Common Dreams reports that organizers credit Bernie Sanders' decades-long "long game" for progressive Democrats' sweeping 2026 victories, including at least 18 congressional wins and Sens.-elect Abdul El-Sayed and Troy Jackson, and cites a KFF poll finding 66% of US adults support Medicare for All. Sanders himself, in a post set to David Bowie's "Starman," said Americans had "said NO to oligarchy, and YES to an agenda that fights for the working class."