On Tuesday, voters in Providence, Rhode Island, overwhelmingly passed an ordinance requiring the city to divest from companies that enable genocide, apartheid, and human rights violations. The ordinance is the Palestine solidarity movement’s first binding municipal divestment law passed through popular vote in the U.S. — and makes Providence the largest U.S. city to vote to divest from Israel.
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Voters in Montana on Tuesday delivered a major blow to big moneyed interests by overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative barring corporate cash from political campaigns in the state. With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has received support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition.
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Abdul El-Sayed walloped his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, in Michigan on Tuesday, marking a massive triumph over the strategy of flat-out Islamophobic bigotry that Donald Trump, the GOP, and even many liberals embraced in the months of fierce campaigning against the progressive pro-Palestine senator-elect. “They went all in on one of the ugliest campaigns we’ve seen in our lifetimes,”…
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Democratic candidate Angie Nixon has suggested she could run again in 2028 after being narrowly defeated in her race for U.S. Senate in Florida on Tuesday, falling to Republican opponent Ashley Moody by roughly 3 points after being massively outspent in the race written off by the Democratic establishment. Moody received 50.9 percent of the vote to Nixon’s 48 percent, still overcoming a 10…
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The broad strokes of the midterms are clear: A massive repudiation of MAGA’s fascist wave has ended the Donald Trump 2.0 era of congressional complicity with his authoritarian takeover. Trump’s lame duck presidency now begins. This lopsided electoral rejection is historically rare: Flipping control of both the House and Senate in a midterm has only occurred three times since World War II (in…
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Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, went on a spending spree in the weeks leading up to the midterms. By Election Day, he had invested — and I use that word deliberately — more than $440 million into propping up the GOP to try to make its message and its candidates more palatable with voters during an election cycle in which their brand had become increasingly toxic. Astoundingly…
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