State House / State House · District 4

Hanu Karlapalem

Calls America “a full fledged dictatorship.” Called for boycotts of “White dominated churches.”

Democrat · Opponent: Rep. Parker Moore (R)

On the record

Calls America a dictatorship
Posted on X in July 2025: “this country is already a full fledged dictatorship.” In November 2024: “Mainstream media has already surrendered to the incoming fascist dictatorship.” He's asking for a seat in the government he calls a dictatorship.¹²
Called for boycotting churches
Posted on X in January 2025: “There should be big boycotts of all the White dominated churches, but it won't happen. They are taught to hate and hate only.”³
Smears the federal workforce next door
In a district built around Redstone Arsenal's federal workforce, posted in June 2025: “How many of the federal agencies are infiltrated with fascists, White Nationalists, sympathizers of White Supremacy domestic terrorism, and foreign agents?”⁴⁵
Backed by the national gun-control lobby
Endorsed by Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, the Bloomberg-founded national gun-control group. Everytown fought Alabama's 2022 permitless-carry law, which lets law-abiding adults carry a pistol without a government permit, calling it “dangerous.” Also endorsed by the Alabama AFL-CIO.⁶⁷⁸

Funded through ActBlue
Hanu Karlapalem 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.⁹¹⁰¹¹