‘We gotta do something’: the coalition that helped elect Scott Colom to Senate
A Guardian feature traces Democrat Scott Colom's historic 2026 Senate win in Mississippi — the state's first Democratic senator since the 1980s — to a coalition of about a dozen, mostly Black-led nonprofits whose organizing surged after the supreme court's Louisiana v Callais decision gutted the Voting Rights Act. Groups like MS Votes and MS United drove turnout near presidential levels and, after the win, began pushing to change Mississippi's voting process, including its lack of early voting.
