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Candidates › Mississippi U.S. Senate race › 2025–2026
Scott Colom
D Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Mississippi
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Mississippi US Senate
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Lower Costs
- Raise Wages
- Save our Healthcare and Hospitals
- Make Big Tech Pay Its Own Way
- Clean up Washington
- Money
- $4.4M raised, $3.4M spent, $1M cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 27% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 32% from Mississippi · largest committee giver AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC), $10K
- Outside groups
- $4.4M supporting, $572.5K opposing Colom
- Backed by
- Congressional Black Caucus PAC · The Collective PAC · MS AFL-CIO and 53 more. As the campaign lists them
16 priorities from scottcolom.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
Scott believes a family that works hard should be able to afford groceries, gas and the light bill. Right now tariffs are taxing everything Mississippians buy, and a war nobody voted on is driving up what we pay at the pump. The Constitution gives Congress the say on both. Cindy Hyde-Smith gave Mississippi’s voice away.
In the Senate, Scott will:
- Vote to take back Congress’s power over tariffs
- Require a vote of Congress before America goes to war, because Mississippi’s service members and their families deserve that much
- Fight for a seat on the Agriculture Committee, so Mississippi farmers have a senator who actually answers to them – not Washington
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Scott believes work should pay fairly. If you put in a full day, you should be able to build a life in the community where you work. But Mississippi has the lowest household income and the highest poverty rate of any state, and too many of our neighbors work full time and still come up short at the end of the month. The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Cindy Hyde-Smith has been in Washington for eight years, and it has not moved a penny.
In the Senate, Scott will:
- Fight to raise the minimum wage and tie it to the cost of living, so workers never wait years and years for a raise again
- Work to end the federal income tax for Mississippians making under $75,000, starting with teachers and law enforcement officers
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Scott believes nobody should have to choose between seeing a doctor and paying the rent, and no family should have to drive an hour to reach an emergency room. Cindy Hyde-Smith voted to cut about $11 billion from Mississippi’s Medicaid to pay for a billionaire tax break. Medicaid pays for more than half the births in this state, and eight rural hospitals are at risk of closing. She also voted against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that kept health insurance affordable. Today 70,000 fewer Mississippians have marketplace coverage than a year ago.
In the Senate, Scott will:
- Vote to cancel the Medicaid cuts to help keep rural Mississippi’s emergency rooms and delivery rooms open
- Restore the ACA tax credits that lower insurance premiums
- Restore and strengthen eliminated federal ACA funding to incentivize Mississippi to finally expand Medicaid coverage
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Scott believes Mississippi should welcome investment, and that everybody here pays their own way, including the richest companies in the world. Data centers are already on Mississippi power bills: about $10.60 a month for the average Entergy household, according to one independent analysis. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s answer is a bill that does not make one company pay one dime. It asks states to consider it, gives them two years to think about it, and writes a voluntary pledge into law. A pledge is not protection: if a company breaks it, nothing happens and Mississippians keep paying. Meanwhile, the AI industry’s super PAC is spending to keep her in office.
In the Senate, Scott will:
- Push for a pause on new data center construction until the companies agree to pay for their own power and water, show the deal before it is signed, and hire Mississippi workers in writing
- Make sure a real person answers when AI makes decisions about our lives
- Protect the right of Mississippi communities to have the final say on whether data centers come into their communities
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Scott believes public office is a trust, not a business. Washington has forgotten that. Politicians trade stocks in the industries they oversee, the biggest donors get the first call, and the well-connected get richer while everybody else pays more. Cindy Hyde-Smith is part of it. She billed more than $10,000 in Las Vegas hotels and meals to her campaign, and she takes money from fertilizer companies under federal investigation for price-fixing. Mississippi pays for it at the pump, at the pharmacy, at the co-op and at the checkout.
