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Representing Maryland’s 8th District, Congressman Jamie Raskin reflects on the recent elections, where Democrats failed, and what we need to be prepared for with Trump’s new administration.

Rep. Raskin: Trump’s administration will ‘create a climate of fear and intimidation’ to govern. Don’t let them

What happened in the 2024 elections, and what happens now?

Gaza, voter turnout, abortion rights, and more: Surveying the post-election damage

With over a million people displaced by Israeli bombs, Lebanese society is rising to the occasion to provide shelter and food to those who’ve lost everything.

Under Israeli bombardment, Lebanon's refugees turn to each other for survival With over a million people displaced by Israeli bombs, Lebanese society is rising to the occasion to provide shelter and food to those who've lost everything.

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion, and disorientation.

10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won

Although the abortion rights measure secured majority support in Florida, it failed to pass the supermajority threshold.

Abortion rights measures pass in 7 of 10 states

By refusing to budge on Palestine, Harris and the Democrats surrendered their moral advantage, forcing them to track right and alienate their base.

Democrats chose backing a genocide over defeating Trump

Milwaukee is key to a victory in Wisconsin, but will the Democratic stronghold city be enough to hold the state?

Swing State toss-up: Will Democrats' 'Blue Wall' hold?

After seven weeks on strike, Boeing workers voted Monday to ratify a new contract that includes a 43.65% wage increase over four years—a significant improvement over the 25% increase that the aerospace giant offered in September.

'Join a union': Boeing workers ratify contract with over 43% wage hike "Working people know what it’s like when a company overreaches and takes away more than is fair," said union leaders.

Make no mistake: this really could be the most consequential election of our lives.

Heading into the electoral storm

For the 32nd consecutive year, the UN General Assembly voted nearly unanimously to call for an end to the US blockade of Cuba. Only the US and Israel were opposed.

UN votes 187-2 to lift US blockade of Cuba—and Washington ignores it

If Trump wins, it will be because his campaign built a new coalition of voters different from his past two runs.

Who are the real Trump supporters? The answers might surprise you

After a catastrophic train derailment changed residents’ lives forever, politicians used East Palestine, OH, to help themselves, but they have done nothing to help East Palestine.

Trainwreck in ‘Trump Country’: Partisan politics hasn’t helped East Palestine, OH (DOCUMENTARY) After a catastrophic train derailment changed residents' lives forever, politicians used East Palestine, OH, to help themselves, but they have done nothing to help East Palestine.

Support for Trump is high inside prisons, but that’s not the whole story.

2 million incarcerated people could vote on Tuesday. But for who? Support for Trump is high inside prisons, but that's not the whole story.

🚨 New documentary report premiering Monday at 9am ET:

Trainwreck in ‘Trump Country’: Partisan politics hasn’t helped East Palestine, OH

From the moment a Norfolk Southern ‘bomb train’ derailed in East Palestine, OH, on February 3, 2023, traumatized and chemically exposed residents became another political football to be kicked around by Republicans, Democrats, and the media. Nearly two years since the avoidable catastrophe that changed their lives forever, residents in and around East Palestine and their families have been left to live in a toxic “sacrifice zone.”

Like in 2020, the majority of voters in this part of Ohio and Pennsylvania will likely vote for Donald Trump in 2024, though plenty have given up on the whole system. In this on-the-ground documentary report, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Steve Mellon from the Pittsburgh Union Progress go to East Palestine to speak with residents face to face, deep in the heart of so-called “Trump Country,” and what they find is a stark reminder that working-class communities have way more in common than corporate media and corporate politicians want us to believe.

https://youtu.be/kuOc1TP1_pY?si=C0DisaALSwPOY8On

I saw in my dying grandfather Trump’s ideal follower—and right-wing media’s ideal viewer.

On Losing a Loved One to Alzheimer's—and Trumpism

The far right has spent four years honing their strategies and tactics, and they're ready take full advantage of a second Trump administration.

The MAGA movement didn't disappear after Trump's defeat in the 2020 election. If anything, Republicans and extremists outside the party have learned how to effectively organize and seize power in the intervening years. We can look to Florida and Texas, and even to smaller-scale examples like Shasta County to glean what could come from a Trump victory next Tuesday. The Marc Steiner Show looks back on the past two years of key interviews with journalists, scholars, and activists who've been fighting the rising threat first-hand.

Trump could win this election. Here's what MAGA has in store. The far right has spent four years honing their strategies and tactics, and they're ready take full advantage of a second Trump administration.

In 2020, the question of police and prison abolition pierced the mainstream after years of proliferation in the left. One election cycle later, and these topics barely have any currency in the current race. Yet in spite of this, committed prison abolitionists have been tirelessly organizing to free incarcerated people, improve conditions within the prison system, and close or prevent the opening of new correctional facilities. Rattling the Bars looks back on the past year of discussions with abolitionists on the stakes and political lessons of the current election cycle.

Prison abolitionists could score wins on election day, despite electoral ambivalence Prison abolition itself won't be on the ballot, but organizers are pushing demands that could change the lives of thousands if adopted by referendum voters or victorious candidates.

In recent weeks, Cuba has grappled with a dual crisis of blackouts and the aftermath of Hurricane Oscar, which killed at least six people on the island. Though the blackouts have become the target of another round of media demonization of Cuba, the current crisis is really the result of the US blockade, which has starved the Cuban people of fuel and other basic necessities for decades. Liz Oliva Fernandez of Belly of the Beast reports from New York City, where protesters took to the streets to denounce the US blockade of Cuba.

New Yorkers protest Cuban blockade as blackouts, hurricane batter island After cutting Cuba off from access to fuel, the US government has done more to blame Cubans for their plight than offer assistance during Hurricane Oscar.