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James Talarico toppled Ken Paxton, and Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott as Texas delivered historic Democratic upsets in the 2026 midterms.
France logged roughly 1,320 antisemitic incidents in 2025 while swastika graffiti clusters and intifada calls spread across the United States and beyond.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is deploying state election observers amid concerns the DOJ's federal monitoring could intimidate voters.
President Donald Trump blamed rising gas prices from the Iran conflict for GOP midterm losses, saying Americans backed the war but not the pain.
Sen. Ron Wyden's one-word post — "Subpoenas" — set the tone as Democrats celebrated reclaiming both the House and Senate in 2026 midterms.
Abdul El-Sayed mocked Trump and JD Vance in a combative victory speech after defeating Mike Rogers, calling his opponents "the bad guys" who lost.
Attorney General Aaron Ford ousts Gov. Joe Lombardo to become Nevada's first Black governor, handing Democrats unified control of state government.
Critics keep declaring Trumpism dead, but Laura Ingraham argues that the economic, geopolitical and cultural record tells a very different story about MAGA's durability.
Frances Staudt celebrated as Washington's Initiative 638 held a commanding lead in a historic vote to protect girls sports across K-12 athletics.
Democrats flipped GOP seats in Texas, Ohio, Iowa, North and South Carolina as a blue tsunami swept midterm elections far beyond expectations.
Johnny Garcia defeated Republican Carlos De La Cruz in Texas' redrawn 35th Congressional District, defying a Trump-backed redistricting map.
Speaker Mike Johnson is seeking a fifth term representing Louisiana's 4th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
Josh Turek's Iowa Senate win over Ashley Hinson marks the first time Democrats captured the seat since 2008 in a state Trump won by double digits.
John Thune intends to run for Senate minority leader after Republicans lost at least five seats in the 2026 midterm elections, a source says.
"Pod Save America" hosts celebrated Democratic midterm wins on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Tuesday night as the party was projected to retake control of Congress.
Abdul El-Sayed toppled Mike Rogers to become the first Muslim U.S. senator, overcoming Trump's attacks on his faith and alleged foreign ties.
Trump's midterm losses mirror Obama's 2010 rebuke, but Democrats now face governing without a clear plan to deliver on their affordability pledge. There could be a silver lining here.
Adam Hamilton ended nearly a century of Republican Senate dominance in Kansas by defeating Roger Marshall in a brutal midterm battle.
Benjamin Netanyahu faces a critical test as President Isaac Herzog decides who will receive the mandate to form Israel's next government.
President Donald Trump congratulated Democrats, saying he looked forward to working with them following a devastating Election Day for Republicans.
Democrats reclaimed the Senate Tuesday by toppling GOP candidates across Trump country, with Chuck Schumer clinching five pickups in a midterm wave.
Conservatives reacted to massive Democratic victories across the country, calling it "catastrophic" and assigning blame to the Iran war and President Trump.
Ilhan Omar won re-election despite a federal probe into whether she committed immigration fraud, including claims she married her brother in 2009.
Van Jones likened the Republican Party's midterm election losses to the Jonestown mass murder-suicide, calling the results a full repudiation of President Donald Trump.