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    ‘The many v the money’ should frame the next US Congress

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    If Democrats want to keep the blue wave going into 2028, they have to take on the billionaire class Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Judd Legum shined a spotlight on the role of dark money in US elections. Today’s edition was written by Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and author of End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, co-written with Astra Taylor.To see the battle lines of the post-midterm era in sharp relief, look to Texas.The oligarchs in this battle seem to have no loyalty to the nations, states and cities that helped them grow their enormous wealth. Continue reading… More

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      Diversity, decency and a new south: who were the real winners in the US midterms? | Robert Reich

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      Tuesday was a victory for equity and inclusivity and a rejection of hate and fear. The biggest losers? Megadonors and Super PacsRather than regurgitate the particular wins and losses that occurred on Tuesday, I thought it more useful, at this point, to look at the big picture and identify the largest overall winners and losers for the country as a whole.Biggest winner: a diverse, equitable and inclusive America. It’s Donald Trump’s DEI nightmare. Georgia voters elected Keisha Lance Bottoms, the first Black female governor in the country. Texas chose Gina Hinojosa, the state’s first Latina governor and first Democratic governor in more than 30 years. California elected Xavier Becerra, the state’s first Latino governor. New Mexico chose Deb Haaland, the country’s first female Native American governor. Florida elected Byron Donalds, the first Black governor in Florida’s history (a Republican). Continue reading… More

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      Saturday Night Live: Druski hosts and James Talarico cameos, but where’s the post-election comedy?

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      SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’Four days after the historic “blue-nami” midterms, Saturday Night Live opens at Democrats’ headquarters, where party leaders Hakeem Jeffries (Kenan Thompson) and Chuck Schumer (Sarah Sherman) celebrate, even as they vow to hold on to power in spite of the wishes of their energized base.Their toast is interrupted by the man responsible for Republicans’ shellacking, Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson). The president, who is “now lame duck”, accepts the results, “which is scarier in a way”. But he’s also resigned to focus on the ballroom, even as he laments having to work with millennial Democrats (this leads him down a long diatribe about the show New Girl). We get quick walk ons by a defeated JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and extra-aggro Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost), only for Trump to get a taste of his own medicine when James “Telefreako” Talarico interupts him. Texas’s new senator-elect speaks to one of the big issues of the day: “It’s clear people want something new, they want something different. I’m talking, of course, about SNL’s cold opens. How many of these Trump freezes are they gonna do?” Continue reading… More

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      Texas v Musk: how southern state Democrats won against the billionaire – explainer

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      Democrat James Talarico won a Senate seat in Texas, breaking a 38-year drought for his party in the Republican stronghold and delivering a stunning blow to Donald Trump. The race became one of the most expensive Senate contests in US history, with advertising spending topping $500m, according to estimates. GOP-aligned groups poured hundreds of millions of dollars into efforts to elect Ken Paxton, including substantial funding linked to multibillionaire Elon Musk, whom Talarico accused of trying to buy a Senate seat.Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flopFive dimensional chess: inside James Talarico’s extraordinary bid to break Texas Democrats’ losing streak Continue reading… More

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      Blue Wave, Green Tide: Politics in an Age of Liquidity

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      We are living through one of those curious and extremely rare moments in political history that challenge all the formerly respected rules of political behavior. As has become tradition, it concerns the entire world but has its origin in a single nation: the United States. Many today attribute it to a single person: twice-elected President… Continue reading Blue Wave, Green Tide: Politics in an Age of Liquidity
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      Was Elon Musk the US midterms’ biggest loser? – Stateside with Kai and Carter

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      The tech industry spent big on the midterms, but it turned out to be a poor investment. Elon Musk poured a staggering $446m dollars into Republican-aligned political action committees (Pacs) and groups since last year, but his efforts didn’t pay off. Democrats won every one of the five Senate races where Musk’s America Pac spent the most money backing Republican candidates. Carter Sherman and Kai Wright are joined by the Guardian’s US tech editor, Blake Montgomery, to ask what the ‘blue tsunami’ will mean for Musk and the wider tech industry. Will this spell the end of AI datacenters? And if so, what could this mean for the US economy? Continue reading… More

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      How you (yes you) can fight dark money in elections | Judd Legum

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      An easy way to unveil the corporate interests and tech billionaires behind the adsWelcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Katie Phang argued that the Epstein files are a midterms sledgehammer. Today’s edition was written by Judd Legum, the founder and author of Popular Information. Sign up for future editions here.An unprecedented influx of cash from tech billionaires and corporate interests has been injected into the midterms to sway the election.We don’t have to accept the world as it is. There are several ways we can combat dark money, as the balance of power shifts in Washington. Continue reading… More

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      The ‘blockers’ who stood up to Elon Musk’s Doge – podcast

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      What happens when Elon Musk and a bunch of tech bros try to rip up the US government?Journalist Michael Lewis – the author of Moneyball and of The Big Short – talks to Nosheen Iqbal about his new book Blockers, which tracks the story of the civil servants who stood up to Elon Musk’s ‘department of government efficiency’ as it tried to dismantle the US government. Send your comments and questions to [email protected] Continue reading… More