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If Peltola holds on in Alaska, D-held Senate delegations will actually occupy more territory (in square miles) than R ones. About 34% D, 30% R, 36% split.
Before the election it was 63% R, 33% D, 4% split.
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The new Republican House Minority Leader, Jim Jordan has never sponsored a bill that has been passed into law during his 20 years in Congress.
This makes him one of the least effective members in Congress today.
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wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Republicans face BIG problems in getting one last reconciliation bill through in lame duck
- Budget Chair Johnson says he's "not getting engagement from the White House, from either Senate or House leadership"
- Kennedy: “If you’re asking me if we have a plan right now, I wouldn’t recognize it if it jumped up and yodeled and bit me in the butt"
- Hawley + Rand say they won't vote for more war funding. Rand calls it "tone deaf" and "not listening to our electorate"
- Hawks say it's imperative to restock the Pentagon after 9 months of war.
- Murkowski + Collins don't like reconciliation
- Logistical challenges: Would need to survive two budget vote-a-ramas and get 50 in Senate and majority in the House
- Many Rs want to put lots more than Pentagon funding. Justice: “What we’re trying to do is jam 18 things into a four-thing box"
semafor.com/article/11/10/20…
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there are some very good records on this list but this music (with a few exceptions) has zero relevance to today's youth. the smarmy wit has not aged well. kids like nirvana and then they graduate to metal. indie is dad rock for a generation that didn't procreate.
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The truth is really staring in front of everyone. The Democrats who won combined economic populism, a degree of moderation on social issues, righteous indignation at the corruption going on, and some sort of commitment to universal health care.
This doesn't have to be hard.
a telling sign of the two parties is that Dems are currently still in a tug of war between folks who want to moderate and those who don't and Republicans, as far as I can tell, are all in on purified MAGA right now. You'd think the election went in the other direction judging by the collective inflection
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Trump just told me at the White House podium that he is not going to approve any wind turbines, despite the bipartisan permitting bill that is about to be voted on in the Senate
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I have tremendous respect for the two Democratic Senators who have negotiated the permitting bill with two of their Republican colleagues — a bill that Congress is considering for passage during the lame duck session. I sincerely and respectfully urge the Democratic sponsors of the bill to reconsider their decision to move forward with this legislation. There’s no doubt that we need to reform the way that clean energy projects are reviewed and permitted. But as it currently stands, the bill would be an extremely serious mistake, in my opinion, and would do far more harm than good. Given how this Administration has run roughshod over the environmental laws and protections that are currently in place, now is not the time to give the Trump administration freer rein to double down on fossil fuels — which is what President Trump would surely do. And after last week’s historic election, we will have a new Congress in January that can strike a far better balance.
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At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other “prognosticators” who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid R for much of the campaign cycle. They made it much more difficult to fundraise and are part of the reason the South has been neglected for so long.
They’re only a reflection of the past and mysteriously avoid any accountability when they’re wrong. One of their “analysts” was extremely condescending to me (not Jessica) when I tried to make my pitch for why they were wrong about my rating like he knew something about MS politics when he’s never been to the Sip. This attitude hurt Jaime Davis & others so much.
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Everything she says in this video is, of course, 100% correct.
And people will, of course, choose to dismiss it because they (a) have no clue how Congress works & don’t care to learn, and (b) are never happier than when they’re getting likes for relitigating old Dem primaries.
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The morning after the WI primary two journalists at the NYT reached out to me the day after to ask about why polls missed, for a *primary*
We just witnessed the *largest average polling error in a general election* in my lifetime and there's not a single article by them on this.
Anyone notice how there isn't widespread frustration about the polling misses this year despite them being as large as 2020's? There were tons, *tons* of articles saying "polling is broken" etc. right after 2020, when the miss was driven by COVID.
This miss was just as large as 2020's but ~2/3 was driven by weighting decisions, yet I don't think I've seen a single article talking about it since the election. This is journalistic malpractice so far; we had a tidal wave of articles claiming "polls are just bad" by this time in 2020 despite, again, a very valid reason for a miss (pandemic). Media needs to step up to the plate.
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I’m a progressive, but I think different subsections of the Democratic Party do different things very well, and the best version of the party moving forward takes a little bit from each of them.
