Voters in Montana on Tuesday delivered a major blow to big moneyed interests by overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative barring corporate cash from political campaigns in the state. With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has received support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition.
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House minority leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) is downplaying the potential to hold the Trump administration accountable following Democrats’ monumental win in the 2026 midterm elections, despite a large proportion of voters signaling that they believe there are grounds for impeaching President Donald Trump. In an interview following the midterm elections, Jeffries…
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Democrats scored massive midterm wins at every level of the ballot on Tuesday, flipping both chambers of Congress and winning amazing gubernatorial triumphs across the country.
But as consequential as those victories were, the most important wins for Democrats on Tuesday were the less-noticed ones quite a bit further down the ballot. The party made historic progress in state legislative elections in virtually every single chamber that was on the ballot this year.
Democrats secured at least 12 new legislative chamber majorities in the 2026 midterms and captured at least 300 seats previously held by Republicans. Most notably, they picked up enough seats in both statehouse chambers in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to secure trifecta control in those states, some for the first time in decades.
Democrats will use their unified control of these six crucial swing states to show why voters should trust them with the presidency in 2028.
Nevada Democrats added a sixth trifecta to the party’s roster when current state Attorney General Aaron Ford flipped that governorship, to go along with a comfortable majority in the state Senate and a supermajority in the state Assembly.
Democrats now have an unprecedented chance to completely control policymaking across those six states — all of which will likely play essential roles in the 2028 presidential election.
As I wrote for MS NOW before Election Day, these new governing trifectas will mean more for Democrats’ affordability agenda than full majority control of Congress. Many of the changes the U.S. House and Senate will propose on Capitol Hill to improve Americans’ lives will founder against President Donald Trump’s veto power.
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Abdul El-Sayed walloped his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, in Michigan on Tuesday, marking a massive triumph over the strategy of flat-out Islamophobic bigotry that Donald Trump, the GOP, and even many liberals embraced in the months of fierce campaigning against the progressive pro-Palestine senator-elect. “They went all in on one of the ugliest campaigns we’ve seen in our lifetimes,”…
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The night before Texas Democrats won their first U.S. Senate race in 38 years, the state party’s chairman was standing outside a truck stop in the small town of West, about 20 miles north of Waco, feeling, he said, “very anxious.”
Kendall Scudder had reason to be. For decades, Texas Democrats had entered every major election asking the same question: Is this finally the year? The answer had always been no. No Democrat had won a Senate race in Texas since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, or the governor’s mansion since Ann Richards in 1990.
On Tuesday, the answer was yes.
State Rep. James Talarico, a former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, won Texas’ open U.S. Senate seat, defeating Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton by about 12 points — more than 1 million votes — with more than 88% of the expected vote counted early Wednesday. State Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin, a self-described “daughter of the Rio Grande Valley,” unseated Gov. Greg Abbott, who was seeking a fourth term, and will be the state’s first Latina governor.
They are the first Democrats to win statewide in Texas in more than three decades, two years after President Donald Trump carried the state by more than 13 points. Talarico’s victory also helped hand Democrats the Senate: The party needed a net gain of four seats and is projected to reach the 51 it needs for a majority.
“This is a win the size of Texas. And now, we have a mandate the size of Texas,” Talarico told cheering supporters after the race was called.
The night before, Scudder sounded defiant. “Texas Democrats are the Weebles of American