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Editor’s Note | We Won’t Always Have Access to the Powerful, But Our Reporting Will Always Put People First
“Even if politicians leave us out of press events, that won’t stop us from carrying out our mission. Free Press journalists have always been about people-first, not access to power,” MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.
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Opinion | Impact Talk: Stuart Stevens, MFP Editors Discuss Voter Diversification
MFP Executive Editor Donna Ladd invites donors to join her and News Editor Ashton Pittman in a conversation with Lincoln Project co-founder Stuart Stevens on voter diversification.
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Opinion | I Have Chosen to Die in Mississippi
Sharon Leslie Morgan writes about moving to Mississippi in 2018 and her decision to spend the last years of her life in the state.
Opinion | How Family Companies Win Without Fighting
Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Hanqing Fang and Jim Chrisman write about the unique ways in which family businesses succeed.
Opinion | US Military Force Cannot Create Political Authority or Legitimacy
Monica Duffy Toft writes that removing brutal leaders does not mean a country will become politically stable.
Opinion | Electricity for Data Centers Has a Cost
Theodore J. Kury writes about the utility impact of data centers and how different states are navigating them.
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Editor’s Note | MFP Changes: I’m Sad, Grateful and Excited at the Same Time for 2026
Donna Ladd pays tribute to her departing Mississippi Free Press co-founder and the innovative vision they built together since March 2020, despite some people not believing “two women of a certain age from rural Mississippi, one Black and one white” could pull off the innovative 82-county local-news vision.
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