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Back-stabbing weasels now surround Trump — as sanity returns to America
We woke up in a different country on Wednesday than we’d lived in the day before. A nation that had lost its mind regained its sanity. The 2026 midterms weren’t just a blue tsunami. They were a national reckoning. An emphatic rejection of corruption, of cruelty, of self-enrichment, of presidential overreach. It was a national…
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What Experts Think the Democratic Blue Wave Will Mean For Climate Action
The U.S. Capitol building is seen on Nov. 4, 2026 in Washington, D.C. —Kevin Carter—Getty Images Following two years of anti-climate legislation from Washington, Tuesday’s blue tidal wave—giving Democrats control of both the Senate and the House—could provide an opportunity to change course. Following his 2024 reelection, President Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement, rolled…
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The Democrats’ Affordability Trap
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Democrats were jubilant last night, and for good reason: Few midterms in modern American history have produced such a…
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Hakeem Jeffries Is Bankrolled by the Most Controversial Tech Companies in Existence
The so-called “bluenami” that swept across the US on Tuesday is already hitting the breakwater. With Democrats seizing a firm majority in the House along with the Senate, longtime party loyalist Hakeem Jeffries is poised to take up the mantle as speaker. But for all the progressive excitement around the bruising beatdown delivered to Donald…
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Palisades arson case: Second trial begins against man accused of sparking wildfire
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday again accused a man of using a lighter to deliberately set the blaze that became the devastating Palisades fire, while his attorney argued that investigators settled on their theory months before conducting tests to support it. The competing accounts opened the retrial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, after his first jury in June…
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Democrats just seized one of the Republican Party’s most powerful weapons
If you paid attention to Supreme Court litigation during the Biden administration, you would have noticed a surprisingly high number of cases with names like Biden v. Texas or United States v. Texas. Texas’s outgoing attorney general, Ken Paxton, once bragged that he sued the Biden administration 106 times during his time as Texas’s top…
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‘Followed him off a cliff’: John King spots signs MAGA finally ‘crushed’ by midterms
CNN’s John King delivered a devastating assessment of Donald Trump’s political standing Wednesday, declaring that voters had “crushed and crumbled” his MAGA coalition in a sweeping rejection of the president’s agenda. Standing at CNN’s famous Magic Wall, King walked through election results showing Democrats making major gains in states Trump had carried comfortably in previous…
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What Democrats’ Midterm Gains Reveal About Trump’s Voter Coalition
Ariana Cuevas, a 19-year-old student, shows off her sticker after voting for the first time, while her boyfriend photographs the moment. —Mindy Schauer—MediaNewsGroup/Orange County Register via Getty Images The 2026 midterm elections saw historic gains for Democrats, who won control of both chambers of Congress and flipped key seats in states like Texas, Kansas, and…
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Lions’ Jack Campbell gives hopeful health update days after neck injury: ‘I remain very optimistic’
Three days after being carted off the field with a neck injury, Detroit Lions linebacker Jack Campbell provided a health update. It was good news. “I’m incredibly encouraged by the progress I’ve made in such a short period of time,” Campbell said in a statement released Wednesday by the Lions. “I have full movement in…
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GOP analyst pounces on Karoline Leavitt’s ‘really stupid’ midterm election excuse
Conservative analyst Jonah Goldberg had no patience for former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s excuses for why Republicans lost the 2026 midterms in a blowout. Leavitt, appearing on Fox News Tuesday as results were coming in, told a reporter that voters picked Democrats because “they listened to the lying media.” When the reporter pointed…