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Articles about Tommy Tuberville
A Reporter Asked Tommy Tuberville About His Promise to Give His Salary to Veterans. Tuberville Said 'Get Him Out,' and Deputies Did.
At a Mobile County GOP dinner advertised as open to the public, a Lagniappe reporter asked about Tuberville's 2020 pledge to donate 'every dime' of his Senate salary to veterans. Tuberville had sheriff's deputies escort him out. There is still no record he kept the promise.
Tommy Tuberville Now Says Data Centers Use 'As Much Water as Two McDonald's.' In September, He Wanted Them to Replace the Water They Take.
On October 14, Tommy Tuberville said he's '100% for data centers,' that they use 'as much water as two McDonald's' and won't raise power prices. Six weeks earlier, his own plan said they must replace the water they take and that Alabama ratepayers need protecting from them.
Tommy Tuberville Says People Moving to North Alabama Were Taught 'Socialism and Communism.'
The Republican nominee for governor told a radio host that newcomers to the Huntsville area grew up in 'government-educated schools that have taught socialism and Communism' and need to be 'educated.' A Republican lawmaker from Huntsville says that's not correct.
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9 Americans killed in the West Bank. 50 Senate Republicans won't ask why #maga #alabama #maine
Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022, including an elderly man dragged from his car, a journalist shot in the head, and a 20-year-old beaten to death.
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Republicans rigged the stock trading ban to fail #maga #alabama #maine
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks while writing the laws that move the market.
Republicans Cut Medicaid by Nearly $1 Trillion. They Scheduled the Pain for After You Vote.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith Led 128 Republicans in Asking for a Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood. They Asked Whether It 'Illegally Received $88 Million.' Nobody Has Found That.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
Republicans Tied a Weak Stock Trading Ban to a Voter ID Law. It Failed. One Republican Says That Was the Plan.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
Nine Americans Were Killed in the West Bank. These Republican Senators Voted Not to Even Ask What Happened.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
13 Senate Republicans Voted to Keep a Trump Rule That HHS Says Will Cost Up to 2 Million People Their Health Insurance
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
Asked About 'the Least of These,' Tommy Tuberville Was Stumped by the Bible Verse. Then He Cheered 760,000 People Being Cut From Obamacare.
When a reporter said critics accuse Republicans of punishing 'the least of these,' Tommy Tuberville asked what that meant, said 'we're all getting punished,' and called the removal of 760,000 people from ACA coverage a 'good job' — while experts question how many were cut by mistake.
The House Voted to End Trump's Iran War. On September 24, 14 Republican Senators We Track Killed It by One Vote.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
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Tommy Tuberville is spreading transgender lies #maga #alabama #lgbtq
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville took to the Senate floor to call for bringing back mental institutions, claim trans people are fueling a wave of violent crime, and warn that airline pilots are secretly "furries."
Diesel in Alabama Is Up 80%. Tommy Tuberville Says People There Are 'Willing to Pay' for Trump's War: 'Yeah, Sure They Are.'
Asked whether Alabamians are willing to pay $6 diesel to keep Trump's Iran war going, Tommy Tuberville told CNN 'Yeah, sure they are.' The Senate has voted 13 times on ending that war; he voted no on 11 and missed the other two.
Tommy Tuberville Called for Bringing Back Mental Institutions to Stop Trans 'Violence.' Trump's Own FBI Found No Sign the Butler Shooter He Named Was Trans.
In a Senate floor speech his office titled 'the Transgender Mental Disease,' the Alabama governor candidate blamed Charlie Kirk's killing and the Butler shooting on trans people, said doctors should spend life in prison, and warned your pilot might be a furry. The FBI and the charging documents say otherwise.
Twenty-Four Republicans on This Site Have Refused to Debate Their Opponents This Year. Cliff Bentz Turned Down Four Invitations.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
The Sports Betting Industry Gave $200,000 to a Nonprofit Run by Tommy Tuberville's Fundraiser, His Campaign Manager's Wife and One of His Biggest Donors
A group representing FanDuel and DraftKings gave $200,000 to the Southeastern Conservative Foundation, a dark-money nonprofit formed in July 2025 by people at the center of Tommy Tuberville's run for Alabama governor. Online sports betting is illegal in Alabama, and Tuberville says the next governor should leave gambling to the legislature.
The Republicans We Cover Keep Putting White Nationalists on the Payroll, the Stage and the Ballot. Asked About It, They Denounce Racism in General and Never Say the Name.
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
Tom Cotton Asked for His Arkansas Ballot to Be Mailed to Virginia. Mike Rogers Campaigned From His Florida Mansion. Zach Lahn's Plane Spent More Nights in Kansas Than at His Iowa Home.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
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Tommy Tuberville wants a U.S. citizen in Congress deported
Tommy Tuberville is running for governor of Alabama, and he went on national TV to demand that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen for over 26 years, be deported.
