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Mississippi and the Brexit Boys

The JFP’s coverage of an odd band of compatriots.

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God Save the Governor: Phil Bryant, Brexit Soldier

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Republican Phil Bryant is certainly not the first Mississippi governor to support a state's plan to secede from a multi-state union. ... But Bryant seems to be the first to entangle himself in a foreign U.S. ally's own secession effort.

National

AP: Trump 2020 Working With Ex-Cambridge Analytica Staffers

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A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users' private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned.

Politics

How A ‘Brexit Boys’ Project Ended Up in Jackson Court

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Kyle Taylor believes Eldon Insurance and Big Data Dolphins Ltd. might be using U.K. citizens' data in their new artificial-intelligence project they have planned to start in Oxford, Miss.

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UPDATED: Inside the ‘Brexit Boys’ Data Project at Ole Miss

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After months of negotiations and coordination facilitated in part by Gov. Phil Bryant to bring two British companies stateside, a public United Kingdom office that reports to Parliament is investigating those companies poised to set up shop at the University of Mississippi’s Insight Park.

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From Man Caves to the 'Great Wall,' Bryant and Farage Head to Trump's Inauguration

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Gov. Phil Bryant has invited Nigel Farage of British Brexit fame to attend Donald Trump's inauguration with him.

Politics

In Jackson, Trump Talks Bigotry, 'Brexit' and Fixing America's 'Inner-Cities'

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The Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, visited the capital of the Magnolia State on Wednesday night—first for a private fundraiser at the convention center, then for a rally at the Mississippi Coliseum where he talked mostly about race and immigration—and got one fact about African American teenagers dramatically wrong.