State House / State House · District 25

Allison Montgomery

Fought Alabama's law defining men and women. Says CHOOSE Act parents “leech off” public schools.

Democrat · Opponent: Rep. Phillip Rigsby (R)

On the record

Her activist group fought to keep drag shows open to kids
Got her start in legislative advocacy through the Alabama Transgender Rights Action Coalition (ALTRAC) in 2023. In 2025, ALTRAC listed bills keeping drag performances away from children (HB 67), obscene material out of children's libraries (HB 4) and gender-identity lessons out of classrooms (HB 244, HB 246) among “the very worst anti-trans bills” of the session. The House passed the drag bill 76–9.¹²³
Fought parents' right to know
Testified in April 2025, as an ALTRAC member, against HB 246, which would require a parent's signed permission before a teacher calls a student by a name other than their legal name. Her objection: it would place “an undue burden on teachers.” A permission slip.⁴
The union's candidate, carrying the union's bill
Endorsed by the Alabama AFL-CIO, whose national parent unanimously endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024. And what does Big Labor's candidate promise? Repealing right-to-work, the law that lets Alabama workers keep a job without being forced to pay a union. The union backs her; she backs making workers pay the union. What a coincidence.⁵⁶⁷⁸

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Men, women and bathrooms

What they say

Fought Alabama's sex-definitions bill in 2024 and 2025. She said it existed only for “the segregation of transgender people” and called it “one step away from a bathroom bill.”⁹¹⁰

The record

It's the law now, and for good reason. Act 2025-3 took effect Oct. 1, 2025. It defines male and female by biological sex and protects single-sex spaces like women's restrooms and locker rooms.¹¹

“Leeching” parents

What they say

Says the CHOOSE Act “allows wealthy parents to choose which school their kids go to, while they leech off of poorer public schools.” Promises: “I will push to repeal the ‘CHOOSE’ Act.”⁷

The record

Wrong on the facts, and insulting to the families involved. For its first two school years, CHOOSE Act eligibility was capped at an income of about $96,450 for a family of four. Those aren't “wealthy parents.” More than 34,000 Alabama students use it this year. Repeal would yank their accounts mid-stride.^12131415

Kids and gender medicine

What they say

“I will fight against legislation that attempts to meddle in the way doctors in the state practice.” The state, she says, has no need to “micromanage” medical care.⁷

The record

The “meddling” she refers to protects children. Alabama law makes it a crime to give minors puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for gender transition.¹⁶

Right to work

What they say

Wants to repeal Alabama's “so-called ‘Right-to-Work’ Act.”⁷

The record

Alabama voters settled this. In 2016, 69.6% of them wrote right-to-work into the state constitution. Undoing it would take a three-fifths vote of the Legislature and another statewide vote, which makes the promise as unrealistic as it is unpopular.¹⁷⁸

Wage mandates

What they say

Wants a higher minimum wage that rises automatically every year, plus the power for cities and counties to set their own.⁷

The record

Alabama law bars local minimum wages, so her plan starts with a patchwork of different wage rules from one town to the next. And mandates cost jobs: when the Congressional Budget Office studied a $15 federal minimum, its middle estimate was 1.3 million jobs lost.¹⁸¹⁹

Grocery tax

What they say

Calls for eliminating the grocery tax.⁷

The record

Republican leaders are already doing it, and paying for it responsibly. The Legislature cut the state grocery tax in half, from 4% to 2%, between 2023 and 2025, suspended it entirely for May and June 2026, and lawmakers have announced bills for 2027 to eliminate the rest. Promising to do what is already being done isn't a plan. It's a press release.²⁰²¹²²

Medicaid

What they say

Says expansion would “allow Alabama to access federal funding that we are currently leaving on the table.”⁷

The record

There's no money on the table. Congress eliminated the expansion bonus in 2025. Even Alabama Arise, which supports expansion, says Alabama “no longer will be eligible for $619 million.” What's left is the bill: Medicaid is already the biggest line in Alabama's $3.7 billion General Fund, and expansion would add roughly $225 million a year more, by PARCA's estimate.²³²⁴²⁵

Follow the money

Funded through ActBlue
Allison Montgomery raises campaign money through ActBlue, the Democratic Party's fundraising platform. ActBlue is under investigation by three U.S. House committees, whose chairmen said in April 2026 that it “deliberately obstructed” their probe into whether illicit and foreign donations got through its system. In 2025 the President also ordered a Justice Department investigation. ActBlue denies wrongdoing.²⁶²⁷²⁸

Allison Montgomery

On the record

Her activist group fought to keep drag shows open to kids

Fought parents' right to know

The union's candidate, carrying the union's bill

Fact check

Men, women and bathrooms

“Leeching” parents

Kids and gender medicine

Right to work

Wage mandates

Grocery tax

Medicaid

Follow the money

Funded through ActBlue

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