NEW: Local Mississippi election officials have changed the polling locations for 5,000 Mississippians from where they were during the spring primaries, the secretary of state announced.
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So if your MS polling place changed or you were wrongly purged from the voter rolls, call your local circuit clerks, election commissioners, and supervisors first before going to SOS.
Local officials are supposed to notify SOS of changes to polling places.
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BREAKING: Election officials in Madison County quietly rezoned 2,000 Black & Hispanic voters out of a majority white precinct into an already-majority Black one.
From 2016 in the same location these voters were rezoned:
“The City of Ridgeland, Mississippi, has unlawfully attempted to diminish its minority population by eliminating, through rezoning, at least five apartment complexes ... to curb 'Jackson’s rot.'" mississippifreepress.org/6492/madison-c…
NEW: “The kingdom of Satan is united. ... We have let the kingdom of darkness advance ahead of us," Lou Engle's organization declared nine years ago when Mississippi rejected the Personhood Amendment.
On Sept. 4, Lou Engle said he began praying for the end of abortion: "If things don’t shift, we could be heading toward a civil war. But I believe God can shift this Supreme Court in these days.”
Sen. @CindyHydeSmith: "I’ve never been afraid to stand up for our faith (and) the rights of the unborn ... That’s why (I support) Amy Coney Barrett. She’s a woman of strong faith ... and she’s exactly who we need on our Supreme Court.” mississippifreepress.org/6324/evangelic…
THREAD: The modern evangelical "religious right" began in opposition to Brown v. Board and school integration—not Roe v. Wade. That's why thousands of "Christian" segregation academies popped up all over the South in the 1960s and 1970s. 1/
When SCOTUS decided Roe in 1973, it wasn't an earth-shattering event for evangelicals—some of whose churches still offered doctrinal defenses of abortion.
The history of the modern religious right was later rewritten to start in '73—not '55. 2/
"A 1965 Hattiesburg American article claimed segregation was not the private school's 'only aim' because 'the school will have Bible reading and prayer' & 'stress patriotism, American heritage, constitutional government and the free enterprise system.'" 3/ mississippifreepress.org/5625/good-trou…
THREAD: Two days after a White House meeting with Vice President Pence, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves ended the mask mandate, hailing its success at beating back the summer surge & saying he trusted Mississippians would keep masking without gov't force. 1/ mississippifreepress.org/5988/mississip…
A week later, Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said the state's progress in the fight against COVID-19 was "unraveling" as Mississippians "rapidly" abandoned mask use.
On Thursday, Mississippi reported 1,322 new cases—the most in a single day since the summer peak on July 30.
It was the first time the state had reported 1,000 cases or more since the mask mandate took effect. MS reported 1,100 cases on Friday. 3/ mississippifreepress.org/6219/white-mis…
The Eric Trump Foundation told donors their money would go to a kids' cancer charity. Instead...
-$1.2 million went to the Trump Org
-$100k to the Trump Foundation
-$500k to Trump-connected charities, including 4 that paid to host golf tournaments on Trump courses
Forbes reported this story about Eric Trump in 2017, but most Americans have never heard of it.
There have been dozens of one-time reports about Trump kids, including Ivanka and Trump Jr, profiting off the presidency since 2017, but they all fizzle out. forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
It's telling that some outlets, 2 weeks before the election, are chasing stories about Hunter Biden that they know come from Russian disinfo campaigns like the one that got Trump impeached—and even publishing texts he sent from rehab.
“In the first wave, Black and Brown people, including Choctaw people, bore the brunt of this pandemic. But ever since mid-summer, Black and Brown and Choctaw people stepped up. ... So now it’s time for white people in Mississippi to step up." mississippifreepress.org/6219/white-mis…
Today, Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs told me that "big parts of the white community" have not been as "compliant" in masking and social distancing.