The largest share of voters in Alabama are non-voters. To renew their trust in our democracy, we need to fight for voting rights and build power for Alamabians at the local and municipal level – and for greater community control through cooperative governance. 

Cooperative Governance means that elected officials – from any and all parties –are directly accountable to the communities they serve. Elected officials should organize and govern alongside their communities.

Hometown Action is a leader in rural civic engagement in Alabama. Within our first month of operation, our volunteers knocked over 10,000 rural doors to get out the vote in the 2017 special election for U.S. Senate. Three years later, we reached out to over one million voters! We have supported progressive grassroots candidates for a range of offices, recruited members to serve on the state Democratic Executive Committee, and helped establish key civic engagement infrastructure in the state as founding members and first chair of Alabama Forward Action. Hometown members are regular advocates during state legislative sessions where we have defeated bills to criminalize protests and LGBTQ rights and have worked locally to win fair community maps during redistricting.

We are currently developing a comprehensive rural electoral plan that incorporates each of our program areas with an emphasis on the presidential election cycle in 2024, local municipal elections in 2025, and state legislative elections in 2026.