This will vary by state, district, etc. but this is my ideal blueprint for the national party heading into 2028:
— “Name the enemy” progressive economic populism around billionaires, mega corporations, affordability/cost of living, etc. (à la Mamdani/Bernie/AOC)
— “Root out corruption root and stem” and litigating the case about how Citizens United is poisoning our country (à la Ossoff)
— “Love thy neighbor” empathy and tolerance on trans issues (à la Talarico/Hamilton/Warnock/Beshear)
— “America First, but not in a racist/assholic way” around things like tariffs, foreign wars, and spending our tax dollars at home instead (à la El-Sayed)
— “Reclaim patriotism and the American flag” (à la Ryan/Deluzio)
— “Get shit done” (à la Pritzker/Shapiro)
— “Humanely but effectively secure the border, treat immigrants with dignity & dismantle ICE” (à la Pulido/Gallego)
— “Protect our kids from preyed on by Big Tech” (à la McMorrow)
— “These data centers better pay the fuck up” populism (à la Hinojosa/Hong/Lawrence)
— “Let’s regulate the fuck out of these AI companies so we don’t all die” (à la Bores)
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Hold on, folks. Can we talk about Hakeem Jeffries for a second?
He spent four years in the minority with no gavel, no subpoenas, and no committee chairs. And he still got results. He forced the vote on the Epstein files, and it passed 427 to 1.
He forced a House vote on extending the ACA tax credits, with three Republicans signing his petition. He forced a vote to restore union rights for a million federal workers.
He helped get Ukraine aid through. And he ran months of war games to prepare for every dirty trick this regime might pull on the midterms.
Three days before the election he told a rally: “One of the first things we’re going to do is run Pete Hegseth out of town.” That doesn’t sound like a guy without a spine to me.
He’s said “accountability” in dozens of speeches. The subpoena power arrives January 3rd, and you’d better believe he plans to use it.
I get it. We’re all hungry for hearings. So am I. But responsible leaders don’t promise revenge on camera, they build cases that hold up.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi made the job look easy, because she was insanely good at it, and she is precisely who has showed him the ropes.
That job seems hard as hell to me, and that's probably why whenever "popular" Democrats are asked if they want it, they're like "Nope. And I will be voting for Leader Jeffries."
An overwhelming majority of Democratic members of Congress plan to back him as Speaker, but he hasn’t even been sworn in as Speaker yet. Let him do the job before we cut him off at the knees.
Republicans would LOVE it if Democrats did their dirty work for them, knocking out our FIRST Black Speaker of the House in history.
JFC, even the horrible, lying jackass Mike Johnson got TWO FULL YEARS, and he accomplished NOTHING for the American people.
Affordability. Accountability. That’s what the MAJORITY of voters asked for, and he’s laser-focused on both.
Give the man a chance.🙏💪
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A bad year for two groups of people who think they’re much smarter than everybody else — the “voting changes nothing” crowd and the “this is the year to smash the two party system with independents” crowd.
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Hadn't focused until now on a striking fact mentioned here: nine of the 10 largest states will now have Democratic governors, all except Florida.
wsj.com/politics/elections/2…
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2026 is not only the largest Democratic wave in state legislatures since the 1974 Watergate Wave.
2026 is probably the 7th-largest Democratic net gain in state legislatures over the last 100 years.
It's likely going to beat Landslide Lyndon's 1964 win.
Democrats have around a 500-seat net gain currently in state legislatures nationwide.
229 seats remain to be called, but the final tally will likely be a ~575-seat net gain for Democrats in the 2026 state legislative elections.
In 1974, they gained 628.
projects.statenavigate.com/2…
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VoteHub obtained North Carolina’s list of voters with provisional ballots still to be counted from the State Board of Elections office. They are heavily Democratic and could help Democrats hold NC-05 and flip NC-03.
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SD-24's provisional voters include 428 Democrats, 162 Republicans and 286 others. Hoke approved just 59 of its 161 ballots today. The ballots counted should favor Democrats substantially, but I don't expect them to be enough to flip the district.
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Good explainer on how many votes might still be outstanding in #MSsen (and why it’s so hard to figure out): apnews.com/article/mississip…
