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SENATOR-ELECT SCOTT COLOM: We all know that prayer is only a part of our Mississippi faith tradition. You need faith. And I'll tell you, throughout this campaign, there were many times where I had to have faith. There were times that I couldn't get donors to answer the phone. They did not believe a moment like this was possible, but I kept the faith….
There's so many people that have faith in Mississippi at times where it seemed impossible. People like Medgar Evers. I can't help but think about Medgar Evers on Veterans Day. A moment like this, where he served his country and came home to Mississippi when they wouldn't let him vote. But he had faith that Mississippi could make progress. He had faith that one day everybody would have the right to vote. He had faith that a day like this was possible
J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
THANK YOU, MISSISSIPPI! This victory belongs to all of us and I am honored to be your new senator-elect.
J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
This is a remarkable tweet. Under what circumstances are unilateral tariffs, unilateral war, mass deportations, and large-scale crackdowns on free speech examples of "running to the middle"? His version of "bold conservatism" (which is really bold authoritarianism and bold corruption) is what turned the country against the GOP.
Saying, “We’ve got to start talking to independent voters,” here is Swamp talk for “run to the middle.” Running to the middle is not what got Trump popularly elected in 2024, but it is what got Republicans crushed in the midterms. Bold conservatism is what will attract independent voters and win elections.
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This is how politics should work!
J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
The U.S. Constitution does not explicitly mention the word "immigration" or give the federal government an express power to control borders or deport noncitizens, let alone a mandate. U.S. immigration enforcement and the agencies that carry it out are entirely creations of federal statute, not constitutional law.
Furthermore, nonviolently protesting government action while carrying a firearm, even if that government action were constitutionally mandated (which it's not), would not fulfill the definition of an act of domestic terrorism. If that were the case, there would effectively be no First or Second Amendment, and the validity of the whole document would come into question. There would be no reason to bring it up at all because, at that point, it would be a list of suggestions, not law.
If you use the term “constitutional mandate,” I suggest you know something of what the Constitution says.
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J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
I have come to the conclusion that the "progressive agenda" is as much of a threat to liberalism and American democracy as MAGA, thanks for confirming that horseshoe
J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
I am so sick of society treating having standards as some sort of prejudicial belief. I want people to achieve their potential and lowering expectations towards people you believe are disadvantaged isn't helping them, its insulting them. Instead of lowering the bar, you should help people raise themselves to meet it.
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The Mississippi Secretary of State purged thousands of voters from the voter rolls using *credit card data*, and it prevented thousands of people from voting. It could’ve cost Colom the election if it were slightly closer. That office should be a top target for Dems next year.
According to @AnnieGrayerCNN, Hinds County has 884 accepted affidavit and mail-in ballots remaining, substantially fewer than previously expected. Those ballots are expected to be counted and the results released shortly.
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Seriously?!?! It’s not like we didn’t warn you, but you thought you were smarter than the rest of us. FFS 🙄😒
This is one of the saddest things to me about where we’ve ended up.
MAGA started out as the movement for everyday people who were forgotten and shut out by the power structure of their own country.
We were told Trump couldn’t be bought, and MAGA was the movement to destroy corruption and drain the swamp.
After everything we’ve been through, it’s devastating to feel that we’ve arrived at a place where everything has a price: pardons are for sale; access, influence- even the core principles of the movement are negotiable.
The people who were promised a voice are left wondering whether they matter at all, while the wealthiest and best connected appear able to buy their way to whatever they want.
How did we get from “the forgotten men and women” to this?
J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
This is one of the saddest things to me about where we’ve ended up.
MAGA started out as the movement for everyday people who were forgotten and shut out by the power structure of their own country.
We were told Trump couldn’t be bought, and MAGA was the movement to destroy corruption and drain the swamp.
After everything we’ve been through, it’s devastating to feel that we’ve arrived at a place where everything has a price: pardons are for sale; access, influence- even the core principles of the movement are negotiable.
The people who were promised a voice are left wondering whether they matter at all, while the wealthiest and best connected appear able to buy their way to whatever they want.
How did we get from “the forgotten men and women” to this?
Katie Wiles, daughter of former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, is a partner at Continental Strategy, whose reported federal lobbying income rose from $1.8 million in 2024 to more than $27 million in 2025 and reached $35.7 million in the first nine months of 2026.
Continental promoted Katie to director in its Jacksonville and DC offices on November 8, 2024, one day after President-elect Trump named her mother chief of staff. The promotion added lobbying and business development to her existing communications role.
The firm holds a $35,000-a-month lobbying contract with the government of Republika Srpska, the pro-Russian Bosnian Serb entity. During an August 2026 trip that Continental says was for a separate US corporate client, Katie was photographed holding a rifle at a shooting range alongside the entity’s interior minister, Željko Budimir.
On September 21, 2026, Susie Wiles met at the White House with Željka Cvijanović, the Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s three-member presidency. A White House official says Continental partner Alex Garcia, not Katie, arranged the meeting.
The developments come amid allegations by former HHS senior adviser and MAHA advocate Calley Means that Susie Wiles’s office stalled MAHA policies while courting industry money for the midterms. Means also says Continental’s revenue surge was “tied to Katie Wiles working there.”
A Wiles spokesperson calls the claims “outrageous, defamatory, and provably false.” Continental calls the claims about the firm “inaccurate and baseless.”
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For almost my entire adult life I've heard elements of the GOP base blame failure on not being tough or aggressive enough. In the first two years of the second Trump term, they got all the aggression they could ever want, and the party got crushed at a level we haven't seen in more than 50 years.
So what happens next? With Stephen Miller and Jim Jordan, they double down on aggression. Nothing about those picks suggests the slightest sense that the MAGA base understands or even cares about what actually happened.
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My Veterans Day tradition at the VA: pizza, good conversations, and a huge thank you to our veterans.
As an immigrant, I will never take this country and the people who protect it for granted.
To every veteran: we love you, we appreciate you, and we thank you for your service. 🇺🇸
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This will be remembered in the history books as an important event in the history of the South.
Long term, despite all the hardship, the nation building project of Reconstruction ultimately succeeded and brought true liberal democracy to the Southern United States:
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BREAKING: Democrat Scott Colom defeats Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s Senate race, CNN projects
Trump won Mississippi by 23 points in 2024.
Wow
J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
The trouble with making everything political is that eventually you forget how to just be a person.
J ⛱️ 🌊 🌴 retweeted
Musk buying Twitter, as @AdamSerwer points out, lured conservatives into the trap of thinking that X is real life - and they paid for it.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
