‘We gotta do something’: the coalition that helped elect Scott Colom to Senate
The Guardian US reports on the coalition of groups behind Scott Colom's election as a Mississippi senator. According to the outlet, these groups did not have much money but drew on collective power and on anger over the Supreme Court's Louisiana v Callais decision, which the Guardian says gutted the Voting Rights Act. The piece describes Mississippi organizers working to grow political participation and improve quality of life in the state long before national political leaders and media were paying attention.
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‘We gotta do something’: the coalition that helped elect Scott Colom to Senate
Behind the Mississippi senator-elect’s victory is a coalition of groups that didn’t have a lot of money, but had collective power and post-Callais anger Long before national political leaders and media were paying any attention, long before the Louisiana v Callais supreme court decision gutted the Voting Rights Act, Mississippi organizers were working to grow political participation and improve quality of life in a state that often ranks low on its residents’ health and wellbeing. Activists’ mom
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