Something suspicious is happening in Alabama politics.

Katherine Robertson, a former top aide to outgoing Attorney General Steve Marshall, received a $1 million donation in June—the largest single contribution ever reported in a statewide race. She recently took in another $100,000 from the same source. But this money didn’t come from a prominent donor, a grassroots surge, or even a well-known political action committee. It came from a dark money nonprofit called First Principles Action Inc.

That donation wasn’t spontaneous. It was arranged. It was recruited.

According to a source with direct knowledge of Leonard Leo’s political operations—granted anonymity to speak freely without fear of retribution—Robertson was one of several individuals Leo personally encouraged to run for attorney

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