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The Midterms Were a Reckoning, but I Have No Doubt the Republican Party Will Emerge Stronger, More Unified, and Still Extremely Racist

The midterm elections did not go well for Republicans, but there are still plenty of reasons for optimism. I have no doubt that the devastating losses, while painful in the short term, will motivat...

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Democrats Win Control of House and Senate in Rebuke of Trump Agenda: Live Election Updates

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said his party had retaken control of Congress as election results favored them across the US.Here’s what to knowDemocrats won the House and Senate, includin...

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DeSantis calls midterm bloodbath an ‘extinction-level event for Republicans’

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis eviscerated the state of Republican politics Wednesday after the party’s devastating midterm losses, blaming everything from the Epstein files to members of...

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J.D. Vance Claims 'Illegal Immigrant Somalis' Conspired To 'Flood the Polls' in Ohio

Vice President J.D. Vance has made it clear that he will happily spread rumors about the malicious misdeeds of unauthorized immigrants even ...

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'AI earthquake': Democrats eye a Silicon Valley reckoning

Democrats' sweep of Congress in Tuesday’s midterms puts Silicon Valley squarely in the new majority’s sights as they prepare to haul in tech executives for high-profile hearings and set rules for a...

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Vance blames Iran war for GOP’s midterm losses

Vice President JD Vance blamed Republicans’ sweeping midterm losses on the war with Iran on Wednesday, arguing that voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024 turned against the Republican Pa...

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Republicans’ 2028 Presidential Map Just Blew Up

The Democratic landslide Tuesday was not just a rebuke of President Donald Trump but a political earthquake that could fundamentally transform the country’s electoral map.Suddenly, the Republican p...

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Data centers are the midterms' other big loser

The small army of congressional candidates who ran to victory Tuesday vowing to halt the expansion of data centers — including some of the country's most prominent incoming Democratic senators — ar...

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Vance Blames Iran War for GOP’s Midterm Losses: Live Election Updates

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‘They’re Being Steamrolled’: Why South Carolina Is Sending a Democrat to the Senate

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — I covered nearly every contested statewide race this fall, but after last weekend I still hadn’t written about the shockingly close Senate campaign in South Carolina. S...

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Trump is set to redefine the lame duck presidency

Trump is set to redefine the lame duck presidency Expert comment jon.wallace 4 November 2026 Conventional wisdom says the Democrats in Congress will now constrain the president. Nobody to...

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Republicans’ last chance to cement their legacy in Trump’s Washington

Democrats’ overwhelming takeover of both the House and Senate will trigger a shot clock on the Republican governing trifecta, setting up a tense post-election session on Capitol Hill.Lawmakers will...

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Florida Dems scrape together a few wins but miss the big, blue wave

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Democrats hoped a “blue wave” would crash over Republicans in the Sunshine State Tuesday night.They were left with a trickle.Republicans won the governor’s mansion, swept the...

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Can Democrats Hold Trump Accountable?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a reminder on how hard President Trump has worked over the past two ye...

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Americans voted against war. The Democrats must not mistake that for a mandate

Americans voted against war. The Democrats must not mistake that for a mandate Submitted by Omar Suleiman on Wed, ...

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Susan Collins Didn’t Have a Chance

The realization that Susan Collins would lose her bid for a sixth Senate term dawned slowly on the Republicans gathered last night in a hotel ballroom in Bangor, Maine. Democrats were notching vict...

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"What we just witnessed was an AI earthquake": Voters revolt against tech at polls

Voters showed deep distrust of the AI race Tuesday, approving dozens of data center moratoriums and electing a raft of candidates who favor slowing a $10 trillion buildout, including in Texas — the...

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Behind the Curtain: The Trump obliteration

Make no mistake: Democrats won by epic, sometimes historic margins across red and blue states, up and down ballots, obliterating almost everything President Trump, and a Republican Party remade who...

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Trump’s Whole Theory of Power is in Ruins

That whooshing, gurgling sound you hear this morning is the power draining out of President Donald Trump’s White House.The 2026 election results are an electoral humiliation unseen this century. Th...

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Trump’s two new tormenters: Courts and Congress

Donald Trump awakens Wednesday boxed in. Already in the pincer grip of federal courts that have slowed his agenda, he now faces a historically powerful incoming Democratic majority in Congress, eag...

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Progressives claim vindication in midterm bloodbath

Democrats of all ideological stripes romped across the map on Tuesday. But progressives are claiming something else in their victories: vindication.Running on unabashedly populist platforms like Me...

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