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  • Hasan Piker: Democrats Won Midterms, But Now They Have to Deliver on Voter Demands for Change

    Tuesday was a historic night for progressive Democrats and, in particular, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Six new DSA-endorsed candidates were elected to the House, and democratic socialists won mayoral races in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Providence. “The Democratic Socialists of America had a phenomenal night, and this movement is only going to continue to grow,” says prominent leftist political commentator Hasan Piker. “Now, here’s the problem: Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are two of the least popular politicians in the country right now, and there are demands to change the leadership in the Democratic Party to reflect the desires of this new coalition that was developed on November 3.”

  • National Politics Will Never Be the Same: Juan González on How Latino Voters Remade the Political Map

    The midterms saw a landslide of Latinos vote for Democrats. In Texas, California, Kansas and Colorado, Latinos who had voted for Republicans just two years ago voted for Democrats in large numbers, helping secure Democratic control of both the House and the Senate. Latino lawmakers will make up about a fifth of the Democratic majority in the House. And in an historic victory, the two most populous states in the country, California and Texas, will soon be led by Democratic Latino governors. “Texas has been suddenly transformed into a battleground state,” says Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez. “Texas has been the biggest and most important red state in the country for decades, and I’ve been predicting for years that it is the key […]

  • Purple Mississippi? Overcoming GOP Voter Suppression, Black Voters Power Dem Wins Across the South

    Mississippi’s race for the U.S. Senate remains too close to call: Democrat Scott Colom is narrowly leading Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by nearly 2,000 votes with 96% of votes counted as of Friday morning. Donald Trump carried Mississippi by 23 points in 2024. If elected, Colom would be the first Democrat to win the state in 40 years and the first African American since 1875, during the Reconstruction era. Colom, the former district attorney for northeast Mississippi, made the issue of affordability central to his campaign. He has sharply criticized national Democrats for writing off Mississippi and failing to invest in his campaign early on. “The entire country shifted left. But when you look at it regionally, the biggest […]

  • Headlines for November 6, 2026

    Democrats Lead in Alaska and Mississippi Senate Races as House Majority Approaches 260 Seats, Incoming Freshman Senators Call for New Leadership to Replace Top Democrat Chuck Schumer, Pete Hegseth Defends Iran War, Demands $350B in Additional Funding and Vows to Fight Impeachment, Marco Rubio Reportedly Considers Resigning as Secretary of State Ahead of Presidential Run, Harmeet Dhillon Resigns as Head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, DSA Candidates Win Mayor’s Races in L.A., D.C., Ann Arbor and Providence, Democratic Socialist Angela Gonzales-Torres Beats AIPAC-Backed Democrat for L.A. House Seat, Sunrise Movement Co-Founder William Lawrence Flips Battleground House District in Michigan, Gov. Gavin Newsom Commutes Death Sentences of […]

  • "They Have Eyes": How Trump's Corruption Became a Top Concern for Midterm Voters

    Democrats regained control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday’s historic midterm elections, a comeback fueled largely by voter anger over high prices and the war on Iran. But surveys also found that corruption was a major concern, with 76% of voters telling a Harris poll that elected officials care more about enriching themselves than improving the economy for ordinary people. A separate Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 63% of Americans considered it inappropriate for Trump and his family to profit from cryptocurrency, while 69% said his private business interests influence his decisions as president. “If this election was about corruption and cost, then this next Congress needs to be focused on accountability and […]

Fair Observer

  • Can We Reverse Out-of-Control Campaign Spending?

    The 2026 midterm elections have been the most expensive in history, with more than $11 billion being spent on political ads. While Democratic candidates have outraised Republicans in individual donations by appealing directly to voters, Republicans have received the lion’s share of money from super political action committees (PACs) funded by a small number of… Continue reading Can We Reverse Out-of-Control Campaign Spending? The post Can We Reverse Out-of-Control Campaign Spending? appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Under the UN Lens: The TTP Threat and Regional Security Challenges

    Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has remained an enduring threat to Pakistan’s peace, security and social stability since its inception in 2007. Over the years, it has been responsible for thousands of deaths and attacks against security forces and civilians. It has also struck critical infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, roads, bridges and gas pipelines. The history speaks… Continue reading Under the UN Lens: The TTP Threat and Regional Security Challenges The post Under the UN Lens: The TTP Threat and Regional Security Challenges appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • India’s Cockroach Generation: A Youth Movement Challenges the Establishment

    A cockroach survives where other creatures perish. It is despised, hunted and crushed, yet it returns. There is something unsettling about this small creature, something that speaks to a generation that feels unwanted by the institutions meant to protect it. In India, the cockroach has become a political symbol. What began as an insult has… Continue reading India’s Cockroach Generation: A Youth Movement Challenges the Establishment The post India’s Cockroach Generation: A Youth Movement Challenges the Establishment appeared first on Fair Observer.

Anthropocene

Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Radio November 6, 2026

    In this week’s segment, we hear about the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference, which will be held in Jackson, Mississippi, in December. But we begin with an analysis of the Michigan Senate race won by Abdul El-Sayed.

