{"id":80991,"date":"2026-11-06T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/the-most-diverse-anti-establishment-congress-in-history-is-cause-for-optimism\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:55:09","slug":"the-most-diverse-anti-establishment-congress-in-history-is-cause-for-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/the-most-diverse-anti-establishment-congress-in-history-is-cause-for-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"The most diverse, anti-establishment Congress in history is cause for optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of outrage or numbness being the main options for dealing with politics, Tuesday\u2019s results were permission to be optimistic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/04\/sign-up-to-the-stakes-2026-your-weekly-guide-to-the-us-midterms\">This was originally published in the Stakes 2026, a newsletter about the midterm elections. Sign up to get it in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We shed some tears this midterm cycle.<\/p>\n<p>US politics always makes people emotional, but I heard from friends and colleagues many times this year that speeches, campaigns and underdog success stories moved people in unexpected ways, whether it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qAWHFXyY5GA\">this ad of Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed doing bedtime<\/a>, a photo of newly elected Texas Democrats James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa at a Whataburger, or Georgia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/keisha-lance-bottoms-georgia-governor-midterm-election\">Keisha Lance Bottoms<\/a> becoming the first Black female governor in the entire country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/congress-midterms-diverse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of outrage or numbness being the main options for dealing with politics, Tuesday\u2019s results were permission to be optimistic This was originally published in the Stakes 2026, a newsletter about the midterm elections. Sign up to get it in your inbox We shed some tears this midterm cycle. US politics always makes people &#8230; <a title=\"The most diverse, anti-establishment Congress in history is cause for optimism\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/the-most-diverse-anti-establishment-congress-in-history-is-cause-for-optimism\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The most diverse, anti-establishment Congress in history is cause for optimism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}