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THREAD: I encourage y'all to support my husband @wspittman's writing and give him a follow. He's written four journalistic stories in his life so far, and I wish I could say my first four were even ⅕ as good. Here's a thread of what he's done so far. 1/
Today @wspittman delves into the #MSHouse 102 race btwn @MissyWMcGee, the only Republican to vote against the 6-week abortion ban, & young college leader @rue_brandon, who marched 100s of USM students to the polls for @MikeEspyMS in 2018. #MSelex #MSleg 2/
deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2019…
Some polls show a slight lead for Democrat Jim Hood in the #MSgov race & AG candidate Jennifer Riley Collins could be the first black woman elected to statewide office.

@wspittman explains how they could win 54% of the vote & still lose. 👇🏻 3/ #MSelex
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In the #MSGov race, Republican Tate Reeves invoked transphobia against children to try to warn that his Democratic opponent might support transgender children's rights if Mississippi elects him. @wspittman on how this might play out. #MSelex 4/
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Here's @wspittman's 1st piece—an interview he did with @rue_brandon a year ago after photographing a USM event for @MikeEspyMS that Rue organized with @CoryBooker before the 2018 US Senate runoff. In it, Rue 1st hinted at plans to run for #msleg. 👇🏻#MSelex deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2018…
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Ashton Pittman
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Here's my thread of my own threads, from racist history to misogyny and hot sauce, and everything in between. This is mostly to help me locate my own threads more quickly, but maybe it'll be helpful to you, too. 👇🏻
First, whenever someone says "the Democrats were the party of slavery/the KKK/segregation," I just share this thread with them.
Here's my thread on how hot sauce oddly explains sexism in politics, Hillary Clinton, and the 2016 election. People keep pulling this one up and sharing it with people to dispel myths.
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Ashton Pittman
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White supremacists gathered around civil rights martyr Emmett Till's memorial today with a Mississippi Flag & a League of the South flag to film a racist propaganda video. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center's security cams at the now-bulletproof monument caught them. 1/
Shortly after, members of the white supremacist org disperse & scurry to their cars after apparently setting off a security alarm at the newly-replaced Emmett Till memorial, now bulletproof, after being shot up repeatedly. (Warning: loud video). Story + more footage coming. 2/
(Note: You can connect with the @EmmeTillcenter on their website at emmett-till.org or on Facebook at facebook.com/TillCenter/) 3/
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Mississippi will have an election under a Jim Crow-era electoral college-style law requiring the victor to not only win the popular vote, but a majority of House districts.

Some say Democrats will now need to win 55% of the vote to win the Nov. 5 election. #MSelex 1/
"The process was written when white politicians across the South were enacting Jim Crow laws to erase black political power...and the separate House vote was promoted as a way for the white ruling class have the final say in who holds office." 2/ #MSelex

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"Mississippi’s constitutional convention was held for no other purpose than to eliminate the n**** from politics; not the ignorant—but the n***,” James K. Vardaman, one of the 1890 constitution's framers, said at the time, @wspittman writes. 3/ #MSelex
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