Slog AM: Mississippi Elects First Black Man to Senate Since Reconstruction, American Honors Veterans with Deportations, AI Mogul Resigns in Disgrace Despite Trump’s Support

Blue wave crests in Mississippi. The AP has called a 55th Senate seat for Democrats, NPR reports. Winner Scott Colom will be the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction and the white supremecist voter suppression that followed. If you will it, it is no dream. In Georgia, columnist Charles Blow’s dream to reverse the Great Migration and reconcentrate Black voters in the South feels like it paid off. (Many have written about this but Atlanta Magazine has a more recent look summarizing Blow’s book The Devil You Know). Black residents make a few more percentage points of the population in Atlanta now than in 2020 when he moved there. Of course, so did my Italian and Puerto Rican relatives from New York City, and they are also running up the score for Democrats. The state became a majority-minority state last year. Alaska is still looking blue. Democrat Mary Peltola is beating both Dan Sullivans in the latest vote count, according to the Hill.

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