By the League National Electoral Committee
“The earth shook last night,” said one commentator on the Texas elections on November 3. Across the country, the election results were an outstanding win for the American working class. The level of consciousness revealed by their votes has temporarily derailed the ruling class march toward fascist dictatorship. Despite five years of escalating voter suppression, workers won stunning victories that were “too big to rig.” They established solid pro-working-class blocs in both the House and the Senate.
The stakes were life and death. Control of Congress for the 2027-28 term would have allowed the MAGA movement to effectively end the limited free elections we still have. It would have ramped up ICE kidnappings of migrants and citizens alike, banned voting rights organizations, outlawed democratic socialists, prosecuted more endless wars, cut Social Security and health care, and further impoverished the working class. Control of Congress would enable MAGA to install the President of its choice after the 2028 election, regardless of who the people vote for.
VICTORY IN THE SOUTH
“Oh, you want to take away my voting rights? Not today, Satan,” said Emory University professor Carol Anderson – expressing the convictions of the record millions of voters that turned out all across the South. A vast multiracial coalition – based on years of on-the-ground organizing over a period of decades – rose up in response to the MAGA reversal of the Voting Rights Act, and attempt to gerrymander Southern Black representation out of existence. They elected James Talarico Senator for Texas, on a platform of class unity and people over billionaires, Gina Hinajosa the first Latina Governor of Texas, and Keisha Lance Bottoms the first African American Governor in Georgia. Scott Colom is projected to become the first African American US Senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction. Despite zero support from the Democratic leadership, Working Families Party candidate Angie Nixon came within three percentage points of being elected the first African American Senator from Florida. Shomari Figures won in Alabama’s gerrymandered second congressional district, and Justin Pearson lost in the gerrymandered Memphis, Tennessee district by only one percentage point.
In Michigan, the Abdul El-Sayed victory proved in an epochal breakthrough that openly pro-working-class candidates are equally if not more “electable” in battleground states. The bizarre Haley Stevens flip-flop, losing to El-Sayed in the Democratic primary then endorsing his Republican opponent, only underscored the treacherous willingness of pro-corporate Democrats to abandon defense of the basic needs of the working class. In a further rebuke to ruling class racism, Native American women won positions as governor of New Mexico and senator from Minnesota.
DANGER AHEAD
In spite of the successes, daunting challenges remain. Two of the three branches of government – the executive and Supreme Court – remain controlled by fascists and Trump just appointed the pro-Nazi Stephen Miller as his chief of staff. The chaos we are experiencing today reflects the existential crisis of the private property system. Even more clearly than with earlier versions of digital automation, artificial intelligence (A.I.) is absolutely antagonistic to the operation of a capitalist system that depends on exploiting human labor to generate value. Mass expulsion of humans from production will impoverish workers, stifle demand, and immobilize the economy.
Unemployed workers inevitably attack the profit system by demanding government distribution of basic needs. As that expands into a real threat, the system then protects its private property by turning toward fascist dictatorship. It eliminates or severely restricts the right to vote. The numerous attacks on so-called noncitizen voting in the days leading up to the election were in fact attempts to pave the way for eliminating working-class voting altogether in the future.
The fact that voters effectively blocked these maneuvers on November 3 does not mean the ruling class has abandoned its goal of establishing dictatorship. The pendulum between democracy and fascism has swung wildly over the last 10 years, and the rulers are already preparing to take advantage of any swing back toward the right. The stakes are enormous. On November 5, tech stocks dropped by almost $2.5 trillion on the realization that so many of the newly elected officials are committed to data center moratoriums. With this kind of money at stake, the ruling class will double down not only on MAGA, but also on promoting its corporate allies as they struggle to continue dominating the Democratic Party.
NEXT STEPS
The outcome depends on what the working class does now, and in particular on the vision, commitment, and organizational skill of revolutionaries. Democrats in Congress and the Senate are already divided over whether to confront Trump with visionary, popular “message bills” and force him to veto them, or compromise in order to pass incremental improvements. Pro-working-class Rep. Ro Khanna has said that the Democratic Party “needs a brawl in 2028” and he is absolutely right. While Trump vetoes will prevent major reforms like Medicare for All before 2028, Congress can move immediately to defund the war in Iran, ICE, and Homeland Security and stop the Medicaid and Obamacare cuts.
More importantly, the outcome depends on what happens in our local communities, workplaces, and streets. Working-class and socialist trends are now firmly established inside the Democratic Party, but the party itself remains controlled by pro-corporate operatives. Until that control is broken, or a new pro-working-class party emerges, the Democrats will remain too conflicted to effectively move a working-class agenda forward. The California Billionaire Tax was defeated because too many workers still believed they should make common cause with billionaires to defend private assets instead of human needs. This is the time for revolutionaries to develop the political education necessary for workers to be able to defend their standard of living.
The situation is dangerous, but ripe with opportunity. The war for democracy cannot be won without working-class leadership, and working-class leadership opens the door to revolution. Pro-corporate Democrats like Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker cannot defeat fascism. As Rep. Khanna said: “You cannot oppose the Trump administration while doing the bidding of its donors.” Winning the battle for real democracy means building a society where people control the economy, poverty is abolished, and everyone’s basic human needs are met.
Published on November 11, 2026.
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