Alabama Politics This Week
Tired of the screaming rightwing maniacs on talk radio? You’ve found the right spot. APW will recap the top stories with the people who cover the news, offering unique insight and commentary you won’t find elsewhere, and providing interviews with newsmakers from both sides of the aisle.
It's Just Endless B.S. (w/ Arthur Mothershed)
A New Strategy for Democrats (w/ Rep. Barbara Drummond)
Election Aftermath (w/ Sheila Mcneil)
Garbage Words and the Real Threat (w/ Rep. Sam Jones and Elizabeth Anderson)
Just a Small Election (w/ Democratic candidate Shomari Figures)
Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes (w/ Alabama Democratic Conference Chair Joe Reed)
Dollars and Justice (w/ State Rep. Chris England)
How One Family's Loss is Changing an Entire City (w/ Nicholas Perkins)
Weapons of Mass Destruction (w/ Montgomery Sheriff Derrick Cunningham)
All Blood Flows Red (w/ Dr. Jack Hawkins, SPLC's Celsa Stallworth, and HICA's Carlos Javier Torres)
The Moron Equation (w/ State Rep. Phillip Ensler)
Learning, Polling and Rambling (w/SPLC's Brandon Jones)
Why Not Screw the Working People? (w/ Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
Not Your Grandfather's Convention (w/ Jerome Dees, Jess Unger, and Tafeni English-Relf)
Confederate Democrats and Weed (w/ former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones)
Harris's Rising Star and Unpacking Alabama's Political Future (w/ Shomari Figures)
District Attorney Daryl Bailey's Bold Take on Montgomery's Public Safety Challenges
Mayor Steven Reed on Crime, Racism, and Moving Montgomery Forward
Alabama Democratic Party Showdown: Another Intra-Party Lawsuit Looms?
Trump Convictions, LGBTQ+ Icons, and WNBA Rivalries
Millions in Unspent Welfare Funds, Campaign Reflections, and Court Controversies
TikTok Controversy and the Push for Medicaid Reform
Honoring John Lewis: An Interview With Jerrick Lewis
Maternal Health, Middle East, and Casino Debacles
Betting, Ballots, and Bad Judgments in the Heart of Dixie
Our Politicians Are Selling Us As Cheap Labor
Shomari Figures Is the Democratic Nominee in the 2nd District
A Delusional Republican Debate in the 2nd District
The 2nd District Is Not A Done Deal for Democrats
The Leaked Video of Stephen Perkins’ Shooting Raises More Questions Than It Purports To Answer
The Unmitigated Fiasco at the Autauga-Prattville Public Library (Guests: APR's Jacob Holmes and Rep. Sam Jones)
Katie Britt’s Play to Donald Trump (Guest: Marilyn Lands, House District 10 Candidate)
Breaking Down the Super Tuesday Primary (Guest: Candidate and House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
Alabama's Theocratic Supreme Court (Guest: Jerrick Lewis)
Have You Frozen Any Children This Week? (Guest: Rep. Thomas Jackson)
If It’s a Crisis, Then Fix the Crisis (Guests: Rep. Phillip Ensler and Civil Rights Activist Sheyann Webb-Christburg)
How Kay Ivey Offered Hope for a Better Alabama — Then Took It Back (Guest: Former Sen. Doug Jones)
What Happened to Alabama's DNC Delegates? (Guest: Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Randy Kelley)
The Many Problems With Alabama's Death Penalty System (Guest: Former Gov. Don Siegelman)
What Republican Rep. Andy Whitt Learned About Gaming in Alabama (Guest: Rep. Andy Whitt)
Charges in the Murder of Steve Perkins (Guest: Attorney Carl Cole)
Nicholas Perkins on Losing His Brother Steve to Police Violence (Guests: Nicholas Perkins and Shelly Bradley)
A Lawsuit Alleges Modern Day Slavery in Alabama Prisons (Guest: State Rep. Kenyatte Hassell)
A Hopeful Community Response to Stephen Perkins’s Killing in Decatur (Guest: SPLC Alabama’s Tafeni English-Relf)
School Choice and Gambling Are Back on the Agenda for the 2024 Legislative Session (Guest: State Rep. Sam Jones)
Improving Quality of Life in the Black Belt (Guest: State Rep. Kelvin Lawrence)
The Tragic Death of Mayor Bubba Copeland and a New Candidate in CD2 (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
