Jesse Watters Whines, ‘We Split The White Vote,’ But He Still Doesn’t Get It
Source: Roy Rochlin / Getty Here’s the thing about MAGA conservatives: even the more intelligent among them (which is like saying, “even the shortest among...
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Justice Samuel Alito Isn’t Retiring, And Republicans Are Suddenly Sweating
Source: Austin American-Statesman/Hearst Newspapers / Getty Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito apparently isn’t interested in doing Donald Trump any favors on the way...
Who Were The Buffalo Soldiers?: The History Of Black Soldiers In The American West
Source: Heritage Images / Getty In the aftermath of the Civil War, a new chapter in American military history began with the establishment of six all-Black regiments...
Republicans Say ‘Secretary Of War’ Pete Hegseth’s Days Are Numbered Amid Midterms Fallout
Source: Finn Gomez / Getty Now that Republicans have suffered midterm losses beyond even what they were projected to lose, everyone in the MAGA world is pointing...
Nithya Raman Projected To Upset Karen Bass In LA Mayoral Race
Source: MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images / Getty If I had to sum up this year’s midterm elections in one word, it’d be “upset.” From Senate...
Elon Musk’s Government Gravy Train Just Ran Out Of Track
Source: Win McNamee / Getty The blue tsunami didn’t just flip Congress upside down. It may also ruin one of President Donald Trump’s biggest benefactors, a man who...
8 Years After Stacey Abrams Dared to Dream, Black Women Made History
Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Like many people, after seeing the news of Keisha Lance Bottoms’ historic victory, I couldn’t help but think about Stacey Abrams and...
Top Democrat Has One Message For The Trump Administration Following Blue Wave: ‘Lawyer Up’
Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty Now that the Democratic Party has flipped both chambers of Congress in its favo r, its voters are waiting to see what it will do next....
House Speaker Mike Johnson Says He’s Out Following Humiliating Midterm Loss
Source: JEFF KOWALSKY / Getty Hey, Democrats, I think you might have broken Rep. Mike Johnson . Johnson seemed really confident in the days and weeks leading up to...
Melat Kiros Becomes First Gen Z Black Woman Candidate Elected To Congress
Source: AAron Ontiveroz / Getty SEO: First Gen Z Congresswoman. Last night’s midterm election was one of many firsts, including Keisha Lance Bottoms becoming the...
GOP Redistricting Efforts Massively Backfire In Midterms
Source: SABRINA BLANCHARD,VALENTINA BRESCHI,VALENTIN RAKOVSKY,NALINI LEPETIT-CHELLA,CLARA MORINEAU / Getty I cannot tell you how hype I was to walk out of Godzilla...
America Has 4 Black Governors, Not 5 — Byron Donalds Doesn’t Count
Source: SOPA Images / Getty Not one. Not two. Not three. But four. Well, technically it’s five — but not really. On one of the most historic nights in American...
All Eyes On Mississippi And Alaska As More Democratic Upsets Loom
Source: In the new world, where America has turned so blue they’re crippin’, even two states that have been Republican strongholds for decades are giving the GOP a...
Black Women Seize Historic Election Wins Across the US
Source: Prince Williams / Getty Zora Neale Hurston once wrote that “the present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” For Black women...
Trump And Republicans Blame Each Other For Midterm Humiliation, But, Man, All Y’all Suck
Source: Finn Gomez / Getty Welp, it happened, y’all: the blue wave. The blue tsunami . The blue-nami . The blue-pocalypse . The blue-mageddon . This was a massacre of...
America Just Told Trump And MAGA To Go Straight To Hell, And It Wasn’t Subtle.
Source: Salwan Georges / Getty America has spoken, and apparently it had a whole lot to get off its chest. The 2026 midterm elections weren’t just a bad night for...
All Of The Black Democrats Who Won Big During The 2026 Midterm Elections
Source: Scott Olson / Getty The 2026 midterm elections delivered a major political shake-up, with Democrats riding a historic blue wave to reclaim control of both the...
‘Our Health Is Worth Talking About’: Black Men And Prostate Cancer
On this special edition of Listen to Black Doctors , it’s all about prostate cancer, PSA levels, and what those numbers really mean. It’s a crucial conversation for...
Historic Democratic Blue Tsunami Takes Over 2026 US Midterms
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty Voters went into the polls and gave a big middle finger to fascism on Tuesday, and what seemed to be a small ripple turned into a huge...
Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms Becomes First Black Female US Governor
Source: Megan Varner / Getty Georgia has made history. According to projections from the Associated Press , CNN and NBC News , former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance...
Republicans’ 2024 Support Has Declined, As They Scramble To Win Black And Latino Votes
Source: grandriver / Getty Well, good people, we have arrived. It’s election day, and many of us — those in that nation that are still tethered to reality, not the...
US Attacks Iran Right Before Midterms, Trump Reveals $4B Sent To Israel
Source: Finn Gomez / Getty The U.S. military launched strikes on Iranian targets on Monday, the day before Election Day, despite President Donald Trump declaring that...
We Watched Marcel Johnson Fight For His Life. We Weren’t Ready To Watch Him Lose.
Source: Marcel Johnson / facebook In one of Marcel Johnson’s last posts, the frail fighter, whose body had begun showing the devastating effects of stomach cancer,...
Prediction Markets Are Betting On A Democratic Senate Sweep
Source: If prediction markets are to be believed, President Donald Trump is well on his way to becoming a lame-duck president once the votes are counted Tuesday....
Affordability Is Voters’ Primary Focus During Midterm Election
Source: Tom Williams / Getty Millions of Americans are heading to the polls today to vote in the midterm elections. It’s no exaggeration to say this is one of the...
Why The Skydance Merger Is Horrible For Everyone
Source: NurPhoto / Getty My deepest, truest, realest passion is film and the art of filmmaking. I went to film school, worked professionally in TV, and continue to...
Why You Should Be Concerned About Palantir’s Growing Influence
Source: SOPA Images / Getty One of the pronounced downsides of our increasingly technocratic status quo is that there are countless companies that you’ve never heard...
Why Does The Trump Administration Have ICE Going Through Our Stuff?
Source: San Antonio Express-News/Hearst Newspapers / Getty There was a time when Americans could reasonably assume that registering to vote was an ordinary act of...
Young, Black And Away At College: Why Voting by Mail Isn’t Always Easy For Students
✕ . WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2026 midterm elections are just around the corner and many communities, especially those that have been historically disenfranchised, are...
Baldwin And The Fight For The Black Vote On Election Day
Source: timnewman / Getty In 1965, the legendary essayist and cultural critic James Baldwin published “White Man’s Guilt,” reminding America of the fundamental and...
Black Gen Z Political Expectations Around The 2026 Midterms
✕ . Research by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University found that Gen Z’s voter turnout in presidential...
Supreme Court Rules Against DOJ Effort To Withhold 20,000 Ballots In California
Source: Jason Armond / Getty On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a request from the Trump administration to make California withhold 20,000 ballots ahead of today’s...
Trump’s Final Message To Voters Ahead Of Midterms: Hey, Everybody, Look At My Reflecting Pool
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty ‘Twas the day before Election Day and at the White House — not a creature was stirring about anything but kicking all the Muslims out. The...
Today’s ‘Kennedy Curse’ Is Really Just RFK Jr. Let Me Explain
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty For decades, people in the U.S. have talked about something called the “ Kennedy Curse .” It refers to the series of untimely...
Haley Stevens, John Fetterman, And Why White Liberals Are More Dangerous Than MAGA
Source: MAGA Republicans are comforting. And before you start throwing things at me, hear me out. At least they tell you who they are. They aren’t particularly...
Racist Police Texts, ICE Arrests And Police At The Polls: What North Carolina’s Black And Brown Voters Are Facing This Midterm
Source: Serhej Calka / Getty Early voting in North Carolina ended on October 31, and Black and brown voters in Charlotte cast their ballots in the middle of some of...
Price Hikes And Fewer Options Mean Another Chaotic ACA Enrollment Period
Source: zimmytws / Getty As if higher premiums weren’t bad enough, several insurance companies have announced they will pull out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
Rep. Haley Stevens Endorsed Mike Rogers Because A Democratic Karen Is Still A Karen
Source: Finn Gomez / Getty So, it turns out that within the Democratic Party, there’s a white woman named Haley who should’ve been named Karen, because, seriously —...
Black Voters Are Ready. Now, Let’s Protect Our Power
Source: Florida A&M University / Getty As we head into the pivotal midterm elections, let’s make one thing clear about Black voters – we don’t need a lecture about...
‘Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness:’ Kimberlé Crenshaw On Intersectionality, Anita Hill, ＆ The Future Of American Democracy
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty What happens when racism, sexism, and other forms of inequality collide? And what does it mean when movements for justice fail to...
