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Cindy Hyde-Smith

Candidate for United States Senator in Mississippi

Cindy Hyde-Smith is running for United States Senator in Mississippi. Cindy Hyde-Smith has been a U.S. Senator representing Mississippi since 2018, so we can judge how she has affected our lives during her 8 year tenure.
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As a United States Senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith is a member of the United States Congress. Congress enacts laws that influence the daily lives of all Americans and is intended to serve as the voice of the people. Its responsibilities include funding government functions and programs, holding hearings to inform the legislative process, and oversight of the executive branch.

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Did Cindy Hyde-Smith make our lives better ⭐ or worse ❌?
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Increasing the Cost of Living

Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.

Cindy Hyde-Smith has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:
  • Half of all Americans struggling to afford groceries
  • 47% struggling to afford their utility bills
  • 47% struggling to afford healthcare
  • 48% struggling to afford housing
  • 1 in 4 Americans saying they have skipped a medical checkup due to affordability
  • 23% skipping a prescription dose

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We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Cindy Hyde-Smith doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.

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Reducing Access to Healthcare

We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.

Cindy Hyde-Smith disagrees:
  • She voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
  • She voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
  • She wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
  • Mississippi stands to lose an estimated $2-$4 billion in federal Medicaid funds over the next decade. This will lead to fewer doctors, more strain on rural hospitals, and worse outcomes for families who already struggle to access care
  • An estimated 115,000 Mississippi residents are projected to lose health care coverage.
  • On average 714,600 or 24.3% of Mississippi's population were on Medicaid in 2024
  • She supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary, which has proven to be disastrous for American health.

We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Cindy Hyde-Smith doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.

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Cutting Taxes for the Rich

We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.

But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
  • The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
  • The 25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014-2018 — a “true” tax rate of just 3.4 percent on $401 billion of income.
  • 23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.

Cindy Hyde-Smith is on the side of the billionaires and big business. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that she supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans. We deserve better.
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Rolling Back Environmental Protections

We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.

Cindy Hyde-Smith has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit. She has an abysmal 0% score from the League of Conservation Voters for 2024, and a lifetime score of just 12%.
EPA Pollution EPA Climate Change We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
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Cutting Access to Food Programs for the Poor

I think we can all agree that nobody in America, the richest country in the world, should go hungry.

Here in Mississippi, 1 in 4 kids faces hunger every day. And instead of doing anything to fix that, Cindy Hyde-Smith supported the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that dramatically cuts funding for SNAP, and the people that need food assistance most.

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Cindy Hyde-Smith doesn't care if we go hungry. We deserve better.
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Destroying Jobs

A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.

Cindy Hyde-Smith supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
  • There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
  • There were 137,000 layoffs in Mississippi between January and November 2025
  • 55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
  • The unemployment rate is 4.6%, the highest level since the pandemic
  • In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
  • Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
  • 58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced “Liberation Day” tariffs, to September 2025.

Job losses
We can't live the American Dream without well-paying jobs. Cindy Hyde-Smith doesn't care. We deserve better.
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Working for Billionaires, Big Business and Outsiders, Not for Us

Our elected officials should work for us, the people.

Cindy Hyde-Smith works for billionaires and big business and outsiders. 62% of her campaign contributions are from outside Mississippi. Look at who some of her top funders are:
  • Seemann Composites
  • Ergon Inc
  • Telaplex Inc
  • Huntington Ingalls Industries
  • General Atomics
  • AIPAC

Cindy Hyde-Smith is funded by big business and outsiders. No wonder she's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
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Letting Elon Musk and DOGE Cut Funds from Mississippi

We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.

That's not what we got.

Cindy Hyde-Smith stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Mississippi suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.

Elon Musk and DOGE:
  • Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
  • Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
  • Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
  • Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
  • Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
  • And the list goes on...

