by allison | Jun 10, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Where’s the right place to say things are wrong? A neighborhood association meeting is an awkward place to talk about Tennessee’s abortion ban. But there I was last Thursday, talking about it in detail at the North Chattanooga Neighborhood Association. The speaker who...
by allison | May 27, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Five years into my mission for Mom Mom’s body began winding down about five years ago, though her spirit had been ready to go for a while. I sat with her and held her hand, telling her Dad was waiting to take it on the other side. We had a graveside service in...
by allison | May 21, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
The candidate survey nobody sent me When I ran for State House in 2022, the first of many candidate surveys I received was from the Tennessee Firearms Association. I read the whole thing through, answered every question, added unsolicited comments in the margins (the...
by allison | May 15, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Illuminating words for challenging times I spent Mother’s Day thinking about my mom. In that respect, it was just like any other day for me. In the five years since she’s been gone, her words have lived inside my head. Mom would sprinkle her advice with lines of...
by allison | May 7, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
The Tennessee I miss, in fifty-two doors At this early stage of the campaign, I’m still canvassing D doors. I’ve officially knocked more than a thousand of them, according to the voter data. Along the way, though, I’ve talked to countless R voters. Some of them live...
by allison | May 2, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Mercifully, the regular session of the 2024 Tennessee General Assembly came to an end last week. If you follow me on social media, you know that I posted a brief legislative update at the end of each of the TGA’s fifteen weeks in session. I tried to encapsulate what...
