Mike Ezell Defeats Longtime U.S. House Rep. Steven Palazzo in GOP Runoff
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell has defeated longtime U.S. House Rep. Steven Palazzo in the Republican primary runoff for Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District.
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell has defeated longtime U.S. House Rep. Steven Palazzo in the Republican primary runoff for Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District.
Republican U.S. House candidate Michael Cassidy is distancing himself from policy proposals on health care and family spending plans after drawing criticism from conservative opposition.
Voters can use the following table to examine polling place locations for the June 7, 2022 congressional party primaries. The Mississippi Free Press compiled the list using data obtained from the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office and by contacting local election officials in all 82 counties.
Candidates in Mississippi’s 4th U.S. Congressional District debated the 2020 election and their views on voting rights and elections during a forum in Hattiesburg on May 19, 2022.
Exactly 100 years to the day since Willie Baker’s lynching, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Law, making lynching a federal hate crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison. The House of Representatives passed it last month.
The American people “will be shocked to know how close we came to losing our democracy” once the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol reveals its finding, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, says.
Congress should honor Bob Moses, the longtime voting rights leader who died Sunday at age 86, by continuing his work to protect voting rights, President Joe Biden said in a statement late Monday. Moses, a Harlem, N.Y., native, moved to the deep south in the early 1960s to lead voter-registration efforts in Jim Crow Mississippi.
A minority of 35 Republicans, including U.S. Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, voted to filibuster consideration of an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection that left five dead, including one Capitol Police officer.
Mississippi House Rep. Michael Guest, who represents Mississippi’s third congressional district, was one of the just 35 Republicans in the U.S. House to vote in favor of a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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