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The ’90s Called. They Want Their Congressman Back.

By: Live from the Resistance

JAN 13READ IN APP

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Today’s Candidate Highlight

If you want to know why Democrats are losing the working class, look at Mississippi’s 2nd District.

It has been represented by Bennie Thompson since 1993. For over 30 years, he has been a fixture in D.C., accumulating seniority, chairing committees, and becoming a darling of the cable news circuit. He is famous for the January 6th Committee, which was a made-for-TV production that generated a lot of soundbites but zero convictions for the ringleaders.

While Thompson was busy chasing headlines and rubber-stamping bloated defense budgets that Donald Trump demanded, his own district remained one of the poorest in the nation.

Evan Turnage isn’t interested in being a TV star. He is a Yale-educated antitrust lawyer who cut his teeth working for Elizabeth Warren. He knows that the real fight isn’t on a committee stage. It is against the corporate monopolies strip-mining rural America.

The “same old playbook from the ‘90s” won’t fix Mississippi. Evan Turnage has the new one.

1. Rubber Stamps and Reruns

Bennie Thompson is the ultimate creature of Washington. He is entrenched in the art of “access” politics. This is the idea that if you stay in D.C. long enough, crumbs will eventually fall off the table for your constituents.

But look at the record. While families across the country struggle to afford groceries, Thompson has consistently voted for massive, bloated National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA). These votes effectively handed a blank check to the military-industrial complex every single year, even when Trump was the one asking for it. He voted to funnel billions into defense contractors while his own district’s infrastructure crumbled.

And let’s be honest about the January 6th Committee. It was Thompson’s crown jewel, but what did it actually deliver for Mississippi? It didn’t lower rent. It didn’t fix the water crisis in Jackson. It was political theater that let D.C. insiders pat themselves on the back while regular people got left