Democrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in stunning Mississippi Senate win

Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982

Democrat Scott Colom defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since Reconstruction, in a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states.

“All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this,” Colom told a crowd of hundreds who on Wednesday had gathered at Tougaloo College for his victory party. “I had the courage to believe in Mississippi. I had the courage to understand that we can show the country that Mississippi matters.” Continue reading...


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/11/scott-colom-mississippi-senate-race?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

House Democrat Delivers Her 'Honest' Assessment Of The GOP's New Leader And... Ouch

New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver argued that the GOP hasn’t learned its “lesson” from the midterms.


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For Trump, Musk and Farage, the message is the same: voters don’t want to be hijacked by billionaires | Rafael Behr

A lesson from the US midterms is that electorates are repelled by the arrogant mega-rich buying democracy. This is a fight Labour can afford to pick

For most people, $224m (£168m) is a lot of money, especially if you spend it and get nothing in return. But Elon Musk is richer than most people. In fact, there is no one richer.

As the wealthiest of the US’s tech oligarchs Musk could afford to blow huge sums on a failed bid to prop up Republican candidates in Texas, his adoptive home state, in last week’s midterm congressional elections. He is reported to have spent a further $250m failing to engineer results in other races.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...


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Florida Probing Democratic Socialists of America Over Foreign Contributions

Florida was one of the only states to remain under Republican control after last week’s midterm elections, which saw DSA-aligned candidates rack up victories across the country.


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