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Hasan Piker: Democrats Won Midterms, But Now They Have to Deliver on Voter Demands for Change

Tuesday was a historic night for progressive Democrats and, in particular, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Six new DSA-endorsed candidates were elected to the House, and democratic socialists won mayoral races in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Providence.
“The Democratic Socialists of America had a phenomenal night, and this movement is only going to continue to grow,” says prominent leftist political commentator Hasan Piker.

National Politics Will Never Be the Same: Juan González on How Latino Voters Remade the Political Map

The midterms saw a landslide of Latinos vote for Democrats. In Texas, California, Kansas and Colorado, Latinos who had voted for Republicans just two years ago voted for Democrats in large numbers, helping secure Democratic control of both the House and the Senate. Latino lawmakers will make up about a fifth of the Democratic majority in the House. And in an historic victory, the two most populous states in the country, California and Texas, will soon be led by Democratic Latino governors.

Purple Mississippi? Overcoming GOP Voter Suppression, Black Voters Power Dem Wins Across the South

Mississippi’s race for the U.S. Senate remains too close to call: Democrat Scott Colom is narrowly leading Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by nearly 2,000 votes with 96% of votes counted as of Friday morning. Donald Trump carried Mississippi by 23 points in 2024. If elected, Colom would be the first Democrat to win the state in 40 years and the first African American since 1875, during the Reconstruction era.

“They Have Eyes”: How Trump’s Corruption Became a Top Concern for Midterm Voters

Democrats regained control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday’s historic midterm elections, a comeback fueled largely by voter anger over high prices and the war on Iran. But surveys also found that corruption was a major concern, with 76% of voters telling a Harris poll that elected officials care more about enriching themselves than improving the economy for ordinary people.

Perhaps Connecting Fridges to the Internet Was a Bad Idea

Bags of frozen blueberries and Swedish meatballs, packets of waffles and pizzas, and tub after tub of ice cream: all melted, floppy, spoiled, and stinking. This has been the scene at grocery stores across Europe after their fridges and freezers have been hacked.
Last month, employees at hundreds of supermarkets in France came into work to find they had to trash millions of dollars’ worth of food.

On SNL, the Struggle (For Power) Was Real

This season of Saturday Night Live has gotten a lot of mileage from inaction. Week after week, sketch after sketch—as James Austin Johnson’s version of Donald Trump interrupts whatever comedy might be at play—the show’s performers have done more than merely step aside as the president storms the stage. Instead, his presence leaves them comically petrified: frozen, at pretty much the moment of his entrance, unable to do anything else.

Poem for the WaterShed

Let’s say we
have nothing and
start from there. Then that burns and
from its ash we make ink.
Let’s say we can write but
have no words.
Let’s say we can sing.
What if we had songs but no
ink, brush, voice.
What if we swept the floor with
a swan’s wing and the whole
day lifted and we could begin again.
What if all we had left
was a match and
nothing to burn.
This poem appears in the December 2026 print edition.

The Democrats’ Fight Over Israel Is Just Beginning

During a swing through Detroit in the final days of the midterm campaign, former President Obama invoked the kind of gauzy pluralism that Democrats were so proud of during his presidency. He pointed out that Michigan had the opportunity to pull off an improbable feat: By electing Abdul El-Sayed to join Elissa Slotkin in the Senate, the state could turn its delegation into a walking symbol of buried enmities and transcendent harmony.

Look Closer: A Mysterious Pair of Mittens

Index of American Design / National Gallery of Art
The mittens were almost 80 years old when Ethel Dougan painted this watercolor, one of more than 18,000 works by some 1,000 financially strapped artists commissioned by the Index of American Design. Part of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, the Index aimed to document historical American arts and crafts and provide inspiration for modern designers.