But more importantly to me is that we have transparency.

What I see happening in Lowndes County right now is really typical of what’s wrong with Alabama government. Everything done behind closed doors, no transparency.

We haven’t expanded Medicaid because it’s become a political issue.

We’ve got to strike right now. As soon as I can get sworn in, we’ll get Phil (Ensler), we’ll get voters (and) we’re going to push for a constitutional amendment.

I know that there are construction jobs and union support for building data centers. I know that data centers have the potential for providing badly needed revenue for local communities. But I also know that these projects have the…

One year until we have guardrails and policies in place that protect our people and our communities.

I want to give more power to local governments and create a citizen ballot initiative process to allow votes on popular issues the Legislature may block.

Voting rights are not a chapter in the history book anymore. We don’t get to close that vote. They’re a living promise that must be defended in every generation, and we are seeing it right now today.

Republican women, Democratic women, independent women, you watch politicians in Montgomery and Washington decide that they know better than you do about your own body, your own family and your own life.

The fact is, Alabama is a poor state. It’s an unhealthy state, and Medicaid expansion is not a handout, it’s a hand up.

In this year, in 2026, we’re witnessing perhaps the greatest example of what is wrong with state government in Alabama and how big money works in our state.

We don’t want to go back, folks.

We’re all a little broken, but in Alabama we all belong.

We’re not going to spend any time trying to persuade the unpersuadable.

We have a different view of governing.

Well, it must be pretty damaging.

We increased the number of Democratic votes significantly, 15% or more.

And we did that without spending a lot of money.

That was a big number. We increased the number of Democratic votes significantly, 15% or more.

Democrats last night overperformed in our elections.

Our goal, folks, our goal is a different kind of state government, one that truly belongs to the people of Alabama.

This is not just affecting minority communities, it’s going to affect everybody, and what we’re seeing as a in a shameful Supreme Court is taking away rights left and right from all manner of citizens, and so we’re going to make a point of…

For too long, folks in Montgomery have worked only for themselves and the power, the powerful people who put them there. That’s who they work for, the well connected, the special interest. They don’t work for the people of Alabama.

Change means rising wages, including raising the minimum wage. Change means better, more affordable health care. Change means expanding Medicaid to make healthcare work.