BreakThrough News

Congress didn’t free the slaves, end Jim Crow, or stop the Vietnam War. Mass movements did. As Democrats prepare to take Capitol Hill, @BTnewsroom’s Ben Becker explains why their “Blue Tsunami” will crash without pressure from below. WATCH: https://youtu.be/gNN9vrYlOhk

“Cuba: 1 Marco Rubio: 0” WATCH @manolo_realengo w/ @RaniaKhalek & @ZoeAlexandra_ok on Cuba’s continued resistance amid rumors of Rubio’s coming resignation: youtu.be/gJ-qT3HZ4qo

"I am elated – I'm also cringing because people like Schumer are reaping the benefits of the Trump backlash after taking zero accountability for the horrors their party unleashed" Rania Khalek on why AIPAC Dems deny they're the problem: youtu.be/GmYgPkdOL_E

🔴 LIVE THURS 12pm ET Democrats swept the midterms, but will a blue Congress actually change anything for those on the receiving end of US empire? Join @RaniaKhalek & @ZoeAlexandra_ok w/ special guests to talk about what comes next ➡️breakthroughnews.org/2026/11/04/nov-5-2026/

MINURSO’s 35-year mandate in Western Sahara has expired following a deadlock within the UN Security Council over the territory’s future. https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/11/04/un-mission-on-western-sahara-lapses-after-vote-deadlock-in-security-council/

$12 BILLION. That’s what oligarchs spent to buy the 2026 midterms – the most expensive election in U.S. history. From AIPAC to Big Tech & crypto PACs buying deregulation, Amanda Yee (@radiofreeamanda) explains who wrote the checks and what they bought: youtu.be/l6yqLyYus4s

🔴LIVE | TUES, NOV 3 | 7PM ET Join @raniakhalek and @zoealexandra_ok for LIVE results & hard-hitting analysis from the left you won’t get anywhere else! With special guests @RepBowman @kthalps @Claud9_ @Tritaparsi and more! WATCH: https://youtube.com/live/ODaxxnUj300

Police lied about what happened before 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was killed, says Mississippi organizer Marquell Bridges. From Kohen to Nolan Wells, racist killings go unpunished. “Nothing ever changed in Mississippi.” WATCH: https:// youtu.be/pu4uynHlBtY

Sudan’s “civil war” is a proxy war for gold. Most of it is ending up in Abu Dhabi. And journalist Mosaab Baba says the UAE is spending big to lobby the world’s largest humanitarian crisis right out of the headlines WATCH: youtu.be/80LKpIvR52Q

Lula wins, Flávio flees. What’s next in Brazil?' Ana Júlia Guedes w/ Movimento Brasil Popular says Sunday's victory was “just the beginning”: Lula faces a far-right Congress, rising political violence - and now a self-styled ‘true leader of Brazil’ in Miami  youtu.be/vMfjC7hRj54

“The authorities’ top priority is to strip the movement of the political meaning it carries: the condemnation of the neoliberal policy that has ruined the French education system,” presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon pointed out in a recent interview. “Young people are pulling at the thread of a larger unraveling.” https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/27/french-student-protests-set-to-continue-as-macron-and-lecornu-fail-to-meet-demands/

Faced with this surprising turn of events, hundreds of analysts in Latin America and around the world have rushed to present countless charts, hypotheses, and analyses in an effort to fully understand the reasons behind this victory. And the reasons have to do not only with the clearly impressive comeback by Lula’s Workers’ Party and its allies, but also with the fact that he appears to have put a halt to a seemingly unstoppable string of victories by the far right in Latin America. https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/28/how-did-lula-win-the-election/

During the operations, federal agents claimed that they were detaining criminals, but locals say they were all hard working people, many with families. https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/28/ice-arrests-of-dominicans-in-puerto-rico-spark-outrage-and-reignite-calls-for-independence/

🔴 LIVE THURS 12pm ET Bolsonaro flees Brazil; Israel retaliates for ‘The Trap’; Sudan's drone war; justice for Kohen Wiley & Nolan Wells PLUS The China Report w/ Amanda Yee Join Rania Khalek & Zoe Alexandra w/ special guests! WATCH: breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/28/oct-29-26/

“These results have shown that a genuinely homegrown – even if heterogeneous – movement can articulate social discontent with SNS rule, provided it makes a decisive break with the baggage of the pro-Western opposition,” the Party of the Radical Left (PRL) wrote in a reaction on Monday. https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/26/student-list-defeats-vucics-serbian-progressive-party/

With 51.79% of the valid votes, the former union leader, metalworker, and head of the Workers’ Party staged a historic comeback against Bolsonaro, who lost the initial momentum he had in the first round and barely reached 48.21%. This is the first time a candidate who finished second in Brazil’s first round has staged a comeback and won the election in the runoff. https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/26/lula-scores-an-epic-victory-in-brazil/

🔴 TODAY! Socialist and Republican Senate candidates face off on BT. We’re holding our first-ever Senate forum with Massachusetts candidates Joe Tache and John Deaton, hosted by Rania Khalek & Zoe Alexandra. WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/Bbspp_Y5OjU

VIJAY PRASHAD: "To win between October 4 (first round) and October 25 (second round), Lula had to either attract people who had voted for Bolsonaro or those who had not voted or spoiled their ballots. No other candidate had turned around such a deficit in Brazil’s modern history. But Lula did it." https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/26/a-victory-for-the-brazilian-people-once-more-through-lula/

🔴LIVE | TUES 10/27 | 7PM ET Massachusetts voters barely get to hear from the people running for Ed Markey’s Senate seat. We’re fixing that. Socialist Joe Tache and Republican John Deaton on Iran, ICE, Medicare for All, and more. WATCH: youtube.com/live/Bbspp_Y5OjU

Is the Democratic Party changing, or just absorbing the movement that threatened it? Sana Saeed joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to talk Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, Jessica Tisch, Kamala Harris, and how anti-genocide movement energy is getting funneled back into the party that funded the genocide: youtu.be/f7p0yp1EPq8