Alabama Together

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.^[2][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][better source needed]} Members have also run for Congress,^{[6][better source needed]} state legislature,^{[7][8][better source needed]} 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.^[3] Alabama Together spent months reaching out to Rogers.^[12][13] Rogers did not acknowledge the invitation,^[3][12] and the forum was held in his absence.^[3][12]

Alabama Together has organized political marches, including a March for Science in Auburn, Alabama, in April 2017.^[3][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]