Behind the Mississippi senator-elect\u2019s victory is a coalition of groups that didn\u2019t have a lot of money, but had collective power and post-Callais anger<\/p>\n
Long before national political leaders and media were paying any attention, long before the Louisiana v Callais<\/a> 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\u2019 health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n Activists\u2019 momentum contributed to Democrat Scott Colom\u2019s historic upset in the midterm elections. A loose coalition of about a dozen, mostly Black-led nonprofits or initiatives rallied residents after Callais, the April decision that set off a flurry of redistricting efforts across southern states. That case was not the sole impetus for organizing efforts across Mississippi, but it turned out thousands in the 20 May \u201cMississippi Fights Back\u201d<\/a> rally<\/a>. Callais became the most recent opportunity to channel people\u2019s frustrations and hopes into action \u2013 and to harness previous campaigns that go back years and even decades.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Behind the Mississippi senator-elect\u2019s victory is a coalition of groups that didn\u2019t 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}