Scott Colom made history this week in Mississippi, flipping a US Senate seat the Republicans had held for decades and ending more than one hundred and forty years in which the state had no Black senator in Washington. Hyde-Smith, the Republican incumbent, was edged out by fewer than five thousand votes out of nearly a million counted.Isaiah Martin wasn’t letting that pass quietly. The Houston-based Democratic politician, political adviser, and viral social media commentator took straight to Threads, where he has built a following of more than a million people. Martin, who gained national prominence during his two thousand and twenty-five congressional run in Texas and his reportedly dramatic arrest at a state redistricting hearing, had one message ready.(What follows is Isaiah Martin’s personal view, expressed on his own platform. It carries no endorsement of any individual or political position named.)He shared on Threads,“That’s Senator Scott Colom to you, Cindy!”Source: https://www.threads.com/share/GaZ5_bXnvScott Colom thanks supporters after days of waiting as Cindy Hyde-Smith concedes defeat:Supporters pose with signs on the campus of Tougaloo College during a victory celebration for Mississippi Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) on November 11, 2026 in Tougaloo, Mississippi - Source: GettyAs per a report shared by BBC, the result means the Democrats will now hold fifty-five seats in the one-hundred-member Senate, with a knife-edge race in Alaska still to be called. According to figures from CBS, Scott Colom, forty-three, won with forty-nine point two percent of the vote, while Hyde-Smith received forty-eight point seven percent and an independent candidate got two point one percent.Hyde-Smith congratulated Colom in a video posted on X on Wednesday evening, sharing these words:“While this was not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters.”Colom offered his victory speech on the campus of Tougaloo College, met by hundreds of cheering supporters standing side-by-side under the night sky. Excitement filled the air as he thanked them for their support over the days of waiting for a result since the election. “They did not believe a moment like this was possible, but I kept the faith,” shared Colom.He continued, adding the following:“It’s not something that I did y’all. It’s something we did.”He then closed by telling the crowd the following:“In Mississippi, it’s local people that make the difference.”How grassroots organising and voter fury over tariffs and the Iran war rewrote Mississippi’s political history:Scott Colom hugs Hank Deaton at an appreciation breakfast for volunteers at Brent's Drugs on November 5, 2026 in Jackson, Mississippi - Source: GettyThe scenes at the Mississippi headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jackson said everything. As per a report shared by BBC, dozens of people had gathered there on Wednesday when Colom’s victory was announced, and the room reportedly broke into deafening applause and cheers the moment the result came through.Leon Russell, chairman of the NAACP board, didn’t hold back:“This is an amazing result. This is purely the work of particularly the black community. There was not a whole lot of money, but there was a whole lot of organising. This is a historic election.”Across that same room, Amber Thomas sat taking it all in, surrounded by people embracing one another. “When you fight, you win. Right now, I am overwhelmed with joy,” she shared.(The views expressed by individuals quoted in this section are their own personal reflections on the election result.)That result also wiped away a Republican winning streak in Mississippi stretching all the way back to nineteen eighty-two. Nobody had seriously expected the race to get this close. Hyde-Smith was running for re-election in a state that President Donald Trump carried by more than twenty-two points in the two thousand and twenty-four election, a situation that made Scott Colom's win all the more remarkable.That being said, Mississippi didn’t flip in isolation. Democrats scored a series of major wins across these midterm elections, taking back control of both the US House of Representatives and the Senate. The party reportedly flipped Senate seats in Republican strongholds including Texas, South Carolina, Kansas, and Iowa.(Exit poll findings referenced below reflect voter sentiment as reported. They do not represent any editorial position on the individuals, policies, or conflicts named.)As per a report shared by BBC, exit polls suggest voter frustration with the economy and the reportedly ongoing Iran war under President Trump played a significant role in driving the broader Democratic wave. Scott Colom, a local prosecutor, appeared to ride that national mood to his advantage. He campaigned aggressively, visited all eighty-two of Mississippi’s counties, highlighted his opponent’s support for Trump’s tariffs, and gave Hyde-Smith the nickname “Cindy High Prices.”Hyde-Smith’s campaign, for its part, assailed Scott Colom as a puppet of billionaire liberal donor George Soros, whose family has reportedly helped fund the Democrat’s political campaigns.