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"To people who do not know Mississippians, who do not understand Mississippi, you are missing one of the most important threads in the future of American politics and culture," writes Vanity Fair deputy editor Claire Howorth. vanityfair.com/story/scott-c…
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Tonight let's please honor the memory of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered at the age of 37 outside his home in June 1963 and gave his life for civil and voting rights in Mississippi:
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To say @ArndreaKing and I are thrilled with @scott_colom’s upset win is an understatement. For the first time since Reconstruction, Mississippi is sending a Black senator to Washington. Despite mountains of voter suppression and valleys of cynicism, Black voters did what we have always done: we kept marching. We did not give up or give in. We overcame efforts to deny us equal representation. Senator-elect Colom's victory marks a new day for democracy in the South. We look forward to working with him and every champion of voting rights as we build the Beloved Community nationwide.
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Young Black women in rural Mississippi are trying like hell to make sure no ballot gets thrown out unfairly in the Scott Colom race. They are DMing friends and chasing down people who need to verify their IDs. My story (gift link) on the phenomenon: wapo.st/4AbqTpg
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.@AbdulElSayed makes the fundamental point that criticism of Israel's misconduct is not necessarily a swipe at Jews any more than criticism of Egypt's misconduct is is a swipe at Arabs. If you don't care for human rights for all, you don't actually care about human rights at all.
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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Lawyers for Democrat Scott Colom are warning election officials across Mississippi that Republicans' demand to segregate affidavit ballots from other ballots “will violate Mississippi voters’ rights and Mississippi election law.”
mississippifreepress.org/rol…
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Scott Colom appears set to win Forrest County, named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, who founded the Ku Klux Klan
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From @scott_colom's campaign manager 👇
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hadn't really hit me that some of the voters who just sent a Black man to the Senate from Mississippi remember having to pay poll taxes. American history is so short. Historic. So so so so so happy for them.
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Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures just won a huge upset victory in Alabama's 2nd congressional district.
This was a district that the Alabama GOP specifically gerrymandered to oust Figures after the Supreme Court dismantled the Voting Rights Act.
But Black voters turned out in huge numbers to counteract that decision.
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In a gerrymandered district, our campaign was within a single point of winning. Thank you to everyone who worked to make that a reality. I am immensely grateful.
I will continue to fight for the people of TN and together our movement is just getting started.
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The MS Secretary of State used expired Experian data to "clean up" the voter rolls, inactivating many eligible Mississippi voters who then voted by affidavit ballot. Just anecdotally, I heard stories about it being a mess, especially in DeSoto County mississippitoday.org/2026/11…
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It's so interesting to see these conversations about Mississippi. Most times y'all speaking down on us. Now I see so many posts about "invest in Mississippi" when folks on the ground have been screaming from the rooftops about investment for years.
