On June 2, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared Alabama to use its 2023 congressional map. District 2 no longer includes Mobile; its Black voting-age population falls from about 49% to under 40%; and a seat drawn to elect a Democrat now leans Republican again. Shomari Figures is in a world of hurt — and so are his donors. The same machine that built him — 89.4% out-of-state money, $2.7 million in Silicon Valley crypto cash, a national party that treats this seat as its own — is about to spend whatever it takes to hold it, with a ground game this state has never seen. The people who want to take District 2 back had better be ready to match it.
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For most of a decade, District 2 lived in federal court — maps drawn, redrawn, enjoined, stayed. That chapter is over for 2026. On June 2, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared Alabama to use its 2023 map. The district engineered to elect Shomari Figures — Mobile pulled in, the lines bent to manufacture a Democratic seat — is gone.
The new District 2 no longer includes Mobile. Its Black voting-age population drops from about 49% to under 40%. It is, once again, Republican-leaning Alabama ground. In plain terms: the seat is winnable, and the incumbent is in trouble.
Which is exactly why what comes next will be unlike anything this state has seen. The money that built Shomari Figures did not come from here. 89.4% of every dollar he raised came from outside Alabama. 74.4% came from PACs. $2.7 million came from a handful of Silicon Valley crypto billionaires who have never set foot in the district. $40,145 came from people who actually live and vote here. That machine is not going to walk away from a seat it paid for — it is going to pour in more: more ads, more out-of-state cash, more paid operatives knocking doors, to save a congressman the new map leaves exposed.
The people who want to take District 2 back have to be ready for it. The Republican primary is August 11. The general election is November 3. The question between now and then is simple: can a district that is once again Alabama out-work, out-organize, and out-last the most expensive ground game money can buy? This page keeps the receipts — sourced, dated, public — so the voters of District 2 know exactly who is spending, and why.
The same out-of-state road show is already planning its return. In May, AOC and the celebrity left staged a rally at our own State Capitol in Montgomery, telling “the North to pull up to the South” and lecturing Alabama on how to vote — from behind their own bulletproof glass. They’ll be back with more money, more cameras, and more talking points to prop up a congressman the new map leaves exposed.
They’ll have the road show. District 2 has the voters.
89.4% out-of-state. 74.4% from political action committees. $2.7 million from Silicon Valley crypto billionaires. $40,145 from the people who actually live in District 2. Most members of Congress raise the bulk of their money from the voters they represent. Our congressman is the other way around. The Q2 FEC report drops July 15, and we will read every line. The question for him is not whether his donors will keep writing checks. The question is whether the voters they paid to elect will keep voting for him once they read the receipts.
The Figures family residence in the Washington suburbs has been a matter of public record since before he ran in 2024. Wife. Kids. School bus stop. Most Alabama members of Congress live in Alabama and fly to Washington for work. The Congressman has it the other way around: he commutes from suburban Maryland to the Capitol, which is a four-hour drive, and from his family's house to the district he represents, which is at minimum a fifteen-hour drive or a layover flight through Atlanta. With 164 days until November 3, the question of whether his wife and kids will leave their home in suburban Maryland and rent something in District 2 is a campaign question, not a family one. We are not asking who he loves. We are asking where he sleeps.
District 2 is Alabama. Conservative. Working. Faithful. Pro-life. Pro-Second Amendment. Pro-energy. Pro-border. The Congressman's roll-call record in the 119th Congress reads like it was written for a different district in a different state. He campaigned as a moderate. He votes with the progressive caucus. The full vote list is on this site, dated and sourced to the U.S. House Clerk's official roll call records. The Congressman has 164 days to explain to the voters who hired him what they got, and the voters of District 2 have the same 164 days to decide whether they want to renew the contract.
Two-point-seven million dollars in crypto money from Silicon Valley billionaires. Hundreds of thousands more from out-of-state PACs, ideological mega-donors, and the national party machinery. 89.4% of every dollar raised came from outside Alabama. 74.4% came from PACs. $40,145 came from actual Alabama citizens. The math was never about Alabama.
The map is settled now. The money is just getting started. So here is the question for every name on the Wall of Shame:
What did you actually buy, and what do the voters of District 2 think they got for it?
The map is decided. The names on the Wall of Shame are still public, the dollar amounts are still public, and the voters of District 2 will read the list. And on November 3, those voters — not the billionaires, not the PACs, not the national party — get the final word.
See The Full Wall Of ShameClick any card to read the full analysis with sourced data and public records.
Every out-of-state mega-donor, every crypto PAC, every ideological bundler who paid to put a Maryland resident in our seat. The receipts are public. The list is permanent. The voters of District 2 read it.
See Who Paid89.4% out-of-state. 74.4% from PACs. $40,145 from Alabama citizens. An FEC analysis of every dollar raised — by state, by source, by donor.
Read the Full AnalysisHe campaigns as a moderate. He votes as a progressive. Every key roll call vote from the 119th Congress — what he said vs. how he voted.
See Every VoteWife. Kids. School bus stops. All in suburban Maryland. The Congressman's commute is a four-hour drive to Washington — and a much longer one back to the district he represents. 164 days to figure out where he actually lives.
Read the Story$2.7 million from Silicon Valley crypto billionaires in a district they had never visited. Their ads talked about healthcare. They never mentioned cryptocurrency.
Follow the ChainThe litigation that defined this district is over for 2026. The 2023 map is the map. Shomari Figures now runs in a district that leans away from him — which is exactly why the national money will treat District 2 like a five-alarm fire. Expect the crypto cash, the out-of-state PACs, and a paid ground operation bigger than anything this corner of Alabama has ever absorbed.
A winnable seat is not a won seat. It comes down to who shows up — in living rooms, church basements, and union halls in every county of the new District 2, between now and November 3.
They will spend whatever it takes to keep this seat. The only thing that beats that kind of money is the people who actually live here — organized, funded, and ready.
Take Back District 2. This time, the map is on our side.