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What Alabama Arise heard in 2025!
Alabama Arise strives to live out our values. A core piece of our vision is that we have an Alabama where people are engaged in the policymaking process. And we prioritize the voices of those marginalized by poverty. One way we try to realize our vision of people’s engagement is to listen. We value the [...]
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Alabama coalition to lawmakers: Keep TVA public, affordable and accountable
State and federal lawmakers should oppose any efforts to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a broad coalition of 43 Alabama organizations wrote in a joint letter released Tuesday. The groups warned that privatization would raise energy costs, eliminate good jobs, weaken environmental protections and strip the public of its voice in decisions about the [...]
Letters & Testimony
Alabama Arise, 42 partner groups ask lawmakers to stand strong against TVA privatization
Proposals to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) have surfaced repeatedly in recent years. Alabama Arise joined 42 partner groups in a letter urging Alabama’s congressional delegation and state elected officials to speak out in opposition to efforts to privatize TVA and to keep energy reliable, affordable and accountable to Alabamians. The full text of [...]
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After a successful 2025 session, Alabama Arise looks toward the future
[caption id="attachment_11095" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Several Alabama Arise staff members participated in Gov. Kay Ivey's bill signing ceremony for HB 386 on July 31, 2025, at the State Capitol in Montgomery. HB 386 will reduce the state sales tax on groceries from 3% to 2% starting Sept. 1, 2025. Left to right: Arise legislative director David [...]
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What the new federal budget law means for SNAP, health care in Alabama
By Carol Gundlach, senior policy analyst, and Debbie Smith, Cover Alabama campaign director While many Alabamians were celebrating July 4, Congress passed a sweeping budget reconciliation law that will hurt families across the country. To extend more than $1 trillion of tax cuts for the richest Americans, Congress slashed health care, food assistance and other [...]
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2025 has been a roller coaster of a year for Alabama Arise
After years of advocacy, Alabama Arise and our partners secured several huge victories for low-income and working people at the State House this year! These legislative wins included: An additional reduction of the state grocery tax. A law removing the state sales tax on many women’s health products, maternity care items and baby care items. [...]
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Diverse membership is our power
We just wrapped up our summer Membership Drive, where some of our members – “Arise Ambassadors” – helped grow our membership by inviting friends and neighbors to join Alabama Arise. People join Arise to build a more equitable Alabama. And our members are our power: You choose our legislative priorities and advocate with us at [...]
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Annual Meeting to chart Arise’s course for 2026 and beyond
Grassroots democracy will be on display when Alabama Arise members help shape our 2026 legislative priorities at our Annual Meeting on Saturday, Sept. 27. There will be options to meet both in person and online via Zoom. The Arise board voted to adjust the way we select our legislative agenda starting this year. We will [...]
Newsletter
September 2025 newsletter
After a successful 2025 session, Alabama Arise looks toward the future By Chris Sanders, communications director Building a better Alabama for all is not the work of a single year or decade or even lifetime. It’s work that spans generations. Each of us should do our best to build upon the foundation laid by those [...]
Annual Report
Annual Report 2025
2025 was one of Arise’s most successful years ever at the State House. Our advocacy wins included reducing the state grocery tax, removing barriers to maternal health care, securing paid parental leave for teachers and state employees, and advancing policies to reduce child hunger. And those were just a few of the successes we celebrated together!