Senator-elect Scott Colom is the first Black person elected to any statewide office in Mississippi since 1873.
Historical Timeline of Black U.S. Senators from Mississippi
Before the 17th Amendment established direct popular elections in 1913, state legislatures selected U.S. Senators.
- Hiram Revels (1870). Selected by the Mississippi Legislature in 1870 to fill an unexpired term, Revels became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
- Blanche K. Bruce (1874). Elected by the state legislature in 1874, Bruce became the first African American elected to a full six-year Senate term, serving from 1875 until 1881.
- Scott Colom (2026). Colom became the first Black candidate to win a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi by popular vote—and the first Black person elected to any statewide office in Mississippi since 1873.
The implosion of MAGA continues. This is 8 down and one to go.
Senator-elect Scott Colom is the 8th Democrat Senate flip. I am confident Mary Peltola in Alaska will make nine.
Historic Payback
All Rise News discusses The Mississippi Goddamn
[Mish Note: This discussion pre-dates today’s formal announcement. The “ifs” are now a reality.]
If Colom wins, and it’s looking increasingly likely, it will be important to study what helped lead to his victory beyond the nationwide rebuke to Donald Trump.
A former prosecutor, Colom had been on track to be nominated for a federal judgeship in 2023, but Hyde-Smith blocked his nomination.
Colom hammered one issue repeatedly on the campaign trail: Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional tariffs.
His hilarious campaign ads are going viral. There’s a common theme in some of these clips: a rejection of Trump’s illegal, unconstitutional and unilateral tariffs — and the harm they caused to voters’ pockets.
One clip showed the GOP incumbent waving away soaring beef prices by suggesting voters pick another protein. Another sent up the movie “Sinners,” depicting the incumbent as a tariff-supporting vampire.
The Protein Ad
Colom’s Tariff Add
Congratulations Senator-elect and good riddance to tariff loving, warmongering Cindy Hyde-Smith.
I am not cheering Democrats per se or their policies. But I am cheering the total and complete wipeout of racist, warmongering, MAGA Morons (MMs).
Republicans have no chance at winning the presidency in 2028 if they double down on MM madness. For discussion, please see An Early Look at the 2028 Presidential Election
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If the democrates would have invested a few bucks they would have gotten florida as well
Yupp
I am not in any party but the democrats have abandoned much of the south since the late 70’s. You are right about Nixon in Florida and I would add the democrat in Louisiana. By abandoning many southern states the democrats automatically lost them.
Now that the elections are over will the democrats stop stupid wars in iran columbia somalia and the rest of them? Will the democrats investigate then impeach and remove the crooks in Washington? I have my doubts. I would start with lutnick and hegseth.
Other priorities sensible tariffs and eliminate senseless tarriffs minimum wage increases and jobs programs.
Let us see if they are going to do more than talk
Another historic victory.
“One week after Election Day, Americans for Health Freedom announced that 124 candidates who signed its public pledge to pull mRNA COVID-19 shots off the market and refuse pharmaceutical company donations won their races.
That’s nearly 70% of the 178 who had signed.”
Lot of people here pissing and moaning the 3,000 Republicans sat on their ass and didn’t vote and now we have a black senator. Fuck you.
I think the other story that is getting passed over is that the Democrats were able to flip a state that’s been unflippable for generations. Now they know they can do it they have a reason to vote. I think hope is more motivating than hate, it’s not as exhausting.
The Democrats need to get back to the 50 State Strategy that they always had till they stopped fighting in the Mid West.
No party in a democratic system should ever withdraw from one geographical area of a country. Every voter deserves a choice
“Every voter deserves a choice”
The problem is that, even in contested seats, you get a choice of two carefully curated corporate imperialist muppets.
I’ve seen more choice at a conference luncheon, aka “the rubber chicken circuit”.