  • Abdul El-Sayed's Senate Victory in Michigan

    Abayomi Azikiwe is editor of the Pan-African Newswire and a Detroit-based activist. Abdul El-Sayed won his election and will represent Michigan as a United States senator. He defied the Democratic Party and its donor class, but is his victory truly meaningful to the people who rejected Islamophobia […]

  • Southern Human Rights Organizers' Conference

    Jaribu Hill is the executive director of the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights in Greenville, Mississippi. She joins us from Greenville to discuss the upcoming Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC), which will convene in Jackson, Mississippi, December 10th through the 13th. […]

The Guardian

  • How CrossFit helped shape the macho fitness culture of Trump’s America

    The movement founded by Greg Glassman grew into an empire, helping popularize the masculinity aesthetic embraced by Pete Hegseth and RFK JrComparative machismo is hardly new, but when Donald Trump publicly admired Senator Jon Husted’s backside earlier this month, later telling advisers it made the since-defeated Ohio incumbent more “interesting” to voters, the senator leaned into the compliment, saying it gave him extra motivation to “get down to the gym”.Would that odd exchange have taken place without CrossFit, the fitness empire founded by college dropout and gymnast Greg Glassman in the 1990s that grew to 15,000 gyms across 160 countries before he was drawn into public controversy at the height of #MeToo and the social […]

  • Centrism did not win the Democratic party the election

    The blue wave, while a rebuke of Trump’s policies, was also a referendum on the party’s status quoOn election night I stood in a crowd at Harlem Tavern, a restaurant in New York City, at the electoral party for Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and congresswoman-elect from New York’s 13th congressional district. The crowd cheered as what came to be called the “blunami” rolled in: Iowa blue, Kansas blue, Talarico in Texas, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, House, Senate, gubernatorial races overwhelmingly going for the Democratic party.The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of […]

  • Healthcare, tariffs – but not Trump impeachment: Democrats chart next two years of power

    Midterms success gives party potent leverage over Trump – expect tough campaigns of investigating and lawmaking“Costs, chaos, corruption”: after almost two years spent relentlessly criticizing Donald Trump for failing to address those three, broad political concerns, Democrats won a monumental return to power in Tuesday’s midterm elections that will give them potent new leverage over the president.Now the question becomes: what will they do with it? Continue reading...

  • Trump’s shattered ‘mirror world’: American voters roundly reject president’s alternate reality

    President claimed to have ushered in a ‘golden age’ even as prices soared and war dragged on – and midterm voters did not buy his looking-glass narrativeA new “golden age of America” is under way, Donald Trump repeatedly declared in his final pitch to voters before the US midterm elections.The war in Iran was not really a war, because “we’ve done very little fighting”, the US president stressed. The stock market had hit 88 all-time highs. “They’re saying,” he said, that on his watch the US has become “the hottest country anywhere in the world”. Continue reading...

  • Trump says he asked Dana White, UFC boss, to be his new White House press secretary

    White says he has meeting with Trump in Washington DC on Monday, without saying whether he will accept the jobDonald Trump has offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the president said in a social media post on Saturday.Trump described White, who staged a cage-fighting spectacle at the White House to mark the president’s 80th birthday in June, as “a violent Fighter and Warrior”, credentials unlike any ever used to describe previous press secretaries. Continue reading...

The Marshall Project

Aeon

  • Celestial nuisance

    The cosmos has become a lab for the Big Questions in physics. Along the way, we’ve lost sight of its glorious messiness- by Dylan JowRead on Aeon

Unicorn Riot

  • Seven of the Minnesota 15 Defendants Speak on Indictments

    Unicorn Riot interviewed seven of the Minnesota 15 to hear about their involvement in the historic immigrant-defense movement that led to them becoming political targets of the federal government. The post Seven of the Minnesota 15 Defendants Speak on Indictments appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

The Conversation

Inter Press Service

Sludge

  • The Money Behind Hakeem Jeffries

    Executives at Anduril and Palantir, crypto industry advocates, and investors giving through AIPAC helped fund the Democratic leader preparing to become speaker.

Yale Environment 360

  • As the Japanese Countryside Empties Out, Wildlife Is Disappearing

    The Japanese population is in decline, but the downward trend is especially pronounced in rural areas. The loss of people might be expected to lead to a resurgence of wildlife. But paradoxically, where farms have been abandoned, wildlife is also disappearing.Read more on E360 →

Inside Climate News

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    Labor Notes

    • Book Review: A Model for U.S.-Mexico Cross-Border Solidarity

      Labor law reform in Mexico has opened up a major opportunity for workers fighting for genuine, independent unions. What can U.S. unions do to support our brothers and sisters there? And how can we build cross-border campaigns to confront our common employers? Unions asking these questions will find valuable ideas in the e-book International Solidarity in Action: The Relationship Between the United Electrical Workers (UE) and Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT), available for free download here.

    The World – PRI

    • Paraguay's banking crisis threatens the president's future

      Paraguay is facing a deepening political crisis after authorities intervened following the collapse of one of the country's largest digital banks, leaving millions of customers unable to access their money. The collapse of Ueno Bank, which has ties to President Santiago Peña's former business partners, has triggered protests, criminal investigations and an impeachment effort against Peña and […]

    • How Google Maps leaves US service members more exposed

      A new investigation by our partners at Bellingcat demonstrates how satellite mapping services like Google Maps very publicly identify specific facilities on US military installations across the Middle East. A major vulnerability during the Iran War, this satellite mapping has left many US service members feeling exposed. The World's Host Aaron Schachter learned more from Bellingcat researcher […]

    • Light saber fencing allows players to feel like Jedi

      Not very long ago, in the galaxy we live in, someone invented a sport that combines fencing with our fantasy pals from “Star Wars.” All you need is one of those glow-in-the-dark swords every kid — and adult — secretly wanted as a birthday present from Obi-Wan Kenobi, and you’re ready to rock. The World’s Gerry Hadden reported from Barcelona a year ago on the fun of this rising […]

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