TODAY Mississippi … Goddam
THE MISSISSIPPI WAY: Mississippi District Attorney Scott Colom, a Democrat, yesterday became the first Black person elected to the US Senate since Blanche K. Bruce, a former slave elected in the Civil War reconstruction days of 1874.
YESTERDAY Hegseth Escapes Impeachment
TESTOSTERONE TEST: The Republican majority in the House voted last night to kill the impeachment of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, making it one of the shortest ever. The vote was 211 to 204.
Colom beat the appointed Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by just shy of 4,600 votes, giving Democrats 55 seats.
After more than a century of lynchings and repression, legal segregation, the civil rights struggles … and murders … Colom told a crowd of supporters last night, “God didn’t want us to get it the easy way, he wanted us to get it the Mississippi way.”
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It's Been Said
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
- Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right
