See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate.
Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
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NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
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2) Dems are dumb and disorganized.
There, I fixed it. :V
...man we are the WORST
Good question, not just for Mississippi, but other southern states as well.
Try connecting with @davidhogg.bsky.social
Lord knows Carville won't help you.
Power to the People! 🇺🇸
https://Emilyslist.org
It’s so frustrating that Dems will concede Mississippi, other southern states, the Midwest. We all know the GQP is looking to continue making progress is solid blue states.
“Mississippi…White Republicans have long had total control over state government due to an array of voter suppression policies dating back to Reconstruction, designed to keep the formerly enslaved from exercising full citizenship rights. “
i say we re-enact and commerate the Union siege of Vicksburg
1. The MS Democratic Party is broke.
2. This is a very poor state.
3. Mississippi is gerrymandered.
4. https://www.wlbt.com/2025/04/16/panel-orders-mississippi-redraw-desoto-county-legislative-districts-special-elections-loom/
Things might have changed since 2020, but a change that big seems unlikely.
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=a98a06be-92cb-493f-a04a-b14c72c8c0e9
White progressives have proved themselves untrustworthy to Black people TIME AND TIME AGAIN, in no small part because of our tendency to try and play nice with extremely racist working class whites.
It was appalling.
They aren’t getting it any where else. Problem is that they may need a interpreter to keep the message from going over their heads.
And a state notorious for voter disenfranchisement?
maybe the issue isn’t “hurr durr these southerners are idiots” but that systemic racism and voter suppression rig the state to swing right
What do you have in mind as a "unique" one?
https://ballotpedia.org/Bernie_Sanders_presidential_campaign,_2020#Campaign_themes
https://www.mississippidemocrats.org/
We have to do this together.
@democrats.senate.gov
Democrats think only about the next election cycle. Had they been doing this since 2002, Texas would look a whole lot different.
Instead, they chase white voters.
They want to keep playing good cop, but that doesn’t work if they gain enough to get past Republican obstruction and the handful of corporate Dems that they gleefully let tank everything good.
make those cultists pay for their disinformation
this knocks out one of the traitors’ pillars of power/influence
this would be a major blow to trump and his agenda
Why are ANY seats going unopposed?
Mike Johnson ran unopposed last time and that is shameful
They spent a billion dollars and they can't do 435 storefronts?
I’ll bet Hogg and the DNC will get right on it. 🙄
A lot of our Republican candidates are just unopposed.
The same can be said for several states. We've underinvested in state level parties, outside of swing states.
The new DNC is supposed to do that but missed the opportunity in Florida.
Florida requires a govt. I.D. to vote. A married woman must show official documents of every marriage, divorce or death certificate for every spouse in her life to get a govt issued I.D. Also any vote can be challenged !
The give up attitude just sucks.
https://www.mississippidemocrats.org/
https://democrats.org/who-we-are/state-parties/state-party-websites/
We deal with the same stuff, although our Black pop isn't quite as high.
We are abandoned regarding everything.
I'm not even sure if Bernie & AOC stop by these states.
We're totally forgotten & it's a damn shame.
And we live under oppression, racism, etc.
MS voters also have to overcome voter suppression by the (R) legislature. The SAVE Act will make voting even more difficult.
https://youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?si=LqAgmeK8M91Iv0vg
Right now we have ppl doing great stuff but mostly alone.
Hold rallies in deep red states like Mississippi.
https://dccc.org/
https://www.dscc.org/
2. Outreach to rural voters = outreach to Black voters in MS.
3. Disenfranchised and disaffected voters
4. Still fighting for the Lost Cause = a Mississippi that’s still segregated
5. People like Robert Woodson and those behind 1776 Unite does great harm.
@davidhogg.bsky.social ?!?
The Democratic Party is democracy in action. It's all of us.
Just funding a proper GOTV operation there (which is cheap b/c there's no high-dollar media market!) might well be enough to flip it.
Getting a few points' worth of non-voters excited and engaged enough to get off their couches probably means coming up with something other than politics as usual.
https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-democrat-howard-deans-fifty-state-strategy.html
Had been a Trumper since '15.
Might be better in the delta but in North MS it was the last stop before no party at all.