District 2 Is the Last Race on Alabama's Board

Wall of Shame — Today: Alabama Power

Today on the Wall of Shame: the Alabama Power Employees Federal PAC (Birmingham) has put $10,000 into Rep. Shomari Figures' campaign account. Figures then voted no on the GRID Power Act to fast-track reliable, dispatchable generation — one of only five Democrats short of unanimous party opposition. The Wall of Shame exists for one reason — so that total stops growing. https://take2back.com/wall-of-shame.html

The Last Race on the Board

The runoffs are settled. Barry Moore is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, and with that Alabama’s 2026 primary season is effectively over — except here. The August 11 special primary in District 2 is the only major race left on the state’s summer calendar. Under the congressional map the Supreme Court restored this month, District 2 is a Republican-leaning seat for the first time this cycle, and it is the one Alabama seat national Democrats have placed on their must-protect list for 2026. For the next seven-plus weeks the out-of-area money and attention land here. The question worth settling before the noise gets loud: who does this seat answer to?

The First Real Money Test Is July 15

The next hard signal isn’t a poll — it’s a filing. Second-quarter FEC reports are due July 15, the first money read of the special and the clearest measure yet of whether this seat is funded by District 2 or by Washington. The record so far points one way: an analysis of FEC filings by 1819 News found out-of-state donors and the national platform ActBlue made up roughly 80% of Rep. Shomari Figures’ 2024 war chest, and through the most recent filing about 71% of his receipts this cycle came from political action committees and party committees — Washington money — rather than from individual District 2 donors. July 15 will show whether that changes.

The Record Is Already on File

The voting record matches the funding. On the war-powers resolution to restrict further military action against Iran without congressional approval, Figures voted with his party and against the administration’s stated position — a vote that reads differently now that, by mid-June national reporting, the United States and Iran have reached an initial agreement to wind down the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with a signing set for this week. He voted no on the FY27 agriculture, rural development, and FDA appropriations bill — the funding that reaches rural hospitals, farmers, and food programs across a district like this one. The pattern is party-line.

Why the Spotlight Matters

A seat the national party is spending to defend is a seat whose representative owes that party. District 2’s priorities — its jobs, its hospitals, its rural communities — should be decided here at home, not in a national finance report or a committee room in Washington. The point of the next seven weeks is to keep the focus where it belongs: on District 2 voters, not out-of-state donors, setting the terms.

Now on X

TakeBack District 2 is posting daily on X at @take2back — the money, the votes, and what’s at stake as the August 11 special primary approaches. Same mission, in real time: keeping the focus on who this seat answers to. Follow along, and share it with neighbors in District 2 who should be watching this one.

Bottom Line

The runoffs are over, and District 2 is the last seat on Alabama’s board. The map made it competitive, the money is national, and the first real test is July 15. District 2 gets the final say on August 11 — and the time to weigh it is now, before the spending speaks louder than the district.