We'd like to thank you, Cindy Hyde-Smith, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions, cut over a billion dollars worth of grants from Mississippi, and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
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Abdicating Her Responsibility

As a member of Congress, part of Cindy Hyde-Smith's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. She has completely abdicated her responsibility and is rubber stamping everything the current administration wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
starvoters pov: Cindy Hyde-Smith is not doing her job, and the whole country is suffering as a result.
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Praising the Confederacy, Public Hangings & Voter Suppression

We should hold our leaders to high standards of behavior. They should represent the best of us. Cindy Hyde-Smith has joked about public hangings, cosplayed as a Confederate soldier, lied to steal the 2020 election, and joked about voter suppression. We deserve better.
  • In November 2018, a video surfaced of Hyde-Smith at a campaign event praising a supporter by saying, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."
  • Shortly after the hanging comment, another video emerged where she joked about making it harder for liberals to vote. Speaking to a group in Starkville, she said, "And then they remind me that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea."
  • Photos from 2014 surfaced showing her visiting the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, wearing a Confederate soldier's hat and holding a rifle. She captioned the photo, "Mississippi history at its best!"
    Cosplaying as a Confederate
  • Reports revealed that she attended Lawrence County Academy, a "segregation academy" established to allow white parents to avoid sending their children to integrated public schools. She also sent her daughter to a similar private academy. A yearbook photo showed her as a cheerleader posing with a mascot dressed as a Confederate colonel.
  • During the 2021 U.S. Electoral College vote count, in an attempt to steal the election for Donald Trump, Cindy Hyde-Smith voted to object to the certification of Arizona's electoral votes. She also voted not to certify Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
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Opposing Common-Sense Gun Safety Laws

We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.

In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Cindy Hyde-Smith has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
  • Mississippi has the highest firearm mortality rate and highest murder rate in the United States.
  • A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
  • Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
  • Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
  • Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.

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Cindy Hyde-Smith is OK with our kids dying, as long as she has her guns. We deserve better.
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Giving the Government Control of Our Bodies

America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.

Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Cindy Hyde-Smith thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.

Cindy Hyde-Smith serves as the Chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus and:
  • Opposed Roe v. Wade and celebrated its overturn.
  • Supported federal efforts to ban abortion, including co-sponsoring the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act".
  • Introduced the "SAVE Moms and Babies Act" to ban and restrict access to abortion medication like mifepristone.
  • Blocked legislation that would protect the right to travel across state lines for reproductive healthcare.
  • Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout her career.

Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don’t have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That’s what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Cindy Hyde-Smith thinks she knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
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Taking Away Our Voting Power

In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.

Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Cindy Hyde-Smith's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on the starvoters home page, then come back here.

Cindy Hyde-Smith has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfanchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.

SAVE Act
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Cindy Hyde-Smith and her bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
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Supporting America's Secret Police Force, ICE

Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.

But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Cindy Hyde-Smith, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing absolutely nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
  • ProPublica: They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
  • ProPublica: Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
  • New York Times: Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed “enemies” of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents’ first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
  • They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Cindy Hyde-Smith have to say? Nothing.
  • They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.

If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Cindy Hyde-Smith going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
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Voting for an Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran

War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.

In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:

No one wants this war. But Cindy Hyde-Smith supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Cindy Hyde-Smith work for Israel or the people of Mississippi? We deserve better.
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Missing in Action

Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies.

Cindy Hyde-Smith doesn't want to hear what we have to say. She only wants to talk to her rich donors or people who agree with her. She has been accused of "hiding out" from her constituents and has no record of holding regular, open town halls in Mississippi.

Cindy Hyde-Smith is avoiding us because she doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith is actively working against us on every issue that could make our lives better. Our cost of living is up, our access to healthcare is down, the rich are getting tax cuts that are being paid for with our Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP and Social Security, our environment is being plundered, food programs for our poor are being cut, and our jobs have been destroyed. She works for big business and out-of-state interests, opposes common-sense gun safety laws even though Mississippi has the highest gun death rate in the country, wants the government to control what we can do with our own bodies, wants to take away our voting power, is doing nothing while ICE becomes a threat to all Americans, and doesn't want to talk to us.

Do we really want another 6 YEARS of this?

There are candidates who want to make our lives better. For your sake, for your kids sake, for your family, friends, neighbors and fellow citizens sake, please vote for one of them. Don't let billionaire-manufactured culture wars and other BS distract you from what really matters. Because we all deserve a better life.
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  • Murder: #49/49
  • Firearm Death: #50
  • Incarceration: #49
  • Overall Health: #48
  • Life Expectancy: #50
  • Food Insecurity: #47
  • Obesity: #46/48
  • Women's Health: #50
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  • Teen Birth Rate: #50
  • Maternal Mortality: #37/39
  • Infant Mortality: #50
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  • Poverty Rate: #49
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