Yes, I am celebrating but I am also looking forward to what comes next after last night’s blowout elections. In my latest for Democracy Docket I lay out the eight steps I expect Trump to take to rig the 2026 midterms.

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Democrat Spanberger Wins Governor Race As Virginians Reproach Trump Read more here.

Democracy wins!

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump, Democrat Abigail Spanberger won Virginia’s gubernatorial race Tuesday. Her support for constitutional amendments on redistricting and voting rights restoration could make it easier to pass both pro-democracy measures.

Big things are happening…

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.

It didn't matter.

Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

The Mamdani Moment And the Future of the Democratic Party

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I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Exclusive: USDA says it won't use emergency funds for food stamps States also won't be reimbursed if they cover SNAP expenses on their own, the memo says.

www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g... Mike Johnson can stop shutdown with one vote and all this goes away!
“Now the shutdown could pit the needs of those 22 million ACA enrollees against those of the 42 million who could go without food assistance starting Nov. 1.”

Trump Is Trying—And Failing—To Shield MAGA From the Shutdown The administration has tried to hurt only “Democrat things.” It’s not that easy.

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"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

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Angie Craig on Trump importing beef from Argentina: "This is either corrupt or stupid, and it's probably both."

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Talks resume as Broadway actors consider a strike Broadway's union for performers and stage managers says the sticking point is health care.

Broadway's union for performers and stage managers says the sticking point is health care. n.pr/4mTdefq

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...

'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."

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No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
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YouTube video by CNN Voter confronts Mike Johnson on live TV about shutdown

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I call BS on this sorry excuse of a human being! This woman caller--a Republican with a husband who served his country and children with compromised health--is speaking for millions of Americans with similar concerns. Share this YouTube video if you can!

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
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Jane Fonda Relaunches Father’s Free Speech Group, Committee for the First Amendment The Oscar-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda is relaunching her father Henry Fonda’s free speech organization, the Committee for the First Amendment. First established in 1947 to combat the rise ...

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DOJ Obeys Trump, Indicts Comey Days After Order to Pursue President’s Foes Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two criminal counts days after President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue his perceived enemies more aggressively. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.

If this isn’t data-backed proof of the need for universal healthcare for all, I don’t know what is. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Will this be the moment that wakes people up?

The deeper story behind America's pending loss of free speech The real reason Disney restored Kimmel's late-night show

The real reason Disney restored Kimmel's late-night show? We, the people, have extraordinary power. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-deeper-story-behind-americas

The Scoop About Status Status is entering its next chapter—expanding to seven days a week, hiring new correspondents, and growing into a fully staffed independent newsroom that holds the powerful accountable.

While mainstream news orgs are backing off media coverage, we're building an independent newsroom committed to holding the industry's most powerful figures & institutions accountable.

@status.news is expanding to 7x a week—delivering more than 30 editions a month.

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"We saw the power of the people over the last few days, and it spoke volumes, and it moved a decision in the right direction."

Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks exclusively with
@maddow.msnbc.com on ABC's decision to put Jimmy Kimmel back on air.