Who’s In and Who’s Out in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District (Guest: Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed)
Alabama’s Meek Congressional Delegation (Guest: Alabama Reflector’s Brian Lyman)
What Happened to Stephen Perkins Wouldn’t Happen to Me (Guest: Attorney Carl Cole)
New Show (Guests: Fergus Bordewich and Kimball Brace)
New Map (Guest: Beth Shelburne)
Optimism v. Pessimism (Guest: SPLC Alabama Policy Director Jerome Dees)
Angry Chris (Guest: Rep. Chris England)
Scruffy White People (Guest: Alabama Democratic Party Chair Randy Kelley)
Kept Men (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
What An Ego (Guest: April Hodges)
If You Come At The King (Guest: Rep. Sam Jones)
A Tough Gig (Guest: ADP Executive Director Tom Miro)
Big Brawl (Guest: Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and Rep. Prince Chestnut)
Look Who’s Back (Guests: Kalonji Gilchrist and ADP Chairman Randy Kelley)
The Getaway (Guest: Rep. Chris England)
Change of Heart (Guest: Former Gov. Don Siegelman)
Surprise, Surprise (Guest: SPLC’s Tafeni English-Relf)
Head Bangers (Guest: Alabama Arise’s Robyn Hyden)
A Heavy Weight (Guest: Rep. Neil Rafferty)
The Consequences of Tuberville (Guest: Rep. Mary Moore)
No Peace Deals (Guests: Rep. Ontario Tillman, ADP Chair Randy Kelley, and Vice Chair Tabitha Isner)
Backwards and Pregnant (Guest: Ivana Hrynkiw)
Sensitive White People
Dadeville (Guest: A.J. McCampbell)
Just Making Sense with Rep. Barbara Drummond
Like Father, Like Daughter (Guest: Rep. Penni McClammy)
Just The Two Of Us
Shouting at Clouds (Guest: Rep. Jeremy Gray)
Mic Drop (Guest: Author Kwame Alexander)
Sick Show (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
Franchise The Footwash (Guest: SPLC’s Margaret Huang)
A Real Christian Soldier (Guest: Pastor John Pavlovitz)
There’s a Lady Involved (Guest: Stand Up Mobile’s Beverly Cooper)
A Billion Dollars (Guest: Alabama Reflector’s Brian Lyman)
Swoonin’ (Guest: Southern Poverty Law Center’s Tafeni English)
A Little Cussing (Guest: State Rep. Chris England)
Better Before (Guest: Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Randy Kelley)
Ivy League (Guests: Princeton historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer)
Preachin’ (Guest: Sharon Tubbs)
Weedy Education (Guest: CannaBama’s Jennifer Boozer)
Knockin’ on Doors (Guest: LaTanya Millhouse, Alabama Democratic Women president))
Amoeba Shaped Squid (Guest: Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed)
Drama, Drama, Drama (Guests: Randy Kelley, Rep. Phillip Ensler)
Content With Conspiracies (Guest: Chip Brownlee)
We All Cry The Same (Guest: Efrén C. Olivares)
As Reliable as a 30-Year Treasury Note (Guest: Joe Reed)
That’s Racist (Guest: Doug Jones)
Full Up (Guests: Cullman Comes Out, Leroy Maxwell, and AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire)
Information For Life (Guests: Letitia Jackson and Davin Rosborough)
The Early Show (Guest: Former Gov. Don Siegelman)
Inverted Privates (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
A Crack House Too (Guest: Jerry Mitchell)
Depressing Yet Informative (Guest: ADP Vice Chair Tabitha Isner)
Horror Show (Guest: Liz Bruenig)
Where’s Kay Ivey (Guests: Kyle Whitmire and Marilyn Lands)
Like Dogs Chasing Cars (Guest: Beth Shelburne)
Pandering With Lawsuits (Guest: Congresswoman Terri Sewell)
We Back (Guest: Abortion advocate Mia Raven)
Texting 101 (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
A Real American Hero (Guest: Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray)
Looking Past The Obvious (Guest: State Rep. Barbara Drummond)
America’s Very Obvious Gun Problem (Guest: Phillip Ensler)
Just F’n Stupid (Guest: Quinton Ross)
The Sixth Beatle (Guest: Dr. Will Boyd)
Six Days In Evansville (Guests: Carol Robinson and Brian Lawson)
Everything Changed (Guest: Sen. Doug Jones)
Alabama Keeping Racism Alive (Guest: Mallory Hagan)
Easter Sermon (Guest: Jaba Tsitsuashvili)
Send In The Bathroom Guards (Guest: Commissioner Violet Edwards)
