Columnist Sid Salter says kitchen-table issues have historically impacted what appear to be “safe” races in the most unpredictable ways. The 2026 midterms may well prove to be one of those elections.

LaTosha Brown (left) and Cliff Albright, co-founders of Black Voters Matter, lead a group at Tougaloo College during a Black Voters Matter event in June 2021 in Jackson, Mississippi. The U.S. Supreme ...

Elections in other states suggest Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith might not have a cakewalk.

Washington DC - Mississippi will send some 200 National Guard personnel to Washington, its governor said Monday, where they will join hundreds more from other Republican-led states to double the ...

Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a legal maneuver that could have widespread implications for mail voting ahead of this year's presidential election ...

Republican candidates just can’t help themselves from making shockingly racist comments on the campaign trail. The latest offender is Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, who faces a Nov. 27 runoff ...

In 2020, in a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote, Mississippi joined eighteen other states in accepting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrived after Election Day (in Mississippi’s case, up ...