I know it’s late, but I wanted to give you one last important update. It’s been a very, very historic day in Mississippi.

I spent this evening in the gallery of the Mississippi State Senate, where I watched the final vote to take down Mississippi’s state flag — the only flag in our country with the confederate battle emblem.

The flag is coming down! Mississippi is changing before our eyes! There's no turning back from this.

Right now, I feel pride, I feel joy — and I feel a little sadness. Today makes me think of all our Mississippi heroes who gave their lives trying to achieve the change that’s being affirmed here today.

I think about Medgar Evers. I think about Fannnie Lou Hamer. I think about Vernon Dahmer. I think about Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman. And so many more, named and unnamed. These people gave their lives to fight hate and to fight against racism.

I also think back a generation to my grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Huddleston Sr. My grandfather was the son of slaves, brought to Mississippi from Virginia and Georgia. He would be so proud and so happy now.

The Mississippi flag was a symbol of hate. The fact that it’s coming down is more evidence of something that we've been saying for a long time now: Mississippi is changing. I want to be part of that change, just as much as I had to be here today in the Senate gallery to witness history.

Will you please donate $10, or whatever you can pitch in right now, to our grassroots campaign in Mississippi? We MUST keep up the momentum of change from now through November — and with our most important fundraising deadline in less than 48 hours, it’s never been more urgent.

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June 2020. The Mississippi flag is coming down. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so proud.

— Mike