Thanks for reading THE MISSISSIPPI INDEPENDENT! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

When U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said she would block Scott Colom from becoming a federal judge in April 2023, she cited as one reason that he had received district attorney’s race campaign funding ...

“Wake up,” you say you want to tell Democrats. Wake up, as if Republicans have not spent years setting the house on fire and ...

The Biloxi City Council reportedly voted 5-1 on Tuesday night before a packed house to approve rezoning of the site of the ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Sept. 25, 2026, that the state of Missouri must run its November congressional elections on the map the state drew in 2022, it blocked for the third time a ...

State Sen. Dean Kirby on Thursday night opened the eighth redistricting hearing on his committee’s schedule, the last one currently set, by telling the room what his committee does and does not do.

The Joint Legislative Committee on Reapportionment and Redistricting holds the last of its eight public hearings on Thursday, Oct.