Israel might be coming closer to resolving its political impasse following last month’s elections, as Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog officially tasked Gadi Eisenkot, the main rival of Benjamin Netanyahu, with forming a government. Netanyahu, who ran with the hopes of staying in power, lost seven of the 54 seats won by the camp under his leadership. On Thursday, the Ashkenazi Haredi ultra…
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Democrats are preparing to investigate President Donald Trump’s brazen regime once they take control of Congress in January — and tellingly, a bunch of conservative influencers seem to think the investigations are warranted.
While gorging myself on right-wing analysis of the midterms last weekend, I noticed a trend of these influencers openly saying that corruption has been rampant among people in Trump’s orbit. Former health official Calley Means has gained attention for his claims about corruption within the Trump administration, but he’s certainly not the only one on the right who is sounding the alarm.
These posts from conservative influencer Mike Cernovich speak to the trend I’m talking about.
“If Democrats go after scum, they will sweep 2028, as the public will be aghast,” he wrote on X.
If Democrats go after scum, they will sweep 2028, as the public will be aghast. Pardons for sale. Insider trudging. World Liberty Financial. Gulf oil money for “investment funds.” It would be a bloodbath. But my guess is Dems will focus on harassing Elon, which will backfire.— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 5, 2026
In another post, he wrote that “there were real crimes being committed in the White House” that Democrats can investigate.
There were real crimes being committed in the White House. Democrats do not need fake impeachments as during 45. Will they have the discipline to focus on the criminals inside and around the WH, or will they seek the limelight of harassing RFK JR and Elon, which will backfire?— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 5, 2026
The point here is not that these claims are revelatory or to be taken as fact simply because they’re coming from folks who
The prominent journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has been released from Israeli custody after five days in detention. He was arrested on Wednesday by armed police and Shin Bet agents who conducted a nighttime raid on his home in the Israeli city of Jaffa. Abu Shehadeh’s detention was related to his reporting on the October 27 Israeli election and the role of Palestinian…
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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* There are still some U.S. House races that have not yet been called, including Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar’s re-election bid in Miami. After unofficial returns found the incumbent leading Democratic nominee Eliott Rodriguez by roughly 1,000 votes, Florida’s secretary of state ordered a machine recount.
That process began Monday morning, though Salazar declared herself the winner before the recount got underway.
* There was an expensive fight in California over Proposition 40, which would have created a first-in-the-nation tax on the net worth of billionaires. On Monday, The Associated Press called the race and concluded that the state’s voters had rejected the proposal.
* Speaking of the Golden State, a redistricting effort in California meant two incumbent House Republicans — Reps. Ken Calvert and Young Kim — were forced to run against each other in the state’s 40th Congressional District. It was competitive, but the AP has called the race for Calvert.
* As part of an apparent bid to remain politically relevant, former Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed several like-minded candidates in the 2026 election cycle. All of the candidates backed by the West Virginia independent lost.
* Last week in Wisconsin, Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden lost to Democratic candidate Rebecca Cooke by roughly 7 points in one of the nation’s most closely watched House races. Less than a week later, the ousted GOP lawmaker filed the paperwork for a 2028 rematch.
* The prominent conservative group Turning Point USA, founded by the late Charlie Kirk, focused much of its 2026 energies on backing far-right candidates in Arizona, including spending nearly $20 million in
After last week’s electoral blue wave, Democrats are seeking to slow the spread of MAGA-backed school voucher programs.
In Arizona, Democrats are looking to rein in public funding for the state’s voucher program — money that, in some cases, has being misused by parents to buy gaming consoles and amusement park tickets. Back in June, I wrote about how the state’s voucher program — which Republicans have portrayed as a model for the nation — seemed like it should be a prime target for Trump’s racist crusade against “fraud.”
And Arizona Democrats — having won control of the state House, state Senate and governorship for the first time since the 1960s — have made addressing the program a top priority.
There’s a similar movement underway in Texas. Asked about Texas’ voucher program, which has been lambasted for many of the same reasons as Arizona’s has, Democratic Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa told MS NOW’s Chris Hayes last week that she intends to do everything she can to “make sure that money stays in public schools.”
Hinojosa has sounded skeptical about completely eliminating the voucher program with Republicans still controlling the state Senate. Still, Texas Democrats’ newly won control of the state House and the State Board of Education was celebrated by education activists — including the state’s branch of the American Federation of Teachers, which specifically touted the prospect of curbing the vouchers.
And as The Hill noted, Iowa’s school voucher program could also face scrutiny, given the state’s new Democratic governor.
All of this means that Democrats are finally positioned in some key states to combat the GOP’s war on public education — and to expose more
A new group is seeking to capitalize on Democrats’ overwhelming victories in the midterm elections to drum up support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028.
Ready for AOC, a volunteer-led progressive group that launched Monday, is working to secure 1 million pledges from people who would support an Ocasio-Cortez presidential bid, hoping the show of support will persuade her to run.
The group is not affiliated with Ocasio-Cortez, who has not announced whether she will run for president — at least not yet. Organizers hope that, with their efforts, she will make a decision by spring 2027, at which point the group plans to dissolve.
“While there have been so many reasons to feel disenchanted, and voters have been disenfranchised in so many different ways in our political system, there is reason to have hope, and we saw that last week,” Hannah Kessel, the group’s field director, told MS NOW. “And so, we’re looking to engage people in that vision.”
Ocasio-Cortez is widely viewed as a potential successor to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as leader of the progressive movement his 2016 presidential campaign helped build. But she has largely kept her political ambitions a mystery. In recent months, however, she has offered hints about what she might do next. Asked at a political event in Chicago in May whether she would run for president, Ocasio-Cortez declined to give a definitive answer. “What’s funny is they assume my ambition is a title or a seat,” she said. “My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go.”
In July, she told Politico: “I