Alaska Senate is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. Over roughly 132 hours, 53 threads about it surfaced across 4 subreddits, most of the conversation happening in r/politics, r/news and r/UpliftingNews. Combined, those threads hold roughly 115K upvotes and 7K comments so far. It is also a rising Google search (“alaska senate race 2026” in Google Trends for CA).
What the sources report
Here is how the outlets linked in these threads describe what happened, word for word.
- PBS: Scott Colom and Black Mississippians stand on the cusp of Senate history as vote count stretches on
The state is still tallying ballots that could make Colom the first Black senator from this Deep South state since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
- CNBC: Mississippi Senate: Scott Colom leads Hyde-Smith by more than 3,000 votes
Tuesday was the deadline for provisional ballots to be resolved in Mississippi, and the deadline for the receipt of mail-in absentee ballots.
- CNN: Scott Colom wins in Mississippi, Congress latest: Live Updates | CNN Politics
Colom will unseat GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first Black person elected to statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era. Follow for the latest.
- CBS News: Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi 2026 Senate race, flipping seat in upset
Democrat Scott Colom defeated GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race, delivering Democrats an eighth flipped Senate seat after the dramatic race had been up in the air for days.
- BBC News: The last time a Kansas Democrat was in the Senate, the Wizard of Oz was in cinemas
Adam Hamilton, a pastor, has made history as the first Kansas Democrat to win the Senate in almost 100 years.
- NBC News: Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race, breaking the GOP’s grip on the state
NBC News projects that Colom has pulled off an upset over Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Mississippi since 1982.
The numbers in the headlines
- $1.4 billion: cited by a post in r/politics
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/politics | 47 | 75,697 | 5,624 | Nov 6, 15:08 UTC |
| r/news | 3 | 34,579 | 899 | Nov 7, 02:45 UTC |
| r/UpliftingNews | 2 | 2,957 | 184 | Nov 11, 22:25 UTC |
| r/television | 1 | 1,751 | 280 | Nov 9, 02:41 UTC |
The biggest threads
- Democrats win the Arizona House, Senate and governor’s office for the first time since 1966r/news · 22,878 upvotes · 421 comments · Nov 7, 22:41 UTC · AP News
- Democrat Colom Wins Mississippi Senate Race, CNN Projectsr/politics · 20,383 upvotes · 1,381 comments · Nov 11, 22:12 UTC · Bloomberg
- CNN Projects Scott Colom to Defeat Cindy Hyde-Smith, Colom Calls on Hyde-Smith to Conceder/news · 11,226 upvotes · 451 comments · Nov 11, 22:50 UTC · mississippifreepress.org
- Mississippi Senate stunner: Hyde-Smith concedes to Democrat Scott Colomr/politics · 11,178 upvotes · 385 comments · Nov 11, 23:27 UTC · thehill.com
- After the Midterms, the Average Age in the Senate Falls to 63r/politics · 6,696 upvotes · 372 comments · Nov 7, 21:45 UTC · The New York Times
- Peltola extends lead over Sullivan in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race as ballot-counting continuesr/politics · 4,559 upvotes · 315 comments · Nov 10, 02:02 UTC · alaskabeacon.com
- Scott Colom’s Lead Grows to 2,574 as Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Paths Dim in Mississippi’s US Senate Racer/politics · 4,682 upvotes · 213 comments · Nov 7, 00:11 UTC · mississippifreepress.org
- Democrat Scott Colom’s lead widens in Mississippi Senate racer/politics · 3,437 upvotes · 204 comments · Nov 8, 04:02 UTC · ms.now
- Colom maintains lead over Hyde-Smith in Mississippi Senate racer/politics · 3,212 upvotes · 202 comments · Nov 10, 00:02 UTC · wjtv.com
- Scott Colom and Black Mississippians stand on the cusp of Senate history as vote count stretches onr/politics · 2,403 upvotes · 106 comments · Nov 7, 22:48 UTC · PBS
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/politics: “Elizabeth Warren’s Power in New Senate Is a Wall Street Nightmare”
- First link to AP News shared, in r/politics.
- The story reaches r/news: “FBI agents served an Alaska Senate candidate with a subpoena just days before election day”
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/news (22,878 upvotes, 421 comments by our last count).
- The story reaches r/television: “Andor Season 2 | Mon Mothma's Senate Speech”
- The story reaches r/UpliftingNews: “Democrat Scott Colom will win a US Senate seat in deep-red Mississippi, CNN projects”
- Latest thread in our sample, in r/politics.
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.