by Julia Conley | Nov 3, 2026 | Article, brazil, Democracy, elections, Politics and Movements: International, Reprint
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Oct. 26, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
“There is nothing inevitable about the far right,” said one former Obama administration official Sunday night as supporters of the left-wing Student List in Serbia poured into the streets of Belgrade and other cities across the Balkan country, celebrating their defeat of right-wing President Aleksandar Vučić, who has led the nation for nearly a decade and has been accused of corruption and autocratic rule.
The Student List’s victory coincided with that of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was also backed by a student-led movement that marched through Rio de Janeiro and other cities in recent weeks, as US President Donald Trump was accused of election interference on behalf of right-wing Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, Lula’s opponent.
Both countries reported high voter turnout in the pivotal elections, proving, as journalist Anne Applebaum said, “that voters can alter what feels like a historical shift.”
In years of genocidehope came from the youngIn Serbia2 yrs of youth-led protest -integrity, unity, perseverance- brought changeToday that hope is a rainbowits far end in BrazilMay it shinewherever wounds run deepand the young are fighting the oldHumanity will prevail pic.twitter.com/jKA6n4EmFR— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) October 26, 2026
In Serbia, Vučić said it was “clear that we have lost the election,” as results showed his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) had won about 105 seats while the Student List had won at least 135.
The Student List movement, officially registered by the Republic Electoral Commission as “Studentska lista—Studenti pobeđuju” (Student List—Students Win) began in November 2024 after the concrete
by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Nov 3, 2026 | data centers, Elon Musk, Environment and Health, NAACP, News, Trump Administration
A federal judge has denied a motion by Elon Musk’s xAI company to dismiss the NAACP’s lawsuit against its data center in Mississippi. On October 30, Chief U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown ruled that the NAACP’s lawsuit against xAI and its Mississippi data center, Colossus, could proceed. In April, the NAACP filed a complaint against xAI — owned by SpaceX — for violating the Clean Air…
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by Hannah Marr | Nov 3, 2026 | elections, News
Two years after losing control of the Senate, Democrats enter Election Day ahead in enough races to win it back — if the polls are right.
After the party’s disastrous performance in 2024, the upper chamber had largely felt out of reach. Democrats bled four seats in the Senate that year, and they lost the White House while also falling short of winning the House by three seats. To take the Senate on Tuesday, Democrats have to flip some of the seats in Texas, Alaska, North Carolina, Iowa or Ohio. All of those states, except for North Carolina, voted for President Donald Trump by double digits in 2024.
Even with a difficult map, polls suggest Democrats are in a good place to flip the Senate, according to FiftyPlusOne, MS NOW’s polling data partner. In Georgia, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Michigan — seats the party needs to hold to control the chamber — Democrats are ahead in the polling averages by 6 to 10 points, all outside the margin of error, according to FiftyPlusOne.
In toss-ups Maine, Texas, Kansas and Ohio, FiftyPlusOne puts Democrats up by 5, 4, 4 and 3 points, respectively. They, too, sit out of the margin of error.
In Alaska, where former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola is attempting to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, FiftyPlusOne puts Peltola up by 2 points, although it is within the margin of error.
Iowa and South Carolina’s races are even. Only in Florida and Nebraska does FiftyPlusOne put Republicans ahead. Florida’s polling average is outside the margin of error, while Nebraska’s is within it.
Even with attempts to correct previous polling issues, there are still fears that
by Maximillian Alvarez | Nov 2, 2026 | Article, elections, midterms, Opinion, Politics and Movements: US, Trump
It’s been 4,154 days since Donald Trump came down that golden escalator in 2015 to announce he was running to be president of the United States of America. Looking back, I think it’s safe to say that none of us fully understood then all that was coming our way.
After the 2016 election, we knew that the world as we knew it then was going to change, but I don’t think any of us knew how much. None of us grasped at the time how much of ourselves and our society we would lose over the next decade; if we had, I gotta believe we would have done more to avoid ending up where we’ve ended up now, but I could be wrong.
More than anything—as a journalist and media pundit, as TRNN’s editor-in-chief, but also just as a person in the world—these last 10 years have taught me the hard way to be extremely humble when it comes to making predictions about our political future.
From Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0; from Covid-19 to January 6; from the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza to the invasion of Venezuela; from the techno-fascists and (wannabe) trillionaire oligarchs taking everything over and shoving AI down our throats to the total, gangsterish dismantling of the administrative state and the rule of law in the USA; from ICE’s war of terror on the public to the US-Israeli war on Iran; anyone who tells you they saw all this coming is lying (to you and to themselves). And so is anyone who tells you they know exactly how things are going to shake out with
by Sharon Zhang | Nov 2, 2026 | CoreCivic, Corruption, ICE, Kash Patel, Minnesota, News, Private Prison Companies, Scott Bessent
Standing at a podium to tout the Trump administration’s “fraud task force” achievements on Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a reporter that it would be a “waste of our time” to investigate ICE’s recent purchase of a prison from a private company for hundreds of millions of dollars over a prior asking price. Bessent responded sternly when a reporter suggested at a press conference…
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