The last time South Carolina elected a Democrat to the Senate was in 1998, and until around 8 o’clock tonight, there wasn’t a lot of reason to think that streak would end any time soon. The Palmetto State has been steadfastly Republican, launching the careers of some of the biggest stars in GOP politics, including the late Senator Lindsey Graham. With Graham’s sister running to succeed him, a continuation of Republican dominance seemed all but assured.
Campaigns are billion-dollar contests to define the choice facing voters, but no election season this century has closed quite like this. President Trump approached his task with sarcasm and shiny objects, asking voters desperate for financial help to think only of him. If Republicans did not vote, they would “go to hell,” he said with a smile. If Republicans won the House and Senate, they would get a $5,000 check that even some of his allies dismissed as fiscal absurdity.
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For decades, Texas has been the foundation of the Republican Electoral College map, holding up the red bloc of midwestern and southern states like a pedestal. Democrats have long dreamed of winning it back, only for their hopes to be crushed in election after election. And now, suddenly, James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa have accomplished what no Democrat could for more than a generation: winning statewide elections in Texas.
The president’s party is always expected to do poorly in midterm elections, just not this poorly. The results arriving tonight are a disaster for Donald Trump—the kind of complete repudiation that the president’s opponents have spent a decade pining for, but never quite achieving. On current trends, Democrats are not just poised to claim a large majority in the House of Representatives.
In 2024, Donald Trump won the presidency with the support of 44% of Hispanic voters, suggesting that a major realignment in party preferences might be underway. But just two years later, it appears much of that support has eroded. Sixty-one percent of Hispanic voters say they will now support Democrats in the midterms, including 11% who previously had voted for President Trump.
New York City is preparing to send two DSA members, presumptive election night winners Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, to Capitol Hill. DSA-backed candidates made historic gains in this year’s Democratic primaries, with at least five expected to join current DSA members Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the House. But can socialism really make headway in the halls of Congress? Democracy Now! fellows Amba Guerguerian and Diego Ramos report.
As President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections, signaling his intentions to challenge results unfavorable to Republicans, we go to Washington, D.C., where a federal judge ruled Monday night that the Department of Justice can deploy election monitors to polling sites across the country, as long as they are not law enforcement officers with the power to make arrests. “In some respects, this is a victory for voters.
As voters in the United States head to the polls, we take a look at what’s on the ballot with Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.
Anthropic promises a blockbuster IPO with its revealing filing
We gave up what makes life meaningful in order to do it.
“No one seemed to be concerned about ‘heritage citizens.
A monopoly on mortgages is finally loosening. Homebuyers aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit.
What’s alarmist and what’s real about artificial intelligence. Plus, how lawmakers are dealing with a situation they don’t really understand.
The GOP has joined Democrats in blaming pharmacy conglomerates for high drug prices.
Pennsylvania is home to one of the worst measles outbreaks in decades.
Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America endorsed 10 Democrats in the closing days of the campaign, then campaigned with the health secretary.
Agency rules and a court decision have forced states to change course as they race towards the implementation deadline.
The former presidential candidate says he’s not running in 2028, but he’s doing everything he can to help Iowa candidates.
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
In a Canberra Playbook Podcast interview Jim Chalmers accused Liberals of wanting Australians to suffer, as their path back to power.
Jim Chalmers warns global pressures mean more domestic pain.
The Louisiana Republican’s comments come as both Democrats and Republicans have been forced to find ways to address the backlash against data centers.
We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people.
Forensic Architecture was founded in 2010 as an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating state violence and human rights violations.
Several tech workers at Google’s AI unit DeepMind have resigned in protest over the tech giant’s work with the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Last week, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori announced her resignation in a letter to her colleagues titled “Stay Human.” She denounced what she called “Google’s complicity in the Gaza genocide” and the increasing integration of Google’s technology into military and surveillance systems.
I put it to you plainly: Would someone who wanted to win the midterms be behaving as Donald Trump has?
We are a full 20 minutes into Trump’s address to the nation, on the day before Election Day, and he has yet to pivot from pipes. He is standing beside, of all things, the Reflecting Pool, and he is talking about, of all things, the pipes.
Two days after María Corina Machado’s high-stakes return to Venezuela last week, she walked into her low-slung party headquarters, which had been raided and vandalized by supporters of the regime that had forced her into exile. The graffiti had been painted over and the debris had been cleared. Machado was there for her first major meeting back in Caracas, with about 100 family members of political prisoners. Machado could see that many held photos of their detained relatives.