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Jamie Harrison Is Going to Beat the Brakes off Sen. Lindsey Graham (Votingly) and 4 Other Down Ballot Races We Need to Watch
My mother taught English in D.C. Public Schools for more than 50 years. One day, I went to her class to help her carry some boxes down to her car when I saw “Let’s get that pizza” written on the chalkboard. I laughed because my mother, who is a wizard of words and a waste…
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How U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Espy Plans to Win in Mississippi
Mike Espy is ready to win this time. That’s the main thing he wants you to know about why his 2020 U.S. Senate race out of Mississippi will be different from his last go-around in 2018. He said that when he threw his hat into the special election that year to replace outgoing-Senator Thad Cochran,…
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‘1000 Years of Darkness’ Will Begin If Mississippi Elects Its First Black Senator, According to Its Governor
So I guess Mississippi could possibly elect a Final Fantasy villain to the Senate this year? At least, that is if you believe Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. Deep South Voice writes that the governor took to Twitter last weekend and said: “If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the senate we will take that…
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Mike Espy Didn't Make History in Mississippi, But He and Other Black Candidates Definitely Made Progress
JACKSON, Miss—The U.S. Senate runoff between Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith got most of the national attention, but that race may not have been the most important one in Mississippi this election cycle. That’s why it’s important to not let disappointment about Espy’s failed bid to become one of the rare black candidates to win…
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Live Blog: Mississippi's Senate Runoff Election
JACKSON, Miss—Mike Espy is hoping to pull off perhaps one of the biggest upset of the 2018 elections against Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith tonight. Espy, a former congressman and agriculture secretary, wasn’t expected to earn enough votes during the midterm elections, let alone make it to a runoff. Support for both candidates have gone down racial…
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Mike Espy Is Hoping to Prove America Wrong About Mississippi During Runoff for Senate Seat
Ridgeland, Miss.—There were just as many members of media as there were voters when Mike Espy appeared at his voting station at Highland Colony Baptist Church, just a five-minute drive outside of Jackson. The former congressman and agricultural secretary rolled up to the entrance in his SUV with his wife, Portia, and their family, to…
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Group Made Its Way Through Mississippi Before Senate Runoff to Get Black People to Register to Vote—and to Understand Their Political Power
TUNICA, Miss.—Devin Gordon was standing outside his second-floor apartment when LaTosha Brown asked to have a chat. “How you doing young man?” Brown asked. “Can we talk to you for a second?” She was out canvassing the neighborhood with Tunica Teens In Action, a local organization that helps young people become politically engaged, when one…
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We're Being Too Hard on Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
Racism is so embedded in Southern culture that Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith truly believes that she’s not racist; that her comment about being front row at lynching were not racist; that wanting to suppress the liberal vote is not necessarily racist or posing in Confederate artifacts is racist. Wait, what? On Tuesday, the same day…
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Mississippi Governor Defends Cindy Hyde-Smith's Lynching Comments By Claiming African-American Abortion Is 'Black Genocide'
Mississippi is burning. It always has been. As U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is preparing to face a runoff against Democrat Mike Espy on Nov. 27, Hyde-Smith just can’t seem to stop stepping in it. And by “it,” I mean racism. In a video that has now been shared across all social platforms, Hyde-Smith appears to…
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GOP Mississippi Senator Jokes About ‘Public Hanging’ and If You’re Offended, Well Tough On You
Apparently, all of us offended by Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s “joke” about being in the “front row” of a “public hanging” are overreacting. Yep, that’s the spin that Hyde-Smith and her people are putting on the Senate hopeful reprehensible remarks. Don’t forget that Hyde-Smith is running for Senate in the lynching capital of America.…