Alabama Together is a progressive political group located in Auburn, Alabama.[1] The group was founded in December 2016.[2]
Alabama Together was founded shortly after the 2016 presidential election. The organization, which grew out of a private Pantsuit Nation Facebook group, held its first official meeting in December 2016; the meeting attracted over 100 attendees.[3]
According to an opinion/editorial in The New York Times, in 2018, Alabama Together helped support about "a dozen women running for office for the first time, part of a surge of new Democratic candidates in the state challenging long-serving Republican incumbents."[4] In August 2018, Alabama Together member Bob Parsons was elected to a seat on Auburn City Council.[5] Members have also run for Congress,[6] state legislature,[7] [8] and state school board.[9]
On August 16, 2018, Alabama Together hosted a Civic Forum to give voters the opportunity to learn about candidates for state office and candidates for Alabama's 3rd congressional district.[10] [11] In April 2017, Alabama Together organized a civic forum and invited Congressman Mike Rogers (R) to participate. At the time, Rogers had not held a public forum in Lee County in over two years. Alabama Together spent months reaching out to Rogers.[12] [13] Rogers did not acknowledge the invitation, and the forum was held in his absence.
Alabama Together has organized political marches, including a March for Science in Auburn, Alabama, in April 2017.[14] Alabama Together also participated in two annual Pride on the Plains events, the first municipal pride events ever held in Auburn and Opelika, Alabama; Pride on the Plains was covered in the New York Times.[15]
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