1][2]
Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting Social Security and Medicare as lifelines for district residents. [1]
Veterans: Advocates for protecting and expanding veterans' benefits, arguing veterans should not have to fight to keep benefits they earned. [1]
Veterans and Defense: Supports protecting veterans' earned benefits and ensuring they do not have to fight to keep them. [1]

Joshua Logan Mckee

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (32) ▾

Abortion: Supports a 100% pro-life position. [1][2]
Agriculture: Supports cutting red tape to protect peanut, cotton, poultry, and timber farmers. [1][2]
Agriculture & Rural Alabama: Supports cutting red tape to protect farmers (peanut, cotton, poultry, timber), investing in rural broadband and storm infrastructure, and opposing foreign ownership of American land. [1][2][3]
Border Security: Supports securing the border with tactical precision to stop cartels and criminal trafficking. [1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports securing the border with tactical precision to stop cartels and criminal trafficking. [1][2][3]
Congressional term limits: Supports congressional term limits via constitutional amendment. [1]
Defense / Veterans: Supports reforming the VA to end delays, expand local care, and increase accountability. [1][2][3]
Economy: Supports strengthening agriculture, timber, and rural small businesses. [1][2]
Education: Supports school choice and directing education funding to follow the student rather than bureaucracies. [1]
Energy production: Supports free-market growth and energy independence. [1][2]
Federal spending & debt: Supports cutting wasteful spending driving inflation. [1][2][3]
Gun policy: Defends the Second Amendment without compromise. [1][2][3]
Guns: Supports defending the Second Amendment without compromise. [1][2]
Health care: Supports work requirements for able-bodied adults in Medicaid and market-based reforms. [1][2][3]
Housing costs: Supports keeping American land in American hands by stopping foreign land grabs. [1][2]
Immigration/Border Security: Supports securing the border with tactical precision and stopping cartel and criminal trafficking activity. [1][2]
Infrastructure / Transportation: Invest in rural broadband, storm infrastructure, and hurricane resilience. [1][2]
Medicaid & Healthcare: Supports focusing Medicaid resources on the most vulnerable, implementing work requirements for able-bodied adults, and market-based healthcare reforms. [1]
Parents' rights in education: Supports empowering parents over bureaucrats in education decisions. [1][2]
Regulation & permitting: Supports cutting red tape to protect farmers and small businesses. [1][2]
School choice: Supports expanding school choice so money follows the child. [1][2]
Second Amendment: Supports defending the Second Amendment without compromise. [1][2]
Social Security: Supports protecting Social Security for all generations while ensuring long-term sustainability, including exploring privatization options. [1]
Social Security & Medicaid: Supports protecting Social Security while exploring privatization options for sustainability, and favors work requirements and market-based reforms for Medicaid. [1]
Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting Social Security with a mix of system preservation and privatization options. [1][2][3]
Taxation: Supports the FairTax Act and abolishing the IRS. [1]
Taxation & Economy: Supports the FairTax Act and abolishing the IRS, cutting wasteful federal spending, and promoting free-market growth and manufacturing jobs. [1][2]
Taxes: Supports the FairTax Act and abolishing the IRS. [1]
VA reform: Supports reforming the VA to expand local care and cut bureaucracy. [1][2][3]
Veterans & National Security: Supports VA reform to expand access to local care and cut bureaucracy, strengthening the military while ending endless wars. [1][2][3]
Veterans Affairs: Supports reforming the VA by expanding access to local care, modernizing scheduling, and cutting bureaucracy. [1][2][3]
Veterans affairs: Supports reforming the VA to expand local care, modernize scheduling, and cut bureaucracy. [1][2][3]

