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People are hurting, and millions of them didn’t vote either way. They just didn’t vote. I want people to hear that. The vote totals went down. They didn’t go up. They went down. And we have to take this very seriously.

To a corporate media that largely complemented, rather than countered, Trump’s fear-based narratives on immigrants, trans people and crime, blaming the left is infinitely more appealing than recognizing their own culpability.

I will say this,” one House Democrat said. “The Democratic Party has a major working-class voter issue. It started a decade ago as a working-class White issue. It’s now gotten even worse and spread across racial lines.” —The Washington Post, 11/6/24

‘A stunning rebuke.’ Voters’ support for legislative audit, ditching MCAS mandate sends message to Beacon Hill.

Written on the eve of the election, Lynn Parramore identifies our need the day after: "Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences."

Precise as a haiku, with the force of a hand grenade, poet Lola Haskins offers a terrifying glimpse of the war in Gaza.

We need to be ready for a new world. RFK Jr. will have more influence, with his cast of characters who have a history of opposing evidence-based public health practice.

Washington state beat back efforts to repeal both a capital gains tax and a payroll tax that funds long-term care insurance. Illinois voters showed support for a tax hike on millionaires. Three red states passed paid leave.

The shift toward Donald Trump in the Rio Grande Valley in 2020 grew into a sweep for the GOP in many border counties on Tuesday. Could the path back be making voters here feel welcome again—not just as Latinos but as working people?

Blame Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court.