by Steve Benen | Nov 4, 2026 | 2026 election, elections, Maddowblog, White House
About a week ago, The New York Times’ Nate Cohn, the newspaper’s top elections data analyst, reviewed four possible scenarios for the midterm elections. The fourth was easily the worst-case scenario for the Republican Party.
In this scenario, Cohn wrote, Democrats would win a large majority in the House, “maybe 250 seats,” and 53 or more Senate seats, marking “the beginning of a new chapter of American politics.”
“In today’s polarized era,” the analysis added, “it can be hard to believe that any party could win in this kind of tsunami.”
As the dust settles on Election Day 2026, according to MS NOW’s projections, Democrats are on track to hold at least 250 House seats and at least 54 Senate seats. The outcome that seemed “hard to believe” has actually happened.
The magnitude of the Democratic victories is so stunning that the political world is struggling to settle on the best disaster metaphor. “Wave” is common but insufficient. “Tsunami” works, and I’ve seen a lot of “earthquake” headlines. The National Review, a prominent conservative magazine, went with “Armageddon,” which certainly brought a dramatic flair, and Punchbowl News embraced a related theme, describing the results as “an extinction-level event for President Donald Trump’s party on Capitol Hill.”
In the coming hours, days, weeks and months, Republicans will try to absorb their historic smackdown, fixating on counterfactual “what if” questions.
What if Trump had spent his first two years working on border security and his golf game, while letting the strong Biden-era economy continue to hum along?
What if “Liberation Day” hadn’t happened, there had been no White House trade tariffs and the economy had been able to grow
by Jake Johnson | Nov 4, 2026 | Department of Education, education, Linda McMahon, News, Trump Administration
Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s billionaire education secretary, faced backlash on Wednesday over her plans to spend more than $43,000 of taxpayer money on new furniture for her government office as she works to illegally dismantle the department she leads, harming students across the country. Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.) and Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) wrote in a letter to McMahon…
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by Rep. Ro Khanna | Nov 4, 2026 | Congress, elections, Opinion
Tuesday was a great day for democracy. Millions of Americans voted against war, corruption and a broken economy.
Tens of millions of Americans have been struggling to pay for basics — healthcare, housing, childcare, food and energy. Millions more have lost hope for a better future. And while so many Americans are struggling to get by, the wealth of the country’s 935 billionaires — the top 0.001% of households –– rose 21% in 2025.
While the midterm results provide much to celebrate, they also present a big question: Where do Democrats lead from here?
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DNC Chair: ‘We’re going to tackle this affordability crisis’ and ‘take on this corrupt system’
November 3, 2026 / 05:14
President Donald Trump’s policies have worsened our inequality, and the current direction of artificial intelligence is deepening our economic divisions. But this destructive inequality predates the current corrupt administration and emerging technologies. This path traces back more than four decades, to the 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act, through the gutting of antitrust enforcement and Nafta, and the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The midterm outcomes present an opportunity for a new direction guided by an affirmative agenda.
That reaffirmation begins with a common national purpose. To close the economic gulf, Democrats need to develop an ambitious economic project with the same “bold, persistent experimentation” that guided Franklin D. Roosevelt through the New Deal. Business, workers, universities and government need to join together to foster economic development and revitalization.
The economic patriotism I’m talking about is not a gauzy slogan. But it is America’s Next New Deal.
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Georgia voters speak out about affordability: ‘Things are getting worse’
November 3, 2026 / 09:40
Let’s start with public
by Chris Walker | Nov 4, 2026 | 2026 Elections, Amy Acton, Donald Trump, elections, News, Ohio, Polls, Vivek Ramaswamy
Polling indicates that Republican candidate for Ohio governor Vivek Ramaswamy has lost support from voters in the weeks since he aired a controversial campaign ad featuring his opponent’s long-estranged mother. A survey conducted by a Republican polling firm before the airing of the ad found that Democratic nominee Amy Acton and Ramaswamy were in a statistical tie, with Acton leading slightly…
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by Vanessa Kallas | Nov 4, 2026 | Ecocide, Israel, Lebanon, News, Palestine, War
On October 15, Israeli forces expelled residents and farmers from Azariel, an olive grove on the outskirts of Kfarshouba in South Lebanon, ordering them to return the following week if they still wished to harvest their trees. The next morning, an Israeli bulldozer, flanked by two army tanks, invaded the olive grove and uprooted the trees. A few days before the expulsion, Chebli…
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