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Reporter’s Notebook: A user’s manual to upcoming leadership elections in the House and Senate

Capitol Hill leadership elections pit Hakeem Jeffries against progressive dissent, while Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan battle for GOP minority leader.
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Pro-Israel Republican makes major campaign finance pledge after razor-thin election victory

Anna Paulina Luna says she will reject all corporate PAC money and foreign policy-linked funding after her narrow midterm victory in Florida.
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Trump names Stephen Miller new White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles

Susie Wiles served 21 months as Trump's longest-serving chief of staff across both terms, departing after Republicans lost the House and Senate. Trump announced Stephen Miller will take on the role.
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How American leftists, including Mamdani’s team, are being trained by Brazilian revolutionaries

For American leftists, MST’s organizing prowess is more than an object of distant admiration.
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Democrats’ Awful Start on Affordability

The incoming House speaker looks to kill permitting reform that would ease energy prices.
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Florida Gov-elect Donalds believes ‘frustrations boiled over’ against Republicans on Election Day

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., following the midterm elections, says there is a "frustration out there that we have a responsibility to address."

Redistricting efforts blow up in Republicans’ faces amid historic House losses

Texas, Florida, Ohio and Alabama redistricting efforts all backfired as Democrats swept battleground and safe GOP seats in the midterm elections.

Election-Security Ballot Referenda Survived the Blue Wave

Voters in several states who gave victories to Democrats also approved ballot measures to establish voter ID laws and require proof of citizenship to...

The Florida Exception

Florida is one of the only red states that did not see a wipeout for Republicans.

The Persistence of DEI Mandates

Quite a few accreditors maintain DEI requirements in some form.

Pete Hegseth Must Go

A man that won’t stand up in public and defend his department’s recommended policy must fall.

Overreading Results

Social media rewards euphoria and despair. All is not lost or gained in one election.

The Silver Lining in the Democratic Party’s Huge Majorities

With the ideologically heterogeneous majority they’ve got, Democratic leadership will find it easier to forge legislative coalitions.

And Now, to Begin to Get Out of Our National Emergency

Character matters. Principle matters. Coherence matters.

‘What the 2026 Senate Midterms Mean for Judicial Confirmations’

In my new Confirmation Tales post by that title, I make ten quick points. Here are my first five:

Never-Trumpers celebrate GOP’s collapse

Prominent figures in the never-Trump movement were close to giddy in the wake of Tuesday's election drubbing for the GOP, pronouncing it a long-awaited comeuppance for a party that leashed itself to President Trump.

Israeli politicians react to Democratic sweep in the U.S. midterm elections

Some of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political foes said the results of Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections reveal how toxic he is to American politicians -- Democrats and Republicans alike.

J.D. Vance delivers mea culpa after GOP losses; blames Iran war

Vice President J.D. Vance said Wednesday that Republicans' problem in the elections wasn't that they didn't show up -- but that they did show up, only to cast votes for Democrats.

Mike Johnson leaving leadership; Jim Jordan wants to head bruised House GOP

Democrats' tsunami-level gains in the House of Representatives have set up a race for Republican House minority leader.

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