Alabama Politics This Week

Alabama Politics This Week is a statehouse-and-streets conversation about who holds power in Alabama and who gets left waiting. It has bite. Josh Moon and David Person move through the week's political stories with a style that is conversational, skeptical, and often openly exasperated. The show's center of gravity is Alabama government, but its arguments regularly reach into national politics when those fights shape local consequences. Recent episodes focus on the Alabama AG race, school choice, voting rights, Montgomery's pushback against state control, Tuberville's residency trouble, and questions about whether Alabama politics can move beyond its usual partisan map. The show is especially interested in hypocrisy. A recurring thread is the gap between public-safety rhetoric and policies around guns, city funding, prisons, education, and health care. Mayor Steven Reed's appearances give the series a detailed look at Montgomery's view of permitless carry, public safety taxes, regional responsibility, and the politics of majority Black cities being turned into targets. The hosts also spend time on elections as machinery, not just spectacle. Straight-ticket voting, candidate quality, GOP fatigue, and Democratic prospects in difficult districts all become ways to talk about civic habits and party loyalty. Education is another durable concern, from school choice to the labeling of public schools as failing without meaningful help attached. The pacing is not formal. Serious policy runs beside weather complaints, family travel stories, softball weekends, and jokes about Alabama heat. That looseness is part of the show's identity; it can pivot from a court precedent or legislative tactic into a personal aside and then snap back to a hard political judgment. The editorial posture is plain: Alabama's decisions are not abstract, and leaders should be measured by practical effects on cities, schools, workers, families, and public institutions. It is partisan in temperature, but not only interested in party labels. The show repeatedly presses on what policy actually does. It suits listeners who already care about Alabama politics and want commentary that names names, follows local details, and does not pretend frustration is neutral. Its rougher edges are part of the package. The appeal is not polish; it is urgency, specificity, and a strong sense that state politics matters because people have to live under it.