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Update: On Thursday, the Senate passed Sens. Sanders and Lee’s bipartisan resolution 56-41 directing President Trump to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen—the first time Congress has ever debated legislation invoking the War Powers Act.

The final act of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s quarter-century in public office opened with state Republicans suffering massive defeats in the midterm elections, losing every statewide office on the ballot.  

The video shows a familiar West Bank scene. As a Palestinian flag in Nabi Saleh flutters in the wind on a spring day in 2017, two Palestinians with slingshots launch stones at Israeli soldiers. About a dozen others stand to the side, behind the ruins of a demolished house, calmly observing.

The fight to end the U.S.-Saudi War on Yemen has now reached the floor of the Senate, where a debate is raging over a War Powers Resolution, S.J.Res.54, aimed at ending U.S. participation in the onslaught.

My advice in the wake of the midterms I give as a strategist for democracy, not for Democrats or the Left. For any party or electoral group, it is the same: Earn the trust of the changing American electorate by passing better voting rules.