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News Alert | 'A Total Shellacking': In Rebuke of Trump, Democrats Win Back US House and Senate

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  Wednesday, November 4, 2026 'A Total Shellacking': Democrats Win US Senate by Flipping Seats in Maine, Iowa, Carolinas, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas Some key US Senate races haven’t yet been called, but as of late Tuesday, Democrats have flipped enough seats to secure majorities in both chambers of Congress—a clear rejection of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party by voters across the country. READ THE FULL STORY   ‘Beginning of the End of the Trump Era’: Rejecting GOP Agenda, Voters Hand Democrats US House After nearly two years of President Donald Trump back in the White House and a Republican-controlled Congress, US voters on Tuesday supported enough Democrats to flip the House of Representatives, according to projections by CNN, Decision Desk HQ, NBC News, and more. READ THE FULL STORY Read all the latest news from Common Dreams Thank you for reading Common Dreams! Our independent journalism is funded by people like you, not corporations or billionaires. Support our work...

We Did It, Meidas Mighty!!

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  We Did It, Meidas Mighty!! Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Nov 4 Hey, Meidas Mighty. We did it! This community came together day after day, and we never gave up. Since that dark day two years ago, we’ve kept going, and now we have achieved historic results. Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This was a historic repudiation of Trump and MAGA: their venomous hate, their vile behavior, their cover-up of child sex trafficking rings in the Epstein files, their never-ending wars, their tariffs against the world, and their attacks on our allies. It was a repudiation of them ripping away our health care and making the cost of living impossible, of their evil, mean-spirited bullying and dehumanization, and of their sending ICE and Border Patrol, the Gestapo, to invade our cities. This was a wholesale repudiation of all of that. Democrats won in historic fashion, beyond a blue wave, beyond...

Election Day Updates: Trump Melts Down as GOP Pollsters Warn of “DOOM”

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  Watch now   Election Day Updates: Trump Melts Down as GOP Pollsters Warn of “DOOM” Tuesday updates. Paywall free. Brett Meiselas , Ben Meiselas , and MeidasTouch Network Nov 3   Hi all, it’s Tuesday. Election Day. Before anything else: if you haven’t voted, go vote . If you already have, call your friends, text your family, and make sure every single person you know gets to the polls today. If you’re stuck in a long line, stay in it. Your vote will count. Here are the top stories we’re tracking this morning: Trump phones into Fox & Friends and rambles about Iran, Greenland, inflation and becoming Israel’s prime minister Trump throws a Hail Mary and announces an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and Israeli officials say they had no idea what he’s talking about Early turnout data in Georgia, Arizona and Virginia looks grim for Republicans, and GOP analysts are saying so Ron DeSantis breaks with the party line on gas prices and the Iran war Trump’s cabinet closes with “high...