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Sen. Doug Jones Sen. Doug Jones is a distinguished senior fellow with American Progress, focusing his work on issues of racial justice and equality, voting rights, and law enforcement reform. A celebrated prosecutor who brought long-overdue justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Sen. Jones has built his career on fighting impossible battles. In 2017, he shocked the political establishment by winning a special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama the first Democrat to do so in 25 years in the state. On Capitol Hill, he quickly built a reputation as a well-regarded and effective legislator, passing more than two dozen bipartisan bills into law in just three years. He also established the annual tradition of a bipartisan reading of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in the Senate chamber and has been an outspoken Southern voice in support of racial justice and equity.

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