The most consequential Democratic wins this midterms may have been the least-noticed ones
Democrats scored massive midterm wins at every level of the ballot on Tuesday, flipping both chambers of Congress and winning...
Month: November 2026
Wednesday’s Mini-Report, 11.4.26
Today’s edition of quick hits. * A rising death toll following Russian brutality: “The death toll from a Russian bombing...
The midterms dealt a hammer blow to a key 2028 narrative
After Democrats’ devastating losses across the country in 2024, a quiet consensus seemed to form among not only the pundit...
Abdul El-Sayed broke new ground for the progressive left
Democrats prevailed in many high-profile races Tuesday, but Abdul El-Sayed’s 7-point victory in the Michigan race for U.S. Senate over...
‘This is an earthquake’: Latino voters rush back to Democrats
AUSTIN — Texas. Florida. Pennsylvania. Colorado. Arizona. Nevada. California. The historic landslide of Latino voters toward Democrats hit battleground after...
Republicans gambled by meddling in Democratic primaries. The bet didn’t pay off.
Across much of the spring and summer, Republicans executed a mischievous strategy, intended to help steer Democratic primary voters toward...
House Republicans are already having a leadership fight — but are avoiding a reckoning
Just hours after Republicans suffered major losses in deep-red districts, the fallout was already reshaping House GOP leadership. Speaker Mike...
Vance says Republicans lost control of Congress because of Iran war
In a rebuke of his administration’s top foreign policy focus over the past year, Vice President JD Vance conceded Wednesday...
What the midterms had in common with recent elections in Hungary and Serbia
In April, then-Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered a lopsided defeat in national elections, ending his radically regressive 16-year reign and delivering...
Joe Scarborough: This is a political earthquake the likes of which I haven’t seen since 1994
This is the Nov. 4, 2026, edition of “The Tea, Spilled by Morning Joe” newsletter. Subscribe here to get it...
