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5 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Mississippi is now so far behind the rest of the nation in COVID-19 vaccinations, Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs @TCPubHealth is now offering to come to people's houses to give them the vaccine.

Read @NickJudin's report on the situation:mississippifreepress.org/12780/mississi…
"Mississippi is conspicuously absent from some of the Biden administration’s month of action plans. Mayors from Louisiana, Tennessee & Alabama are already included in the “Mayors Challenge" competition to grow vaccine rates—but not Mississippi. mississippifreepress.org/12780/mississi…
Not all vaccine holdouts in Mississippi are anti-vax.

A survey found that 1 in 4 MSians are worried about the cost of vaccinations or about taking time from work. Some may not realize the vaccine is free.

MS has the highest uninsured rate in the nation.mississippifreepress.org/12780/mississi…
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6 Jun
NEW: Eddie Nabors, a GOP candidate for mayor in Batesville, Miss., was in D.C. on Jan. 6.

He met with with Doug Mastriano, who was assisting Trump's efforts to overturn the election. A photo also shows Nabors with members of The Proud Boys in D.C. 1/
mississippifreepress.org/12809/batesvil…
It is unclear whether Nabors was near the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection; he did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But he was in town at the time along with his adult daughter, Laura Nabors, a post on his personal Facebook page says. 2/ mississippifreepress.org/12809/batesvil…
On Nov. 14, 2020, Laura Nabors shared videos and photos of her with her father at the Million MAGA March in D.C.

"We're gonna walk with The Proud Boys," she said in one video. She posted a photo of herself & her father posing with a group of Proud Boys. 3/mississippifreepress.org/12809/batesvil… Eddie and Laura Nabors pose with members of the Proud Boys
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5 Jun
THREAD: In 1922, Mississippians noticed that the state revenue agent, Stokes V. Robertson, was earning $40,000 a year on taxpayer's dime—a salary equal to about $635,000 today.

Voters had a plan: They launched a ballot initiative to slash his pay. 1/ mississippifreepress.org/12703/democrac… A portrait of Stokes V. Robertson
Revenue Agent Stokes V. Robertson came up with his own plan to stop voters from using a ballot initiative to slash his exorbitant salary: He'd ask the Mississippi Supreme Court to kill the state's entire ballot initiative law on a technicality. 2/ mississippifreepress.org/12703/democrac…
Starting in 1912, Mississippi voters (meaning white men then), frustrated with legislative inaction, demanded the Legislature allow voters to create an initiative & referendum process so they could make laws themselves when lawmakers failed. 3/ mississippifreepress.org/12703/democrac…
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4 Jun
NEW: Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson wrongly said that free voter IDs are NOT codified into state law.

Lt. Gov. @DelbertHosemann, the former sec. of state, released a statement correcting Watson and two newspapers that repeated his error.mississippifreepress.org/12773/fact-che…
Mississippi Code Annotated Section 23-15-7 says that “… No fee shall be charged or collected for the application for or issuance of a Mississippi Voter identification card” and that the State’s general fund shall cover any related costs.mississippifreepress.org/12773/fact-che…
Other states with voter ID requirements do not provide free identification, raising concerns that such laws amount to “poll taxes.”

But free voter ID requirements ARE codified into state law in Mississippi.mississippifreepress.org/12773/fact-che…
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2 Jun
Mississippi is 40% Black state & must have a majority-minority congressional district to be in compliance with the VRA.

But instead of a 55% or 60% Black district, Republicans drew a 67% Black district (the 2nd CD).

Result:
1st CD: 29% Black
3rd CD: 35% Black
4th CD: 24% Black ImageImage
Drawing the maps this way helps ensure that white Republicans have 3 safe districts and Democrats have one safe district.

A 55-60% Black district could've resulted in a relatively safe Dem seat but also another competitive district.
Rep. Bennie Thompson of the 67% Black 2nd congressional district was the only Democrat to vote AGAINST the For The People Act #HR1, apparently because of it threatened the existence of such heavily racially packed districts as his.
foxnews.com/politics/benni…
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30 May
“Look, 90% of restaurant employees were terminated in mid-March last year. They didn’t get on unemployment bc they’re lazy...they were fired.”

Now, many of those employers blame UI benefits as they struggle to find workers for $2.13/hr.

The real story: mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…
"So many workers have left an industry that clearly doesn’t value them, whose model is predicated on them being disposable. Frankly,” Weil said, “a lot of industry people are dead. Line cooks had a higher mortality rate this past year than medical workers.”mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…
"These establishments chose not to use that PPP money to rehire workers for hybrid models, or to-go models...Industry workers didn’t opt out of work. They were all terminated by places that were happy to operate without them, until the pandemic was over.” 
mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…
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29 May
THREAD: This is me back in 2010 with my congressman, Gene Taylor. He was a conservative Democrat who I did some tough reporting on in my student newspaper.

I had a black eye at the time (long story, college). I told him we to pretend he was punching me for a tough question. Congressman Gene Taylor raises a fist, pretending to punch m
When I first began reporting for my college paper, I called D.C. asking to interview Rep. Gene Taylor, thinking there was no way he'd make time.

20 minutes later, he called. I interviewed my congressman for 30 minutes. Steven Palazzo unseated him in the Tea Party wave that year.
Since then, I haven't been able to talk to my congressman. He makes no appearances at town halls. He doesn't debate opponents. He basically never answers questions from media unless he knows they're on his side.
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