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@senmclendon I have to ask…are you still a member of a gay church

Not only does Bennie Thompson need to go, but so do the RINOs!

Litmus test failed. Hopefully the LG race will be crowded.

@supertalk 🤡

Mississippi GOP chair Mike Hurst said on Mornings with Richard Cross that Gov. Tate Reeves made the right call in canceling the special session but believes Republicans can still draw four GOP congressional districts after November’s midterms.

@NealMcCready @RebelEconsProf it is incumbent upon y’all to start discussing state politics, at least as a foil to the GOPe

Wow, @MichaelWatsonMS just said it was @tatereeves and @LynnFitchAG that voted to settle the lawsuit and not keep our Republcian supermajority in the state senate. All they had to do was fight a little and hang on until the Callais decision came down. This is what I suspected all along when I heard the vote was 1-2, but it’s good to have confirmation.

@johnwilliams4ms @tatereeves @DelbertHosemann Seems that way

My theory on why @tatereeves refuses to consider redistricting now: He and @DelbertHosemann have cut a deal to delay it so as not to offend the Democrat crossover votes Delbert needs to win the Republican primary for Governor next year. Due to Mississippi’s open primaries, Democrats are allowed to vote in Republican primaries and Delbert can’t win without their votes.

@johnwilliams4ms @Rebels1978 @tatereeves @DelbertHosemann What would you guess Tate would get out of it? It’d have to be *very* significant to be worth the cost of this for him. State income tax elimination effective FY 2027 is all I can think of.

@MichaelWatsonMS @TheChrisHinkle @AndyGipsonforMS @shadwhite @DelbertHosemann @JWalterMichel @RepMichaelGuest @cindyhydesmith @SenatorWicker @tatereeves I understand that, but I’m asking why you won’t publicly call for it (just via a post on all social media like @shadwhite and @AndyGipsonforMS have done). It’s fair to assume you aren’t in favor of it if you aren’t willing to add pressure to make it happen.

I get it. I’ve talked to the Gov and the WH (numerous times) trying to walk through the issues of already having had a primary election, what options might work, and future implications. The Gov knows I believe CD2 is unconstitutional and needs to be redrawn. The timing of a special session is up to him, and him alone. I could yell at him until I’m blue in the face and it wouldn’t matter.

IT’S TIME FOR BENNIE THOMPSON TO GO. Mississippi Conservatives agree with me, it is time for Bennie Thompson to go! Folks have lots of questions, like why isn’t Mississippi redrawing the lines … now?? Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and others are acting now. Why isn’t Mississippi? Well, Mississippi absolutely needs to act. The problem is, unlike other states, our Legislature is not in Session at the present time. As a result - under our State Constitution, only the Governor can give the call to action. Here are some facts you should know about redistricting and where we stand after the Callais decision. Status of Congressional District Lines. January 25, 2022 - That is when the Mississippi Legislature most recently redrew the district lines for our four Congressional seats. Two general elections have occurred since then (in 2022 and 2024), plus a primary election held this past March, 2026 with congressional elections set for November 3rd this year. Unlike other states, in Mississippi has already held our primaries and as of today no federal court has ruled the existing congressional districts should be withdrawn. I believe they should be redrawn on the basis of Callais. Legally and constitutionally, redistricting is required after every 10-year census, most recently the 2020 census. This is to guarantee “one man, one vote.” Redistricting is also required after a federal court finds that the districts violate the Voting Rights Act. In the recent Callais decision by the US Supreme Court, a Louisiana district was thrown out by a court and required to be redrawn because it was drawn “predominantly” on the basis of race. You can study our current Congressional map down to the precinct level here: gis.mississippi.edu/portal/apps/we… The Callais decision held it is ILLEGAL to draw a district predominantly on the basis of race. That is the right decision and is the law of the land! Mississippi certainly needs to redraw our districts on the basis of Callais without regard to race. Status of Mississippi Supreme Court District Lines. Recently, Mississippi had a federal court order requiring the redrawing of only our elected Mississippi Supreme Court district lines. The court did not require congressional lines to be redrawn. That case was vacated this week because of the Callais decision, meaning that currently Mississippi does NOT have to redraw our state Supreme Court lines. Meanwhile, as noted above our Legislature is no longer in Session and can only meet upon the Special Session call of the Governor. Gov. Reeves had previously issued a call to redraw the state Supreme Court district lines. Because of the recent federal court ruling vacating that requirement, this call is technically no longer required, but it is fully in the Governor’s hands at the present time. It’s gonna be interesting to watch what happens now. Other Options on the Table. The Governor has the option to maintain the call, amend the call or withdraw the call. If he maintains the call, the Legislature will be showing up to redraw court lines next week. Then we will have to wait and see what if anything gets added. The Governor also has the power to amend the call to add the redrawing of Congressional lines to a Special Session. If he does, this raises the issue whether and how new primary elections would have to be held in the new districts - before the November 3rd election. The people just voted in March for congressional primaries. Will the people have the right to vote again? The Governor could also include redrawing the court-ordered legislative district lines that were redrawn in 2025 for a special election or for 2027. All this is to say, unlike other states - in Mississippi the entire redistricting issue is squarely within the hands of Governor Reeves as of today. One way or another, Bennie Thompson has got to go!!

