"Filling up a Ford F-150 truck now costs about $100, up $30 from a year ago. Mortgage rates have jumped to levels that have depressed home sales. And for the past 12 months, consumer prices have risen faster than paychecks, making the average family poorer," per WaPo
Scott Colom will become Mississippi's first Black senator since 1881.
The last Black senator from Mississippi was Blanche K. Bruce, who held office during the Reconstruction era 145 years ago.
We may have had to count One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, but Blue Mississippi sure has a nice ring to it! Scott, you put your heart and soul into this race because you believe in the promise of your state’s people. And they believed in you right back. I’m honored to have stood alongside you. Congratulations!
Wow. The moment Jake Tapper called the Mississippi Senate race is something to see.
Mississippi was ground zero for civil rights. The most dangerous state for Black people. They kept saying go slow, go slow.
Tonight, Mississippi sends a Black man to the Senate.
Scott Colom
It’s impossible to overstate the history being made by Scott Colom in Mississippi. A state whose history is stained by slavery, segregation, lynchings, and the violent suppression of Black voters has just elected its first Black U.S. Senator by popular vote.
I can’t stop the tears right now.
Mississippi. Mississippi.
It is breathtaking.
Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney, Fannie Lou Hamer.
Lift Every Voice and Sing!
Mississippi
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:
Scott Colom has won the U.S. Senate election in Mississippi, defeating Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, CNN projects.
He becomes the first Black person elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.
"you attract what you fear"
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I’ve been alive for 44 years. Chuck Schumer has been in office for 52. What the fuck does he think he’s gonna get done in year 53 that he couldn’t get done in the first 52?