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In battleground states, a network of Republican political operatives and lawyers is trying to shape the November's election in favor of former President Donald Trump. They're propping up liberal third-party candidates such as Cornel West and Jill Stein in the hopes that those candidates will siphon off votes from Democrat Kamala Harris. The Associated Press reports one key figure is the former Chief of Staff to former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton headlined day three of the Democratic National Convention. The crowd also heard from Republicans with the message of “quit Trump.” That included a GOP voter from Alabama.

Today marks fifty years since President Richard Nixon resigned from office during the fallout from the Watergate scandal. Operatives allegedly linked to the Commander-In-Chief broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel next to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. A Congressional committee investigation led by North Carolina U.S. Senator Sam Ervin, punctuated by testimony by former House counsel John Dean, grabbed the headlines. But, two Alabama lawmakers reportedly helped seal Nixon’s fate.

Fifteen states, including Alabama, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act's health insurance.

NAACP leaders, nationally and here in Alabama, issued statements following President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw his name from the November race for the White House.

Alabama Republican House Gary Palmer joined Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in demanding that President Joe Biden resign from the White House. This move came after Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday.

Republican curveballs following President Joe Biden’s withdrawl from the November race for the White House could produce a flurry of state and federal lawsuits in this hyper-partisan era. Some conservatives have threatened just that. One issue is keeping Vice President Kamala Harris off of State ballots. Alabama apparently won’t be a problem.

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.

Democratic President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots, as once-mundane procedural negotiations get caught up in the nation's fractious politics.

A new WalletHub study compared all fifty states within five categories to investigate which states are most representative of the U.S. population. The point was to see how much each State resembles the rest of the country as the nation prepares to head to the polls in November to pick the next President. Alabama came in at number forty-eight, just ahead of Mississippi and Utah.