Mississippi's unbelievable blue turn
Mother Jones reports that the undecided 2026 Mississippi Senate race has Democrat Scott Colom leading Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by under 100 votes, with roughly 15,000 affidavit ballots still to count before the 13 November certification; a win would make Colom the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction. Reporter Ari Berman attributes a surge in Southern Black turnout partly to anger over the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais ruling, and says Colom's showing signals future elections.