In the Senate, Scott will:
- Ban members of Congress, their spouses and their dependent children from trading stocks, with no loopholes
- Bar senators from taking money from companies under federal investigation
- Fund real ethics enforcement and give the Senate an ethics office with teeth
- Work to overturn Citizens United so senators answer to voters instead of donors
- Keep showing up. Scott has held more than 50 town halls. Cindy Hyde-Smith has not held a public town hall in more than six years
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Scott believes everyone deserves to feel safe at home, and that nobody is above the law. He has spent ten years as a prosecutor. He won 94% of his trials, secured convictions in more than 15 high-profile murder cases and prosecuted a sheriff from his own party. Cindy Hyde-Smith voted against forcing the Epstein files into the open.
In the Senate, Scott will:
- Back law enforcement with the pay and tools to do the job
- Work to secure the border and enforce our immigration laws
- Hold the powerful to the same law as everyone else
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“My record as a district attorney is proof of how I make decisions: based on the evidence and the law.”
For too long, politicians in Washington have looked out for themselves, their donors and their special interests instead of the people they were elected to serve. They trade on information the public doesn’t have, hide who is funding them, and protect an unfair system that pays off for them while the cost of groceries, health care, and keeping the lights on keeps rising for the families they’re supposed to be representing. Mississippians work hard, play by the rules, and expect their leaders to do the same.
As a prosecutor, Scott Colom has spent his career holding the powerful accountable, without fear or favor and regardless of party. He investigated a sheriff in his own district who abused his office and worked with federal authorities to hold him accountable, even though the sheriff was a member of Scott’s own party. Scott learned these values from his parents—his mother, a trailblazing judge, and his father, a lawyer who has worked across party lines with Republicans and Democrats to improve Mississippi. In the Senate, he’ll bring those same values and the same standard to Washington and end corruption: following the evidence, telling the truth, and making government work for the people, not the well-connected.
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No one should be able to use public office to get rich off information the public doesn’t have.
Scott supports a full ban on stock trading by members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children, requiring them to divest or move their holdings into a blind trust, with real-time public disclosure so voters can see whose interests they’re protecting.
And the rules have to keep up with how the self-dealing is actually happening right now. No official, however powerful, should be able to launch or promote their own cryptocurrency, take in money from foreign or anonymous buyers, and pocket the profits while setting the policies that make that coin worth more. That is the opposite of investing; it’s selling access to the highest bidder, often to buyers we can’t even see. When the people writing the rules are cashing in on them, the ones who lose are the Mississippians who just want their government to work for them.
Public service should never be a pathway to personal enrichment.
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Ethics rules only matter if they’re enforced.
Scott will support stronger independent oversight of Congress and tougher penalties for ethics violations, including fully funding the independent watchdog that polices Congress and giving the Senate its own ethics office with real power to act. When there are no consequences for selling out the people you serve, nothing stops a senator from doing it again, and it’s working families who keep paying for a Washington that answers to everyone but them.
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Whether corruption happens in Washington or a county courthouse, it should be investigated and prosecuted without fear or favor.
Scott has done it. As district attorney, he uncovered corruption inside a local sheriff’s office and brought in federal investigators to hold those responsible accountable, because the law has to apply to the powerful, not just the powerless. In the Senate, he’ll fight to give federal anti-corruption investigators the resources they need, protect the whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing, and crack down on the fraud that drains the federal programs Mississippians count on, from health care to disaster relief. And he believes a senator has no business taking money from companies under federal investigation while the families back home pay the price.
Some folks in Washington talk about corruption. Scott has actually done something about it.
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United opened the floodgates for unlimited special interest spending in our elections, giving wealthy donors and outside groups far too much influence over who gets elected and what happens once they’re in office. Mississippians deserve a government that answers to voters, not the biggest checkbooks.
Scott believes our campaign finance system is broken, and he’ll work with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to overturn Citizens United and restore the power of everyday Americans in our democracy. Scott also supports reforms that increase transparency, strengthen disclosure of campaign spending and lobbying, and make it easier for voters to know who is trying to influence their elected officials.
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A company that builds in our state pays for the electricity and the water it uses. Right now the opposite is happening. An independent analysis found the average Entergy Mississippi household is now paying about $10.60 more every month because of data center investments. That is roughly $127 a year, and about $38 million taken from Mississippi households statewide through March, on track for $74 million by the end of this year. That is money out of Mississippi families’ pockets for somebody else’s power, and nobody asked us.
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