ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | WEEK 9 Week of March 9, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session Let's start with the number that should stop you cold. Fourteen. That is how many bills have been filed this session -- this single legislative session -- seeking to require party registration to vote in a South Carolina partisan primary. Fourteen. Five of them dropped in a single week. Five. In one week. To be fair, some of those fourteen bills have t

ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | WEEK 8 Week of March 2, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session If you wanted one image to capture the range of Week 8 at the South Carolina State House, it might be this: the same building that opened its rotunda to thousands of mourners paying respects to the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday closed out Thursday with the House voting to name a highway after Charlie Kirk. That is not a political statement. It is just

Week of February 16, 2026 Let's be honest. If you blinked this week, you missed a lot. Week 6 of the 2026 legislative session was one of those weeks where you had to be in three rooms at once. The Senate was debating generational tax policy on the floor, the House was cranking through a $15.4 billion budget in committee, and in the background, a steady drumbeat of social policy bills kept marching through subcommittees. Welcome to February at the State House! Here's what you

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Greetings from Alpha Strategies! Here’s a recap of the past week’s activity—or lack thereof—at the South Carolina State House:...

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