50 state strategy massively increases the chances of winning huge majorities and governing. Will the democrats seize the opportunities or will they be corporatist republican light
Mississippi electing a black senator is good for race relations
Right on Raj Kumar and now they must produce positive results. I am happy Scott Colom won but I am very skeptical about Washington DC democrats waffling selling out caving in and becoming corporatist republican light
I think a lot of independent and republican voters in Mississippi voted for Scott Colom
The democrats abandoned much of the south since the 1970s and you can’t win if you don’t run
This gives context to Mississippi’s senate election as even MS-NOW (alias MSNBC) said Republican turnout was a lot lower in midterm 2026 by at least 200,000 Republican voters (compared to 2024).
The Democrats in Mississippi had a much better turnout this election than in 2024.
So if 3,000 of those 200,000 Republican voters showed up then the Republican would have won the senate race.
” Asymmetric Turnout by County. MS NOW reports that while majority-Black counties achieved roughly 88% of their 2024 presidential turnout levels, turnout across all other counties in Mississippi reached only about 75% of 2024 levels ”
” Lower Share of 2024 Trump Voters. Based on MS NOW Voter Poll data from November 11, 2026, voters who turned out in Mississippi in 2026 reported having backed Trump over Kamala Harris by a 54% to 42% margin in 2024, roughly half of Trump’s actual 61% to 38% victory margin in the state. Analysts at MS NOW note these estimates indicate that hundreds of thousands of 2024 Trump voters stayed home or did not cast a Senate ballot in 2026. “
If they didn’t vote, they aren’t voters. Ex voters, at best.
Now the idiots are ready to pass the SAVE act supported by 83% of the public.
Tillis, Collins, McConnell, Murkowski have opposed it. Unlike the public, they know what’s in it.
I have always found those post civil war asterisks interesting, as in ‘first black Senator in Mississippi since 1873’. Usually it is written ‘since Reconstruction’. What went on back then, did the Union taunt Southerners by appointing former slaves to run all the former confederate states? How did that work out in practice, did they have the power to do their jobs? Kind of a bizarre bit of history I have never fully understood.
i studied in depth when i lived in charleston SC for a decade. that is one town in amerika where people love history. like many europeans do. been going to college nonstop since 1978. for fun and learning. better than drinking or golf or whatever folks do with all the free time in the rich world. if you want to learn, read up on The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877 resolved one of the most contentious presidential crises in U.S. history and effectively brought an end to the Reconstruction era. covers all the hot poiints including states that didn’t know who really won…………..
No, former slaves were not appointed. Rather, former slaves were eligible to vote, and most southern whites were not.
When reconstruction ended most of the south disenfranchised black citizens right to vote. Most of the south then became a one party state AKA democrat. Southern democrats were overwhelmingly right wing and anti civil rights
Curious how the “prognosticators” missed Mississippi.
Talk about a battleground state. Been watching it for a week.
that dude’s ad was the best of the season. sheeeeeeeeet
“But I am cheering the total and complete wipeout of racist, warmongering, MAGA Morons (MMs).”
Well, for that to hold, the donorCRAT Party folks have to actually work for the people. Which they haven’t – for at least 60 years since the passage of Medicare in the 1960s.
My guess is that they will have minimal losses in the 2028 elections (maybe 5-10 House seats and 1 or 2 Senate seats) and then have huge losses in the 2030 elections (40+ House seats and 5 or 6 Senate seats) so things will be back to just about their 2024 levels again!
since 2012, either the house, senate, or president office has flipped from one party to another.
I expect that trend to continue.
Yes. In 2028, it will be the President’s position that will swing. The House and the Senate would swing back a little but not all the way. That will happen in 2030. It would be an “echo shellacking” of the drubbing that 0-bama received after his disastrous right-wing Obolacare legislation.
Well, whaddaya know? Yet another addition to the Rotating Villains club:
Fetterman
Hamilton
Turek
Cooper
Andrews
Talarico
Colom
Peltola (maybe)
Hickenlooper
Gallego
Pappas
Slotkin
Kelly
Warner
That’s 14 right there. The party needs 6 or 7 at the most at any given time. Which means the Villains gonna Rotate among themselves.
they will wait to give hakeem and chuckie the wins in crucifying a few pawns like Hegseth…….
