DEMOCRATS WIN SENATE POPULAR VOTE ACROSS FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES
Democrats won the combined Senate popular vote across ten former Confederate states, securing 20,782,908 votes (53.74%) to Republicans' 17,888,197 (46.26%)—a margin of nearly 2.9 million votes.
The result is a major victory for Democrats in a region Republicans have dominated for decades. High Black voter turnout helped fuel the result, carrying particular historical significance in states where Black Americans were once denied the right to vote.
Democrats broke decades-long losing streaks in Texas and South Carolina. James Talarico became the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, while Annie Andrews delivered South Carolina's first Democratic Senate victory since 1998.
Angie Nixon didn’t win her Democratic primary because of a weak state party. Voters chose her over a candidate who outspent her 10 to 1.
Also no one outside of the national media bubble saw her through the lens of “DSA,” which is part of the reason she beat back the GOP caricature of that label, and shows the limits of this sort of analysis.
Actual people chose an actual person — let’s start there
MSNOW: What is your message now to Jewish voters nationally and what you will do to protect them?
Abdul El-Sayed: I’m committed to Jewish safety, and we are united against discrimination. The U.S. spends billions to carry out genocide and apartheid against Palestinians. The genocide in Gaza with our complicity is continuing right now. Nobody wants to talk about that.
@monicavenzke@TheDMVLive there’s also the very weird at-large situation with silverman and oye…hopefully it doesn’t become too relevant… (see https://t.co/jx09Fkz8Ps)
I didn’t think it was possible to combine primary-loser-sour-grapes & Islamophobia into a more toxic cocktail than Andrew Cuomo. But Haley Stevens has managed to do it.
If she wants to betray civil rights, reproductive freedom, immigrant protections, and working families by endorsing Mike Rogers and trying to give control of the Senate to J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, I guess that's her business — but it’s appalling, oddly patronizing, and simply false to claim that it’s in the interest of Michigan’s Jewish communities.
Our safety comes from welcoming the stranger, fighting for universal human rights, and building pluralist democracy — not from endorsing neo-Nazi adjacent MAGA fanatics.
Fortunately, there’s a powerful response of solidarity and shared safety, that every Jewish & non-Jewish Michigander can do on Tuesday:
Vote for @AbdulElSayed
McDonald’s workers in Brazil celebrated new rules that cut the work week from six days to a maximum of five – without a reduction in pay.
Employee Luis Felippe posted a TikTok video of himself reading out an official communication on the changes, the initial phase of which goes into effect on 16 December.
The reform was a key pledge from president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who managed to get it passed shortly before Sunday’s election, which he won despite coming second in the first round of voting.
DSA is proud to endorse Yes on All 3 in Virginia, supported by Metro DC DSA and Richmond DSA. These issues would guarantee the right to reproductive freedom, to marriage equality, and to vote - core rights that democratic socialists are proud to fight for.
You live at the center of a global military empire with ~1,000 overseas bases, strangling countries w/ sanctions, coups & war for refusing to submit to US dictates. Thinking Americans shouldn’t care about elections abroad is brain dead imperial chauvinism
Absolute honour to meet Dead Prez last night at the "Free Palestine" gig in Dublin. 💚
"You'd rather have a Lexus or justice?
A dream or some substance?
A Beamer or necklace or freedom?" 🔥
food and drinks consumed in a movie theater doesn't really go into your body. it goes into your movie theater body which is separate & holy and harm-proof