Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced on Tuesday that he will not be supporting Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-New York) run for Senate majority leader in the new Congress and suggested that someone else will be running to replace him. “I personally have known Chuck Schumer for 30 years, and I like Chuck — nobody works harder than Chuck Schumer,” said Sanders in a press conference. “But…
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President Donald Trump issued a Truth Social post on Monday morning casting doubts on the “honesty” of the 2026 midterm elections, less than one week after initially stating he would accept the results. “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest?” Trump wrote in his latest missive about the midterms. He went on to reprise grievances from past elections…
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It took Natt Offiah an hour to realize he had arrived at the wrong location to monitor the provisional and absentee ballots in the Mississippi U.S. Senate race. He drove to Madison County Circuit Clerk’s Office on Wednesday, but the building was under construction. After a phone call, Offiah, director of organizing for the People’s Advocacy Institute, and his colleague finally reached the…
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An online petition that demanding that Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) not be the next Democratic Speaker of the House has hit one million signatories on Saturday as the clamor for a leadership change within the party explodes after historic midterm wins driven by populist demands. As of this writing, the Change.org petition — titled “House Democrats: CHOOSE A NEW SPEAKER” — has 1,007,831…
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On Tuesday night, as election results poured in, it became immediately clear: anti-transgender ads had failed to earn Republicans a victory in the year they relied on them the most. Despite $183 million spent on ads targeting transgender people and any Democratic politician who had ever expressed support for them, even Democrats who openly supported transgender people won in Republican strongholds.
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In recent months, thousands of Americans have flooded municipal government buildings to testify against the construction of AI data centers in their communities. According to a May 2026 Gallup poll, 7 out of 10 people oppose the construction of data centers in their local area, citing grave concerns over their environmental impact, water consumption, noise, and potential health risks.
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