By Mike Espy Over the last six days, we’ve travelled all across the state of Mississippi. As I have talked about this week with Mississippians of all races, all genders, and all political beliefs, there is MOMENTUM in Mississippi. Momentum for progress. Here’s a quick update on our weekend. On…

By Mike Espy Hello from the road! This morning we kicked off our “Momentum in Mississippi Tour” — a five-day bus trip across the entire state to touch every community before Election Day. This is BIG TIME. We are building the biggest state-wide campaign Mississippi has ever seen, and bringing…

By Mike Espy I’ll keep this Sunday update quick. Here’s what Team Espy has been up to during these final make-or-break days before we make history on November 3. Our volunteers and organizers started last week with socially-distanced outdoor phone banks. Check out our Jackson Metro team hard at work…

On this day 65 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi. He was brutally beaten, shot and lynched. His body was later found in the Tallahatchie River — weighed down by a cotton gin fan wrapped in barbed wire. The reason? Emmett, visiting from Chicago, had…

The violence against unarmed Black people — names we know, and names we don’t know — must end. — By Mike Espy Earlier this week, a young Black man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times at close range by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It happened in front of his children. Jacob’s father now says his son is paralyzed from the waist down. This is the…

by Team Espy In all the chaos of 2020, the 2018 special election that saw former U.S. Rep. and Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy returning to vie for national office seems a distant memory. …

by Team Espy Early in Tuesday’s meeting, Nevada Lieutenant Governor Kate Marshall said that “if we learned anything in 2016, we learned that we need rural voters. We need to listen to rural voters.” Marshall, who referred to rural voters as the Democratic Party’s “firewall” in 2020, offered that liberals…

by Team Espy Former United States Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy accepted a debate invitation from WJTV 12 News. Espy (D-Miss.) is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.). Hyde-Smith’s campaign has not accepted the invitation at this time. Watch here.

By Team Espy As I’m sure you know by now, a hurricane and a tropical storm with hurricane potential are headed toward the Mississippi Coast as you read this. Hurricane Marco, a Category 1 storm, is expected to make landfall on the Louisiana Gulf Coast within the next 24 hours…