Tommy Tuberville Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Citizen for 26 Years, Should Be Deported: 'Send Her Back Where She Came From.'
On Newsmax, the Alabama senator running for governor said Omar 'wants the president to be dead' and should be sent home. Newsmax's own story noted that Tuberville pointed to no statement in which Omar said any such thing. Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and became a citizen in 2000; a citizen can't be deported unless a court first strips her citizenship.
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Data Centers Are Ruining America. These Republicans Invited Them In.
Big Tech is building data centers in our backyards.
Tommy Tuberville Says Alabamians Worried About Data Centers Are Repeating Chinese Propaganda. As a Senator He Bought and Sold Alibaba — and Was Late Disclosing About 130 Trades.
Doug Jones pointed at Tuberville's Senate financial disclosures and asked whether Alabama's likely next governor personally profits from data centers. The disclosures show a China critic who traded a Chinese AI giant's stock and options, and broke the STOCK Act reporting it.
Fifty Republican Senators Voted Against Even Debating an End to the Boat Strikes. A Year Into the Campaign, 227 People Are Dead in a "Year of Murders".
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
Tommy Tuberville Called Alabamians' Data Center Worries 'Bull Crap.' Twenty-Five Days Later, a Data Center Developer Gave Him $25,000.
Applied Digital owns 1,300 acres in Brookwood and won't say whether it's building a data center there. On August 7 it wrote Tuberville's campaign a $25,000 check. The town's own mayor has signed a non-disclosure agreement, so residents can't find out either.
Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
A Michigan Senate Nominee Criticized Tommy Tuberville's Anti-Sharia Bills. Tuberville Called Him a 'Terrorist Sympathizer.'
Abdul El-Sayed said Tuberville's push to ban Sharia targets Muslims for being different. Tuberville's answer, on X: 'Sounds like something a terrorist sympathizer would say.' He is running for governor of Alabama.
Marsha Blackburn and Tommy Tuberville Signed a Bill to Ban Federal Money for Studying Trans Kids' Care. Two Weeks Later, Trump's Medicare Agency Moved to End the Coverage.
S. 5202 would bar federal funds from any research or publication on gender transition in minors. Blackburn and Tuberville cosponsored it on July 30 — two weeks before Medicare's agency published the rule ending Medicaid coverage for the care itself. Both are running for governor.
Your Town Fought a Data Center. Seven Republicans Decided You Might Be Working for China.
71% of Americans don't want a data center near them. Rather than answer them, these members asked the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate who's funding the opposition — while researchers who actually looked for a Chinese campaign said: 'We haven't found much.'
95,000 Alabamians Just Lost Their Obamacare Coverage. Here's How Each of Their Republicans Voted.
Alabama's ACA enrollment fell 23% after Congress let the enhanced tax credits expire. Four Alabama Republicans voted for a bill that didn't extend them, one skipped the vote, and Tommy Tuberville helped filibuster the real fix.
Tommy Tuberville Asks ChatGPT About Medicare While He Drives Across Alabama. "You Don't Know Whether or Not They're 100 Percent Correct."
A Washington Post investigation found lawmakers outsourcing their work to chatbots with almost no oversight. Tuberville uses ChatGPT on policy. Anna Paulina Luna's office shipped an amendment summary with 'Claude responded:' still in it. Mike Flood asked a bot about housing.
Congress Gave ICE $70 Billion and No Rules on Conduct. Now ICE Is Buying Electric Shock Gloves.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
45 Republicans We Cover Broke the Law That's Supposed to Stop Insider Trading in Congress
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
The Farm Bill Failed by One Vote. Tommy Tuberville Was at the Meeting — Just Not in the Room.
The Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill died 10-11. Tuberville was present for other parts of the markup but not for the final vote. Updated August 22: all eight of Alabama's food banks asked him by name for a SNAP waiver. Britt — who isn't on the Agriculture Committee — replied. Tuberville, who is, did not.
A State Had to Sue the Federal Government to Investigate Child Sex Crimes. Three Days Later, 50 Republicans Promoted the Man It Sued.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
At 4:17 in the Morning, 50 Republican Senators Handed the Justice Department to Trump's Former Personal Lawyer
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
At 4:36 in the Morning, 52 Republican Senators Voted to Advance a New Hurdle Between You and the Ballot Box
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
Tommy Tuberville Wants to Build a 30-Foot Wall Around Alabama
Alabama's senator told a podcast the state might need its own border wall because 'they want to take this country over.' His office says he meant 'radical Islamic terrorists.'
