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Ganucheau: The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s Blackest state

By ADAM GANUCHEAU - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 242 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:58 PM

Below is an opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:

How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

Mississippi’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades

Ganucheau: The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s Blackest state

By ADAM GANUCHEAU - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 242 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:58 PM

Below is an opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:

How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

Mississippi’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades

We must stand up to the ICE abuses

By Joseph McCain, READ MORE > 220 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:04 PM

There are moments in a republic when the noise of slogans must give way to the quiet insistence of conscience.
This is one of them.
We are told, almost daily, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pursuing the “worst of the worst.” Instead, the machinery of enforcement has turned its iron attention on those who have committed no crime beyond believing, worshiping, and hoping in the wrong direction.

We must stand up to the ICE abuses

By Joseph McCain, READ MORE > 220 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 12:04 PM

Police state tactics, government lies

By Bill Crawford, READ MORE > 318 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:56 AM

“Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” podcaster Joe Rogan asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Uproar over ICE and Border Patrol aggressive tactics has begun to breach President Donald Trump’s fortress.
“Hate to say it, but they are all lying,” posted lifelong Mississippi Republican Pete Perry on Facebook. “Denial of what we have seen, what has been put in front of us – them and us – and ignored and lied about. We saw it. They saw it. And they know we and everyone else have seen the truth.”

Police state tactics, government lies

By Bill Crawford, READ MORE > 318 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:56 AM

Don’t water down school choice bill

By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy, READ MORE > 259 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:52 AM

Over the past few years, Mississippi lawmakers have passed some critical conservative reforms. Last year, Mississippi became the first state in America to legislate to eliminate the income tax in 40 years. In 2022, we implemented flat tax reform. A few years before that, we passed important labor market reforms. In 2024, we reformed school funding to get more money into the classroom.
It is thanks to these flagship conservative reforms that Mississippi has enjoyed more economic growth in the past five years than over the previous fifteen combined.

Don’t water down school choice bill

By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy, READ MORE > 259 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:52 AM

Do you trust your propaganda?

By Suzannah McGowan, READ MORE > 150 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:36 AM

Spin the truth, spin the youth,
confound the status quo
so they worry, fear and
Not understand
Do you trust your propaganda?
Those who owned the news
knew they could abuse
manipulate disenfranchised discord weaponized with indignant terrified urgency
Do you trust your propaganda?
The personally wounded, entitled,
idealistic, masters of displaced liability
and lacking self accountability
Do you trust your propaganda?
It is us against them, them against us

Do you trust your propaganda?

By Suzannah McGowan, READ MORE > 150 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:36 AM

Good Fences, Clear Lines: Why States Regulate Gaming

By Representative Price Wallace, READ MORE > 701 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:33 AM

Farming teaches lessons that apply far beyond the field. You learn the importance of clear boundaries, responsibility, and staying focused on the

Letter to the Editor

By Glynn Kegley, READ MORE > 156 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:28 AM

Dear Editor:
With all due respect to the one or more state leaders who believe antifa (anTEEfuh) and basement dwelling keyboard warriors are the problem in Minneapolis, they are not. It is clearly the Gestapo like tactics of ICE.
Those leaders are glad we don't have that going on in Mississippi. I am, too, but I know why. They do, too. It is not because we don't have quite a few undocumented residents and a large city with a Democratic mayor. The difference is we have a Trumpublican leadership. Minnesota does not.

Letter to the Editor

By Glynn Kegley, READ MORE > 156 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:28 AM

Our tournament will be missed

By Peter Gilderson, READ MORE > 196 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:20 AM

Steve Jent, the exec director of Century Club Charities, announced recently that the Wayne-Sanderson Farms PGA golf tournament will no longer be held this year. So, after having a PGA professional golf tournament in Mississippi for 58 years we will have no sponsor, and therefore no tournament. Last year Century Club Charities, which organizes the tournament, gave $1 million to Blair Batson Children's Hospital, and $700m to several other charities.

Our tournament will be missed

By Peter Gilderson, READ MORE > 196 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:20 AM

Stupid Senator Kennedy?

By Luther Munford, READ MORE > 211 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:16 AM

Louisiana’s U.S. Senator John Kennedy has written a national best-seller, “How to Test Negative for Stupid And Why Washington Never Will.” The preposterous conceit that drives the book is that everybody, or almost everybody, in the nation’s capital is stupid, with the exception of Senator Kennedy.

Stupid Senator Kennedy?

By Luther Munford, READ MORE > 211 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 11:16 AM

Breazeale: The Weight They Carry: Life as a teacher in Mississippi

By Grace Breazeale - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 129 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 10:58 AM

Below is an opinion column by Grace Breazeale:

The question before lawmakers this session is whether we will protect that progress or allow it to erode by continuing to ask teachers to carry more than any profession reasonably can.

Breazeale: The Weight They Carry: Life as a teacher in Mississippi

By Grace Breazeale - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 129 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 10:58 AM

Below is an opinion column by Grace Breazeale:

The question before lawmakers this session is whether we will protect that progress or allow it to erode by continuing to ask teachers to carry more than any profession reasonably can.

DeAngelis: Mississippi Senate betrays families

By Corey DeAngelis - Magnolia Tribune, READ MORE > 86 Reads
On Thu, 02/05/2026 - 10:32 AM

Below is a political opinion column by Corey DeAngelis:

Mississippi families can’t wait another year while politicians dither. And the Senate Republicans who sided with the radical left to block this education freedom must be held accountable at the ballot box.

Parents and students in Mississippi deserve better than the status quo that’s failing them. This week, the Mississippi Senate Education Committee killed the House’s universal school choice bill on a voice vote Tuesday, after it had already passed out of the House.

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