Case Dixon, a 25-year-old husband, father, and physical therapist assistant, has announced a run for the Republican nomination in Alabama’s 6th Congressional District.

Dixon said Republicans in Washington are not living up to their claim as the party of reduced spending and smaller government.

“They’re not actually addressing the debt,” Dixon said.

“They blame Democrats for all these years and now that we have control over both chambers of Congress and the executive branch, it’s showing that both parties are favoring bigger government,” Dixon said.

“I value the things that the Republican Party says they value,” Dixon said. “Smaller government. More freedom. So that’s why I’m running because I feel like they’re not addressing that.”

Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Hoover, is in his sixth term in the 6th District, which extends from Birmingham to just north of Montgomery.

Dixon said Palmer’s voting record shows he has not taken the stance needed to reverse the rise in federal spending and debt.

Dixon said he supports tax cuts such as those in President Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” supported by Palmer and other GOP members of the Alabama House delegation.

But Dixon said the bill falls short because it does not cut spending enough to offset the tax cuts. The bill is projected to increase the federal debt.

“I’m 100% on board with DOGE,” Dixon said. “And I want to clarify – I’m 100% on board with tax cuts.

“But we can do better. And we need a congressman that’s going to say no to bad budget bills. That’s going to demand that we do better.”

Dixon said a small number of representatives willing to take a strong stand could alter what he says is a dangerous course.

“One or two holdouts could really change things and make sure that we don’t continue to add to this debt that has become such an abstract number,” Dixon said.

“Because it is real. And it is going to cause a major crisis in the near future.”

Dixon also noted that Palmer broke a pledge not to serve more than five terms.

Dixon was born in Alabaster and grew up in Shelby and Jefferson counties. His father served in the Coast Guard and his grandfather was in the Air Force.

Dixon was home-schooled by his mother. He played basketball for the Hope Christian School Eagles, a homeschool athletics program in Pelham, and graduated from high school in 2018.

Dixon graduated from Jefferson State Community College in 2021 and passed the state board exam to work as a physical therapist assistant.

In addition to reducing spending and the federal debt, Dixon said his priorities, if elected, would include:

• Secure the future of Medicare and Social Security.
• Enact term limits and ban congressional stock trading.
• For healthcare, expand telemedicine, repeal anti-competition laws, and incentivize care where it’s needed most-especially in rural Alabama.
• Help seniors and working families by reforming the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, allowing them to keep more of what they earn to help with rising daycare and caregiving costs.
• Push for a nationwide ban on abortion.

Dixon supports changing marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance, deemed to have no medicinal value, to a Schedule III, to give states more flexibility on access to medical cannabis.

“It’s not legalizing recreational use of marijuana,” Dixon said. “But what it is doing is the federal government acknowledging that it has medical purposes.

“Ultimately by rescheduling it to a Schedule III substance it would reduce confusion and give states more freedom to decide how they would like to proceed.”

Dixon and his wife have a 1-year-old daughter and are expecting a second daughter.

“Having kids has changed my perspective,” Dixon said. “I’ve always paid attention to politics and voted and been involved in that regard.

“But once our first daughter was born last year, I started thinking ‘I can’t just sit on my hands. I have to get involved and make sure that the future is bright for her.’ And now we have another daughter on the way. So for both of them I’m worried.”