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CNN:
Republicans quickly turn against Pete Hegseth after midterms rout  —  Pete Hegseth Donald Trump The Middle East US military  —  President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters' support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking.
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Axios:
Vance takes a step toward 2028 in MAGA power play  —  Vice President Vance stepped out of President Trump's shadow Wednesday, seizing on the GOP's midterm catastrophe to begin the explosive task of claiming MAGA as his own.  — “The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote …
New York Times:
‘I Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is Us’: Inside Team Trump's Historic Collapse  —  How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.  —  President Trump at a campaign rally in Kalispell, Mont., last month.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Victoria Bisset / Washington Post:
‘JD, habibi ... swear me in’: What El-Sayed's quip to Vance means  —  Democrat Abdul El-Sayed had a message for Vice President JD Vance during his speech Wednesday .  —  “JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in January,” El-Sayed said to cheers.
Axios:
Why Pete Hegseth could fall through “thin ice”  —  It's a de facto motto in the Trump White House: “Somebody's gotta take the fall.”  Lately, that person looks like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. … - “Hegseth is definitely on thin ice,” a Trump adviser told Axios.
Paul Krugman:
What Democrats Can Do  —  Yes, Trump has veto power.  Force him to use it. … The American people have just delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump.  If we had a parliamentary system, the moving trucks would already be at the White House.  As it is, however, an increasingly deranged …
Fox News:
Republicans turn on Trump after devastating midterm losses hand Democrats control of Congress
Discussion: Politico and Semafor
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Ron DeSantis Pins Blame For GOP's Midterm Flop On Surprising Factors
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
Politico:
Democrats' slow Bern
Discussion: The Washington Sun
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Justice Alito Will Not Retire Immediately, Despite Election Outcome
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump: Sen. Sullivan should get votes cast for Alaska's other Sullivan
Discussion: Breitbart
Miranda Devine / New York Post:   Look in the mirror, President Trump, after Republicans' midterm rout
Associated Press:
After midterm loss, Trump is left to weigh his next move in Iran war that contributed to GOP debacle
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
The only thing Democrats have to fear is fear itself
Discussion: The Atlantic
Wall Street Journal:
How Trump Lost the Midterms
Bloomberg Law:
Dhillon Plans DOJ Civil Rights Exit After Democrats' Sweep  —  Harmeet Dhillon plans to step down from her role leading the Justice Department's civil rights unit, marking the first senior DOJ official to resign following Democrats' massive midterm wins.  —  Dhillon, who has vastly transformed …
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Fox News:
Harmeet Dhillon resigns as Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights: sources  —  Dhillon was sworn in to her position in April 2025  —  Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the Department of Justice's assistant attorney general for civil rights, sources told Fox News.
Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Democrats poised to break GOP's 16-year grip on statehouses  —  Democrats are on track to take control of a majority of legislative chambers, ending 16 years of Republican dominance over America's statehouses.  — If current leads hold, 75% of Americans will live in a state with a Democratic governor …
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The Atlantic:
Republicans Redistricted Themselves Out of Congress
The Independent:
Marco Rubio expected to step down and launch bid to be next US president  — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly preparing to resign from Donald Trump's cabinet to launch a bid for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination.  — Sources in Washington and the UK government expect …
Discussion: Political.org
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The Independent:
Marco Rubio ‘on resignation watch’ from Trump administration after midterms disaster  —  Exclusive: The US secretary of state is thought to be preparing for a presidential run in 2028 and will likely want to distance himself from Trump, The Independent can reveal.  —  Become an Independent member to bookmark this article
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Former Trump staffer calls for Wiles to resign over midterm wipeout  —  Caroline Sunshine, a former staffer to President Trump, on Wednesday called for White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to resign over the massive losses Republicans saw in the midterm elections.
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New York Times:
How Colom Changed a Long Shot in Mississippi Into a Race Too Close to Call
Joe Berkowitz / Fast Company:
Bluesky was right all along and will accept your apology any time  —  Bluesky is a niche Twitter-clone frequently accused of being an echo chamber for progressives.  After the blue tsunami of this week's midterms, however, its inhabitants don't seem to be echoing themselves so much as the vast majority of American voters.
José Criales-Unzueta / Vanity Fair:
The Real Reason Ossoff's and El-Sayed's Suits Were Just a Little Too Tight—and Other Midterm-Fashion Hot Takes  —  Plus: Investigating a Free Press reporter's dubious post about Valentino heels and a Chanel bag at a Michigan election night party.  —  On Monday night, the eve …
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Putin Claim Crumbles as Secret Deal Revealed … Donald Trump's claims that Vladimir Putin is doing “very little, if anything” to help Iran have been blown apart by fresh details of Moscow's support for Tehran's war machine. … The export order was for the very same systems used by Russian forces …
Discussion: The Guardian and Reuters
Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun:
Democrats Are Reviewing a Plan to Investigate Corporate America  —  Party lawmakers have reviewed ideas for subpoenas, hearings and oversight next year.  — Copy  —  Senior congressional Democrats have been studying a 181-page dossier that identifies hundreds of executives and companies …
Aoife Walsh / Washington Post:
Midterm results ‘a Watergate-level repudiation,’ Cruz says  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) described the Republicans' historic losses in the midterm elections Tuesday as “an ass-kicking.”  —  “2026 was not simply a blue wave.  It was a blue tsunami,” Cruz on his podcast.
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NBC News:
‘A Watergate-level repudiation’: Ted Cruz weighs in on midterm wave
Politico:
Hegseth expands National Guard presence in DC  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the National Guard to begin using boats, several dozen marked police cars, humvees and light medium tactical vehicles in the nation's capital — an escalation of the Guard's presence that could further blur …
Katherine Hapgood / Politico:
Top House Republican: Trump ‘unfavorability’ led to losses  —  Rep. French Hill, a senior Republican who barely won reelection in Little Rock this week, said President Donald Trump's “unfavorability” is to blame for sweeping GOP losses.  The Associated Press called the race for Hill on Thursday …
Discussion: The Block
Seth Masket / the @smotus report:
The return of the Democratic South?  —  Well that was quite an election night.  So obviously Democrats made massive gains across the whole country.  I want to comment briefly on the geography of those gains.  —  The @smotus report is a reader-supported publication.
 
 
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