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Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments that would change Alabama’s political landscape. It was later, in June of 2023, that the justices told Alabama to redraw its Congressional voting map to better represent African Americans. The court case known as Allen versus Milligan created the new U.S. House District Two in part of Alabama’s Black Belt. The APR news team spent most of this year investigating the issues impacting voters there. Part one of our series “A U.S. House seat, if you can keep it” can be found at apr.org.

Alabama's newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District is sparking a heated election. Democrat Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, is trying to flip the seat. Republican Caroleene Dobson, a real estate attorney and political newcomer, is attempting to keep the seat in GOP hands

Fireworks on Capitol Hill started long before this Thursday’s Fourth of July holiday. Congress is still working on the new spending plan for the U.S. Military and things got contentious in the House of Representatives. APR news was in Washington, D.C. during a partisan fight over the bill.

Alabama U.S. Senators Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville were at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C. for a GOP meeting with Donald Trump that drew protesters in the sweltering heat of the nation’s capital. This was Trump’s first visit with lawmakers since the January 6th insurrection.

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander. Louisiana would join Alabama, where voters will choose a new U.S. House member following a similar SCOTUS ruling.

Some 170 foundations, donors and advisors have signed on to a pledge started by the nonprofit Democracy Fund to make their grants earlier this Election Year. The "get out the vote" effort will reportedly include Alabama.

The November election will include the first vote for Alabama’s newly redrawn District two U.S. House seat. An analysis by the non-profit National Redistricting Foundation says turnout could be big.

Voters in a new Alabama congressional district at the center of an ongoing legal and political dispute will return to the polls Tuesday to select the nominees in a U.S. House contest that could help decide control of the narrowly divided chamber this November.

The two Democrats running for Alabama's newly redrawn congressional district stressed their experience — one at the federal level and one at the Alabama Legislature — in a debate that aired Tuesday night.

U.S. Senator Katie Britt confided that she counts some Democratic colleagues among her best friends in the Senate and said such cross-party relationships are essential to governing, especially as social media fuels widening political divisions.