San Francisco Bay Guardian | ENDORSEMENTS for the November 3, 2026 election

We have never witnessed a threat to democracy and basic political and human rights than the past two years of the Trump Administration. It’s terrifying, the sort of thing we couldn’t have imagined even in dystopian fiction: An authoritarian president whose troops seize Americans off the streets and deports them to torture prisons with no due process, pours billions into endless wars that kill children, alienates our allies, attempts to control what teachers can say to students, insults and attacks the news media … and gets away with it because of a disgracefully compliant Congress and Supreme Court. George Orwell would have a hard time coming up with anything worse. So the most important thing anyone can do right now is spend time, money, and effort to make sure that the Democratic Party—weak and problematic as is is—takes control of the House and Senate.

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