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Petition Calling for House Speaker Other Than Hakeem Jeffries Hits 1 Million Signatures “We are calling on every member of the incoming 120th Congress to vote against Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker in January 2027 and choose a different candidate.”

Young voters ditched Trump. What's next could be more extreme

Dominicans call for a community vigil following ICE raids in Puerto Rico: “Silence is not an option” The Fuerza del Pueblo Party on the island will gather tomorrow, Sunday, on Borinquen Avenue in Barrio Obrero

Trump Spirals, Names Stephen Miller Chief of Staff - My Discussion with Steve Schmidt and Olivia Troye Plus Jim reminds people to hang on to the joy they were feeling earlier this week.

After taking control of Congress, Democrats vow major probes into Trump's 'tentacles of corruption' Corruption topped the list of concerns for voters who ousted Republicans and handed Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections. Now, the newly empowered Democratic Party is putting the issue front and center as its leaders chart their course for investigations and policymaking.

Florida District 26 candidate says questions remain after "data entry error" caused incorrect vote total to appear “There is a 3,000 number vote that was reported (Tuesday night) at around 11:16 p.m. that were removed, and we don’t have an explanation as to what that was,” Locklin said. “And we were also told there’s 1,800 outstanding votes in Broward County and that all the precincts weren’t 100 percent reported.”

“I’m Libbing the F— Out” What it was like to watch the midterms with Hasan Piker after his big year.

Liz Truss grins at Mar-a-Lago on Midterms night as Trump's Republicans wiped out Nice of her to sink the Republicans just like she sunk the Conservatives. She’s like a harbinger of doom. Also she fits in fantastically with the other deranged morons there so they’re like peas in a pod. The only thing she’s missing is extensive facial surgery.

Democrats take House and Senate from Republicans in US midterm rout Democrats will control both chambers of Congress after flipping seats in Republican strongholds across the US in an election seen as a repudiation of President Donald Trump.

Elon Musk Tests What Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Can Buy in the Midterms

Melat Kiros becomes the first Gen Z woman elected to Congress

‘Our aim is that children are protected’: besieged West Bank school fortifies its defences against settler violence After deaths of five students at hands of Israeli settlers in last academic year, al-Mughayyir’s teachers and pupils are on high alert To reassure parents, teachers of the public secondary school gave a tour of the facilities, which they had spent the summer break fortifying. Metal fences now towered over the schoolyard’s walls and the door had been replaced by a sturdy metal gate. A new wall shielded the classrooms from a hilltop where last academic year a settler had shot dead two people, including a student.

Marco Rubio Posts Job Offer for CIA Agents in Cuba. It’s Not What It Seems. cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/54847277 [weekly newsletter about Cuba from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can be found at: peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos] November 2, 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently urged Cubans in a post on X to form a “discrete [sic] partnership with the CIA." That same day, the CIA posted a video in Spanish providing step-by-step instructions on how Cubans could contact the agency. This week, Belly of the Beast journalist Blake Burdge speaks with a former CIA analyst and Cuba experts about Rubio’s not-so-discreet recruitment pitch to prospective coup plotters and the decades-old U.S. strategy behind it.

Voting is Easier than Revolution cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/54415745

[Video] U.S. military air defense systems seen deployed around President Trumps Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach after rumors of strikes on Iran source

Sums it up quite precisely

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push for California to set aside thousands of disputed mail ballots The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push for California to set aside thousands of mail ballots from people President Trump’s administration claims are noncitizens, a decision that comes on the eve of the pivotal midterm elections. The high court refused to intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the largely Democratic state’s voter rolls. It was the latest in a flurry of election-related litigation the day before the midterm elections, which will decide control of Congress for the last two years of Trump’s second term.

A Democratic Betrayal and GOP Panic: The Wild Finale of the Midterms It’s almost over, and on this special Election Eve edition of Stress Test, David Corn and Garrison Hayes deconstruct the manic final moments before America votes. The big last-minute surprise was the 11th-hour bombshell out of Michigan. Defeated Democratic primary contender Haley Stevens sent shockwaves through the political world on Sunday when she rescinded her […]

Former federal Judge Jeremy Fogel and the Trump admin's attacks on the rule of law A recording from Chris Geidner’s live video

“Democrats File Suit Over Closed Polling Places in Rural Alaska” NYT: As a Justice Department lawsuit challenging the presence of two U.S. Senate candidates named Dan Sullivan on the Alaska ballot plays out, Democrats have filed a lawsuit in Alaska accusing election officials of failing to properly operate at least… Continue reading The post “Democrats File Suit Over Closed Polling Places in Rural Alaska” appeared first on Election Law Blog.