Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D. NJ), in support of Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Mike Espy (D. MS) This November, we have an extraordinary opportunity to flip a historically red seat and make history by electing Mississippi's first Black U.S. Senator since the Reconstruction era: Mike…
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MS-Sen: Mike Espy's (D) Internal Polling Has A 5 Point Race Between Him & Cindy Hyde-Smith (R)
Here’s some encouraging news today out of Mississippi: x #Mississippi Senate Poll: Hyde-Smith (R-Inc) 47%(+5)Espy (D) 42% Garin-Hart-Yang / D Internal— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) August 13, 2020 An internal poll released by Democrat Mike Espy’s U.S. Senate campaign on Thursday reports he’s gaining ground and is within five points of incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith,…
In three quotes, Republicans admit the 'great party switch'
Republicans and their amen corner in the right-wing media are trying to perpetuate yet another hoax on the American people. In a nutshell, they claim that history ended in 1865 or, at the latest, 1965. But sadly for them, three of their leading lights past and present—Cindy Hyde-Smith, Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond–already gave the…
SC, MS & GA-Sen B: Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D. CA) Helps Send More Black Leaders To The Senate
Received this e-mail this from former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D. CA) in support of Jaime Harrison (D. SC), Mike Espy (D. MS) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: x In 1992, I was one of four women elected to the US Senate, tripling the number of women Senators. Now I've launched…
SC, MS & GA-Sen B: BET, “Black Senate Candidates Explain Why They Are Seizing The Moment”
U.S. Senate candidates Jaime Harrison (D. SC), Mike Espy (D. MS) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) have penned on op-ed for BET promoting their candidacies, promote their platforms addressing racial injustice and how they can be the faces a of a New South in the U.S. Senate: As Black fathers, brothers, sons and men…
MS-Sen: Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Helps Mike Espy (D) Pull Off A Huge Upset Victory In Mississippi
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), in support of Mike Espy's (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: It’s not news to Mississippians, especially to Black Mississippians, that our government has left the state behind. For decades, Mississippi’s Republican leaders in Washington have sided with gigantic corporations and left…
CO & MS-Sen: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Endorses John Hickenlooper (D) & Mike Espy (D)
Former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), endorsed a whole slate of down ballot Democrats today. Two of them are for the U.S. Senate: x .@MikeEspyMS will fight his heart out for the people of Mississippi with empathy and determination. I’m proud to endorse him and his historic campaign to become the state’s…
MS-Sen: Mike Espy (D) Mounts Pressure On The Senate To Pass The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act
Received this e-mail yesterday from Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: I must admit that I am a little ashamed that I am writing you an email about making lynching a federal crime in the year 2020. I believe this is something that should have been in place a long time ago, but here we…
MS, SC & GA-Sen B: Sen. Patty Murray (D. WA) Helps More Black Leaders Get Elected To The Senate
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D. WA) in support of Mike Espy (D. MS), Jaime Harrison (D. SC) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: There have only been ten Black Senators in the entire history of the U.S. Senate. Today, there are three — Democrats Cory Booker and…
MS-Sen: Mike Espy (D) Pushes The Call For Mississippi To Finally Ditch The Confederate Flag Symbol
Received this e-mail yesterday from Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Thousands of people gathered across Mississippi this past weekend, demonstrating that people are ready for change. The people of Mississippi are showing that they are ready for a state that represents them — and that includes the Mississippi state flag. As you may know,…
AZ, CO, KS, ME, MS, NC & SC-Sen: Stacey Abrams Endorses These 7 Democrats To Win Back The Senate
Some big news today: Alongside discussions of her own national political ambitions, former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is wading into elections outside her home state, endorsing the campaigns of seven Democrats vying for U.S. Senate seats. On Thursday, Abrams announced that she was backing Democratic candidates in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina…
MS-Sen: Mike Espy (D) Pushes Congress To Protect Agriculture Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic
Received this e-mail today from Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Across the country, and especially in my state of Mississippi, agricultural workers are the backbone of our economy. But unfortunately, they’re not always treated that way, especially now during this pandemic. Last week, President Trump passed an executive order declaring meat processing plants…
MS-Sen: Mike Espy (D) Pushes Congress To Pass National No-Excuse Early Voting
Received this e-mail today from Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: What happened in Wisconsin this week was a disgrace to our democracy. In case you missed it, voters were forced to vote in person on Tuesday after the governor’s executive order to reschedule the primary election was overturned by the state Supreme Court…
Say It Ain't So. Major League Baseball Just Donated Maximum of $5,000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith. U/D.
I love baseball. Growing up in southern Missouri, long before I paid attention to politics and other adult pursuits, baseball occupied a lot of my consciousness and spare time, particularly after my beloved St. Louis Cardinals bested the detested Yankees in the 1964 World Series, when I was eight years old. Three players on that…
Cindy Hyde-Smith attended 'segregation academy' to avoid newly integrated schools
The Jackson Free Press has published a blockbuster story about the Republicans’ too-racist-even-for-Mississippi Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith. Seems she comes by her antebellum attitudes about race at least in part via her secondary-school education. The paper reports that Hyde-Smith attended a “segregation academy” whose primary purpose was to allow students to avoid mingling with African-Americans….
Cindy Hyde-Smith Attended All-White ‘Seg. Academy’, Took $1,000 Contribution from Former Klansman.
Jackson (Mississippi) Free Press “JACKSON, Miss. — U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy that was set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students, a yearbook reveals. #A group photo in the 1975 edition of The Rebel—the Lawrence County Academy Yearbook—illustrates the…
MS-Sen: DFA Launches Major Dial Out The Vote Effort For Mike Espy (D)
Received this e-mail from Democracy for America in support of Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Five hundred and eighty one. That’s the number of lynchings that occurred in Mississippi between 1882 and 1968. Five hundred and eighty one mothers lost their sons. Five hundred and eighty one fathers shed tears for a child…
MS-Sen: Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Teams Up With DFA To Pull A Doug Jones-Style Victory In Mississippi
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) on behalf of Democracy for America in support of Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Late last year, everyone’s eyes were on Alabama. Doug Jones was fighting his way uphill to beat Roy Moore and get elected as…
MS-Sen: GQ, “How a Democrat Could Swipe a Senate Seat in Deep-Red Mississippi”
GQ has a great piece out about the upcoming runoff election in Mississippi between U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R. MS) and Mike Espy (D. MS). The piece highlights her idiotic, racist dog whistling “lynch mob” remark and how that could hurt her. The piece also highlights the differences and similarities between this race and last year’s…
MS-Sen: DFA Goes All In To Help Mike Espy (D) Pull Off A Doug Jones-Style Victory
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America in support of Mike Espy’s (D. MS) U.S. Senate campaign: Did you see this over the weekend? Mississippi GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith made an appalling “joke” while campaigning: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” In a state with one of…