A Parking Deck Orgy (Guest: State Rep. Rolanda Hollis)
Appendages In Knots (Guest: Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
Long Division (Guest: Rep. Laura Hall)
Gambling 101 (Guest: Rep. Dexter Grimsley)
David’s Other Podcast (Guests: Erika Alexander and Rebkah Howard)
Just Awful (Guest: Rep. Neil Rafferty)
A Racist Merry-go-round (Guest: State Rep. Ralph Howard)
Ballin’ Out of Control (Guest: Rep. Napoleon Bracy)
All Children Left Behind (Guest: State Rep. Sam Jones)
A Real SOB (Guest: John Archibald)
State of Denial (Guest: Kyle Whitmire)
Just A Couple Fellas (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
Back With a Bullet (Guest: Beth Shelburne)
A Christmas Rant (Guest: Comedian Deno Posey)
Gotta Have Faith (Guest: UAB‘s Dr. Michael Saag)
Scared by Sex (Guest: Doug Jones)
Where Are The Baked Lays (Guest: Congresswoman Terri Sewell)
No Brisket for You (Guest: Attorney Phillip Ensler)
All Alone (Guest: Attorney Barry Ragsdale)
A Fresh Perspective (Guest: Rep. Chris England)
The Dancing Chicken Show (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
No COVID in Kansas (Guest: Former Republican Sen. Dick Brewbaker)
Best of: Alabama‘s Prison Humanitarian Crisis (Guest: Chris England)
A Real Conniption (Guest: State Rep. Mary Moore)
Isolated Southerners (Guest: Pardons and Paroles Director Cam Ward)
It‘s Stupid Week (Guest: Tabitha Isner)
Snip the Balls (Guest: Karen Corps)
Dark Days (Guest: Former State Rep. Patricia Todd)
The Schools Are On Fire (Guest: Mayor Steven Reed)
Alabama Prisons Are A Humanitarian Crisis (Guest: Chris England)
My Trouble Name (Guest: State Rep. Merika Coleman)
The Communist (Guest: Dr. Mike Saag)
There Is A Plan (Guest: ADP Executive Director Wade Perry)
Accurate History of America's Racism Can Bring Us Together (Guest: Malinda Edwards)
Best of: State Rep. Mary Moore
Best of: Police chief Ken Scott
Best of: Faith in Action's JaiGregory Clarke and Daniel Schwartz
The Getaway Show (Guest: Decatur City Councilman Billy Jackson)
The Great White Hope (Guest: State Rep. Neil Rafferty)
Yippee Ki Yay (Guest: Martin Weinberg)
Out With the Old, In With the Old (Guest: Police chief Ken Scott)
Alabama Police This Week (Guest: Lecia Brooks, SPLC)
Huntsville Is Alabama (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
A Horror Movie (Guest: State Rep. Merika Coleman)
The Impediments (Guest: State Rep. Kelvin Lawrence)
Namaste (Guest: State Rep. Jeremy Gray)
A Little Hope (Guest: State Rep. Prince Chestnut)
Maybe A Good Episode (Guest: House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels)
A Sordid Affair (Guest: John Archibald)
It's All Ratchet (Guest: State Rep. Juandalynn Givan)
Jesus Would Support Unions (Guest: Josh Brewer)
Get Your Socks On (Guests: State Rep. Sam Jones and Alabama Appleseed's Leah Nelson)
Finally, Relief (Guest: State Rep. Mary Moore)
We Give You Everything (State Rep. Laura Hall)
Greed Is Bad (Guests: Faith in Action's JaiGregory Clarke and Daniel Schwartz)
Coming Out Hot
The Insurrection Will Be Televised
Guess Who's Back
All the Fury
Looks Like We Made It
It Was All Bulls--t
Everything's on Fire
A Dose of Christmas Pessimism
Whitewashed Alabama History
Let's Rumble: Secretary of State John Merrill
Pop Quiz
Get Out
Where Are We?
The Light at the End
And We're Back! With Sen. Doug Jones
Everyone's Angry
Down goes the Confederacy, again
Will protests spread COVID-19?
Alabama NAACP President Benard Simelton
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed
The Revenge of MeeMaw
Bye, Bye, GOP
Gov. Kay Ivey v. The Dummies
Will Democrats show up to the COVID-19 State House?
Rep. Terri Sewell and Dr. Ronald Wyatt
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin
Former Gov. Don Siegelman and Coronavirus Crazy
The Coronavirus Shuffle
Coronavirus Chronicles, Part III: Get the numbers to the people
This Coronavirus Sucks
The Coronavirus Goes Crazy
A Not-So-Super Tuesday and the Elf on the Shelf Returns
Can Bloomberg win in Alabama? And the ADP lawsuit is finally over.
Sen. Doug Jones on his chances