Yes. They will be sure to replace Hegseth with someone who will continue all the wars while being not so openly obnoxious as him.
Just like in Israel as essentially a right wing Zionist is replaced by a left wing Zionist.
So the only difference is the corporate media, EU elites, and Democrats will support the left wing Zionist to essentially continue business as usual.
And they’ll wait out Trump so that the left wing Zionists can coordinate with the Democrats to immigrate massive amounts of Palestinians to the USA using NGOs like Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Bend The Arc.
Preferably someone that wears a yarmulke.
Thatz the problem with politics in America hegseth should be removed but if he is replaced by a warmonger with a pleasant personality that does not solve the problem
We need to shut down all of our overseas bases AKA bring the troops home
67 senators need to vote on removing an impeached official. They will only have at most 57 Democrat votes, and I doubt any Republicans will join. Its not like there are any Susan Collins around in the Senate.
So they’ll impeach Hegseth but they won’t be able to remove him from office.
That depends on how many Republican senators are up for election in 28. I don’t think the Republican Purge is over
Max is 56. But note that it is 2/3 of the number of voting members. If 10 Republicans stay away, then the threshold drops to 60 (out of 90). So, all 56 Democrats plus 4 Republicans who are up in 2028 would do it.
Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul might vote to impeach and remove hegseth
I am betting he wont be able to reduce prices either. But he got the votes because people have HOPE in a broken system
In other Mississippi news, today Brett Favre had a cow.
while I welcome the sentiment , I wouldnt be so sure Maga goes away so quickly. Same people with new names of course.
The American voters are pissed off and stupid and highly propagandized.
Tech bros will provide the propoganda, educational system will produce the dumb and aipac and corporate dems will provide the anger.
The first of the tech bros is about to be ousted from NVidia as payback for a poor Republican showing in the midterms,
meh, old boss, new boss.
you lose a star player and the game still goes on. the money and the infrastructure will still be there.
I do think it will take 6 to 8 years until the stupid is forgotten.
smells more like a CIA and China joint effort to bring down NVDA founder. he really did NOT know how to play ball with the men in the world that really run the show…………
And perhaps some poor judgement.
In what sense? He’d been carrying on the affair as an ‘open secret’ for years and was willingly photographed with her.
It only became important (ie outing her as a spy) when a scapegoat was needed.
seems like a total idiot. didn’t know how to play DC. remember when bill gates had to be threatened when he was a rising star to play the DC payoff system. where i grew up, we all knew that wall street owned DC but still payed the pet senators to play nice.
Weird how he had to resign but all of the men in the Epstein files are still employed.
We’re fighting a war with Iran to keep them safe.
Good point
After all, Ted Cruz is still a Tea Party rotten fruit that refuses to go away and whom people still refuse to stop voting for.
It is a great day for America. Democrat or Republican – we need to break down these bastions of power. It needs to happen in the blue areas, but nice to see politicians getting a kick in the pants. Maybe they will do a better job of representing us. And in this case, Scott deserves the win. He did the work Thanks for highlighting this win – well deserved.
A lot of blue areas got a kick in the 2024 presidential election.
Never again will those blue areas redden up.
One of Trump’s greatest diversity and inclusion achievements! Colom’s opponent told the voters to try a different protein if beef is too expensive but they decided they wanted a different senator instead.
Like I said, you can’t fix MAGA level of stupid, you just gotta let it burn out and here we are…another ember goes dark (pun intended).
3-star Mishelin award granted.
Nah. He’s at 2 stars right now because he insulted M&Ms with that acronym.
WM3s is a much better acronym for ‘warmongering, MAGA Morons”.
