From Maine To Michigan To Texas, ‘Rise of Real Economic Populism’ Trounces Right-Wing Billionaire Cash
Jake Jonson Common Dreams It wasn’t just a Democratic tsunami that swept the United States in Tuesday’s midterm elections—it was also an “economic populist wave” that drowned out billionaire cash.…
Last Night’s “Blue Wave” Means Nothing If We Don’t Stop The NDAA
Melissa Garriga As taxpayers, we are funding our own endgame, but we don’t have to. Last night’s election results proved that a majority of people in this country do not…
Gen Z Shakes It Up: A Portrait Of A Generation Storming Heaven
Julien Anchaing and Enzo Tresso, Left Voice. A generation caught in global chaos is rising up in the face of a capitalist system. That grows more corrupt by the day.…
Trump Lost The Midterms, But The Fight Against War, ICE, And Austerity Continues
Madeleine Freeman Left Voice Democrats swept both chambers of Congress, flipped Texas, and saw DSA send a record five new members to the House. The midterms marked the beginning of…
Democrat Flips Lindsey Graham’s Old Senate Seat in Historic Election Upset
By Chris Walker Truthout For the first time in nearly three decades, voters in South Carolina have selected a Democratic candidate to represent them in the United States Senate. Pediatrician…
The Girl in Gaza With a Piece of Blue Cloth
Mats Svensson CounterPunch Her grandparents never began with the leaving. They began with the house. When her grandparents spoke, they spoke of the house—a stone house. They always said stone…
Israel’s Election Shows Its Democracy Is A Sham, But The West Can’t Stop Buying The Lie
Jonathan Cook Substack Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. That Israel’s democratic pretensions are taken seriously…
Michigan, Like The Founding Fathers, Repudiates Islamophobic Bigotry In Senate Race
Juan Cole Informed Comment The ugly tactics of the Republican Party in Michigan, targeting Abdul El-Sayed for his Muslim faith, were not unprecedented in American history. Catholics, Jews and other…
Sanders Calls for ‘Fundamental and Immediate Reform’ to Democratic Party If It Wins Elections
Editor’s note: There are plenty of stories about the ass-whooping voters just delivered to Trump and his Republican Party. Democrats are celebrating historic victories in places the warmonger-in-chief won handily,…
To Understand the Future of America’s Death Penalty, Look to Nevada, not Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, or Texas
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Last spring, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson announced he would be seeking death warrants for three of the fifty-seven inmates on Nevada’s death row. He said…
America’s Déjà Vu 2026 Midterm Election
Jack Rasmus, Counter Punch. The French have a saying: “Plus ca change; rien ca change”. Translated it means ‘everything changes, nothing changes’; or, depending on your French, ‘everything changes but…
‘Deeply Alarming’: Hours Before Midterm Elections, Trump Bombs Iran’s Qeshm Island
Jake Johnson Common Dreams “There is still a chance to prevent another catastrophe, but that window may be closing. We cannot afford to let this war escalate further.” The Trump…
Capitalism Is Destroying The World. Can Socialism Save It?: A Conversation With Ben Burgis And Mike Beggs
Maximillian Alvarez TRNN With a global capitalist system that is wreaking havoc on the planet, pushing most of humanity into poverty, and enabling a small number of billionaire and trillionaire…
Federal Government Is Targeting Officials Who Are Trying to Hold ICE Accountable
Joshua Davis & Whitney K. Taylor Truthout/TheAppeal n the months leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, congressional Republicans and federal prosecutors have targeted dozens of local officials in cities…
House Democrats Want Stevens Out of Their Caucus After Her “Despicable Betrayal”
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout The Michigan Democratic Party’s chair removed Haley Stevens from the party for endorsing Abdul El-Sayed’s opponent. A growing number of…