Mississippi Today’s Taylor Vance reports on a day anchored by a maternal health panel at the Capital Club

U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD): “We reject as a premise that we should ever accept that you cannot afford healthcare”

U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD): “I feel every single seat is important in our country right now, as we’re trying to get back to a place where we are focused again on the middle class in this country”

PHOTOS: The Jackson Advocate captures the “Mississippi Moms Matter” maternal health panel at the Capital Club — VIEW THE GALLERY

U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks, D-MD (center) speaks at the “Mississippi Moms Matter” maternal health panel with District Attorney Scott Colom (far right) and his wife, Nadia Colom (right), who moderated the discussion. [Credit: Colom for U.S. Senate]

Columbus, MS — In case you missed it, as reported by Mississippi Today’s Taylor Vance, U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) spent Saturday campaigning with District Attorney Scott Colom in Jackson, joining him on the trail to highlight the healthcare fight driving Mississippi’s Senate race that is drawing growing national attention.

Mississippi Today reports that Colom and Alsobrooks opened the day at the Capital Club in downtown Jackson with a Mississippi Moms Matter maternal health panel, where about a dozen advocates and community members “shared stories about their struggles obtaining affordable health care and about family members who have died giving birth in Mississippi.” That evening, the two were joined by Congressman Bennie Thompson and Mississippi NAACP Director Charles Taylor for a voting rights town hall — the other fight at the center of this race. For Colom, a prosecutor, they are the same fight: the same stacked system that lets a bought senator serve her donors while Mississippi families pay is the one being used to write those same families out of their own democracy.

Read highlights below from the report:

Mississippi Today: Maryland Sen. Alsobrooks campaigns for Scott Colom in Jackson, focuses on healthcare

Taylor Vance│August 1, 2026

• U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat from Maryland, campaigned with Scott Colom, Mississippi’s Democratic Senate nominee, in Jackson on Saturday, where she encouraged voters to support Colom because he will prioritize access to affordable healthcare.
• “I feel every single seat is important in our country right now, as we’re trying to get back to a place where we are focused again on the middle class in this country,” Alsobrooks told Mississippi Today in an interview.
• Alsobrooks joined Colom and several healthcare advocates at the Capital Club in downtown Jackson on Saturday morning, where they pointed to Mississippi’s dire maternal health metrics, which are some of the worst in the nation, as a need for a senator who will vote to protect against cuts to Medicaid.
• Around a dozen people shared stories about their struggles obtaining affordable health care and about family members who have died giving birth in Mississippi.
• “We reject as a premise that we should ever accept that you cannot afford healthcare,” Alsobrooks said.
• Colom has made health care a central focus of his campaign and has pointed out that thousands of Mississippians have dropped health insurance plans they had through the Affordable Care Act.
• Active enrollment in the plans fell by about 70,000 people in Mississippi between February 2025 and February 2026, a nearly 25% drop, according to new federal data. People are dropping their plans because enhanced federal tax credits, which made health insurance more affordable for 22 million Americans, expired in December.
• Congress first authorized the expanded subsidies in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mississippi was one of the states that benefited the most from the increased federal support.
• Both Colom and Alsobrooks criticized Colom’s opponent, Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, for backing the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill that slashed Medicaid benefits and largely gave tax breaks to higher-income earners.

Read the full story HERE in Mississippi Today.

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About Scott: Scott Colom is a seventh-generation Mississippian, proud husband and father of two, and district attorney who fights every day to keep Mississippians safe. Guided by his Christian faith, Scott has dedicated his life to serving his neighbors and keeping them safe from violent criminals. Now he’s running to lower costs for families, save our Mississippi hospitals, and bring good jobs home. Scott loves his state and will always put Mississippi first – and he’ll work with anyone, Republican or Democrat, to get things done for us.