Breaking The lawyers will keep fighting over the map. The voters of District 2 have 164 days to send Shomari Figures home. Send Him Back to Maryland →
May 26, 2026  ·  The Carpetbagger Watch

He Lives in Maryland. He Votes Like It. We Live Here — And We Vote on November 3. 164 days to send Shomari Figures home.

The map fight is in court and it will stay there until it doesn't. Three facts about our congressman are not in court and never have been. His family lives in suburban Maryland. 89.4% of every dollar he raised came from outside Alabama. His voting record in Washington belongs to the most progressive end of his party. None of that depends on which judge draws which line. All of it gets decided by the voters of District 2 on November 3.

164
Days to November 3
89.4%
Of His Money From Out Of State
$2.7M
From Silicon Valley Crypto Billionaires
$40,145
From Actual Alabama Citizens
Nov 3, 2026 — General election  ·  The voters of District 2 get the final word
What This Page Is About

The lawyers keep arguing. The receipts don't.

District 2 has been in federal court for the better part of a decade. Maps get drawn. Maps get redrawn. Injunctions get issued, stayed, vacated, reissued. The lawyers will keep doing their work, and the courts will eventually settle the lines. We are not the lawyers. We are the voters.

What does not move when the map moves: where Shomari Figures sleeps, who funds his campaigns, and how he votes in Washington. Those are public records and they sit on this site, sourced and dated. They were true under the court-drawn map. They will be true under whatever map the courts settle on. They are true today.

89.4% of every dollar he raised came from outside Alabama. 74.4% came from political action committees. $2.7 million came from a handful of Silicon Valley crypto billionaires who have never visited the district. $40,145 came from people who actually live and vote in District 2. That ratio does not change based on a courthouse decision.

The voters of District 2 get the final word on November 3. Regardless of which map. Regardless of which courtroom. The Congressman has 164 days to explain three things to the people who actually live here. We will be listening.

Three Questions

For The Maryland Resident Currently Holding Our Seat

Question One

If only 6.4% of your money comes from Alabama, who are you actually working for?

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.

Question Two

Where does the Congressman actually live?

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.

Question Three

Does the way he votes in Washington look anything like the district he represents?

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.

To Every Out-Of-State Donor On The Wall Of Shame

You Have Some Splaining To Do.

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 in court. The receipts are not. 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?

Whichever map the courts settle on, the names on the Wall of Shame are public, the dollar amounts are public, and the voters of District 2 will read the list. And on November 3, those voters — not your billionaires, not the PACs, not the litigation industry — get the final word.

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The Research

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164 Days

The Voters Get the Final Word. This Time, We Mean It.

The Congressman has spent more of 2026 in courtrooms than in the district he represents. That is his right, and his strategy. It is not a campaign. The campaign is in living rooms and church basements and union halls between now and November 3, in every county of District 2, wherever those county lines end up.

164 days to November 3. And one very interesting question hanging over every one of those days:

Will Shomari Figures spend his time in courthouses, in District 2 diners, or in his actual living room in Maryland?

We will be watching. So will the voters of District 2.