Post by @Nonilex@masto.ai

Yay! #Democrat #ScottColom will win US #Senate seat in deep-red #Mississippi, CNN projects

Scott Colom will defeat #GOP Sen #CindyHydeSmith in a major upset to become the first Democrat that voters in deep-red Mississippi have elected to the chamber in more than four decades.

Colom, 43, also will become the first #Black person elected to statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era.

#USpol #midterms #BlueWave
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/live-news/hegseth-impeachment-congress?post-id=cmwco1b9100083b6wwzg3nve1&adobe_mc=TS%3D1794435030%7CMCMID%3D18723306332579596368327107292363910737%7CMCORGID%3D7FF852E2556756057F000101%40AdobeOrg&iid=cnn-mobile-app

CNN

The latest on the Mississippi Senate vote count

Colom will unseat GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first Black person elected to statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era. Follow for the latest.

#cindyhydesmith #bluewave #scottcolom #democrat #mississippi #black #gop #midterms #senate #uspol

2 Boosts

0 Likes

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai 42 min. ago

On the lawn of #Tougaloo College, steps from the chapel where the #CivilRights leaders #FannieLouHamer & #MedgarEvers gave speeches, they danced.

Students from Tougaloo & other nearby historically #Black institutions lined the sidewalk to cheer & applaud. Members of Black fraternities & sororities, dressed in their letters & colors, embraced one another. “Thank the Lord, we did it,” one woman declared.

#ScottColom #Mississippi #Senate #USpol #midterms #BlueWave
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/us/elections/mississippi-colom-senate-race-black-voters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P1E.iRa7.Bn1HKwaTkljz&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai 39 min. ago

It was a day that many had prayed would come, though they could never know when. That evening, #ScottColom made their hopes a reality, speaking in front of the college chapel as the senator-elect from #Mississippi.

…When the US #Senate race in Mississippi was called for Colom, who will become the first #Black senator from the state since the Reconstruction era, shouts of celebration erupted at the local NAACP office.

At a law office in Jackson, everyone stopped working & screamed for joy.

Flowermob

@Flowermob@mastodon.social 16 min. ago

@Nonilex another confederate monument toppled.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai 36 min. ago

At #Tougaloo, rows of chairs filled long before the victory speech began, as hundreds gathered at the college that had been both a haven & a proving ground for a generation of #CivilRights activists & #Black leaders.
It had been 8 days since the #election. It had been 63 years since #MedgarEvers, the civil rights leader who led #VotingRights drives in the state, was assassinated in his driveway. And it had been >150 yrs since a Black senator had been chosen to represent #Mississippi

#ScottColom

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai 34 min. ago

For generations, #Mississippi was a bastion of #slavery, #segregation, #lynching & #Black #VoterSuppression.

#ScottColom will be the third Black senator to represent the state. The first two were chosen by the state legislature & served during Reconstruction — Colom will be the first chosen by voters.

#Senate #USpol #midterms #BlueWave