Go to Alabama incumbent attorney general’s campaign website, and you’ll immediately read the loud proclamation, next to a very serious headshot, that Steve Marshall is “Fighting for Alabama.” Sounds good — working people in Alabama have no shortage of fights on their hands and could always use another ally.

At the Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon facility, at least six workers have died at the warehouse since workers first began their union campaign in 2020, and workers say management has continued to flagrantly violate the law by retaliating against union supporters. Starbucks workers in Scottsboro say they similarly faced illegal retaliation, that two members of the store’s organizing committee were fired because of their union activity. Coal miners in Brookwood have been on strike for a year and a half now. Incredibly, children as young as twelve years old have been found to be working at multiple Hyundai facilities in the state. And there are any number of other fights Alabama workers are facing every day both in and out of the public eye.

Unfortunately, Marshall is not pursuing any of these fights. Instead, he is spending his time chasing right-wing media hits by any means necessary.