While on a campaign stop on November 3, Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith “joked” with a group of students that voter suppression is a “great idea.”

Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is headed for a run-off election against Mike Espy, a Democratic challenger who, if elected, would be the state’s first black Senator since Reconstruction. With that historic opportunity in mind, then, please note that on Sunday a video surfaced on social media showing Hyde-Smith…

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country on Monday. House Bill 1510, the Gestational Age Act, bans abortion after 15 weeks of gestation and makes no exceptions for rape or incest; it does, however, allow for exceptions of the mother’s life is in danger or if the…

Mississippi, a state with just one remaining abortion provider, has moved one step closer to effectively banning the procedure in the state. Earlier this week, the state legislature passed a bill, HB 1510, which bans abortion 15 weeks after a person’s last period, making exceptions only in case of “medical emergency…

Here’s more proof that your local elections, even in a town of 25,500, can make a difference: On February 20, the Board of Aldermen in Starkville, Mississippi, rejected a request to hold its first-ever gay Pride parade with a 4-3 vote.

Jurors were unable to come to an agreement on the fate of a Mississippi man accused of burning a teenager to death in 2014, forcing a judge to declare a mistrial.

Eight people—including a deputy sheriff—were killed in Mississippi on Saturday night after a family dispute allegedly impelled one man to go on a three-home shooting rampage.

In May 2015, Joshua Vallum brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend, Mercedes Williamson, for fear of others learning that she was transgender. Two years later, 29-year-old Vallum has been sentenced to 49 years in prison for a federal hate crime targeting a transgender woman.

Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel, a tea party Republican, has many beliefs. He believed, in 2014, that his Republican primary opponent for Mississippi U.S. Senate, who received support from black voters, won via voter fraud. He also believed that Ole Miss’s 2015 decision to remove the state flag, which…

A sign marking the site where Emmett Till’s mutilated body was dredged from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi more than fifty years ago, was found riddled with some 40 bullet holes last week.

A judge in Mississippi has blocked a law that previously banned Medicaid from spending money with healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood that offers abortions.

Days after the historic Supreme Court ruling that struck down Texas’s unconstitutional abortion laws, federal judges halt the implementation of similarly obstructive laws in Florida.

A day after the Supreme Court preserved abortion rights by declaring Texas’s HB2 unconstitutional, justices rejected two abortion-related bids from Mississippi and Wisconsin. In both cases, the states were seeking a ruling on their laws requiring that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.…

A federal judge has ruled against a Mississippi law that would have allowed court clerks to cite their religious beliefs to refuse to issue marriage licenses or perform marriage ceremonies to same-sex couples. The “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” was widely cited as one of the…

On Thursday evening, Seth Meyers took a closer look at the anti-trans bathroom bills that recently passed in North Carolina and Mississippi. In case you hadn’t realized, both bills are both bad and stupid.

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has signed a bill banning a common second trimester abortion method, dilation and evacuation. The bill leaves just a sliver of a loophole, allowing the procedure only to prevent “irreversible physical impairment.” Mississippi has only one abortion clinic, who are quite likely to sue…

In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month, and the last Monday in April as Confederate Heritage Day. Unfortunately, this is not an April Fool’s joke.

We’ve all been very riveted by the horrifying sideshow shenanigans of Donald Trump and the rest of the clowns running for the American presidency. But as Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver points out, there are important elections happening in four different states, oh, Tuesday.