Kimberly Ashtyn Kennedy

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (15) ▾

Abortion: Pro-choice; supports right to medical care without government interference and conditions reducing need for abortions. [1]
Abortion/Reproductive Rights: Identifies as pro-choice, favoring policies that keep government out of personal medical decisions while working to reduce the need for abortion. [1]
Cannabis Policy: Supports federal legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, directing resulting tax revenue toward clean water infrastructure. [1]
Corporate Power/Antitrust: Advocates stronger enforcement of antitrust laws against utilities like Alabama Power, arguing this would improve conditions for local residents. [1]
Data Centers: Opposes data centers and supports a federal moratorium on their development along with state-level rules. [1][2][3]
Data Centers & Corporate Power: Opposes the expansion of data centers in Alabama and Alabama Power's business practices, advocating stronger antitrust enforcement to benefit residents. [1][2]
Data center development: Opposes data centers and supports a federal moratorium on their development along with stronger local rules. [1][2][3]
Data centers: Opposes data centers; supports federal moratorium on development and state rules to protect residents. [1][2][3]
Drug Policy / Cannabis: Supports federal legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, directing resulting tax revenue toward clean drinking water and water infrastructure upgrades. [1]
Education: Supports revitalizing and reinvesting in education at all levels. [1]
Health care: Supports healthcare for all, including dedicated focus on healthcare for women. [1]
Immigration: Aligned with fellow Democratic candidates at a district forum in favoring an end to aggressive immigration enforcement. [1]
Immigration Enforcement: Aligned with fellow district Democrats in favoring an end to aggressive immigration enforcement practices. [1]
Marijuana legalization: Supports federal legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, using tax revenue for clean drinking water and water system maintenance. [1]
Reproductive Rights: Identifies as pro-choice and supports policies that reduce the need for abortions while ensuring access to reproductive healthcare without government interference. [1]

Maurice Mercer

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (26) ▾

Abortion: Supports a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions while also supporting families, adoption, and care throughout life. [1]
Bipartisan cooperation: Supports bipartisan cooperation to reduce division and solve problems facing working families. [1][2]
Cost of Living / Economic Policy: Supports policies to lower costs for working families, increase competition, strengthen supply chains, and help families keep more of their earnings. [1]
Cost of Living / Economy: Supports policies to lower costs for working families, increase market competition, and strengthen supply chains amid rising prices for groceries, utilities, and healthcare. [1]
Cost of living: Supports policies that lower costs for working families through competition, supply chains, and keeping more of earnings. [1][2][3]
Data Centers: Expresses opposition to data centers, stating constituents are not in favor of them. [1]
Data center regulation: Supports a federal and state pause on data centers to evaluate rules and protections. [1]
Data centers: Supports a pause on data center development to evaluate rules and protections. [1]
Education: Supports strengthening public education and workforce training. [1][2]
Health care: Supports expanding access to affordable healthcare, protecting rural providers, improving mental health services, and increasing drug price transparency. [1][2][3]
Healthcare: Supports expanding access to affordable healthcare, protecting rural providers, improving mental health services, increasing transparency in prescription drug pricing, and supporting small businesses with healthcare options. [1][2][3]
Immigration: Along with other Democratic candidates in the race, favors ending aggressive immigration enforcement. [1]
Lower Costs for Working Families: Supports policies that lower costs for working families through increased competition, stronger supply chains, and helping families keep more of what they earn. [1][2][3]
Lower costs for working families: Supports policies to lower costs for working families through increased competition, stronger supply chains, and helping families keep more of their earnings. [1][2][3]
Lowering costs for working families: Supports policies that lower costs, increase competition, strengthen supply chains, and help families keep more of their earnings. [1]
Public education: Supports strengthening public education and workforce training. [1][2]
Public education and workforce training: Supports strengthening public education and workforce training. [1][2]
Public safety: Supports public safety as a focus of local and federal leadership. [1][2]
Religious liberty: Supports every American's First Amendment right to practice the religion of their choice or no religion at all. [1]
Small business: Supports small businesses. [1][2]
Small business support: Supports small businesses, including those struggling to provide affordable healthcare. [1][2]
Small businesses: Supports small businesses through affordable healthcare options and economic policies. [1][2][3]
Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting Social Security and Medicare. [1][2]
Veterans: Supports standing with veterans and first responders. [1][2]
Veterans & first responders: Supports standing with veterans and first responders. [1][2]
Veterans and first responders: Supports standing with veterans and first responders. [1][2]

