Geoff Pender

This is part of a "war on fraud" that President Donald Trump announced earlier this year, which included the creation of a new anti-fraud division in the DOJ and a "fraud czar" position that the administration at one point said would be run out of the White House.

Stuart Stevens for decades was one of the top Republican political strategists and he ran campaigns for dozens of congressional, senatorial, gubernatorial and

Former state Sen. John Polk was a veteran of the Mississippi National Guard and served as an executive at his family's business, Polk Meat Products.

Mississippi’s weak, jumbled and conflicting campaign finance laws, along with limited enforcement and transparency, are a recipe for political corruption and the corrosive influence of secretive big-money special interests.

Mississippi Today's Molly Minta walks through the Jackson corruption case that resulted in the conviction of five people, including former Mayor Chokwe Antar

Katie Blount talks about leading the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, including the public response to the Two Mississippi Museums. She retired

Mississippi Today staff gives a rundown of the political stumping at the Neshoba County Fair last week. Did anyone make any news? Did we mention it was hot?

Thursday at the Neshoba County Fair saw Gov. Tate Reeves give his penultimate speech as others with gubernatorial aspirations gladhanded and politicked.

The special elections will coincide with the federal midterm elections on Nov. 3. The deadline for candidates to qualify is Aug. 20.

Carolyn Moore believed she had registered to vote when she moved back to Mississippi and got a driver's license. But clerks reported they were not receiving the information.