Well, well, well. A week ago, Democrats went to bed nervous and woke up holding the House, the Senate, and the kind of hangover you only get from winning.
Seven Senate seats flipped. North Carolina. South Carolina. Ohio. Iowa. Maine. Kansas, which just sent its first Democrat to the Senate since 1932. And Texas. Texas. Hakeem Jeffries is about to become the first Black Speaker of the House. Chuck Schumer walked up to the microphones and promised, in five words, that relief is on the way.
In 2018, Democrats won the House on a wave of righteous fury. Then they spent the next two years in court. The fight to make Don McGahn testify dragged on so long the administration that defied the subpoena was gone before it was resolved. The fight over Trump’s financial records went all the way to the Supreme Court, which sent it back down to start over. Hearings were held. Chyrons were written. Lawyers billed.
And nobody’s rent got cheaper.
6 Nov 2026
New Boss, Same As the Old Boss
If you went to bed early, here’s the short version: voters took everything a midterm usually takes from a sitting president, and then some. Democrats won the House. Democrats won the Senate. CBS News figures House Democrats will end up with somewhere around 256 seats after flipping more than 40 districts, a few of them in places nobody thought were in play. In the Senate, they’ve got at least 54, and Alaska and Mississippi still hadn’t been called when I sat down to write this.
4 Nov 2026
Weekend Update: Can You Hear Me Now?
No election update would be complete without checking in on our friends in the gender-critical and ”abolitionist” feminist movement. You know the ones. The women who discovered that the fastest way to protect women is to hand Republicans a list of which women don’t count.
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