Michael Shane Weaver

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (21) ▾

Child Welfare & Education: Prioritizes child safety, calling for stronger school security measures and ensuring all students have access to adequate food. [1]
Child Welfare and Education: Supports increased school safety measures and ensuring all children have access to enough food to eat. [1]
Child nutrition: Supports ensuring every child has access to healthy, reliable food as a basic right. [1][2]
Child protection: Supports strengthening protections, enforcements, and awareness to keep predators away from children. [1][2]
Cost of living: Supports policies that control prices and lower costs for basic goods and services. [1][2]
Criminal Justice / Public Safety: Supports strengthening protections and enforcement against predators to keep children safe at home, school, and online. [1]
Criminal Justice and Public Safety: Supports strengthening protections and enforcement to keep predators away from children at home, school, and online. [1]
Economy / Cost of Living: Advocates for policies to control rising prices and lower costs so families can better manage expenses and build savings. [1]
Economy and Cost of Living: Supports policies aimed at controlling rising prices and lowering costs of basic goods and services for families. [1]
Fair wages: Supports fair wages so every full-time worker can support their family with dignity. [1]
Health care: Identifies health care as the biggest concern for people in the district. [1]
Housing costs: Supports fair housing policies, rent protections, and programs for stable housing. [1][2]
Job security: Supports job security to provide workers stability and allow families to plan for the future. [1]
Protection from predators: Supports strengthening protections, enforcements, and awareness to keep predators away from children. [1][2]
Rising prices: Supports policies that control prices and lower costs for basic goods and services. [1][2]
School safety: Supports investing in stronger measures to ensure schools are safe places of growth. [1][2]
Strong unions: Supports strong unions as the backbone of worker power and collective voice. [1]
Student nutrition: Supports ensuring every student has access to healthy, reliable food. [1][2]
Worker Rights: Supports fair wages, strong labor unions, and greater job security for workers, arguing corporations currently hold too much power. [1]
Worker Rights and Labor: Supports fair wages, strong labor unions, and greater job security for workers, and opposes concentrated corporate power over employees. [1]
Worker rights: Supports protecting and expanding worker rights including fair wages, strong unions, and job security. [1][2]

Rhett Marques

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (22) ▾

Birthright citizenship: Supports banning unlimited birthright citizenship and leading legislative efforts to end it. [1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports deporting criminal illegal aliens and leading efforts to ban unlimited birthright citizenship. [1][2][3]
Congressional term limits: Supports a constitutional amendment limiting congressional terms to three House terms and two Senate terms. [1]
Crime & policing: Supports keeping criminal illegal aliens out of communities. [1][2]
DEI programs: Opposes DEI programs in education and government. [1][2]
Defense / Veterans: Supports providing resources to troops and making policies veteran-friendly like those in Alabama. [1]
Defense and veterans affairs: Supports providing troops with needed resources and making states veteran-friendly. [1]
Economy: Supports championing the commercial and recreational fishing industry and slashing regulations to grow jobs. [1][2]
Education: Opposes CRT and DEI in classrooms and supports keeping biological males out of girls' sports and locker rooms. [1][2][3]
Election integrity: voter ID: Supports election integrity measures. [1]
Federal spending & debt: Supports eliminating wasteful spending to lower costs for families. [1]
Fishing industry: Supports championing Alabama's commercial and recreational fishing industry. [1]
Foreign Policy: Supports President Trump’s efforts for sustainable peace in the Middle East and ending endless wars. [1]
Gun policy: Supports the Second Amendment as a God-given right to protect oneself and loved ones. [1]
Israel: Supports President Trump's efforts to bring sustainable peace to the Middle East. [1]
Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes gender-affirming care for those under 19. [1]
Parents' rights in education: Opposes teaching Critical Race Theory in classrooms. [1]
Regulation & permitting: Supports slashing regulations to help small businesses and Main Streets. [1]
Rural America: Supports rural communities, agriculture, and military bases. [1][2]
Taxes: Supports cutting taxes including halving the grocery tax, eliminating sales tax on diapers and baby supplies, and providing relief for seniors. [1][2]
Veterans: Supports making Alabama the most veteran-friendly state and ensuring veterans receive priority. [1]
Women's sports: Opposes allowing biological males in girls' sports and locker rooms. [1][2]

