The number on every Wiregrass kitchen table
Ask people across District 2 what keeps them up at night and you will not hear about a procedural vote in Washington. You will hear about the grocery bill and the power bill. The most recent statewide polling bears that out: nearly eight in ten Alabama Republican runoff voters named an economic issue as the most important problem facing the state, with grocery prices and utility costs cited most often. That is the lived reality of the Wiregrass — and the standard any representative of this district should be measured against.
Where Figures stood when the district's pocketbook was on the line
Measured against that standard, the record is hard to square. On June 4, the House passed the Republican bill funding the U.S. Department of Agriculture, rural development, and the Food and Drug Administration (H.R. 8646, 213–210). Shomari Figures voted no — in a district built on farming. It is one vote, but it is the kind that tells you who a representative answers to when the choice comes down to his district's economy or his national party's position.
Who is paying for it
That alignment is not an accident; it is the arrangement. Figures is a hand-picked project of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — the national party's House campaign arm in Washington, D.C. — placed in its "Red to Blue" program, which by the committee's own description means money, paid staff, and strategic direction piped in from the capital. In the 48 hours after the Supreme Court upheld Alabama's map on June 2, the DCCC bragged about raising roughly half a million dollars off the ruling. The paycheck, the playbook, and the priorities trace back to Washington — not to the district paying the grocery bills.
Why the seat is winnable now
The math under the restored map is not close. With Mobile out, the district's Black voting-age population falls from 48.7 percent to 39.9 percent, and the seat takes in more of the Republican-leaning Wiregrass. The court-drawn district that delivered Figures his 2024 win is gone, and with it the structural advantage that put him in the seat. National money can buy a lot of advertising; it cannot redraw the district back the way he wants it.
Question of the Week
When the grocery bill and the power bill are what keep Wiregrass families up at night, whose side is a representative really on if his votes keep tracking his national party instead of the district he was sent to serve?
The challenger field
Six Republicans qualified for the August 11 special primary: Hampton Harris, State Rep. Rhett Marques, Christian Horn, David Matthews, Joshua McKee, and James Richardson. It is winner-take-all with no runoff. We take no side among them — whoever wins on August 11 carries the fight to Figures in November.
Momentum — the list is growing
The case keeps landing. The active list of District 2 neighbors is well past 80 and continuing to grow. Every name at take2back.com is one more voter who sees the contrast between a district and the Washington money trying to hold it. Read the full case, sign up, and send the link to friends and family across the district: take2back.com.
Key dates
August 11 — AL-02 special primary (winner-take-all, no runoff). November 3 — general election.
Sources and disclosure
Paid for by Strategic Resource Group, L.L.C., 556 Clay St, Montgomery, AL 36104. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
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