I am enjoying reading various right wing media figures' very bad election predictions after the fact.
Everything was pure vibes, so of course, Republicans were going to win, and keep both houses of Congress!
Here's a favorite: https://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/11/03/its-election-day-screw-the-polls-and-go-out-and-vote-n2685788
An interesting side quest for those closely following the #Mississippi Senate results: The race featured an independent candidate named Ty Pinkins who is a black former Democrat.
Did he take votes from Scott Colom or Cindy Hyde-Smith?
He says the latter, and might be right: https://www.wtva.com/2026/11/04/what-i-actually-did-was-split-republican-vote-ty-pinkins-shares-why-he-stayed/
Breaking: Salon, one of the oldest web publications announced that it is terminating publication immediately.
Official announcement: https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/
When/if the new government moves toward inevitability, it is almost certain that the gangster war criminal Netanyahu will try to copy fellow outlaw Flavio Bolsonaro and seek escape in the United States via Donald Trump.
Israeli officials must act now to prohibit Netanyahu and all of his top co-conspirators from fleeing.
Rivals to Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition of extremists have reached an agreement to form a coalition of 67 votes, past the 61-vote majority threshold.
The two largest Arab parties signed on with banning Netanyahu their top condition.
The agreement must be certified by Israeli president Isaac Herzog, which seems almost certain. Once that's done, the parties will need to adopt official positions for the government.
Netanyahu for prison is going to happen:
Ohio State University political scientist Tom Wood produced a fascinating chart that lays out the scope of the problem Americans face.
US politics has been stalled because the Democratic Party will not make the massive changes that Americans want. They keep electing Democrats to make things better and then get dispirited when Democrats don't communicate the good things they did or what Republicans did to block good things.
The cycle must be broken by big action and massive media expenditures.
Libertarianish Democrats haven't figured out that while crossover voters are extremely important, they are more responsive to rhetoric than to ideology or policy.
Republicans call all Democrats radical, so you can have almost any views you want since they'll just lie anyway.
https://plus.flux.community/p/standing-up-for-trans-people-isnt
Raphael Warnock was exactly right.
Democrats must never again listen to neoliberal fake savants who pretend to have expertise when in fact, they know little about political science or even causation.
A savvy party never voluntarily tries to become a regional party.
Probably the key stat out of the 2026 #uspol elections right here:
Former Kamala Harris voters were 49% of those casting ballots this year and Democrats kept 97% of them.
Trump 2024 voters were 44% and only 91% voted Republican.
A majority of former third-party voters backed Democrats and 70% of 2024 non-voters went for Democrats.
Shout out to Darializa Avila Chevalier who won big last night, as expected, 87.5% to 11.4%
Working on a piece about how democratic socialist candidates like her are great for Democrats in ways that all Democrats should appreciate--even those who opposed her.
Besides adding much-needed coolness, passion, and youth to the Democratic Party, social democrats like her shift the Overton Window and make it much easier for Democrats elsewhere to do good things.
In a new Xitter post, JD Vance has done a turncoat move once again, this time shivving Trump and his Iran war and tariffs.
This guy seems to have no idea that his entire political career is over—even if he goes for a 4th name change.
I'll have a lot more to say about the Democrats' triumphs yesterday, but here are my initial thoughts:
https://plus.flux.community/p/we-have-not-yet-begun-to-fight
You did a good thing tonight, America.
Let's keep doing this.
And just like that: Susan Collins, the smarmy and corrupt fake moderate Republican who deceived the voters of Maine for decades into thinking she would hold radical Republicans to account has lost in Maine.
The only question tonight is how big the Democratic Senate and House majorities will be.
Susan Collins will be retiring to spend more time pretending to be concerned.
Congrats to Keisha Lance Bottoms who has become the first-ever black woman elected as governor of a U.S. state.
She is going to be the 84th Governor of Georgia.
So what are congressional Democrats planning to do now that they have won Congress?
Job 1 is going to be removing Pete Hegseth, a literal murderer who currently is destroying the U.S. Department of Defense.
Hakeem Jeffries has said they will get rid of Hegseth if Trump doesn't. The DoD is filled w thousands of people who will provide evidence of his criminality and incompetence.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6172006-jeffries-democrats-hegseth-impeachment/
Adam Hamilton is going to win Kansas's Senate seat tonight. It's correct that Democrats have not won a senate seat there in decades. But nonetheless, Kansas has recently loved to have Democrats for their governors.
The state's purple turn has happened. It will be the next North Carolina.
Congratulations #Kansas progressives! Thank you for continuing to believe.
Deb Haaland makes history to become the first-ever First Nations governor of a US state. She will be the 108th governor of New Mexico.
Live from Mar-a-Lago where Republicans are trying to figure out how they can avoid a filibuster-proof Senate.