Terri Lapoint

REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Stated positions (20) ▾

Abortion: Opposes elective abortion and supports legal protection of human life from conception until natural death. [1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports protecting children from trafficking at the border and within the US with harshest punishments for perpetrators. [1]
Congressional term limits: Supports a constitutional amendment limiting congressional terms to three House terms and two Senate terms. [1]
Crime & policing: Supports harshest punishments for those involved in child trafficking and legislation to rescue victims from cartels or foster care. [1][2]
End Child Trafficking: Supports ending child trafficking at the border and within the US with harshest punishments for those involved. [1][2]
Federal Child Welfare Funding Reform: Supports legislation such as HR 5647 requiring states receiving Title IV-E funds to provide family advocates, aiming to reduce incentives for unnecessary child removals. [1]
Federal spending & debt: Opposes wasteful and fraudulent government spending and requires federal spending to align with the Constitution. [1][2]
Foster Care & Child Welfare System Reform: Supports reforming federal funding incentives (e.g., CAPTA, ASFA) that she says encourage removal of children from families, and backed HR 5647 requiring family advocates for states receiving Title IV funds. [1]
Free speech & tech censorship: Protects First Amendment freedoms including speech from government censorship. [1]
Government Accountability: Supports investigating and stopping wasteful, fraudulent, and unconstitutional federal spending and corruption. [1][2]
Gun policy: Supports Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. [1]
Health care: Supports the right to refuse or choose medical treatments and vaccines, including alternatives, with parental consent and no mandates. [1][2]
Immigration: Expresses concern about the societal costs of illegal immigration and links it to family tragedies, favoring stronger enforcement measures. [1]
Immigration and Public Safety: Highlights costs and harms of illegal immigration, including a case where an illegal immigrant was linked to a family tragedy, and links this to foster system problems. [1]
Medical Freedom: Supports the right to refuse or choose medical treatments and vaccines, including alternative treatments and parental decisions for children. [1][2]
Medical freedom: Supports the right to refuse or choose medical treatments and vaccines, including alternative treatments. [1][2]
Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes medical gender transition for minors, calling the Supreme Court Skrmetti decision common sense. [1]
Parental Rights & Family Protection: Supports strengthening parental rights and opposes government agencies removing children, disabled, or elderly family members without due cause, citing cases of 'medical kidnapping.' [1][2][3]
Parental rights: Supports parental rights legislation and parents' authority over medical and family decisions without government overreach. [1][2][3]
Parents' rights in education: Supports parental rights legislation and opposes government overreach that seizes children or undermines family authority. [1][2]

Victor Lee Mcinnis

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Stated positions (15) ▾

Border enforcement & immigration law: Opposes current immigration enforcement as illegal, unconstitutional and inhumane. [1]
Campaign Finance & Government Accountability: Pledges to refuse donations from corporate PACs and PACs tied to foreign governments, and commits to holding regular open town halls for constituents. [1][2]
Campaign Finance and Representation: Pledges to refuse donations from corporate PACs and foreign-government-linked PACs, and commits to holding open town hall meetings for constituent accountability. [1][2]
Campaign finance: Accepts no money from corporate PACs or PACs representing foreign governments. [1]
Constituent Engagement: Emphasizes face-to-face listening sessions with residents over closed-door meetings with major donors as a governing approach. [1]
Constituent representation: Commits to holding town hall meetings so everyone in the district can talk to him and hold him accountable. [1]
Economy & Taxation: Supports policies to raise wages and make life more affordable for working families, and calls for the wealthy to pay a fairer share of taxes. [1]
Economy and Taxation: Supports policies to make the economy work for working families, opposes tax policies that favor the ultra-wealthy over average earners. [1]
Education: Lists education as a campaign priority alongside middle-class economic needs. [1]
Health care: Supports healthcare for all Americans and criticizes policies creating healthcare deserts in the district. [1]
Healthcare: Supports expanding healthcare access to address rural healthcare deserts and opposes cuts to federal health care funding, including opposing budget provisions he says would cut $1 trillion from health care support. [1][2]
No corporate PAC funding: Will accept no money from corporate PACs or PACs representing foreign governments. [1]
Representation: Commits to holding town hall meetings so everyone in the district can hold him accountable. [1]
Taxes: Supports making the ultra-rich pay their fair share of taxes to level the field for working families. [1]
Veterans: States his campaign focuses on fighting for veterans' interests, drawing on his own military background. [1]

2026 Alabama House race — Gary J. Palmer's seat

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