Only three State Senators have come out in favor of redrawing the lines to get Bennie Thompson out of office, @senmclendon, @KevinBlackwell5, and Don Hartness. Dembert Hosemann didn’t put a single one of them on his redistricting committee. But he did make sure to include a few far left Democrats who will fight tooth and nail to protect Bennie Thompson.

I’ve seen it all now. I’ve been talking about congressional redistricting in Mississippi ad nauseam. In fact, I was the first state senator to push for a 4R-0D map and demand that liberal Bennie Thompson finally be evicted from Congress. Yet today, when @DelbertHosemann formed a select committee to discuss redistricting, I wasn’t even included. Instead, he put two of the most liberal, anti-Trump Democrats in the State Senate on it. Read that again. Democrats who benefit from keeping Bennie Thompson in Congress are now helping shape the conversation on whether Bennie Thompson’s district should even exist in Mississippi. Then again, maybe it’s not that surprising. This is the same establishment that tried to redraw our senate district into Democrat territory last year, and now they’re going to decide whether Mississippi fights for another Republican congressional seat. If we are having a serious conversation about removing Bennie Thompson from Washington, it does not involve Democrats leading the discussion. At some point, Republican voters have to ask themselves: Who are these people actually fighting for? @CarolineWren

@MichaelWatsonMS @TheChrisHinkle @AndyGipsonforMS @shadwhite @DelbertHosemann @JWalterMichel @RepMichaelGuest @cindyhydesmith @SenatorWicker @tatereeves (2/2) GOP voters want this acted on now while the issue has national attention (and therefore added pressure on Republicans to act in the interest of their constituents), so “lawsuits that would probably delay the process” isn’t a sufficient answer to inaction.

@MichaelWatsonMS @TheChrisHinkle @AndyGipsonforMS @shadwhite @DelbertHosemann @JWalterMichel @RepMichaelGuest @cindyhydesmith @SenatorWicker (1/2) Why then, both in your current capacity and as a candidate for LG, shouldn’t you publicly call on @tatereeves and the legislature to call a special session and get it done?

Lane Kiffin Is The Classless Coach Who Cries Racism thefederalist.com/2026/05/13/lan…

@jsolomonReports This picture says a lot.

People only listen to podcasts when they are doing something they don't want to do but can't stare at a screen. So that usually means a commute, exercise, chores, cleaning, or possibly shopping. So they'll be around for a long time because of this

@TheChrisHinkle @AndyGipsonforMS @shadwhite @DelbertHosemann @JWalterMichel @RepMichaelGuest @cindyhydesmith @SenatorWicker Has @MichaelWatsonMS been silent on this too?

@AndyGipsonforMS .@AndyGipsonforMS thanks for joining @shadwhite in saying what the majority of our Mississippi elected representatives (@DelbertHosemann , @JWalterMichel , @RepMichaelGuest , @cindyhydesmith , @SenatorWicker , et al) will not. 🫡🇺🇸

LSU fans have assumed their final form

@ScottMGreer Someone explain why Scott liked Kiffin

Me reading this from Kiffin

Pretty embarrassing that (leftist?) @ChaseParham thought @VanityFair valued actual journalism over clicks/subscriptions! @NealMcCready