Five Houses in Little Rock. Two of Them Occupied by Christians. That's the Sharia Takeover.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
ICE Is Reading Your Posts. Congress Paid for It.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
The Republicans With the Worst Records on ICE
Federal immigration agents have killed American citizens in the street. These Republicans took the money, wrote the checks, told agents to shoot back, and refused to say a word against it.
14 Republican Senators Just Voted to Let Your Child Care Bill Go Up
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
The Senate Has Now Voted 13 Times on Ending the Iran War. These 13 Republicans Voted No Every Time It Mattered.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Congress Wrote Down That Dismantling the Education Department Was Illegal. Then Republicans Let It Happen Anyway.
Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
Tommy Tuberville Threw His Own Party's Talking Points in the Trash — Because They Weren't Pushing Voter Suppression Hard Enough
Senate Republican leaders sent members talking points telling them to change the subject when asked about the stalled SAVE America Act. Tuberville binned them and demanded the bill pass, claiming 80 to 90 percent of Americans want it. Asked about the bill's actual requirement, barely half do.
Tommy Tuberville Called Social Security a 'Ponzi Scheme.' He's Collected About $93,000 From It.
Alabama's senator stood on the Senate floor and called Social Security a government-approved Ponzi scheme. Tax records show he drew nearly $100,000 from it in his first three years in office — on top of his Senate salary.
Tommy Tuberville Says That If You Make Him Governor, He'll Try to Put Anthony Fauci in an Alabama Prison
Tuberville claims Fauci 'killed millions' and wants every one of the '20 to 30,000' Alabamians he says were lost to sue him. Alabama's entire COVID death toll is about 21,100 — and a Republican-led House investigation found no evidence linking Fauci to wrongdoing, the AP reports.
The 4 Best States in America Don't Have a Single Republican in Congress
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
Alabama Towns Are Saying No to Data Centers. Tommy Tuberville Says That's 'Bull Crap' — and Blames China.
At least ten Alabama communities have pushed back on data centers over water, power, and noise. The Republican nominee for governor says those neighbors are repeating Chinese propaganda.
Tuberville's New 'Waste' Team Includes the Owner of a Company That Just Won a $500 Million Alabama Prison Contract
Tuberville says his transition team has no lobbyists. It does have the founder of NaphCare — a prison healthcare firm banned from New York — and the team will be reviewing prisons and healthcare.
Tommy Tuberville Wants an American Mayor Sent to Guantanamo Bay
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville called New York's mayor a 'thug' who should be put in handcuffs and shipped to Gitmo — once Mamdani does something "stupid" enough.
Tommy Tuberville Broke the Stock-Disclosure Law 132 Times in His First Year in the Senate. Now He's Asking Alabama to Make Him Governor.
He called people who live in cities 'inner-city rats,' says Islam 'is not a religion,' and backed a bill Alabama clean-energy advocates warn will destroy solar jobs in the state.
What Alabama's Republicans in Congress Are Costing You
Alabama already ranks 46th of 50 on the measures we track — and its members of Congress just voted to cut health care, food, and public health on top of it.
52 Republican Senators Just Voted to Hand ICE Nearly $70 Billion
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
Tommy Tuberville Says 'Four or Five' Senators 'Didn't Legally Win' — And Offers Zero Proof
On Newsmax, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville claimed several of his Senate colleagues were elected illegally. He gave no evidence — because there isn't any.
Tuberville Claimed the Housing Bill Was 'For People Here Illegally.' Fact-Checkers Rated It False.
Alabama's Tommy Tuberville is running for governor on housing costs. To justify voting against a bipartisan bill to lower them, he told Fox News it would build homes for people 'here illegally.' PolitiFact rated that False.
Tommy Tuberville Is Celebrating the End of Abortion Rights
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, now running for Alabama governor, is throwing a party for the Supreme Court ruling that ended Roe — the same ruling that gave Alabama one of the harshest abortion bans in the country.
12 Republican Senators We Track Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
197 Republicans Voted to Spike Your Health Insurance Premiums
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.
Tommy Tuberville Wants to Be Alabama's Governor. A Lawsuit Says He Doesn't Even Live There.
Tuberville is fighting to throw out a lawsuit that says he didn't meet Alabama's seven-year residency rule — while he owned a beach house in Florida and voted there.
Tommy Tuberville Says He Wants Lower Housing Costs. Then He Voted No.
Alabama's senator, now running for governor, says he wants to bring down housing costs. But when a rare bipartisan bill to lower them came up, he voted against it — twice.
Tommy Tuberville Promised to Give 'Every Dime' to Veterans. There's No Record He Did.
Alabama's senator ran on a promise to donate his whole Senate salary to veterans. Six years and over $1 million later, his own tax records show no sign it happened — and his foundation's treasurer says that's on him.