Corporate media say Democrats shouldn’t do anything different than they’ve been doing—being ‘Not Republicans’ while offering nothing anyone would call change.

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CNN: Midterm returns show bad news for progressive Democrats

CNN (11/6/26)

This week on CounterSpin: The midterm elections delivered a meaningful number of firsts: first Black woman governor, first Native American woman governor and senator, first Muslim senator and first openly gay male senator. Scott Colom will be the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.

Yet here come corporate media, saying hold up, actually the lesson is: Democrats shouldn’t do anything different than they’ve been doing—being  ‘Not Republicans’ while offering nothing anyone would call “change.” The millions of people who came out, stood in line, defeated obstacles, to vote, because they don’t want tinkering, or detailing, or better ways to measure the harms being done? They’re a problem to be managed, not people to be responded to.

We’ll hear from FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas about what corporate media would like us to see as the lessons of the midterms—and how important it is not to listen to them and to listen to other voices.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Stephen Miller and Trump corruption.

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