He gets 3-star because I wasn’t expecting another stompgasm today and I enjoyed the surprise. I can’t take any more of this winning….lol.
that was the best political ad of the season………..SHEEEEEEET
The way MAGA republicans are going will be like the downfall of the Whig party in the 1850s. Good riddance. It will take a dozen years or so starting in 2028 for the party to implode and a follow on party to rise from the ashes in order to compete with the Democrats again. Best case. Of course if the Dems overplay their hand (and very likely the will), that could change, but the current construct of the Repub party is doomed.
In my state there are 3 (three) Republicans left in the state senate. They can caucus in a booth at McDonald’s.
They will fund their meeting with their PAC because they won’t be able to afford the Big Mac on their state salary.
Well you are in a high debt, high taxes, smug Democrat sh*thole state. Enjoy.
My, aren’t we a grumpy trumpling this morning!
This is not a nurturing safe-space.
a very good point to ponder. i was thinking MAGA were more like the old dixiecrats. however i’m starting to bet some pals Trump will pull an LBJ…….and pivot with the direction of the country. if nothing else, Trump was a talented actor and the only man to ever run for potus only and win, who wasn’t a violent revolutionary(ole george Washington) or a commander of ww2…….ike……i smell him granting amnesty and doing medicare for all……and assorted other goodies………
I don’t see drumpf switching. He never backs down. If he tries to pull the LBJ double summersault switcheroo, it will be a first for him. Backing down is for LOSERS, and drumpf can’t ever see himself as a LOSER. ICBW but I’m not holding my breath.
“I don’t see drumpf switching. He never backs down.”
The word “TACO” does not ring a bell with you?
Would the MAGA minions follow Trump straight away into liberal happy land? Are they as inwardly unprincipled and incoherent as he is? I mean, if your messiah changed his stripes in the middle of some random afternoon, what would you do? The minions have in fact accepted a high level of incoherence.
Doubling down is an essential part of the MM process:
stupid idea, double down, repeat.
For a MAGAt, including the Grande MAGAt, keep charging forward blindly and arrogantly until you find and hit a wall that busts your silly head open. That’s ultimately their formula. A few victories, and then comes some brilliant Barbarossa blitzkrieg shock and awe idea. And splat go the weasels!
The entire state of Mississippi has 1.9 million registered voters. Of this only 0.962 million voted in this election. This is less than the number of voters in a county in some third world countries.
That such tiny proportion of voters elect officials who affect the lives of billions around the world with their war mongering is a bleak commentary on the world we live in.
At least they get to vote.
Imagine those in Russia and China who have no actual candidates other than the State party to vote for. They affect those same billions around the world.
The Democrats decided in 2024 to override the selection of the voters and running Harris instead. So the party selected the candidate not the voters…is this what you are referring to?
BINGO. WINNER. and a major reason Mamala lost to ole fat lying trump. when she said she’d do nothing different from Genocide Joe, she lost the race. the democrats suck shit as bad as republicans. only difference is abortion rights and cannabis rights and a few assorted social issues. abortion rights is huge. the repugs really channel their taliban thinking………fat old fucks.
Um, Obama’s deal with Iran?
Yes, which Biden could have reinstated but he didn’t.
Since you brought up the middle east, we could also discuss the genocide in Yemen which Biden opposed until he became president. Then he was for it.
good points. china would never ponder democracy. Russia tried it in the 90s. Nixon was correct. they would elect another Czar. Czar Putin came to power in i believe it was 1998. he blew up some buildings in moscow or leningrad and blamed it on the chechnyans. i was there that summer. the rise of czar putin.
it was 1999. just checked.
That’s the very system that the Beltway Party is gerrymandering, so to say, the country to.
This is not true. In Russia, there are opposition parties, who win contested elections and take office as a result.
amerikans love world wide warmongering. we VOTE for it from MS to NY to CA………….
If people didn’t show up, they can’t blame the system for that.
I posted that MS NOW (or MSNBC) reported Democrats had a lot better turnout this election compared to past elections like 2024, whereas MS NOW stated at least 200,000 Republicans stayed home this election compared to past elections. Only 3,000 of those 200,000 Republicans could have voted to hand the senate race to the Republican.