Flashback: New White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called Alex Pretti “a would-be assassin.”

This was the second largest congressional swing in living memory. You know what the largest was? 1976, after the president resigned in disgrace. Why on earth shouldn't we be seeking a world where Trump resigns in disgrace? History suggests that's the absolute maximum damage you can do to his party.

The WSJ is out with an editorial suggesting there was no need for “all the hyperventilating about what Mr. Trump might do” to meddle with the midterms—after all, they went forward without incident. I think that's as wrong as wrong can be, and say so in my new Cato post.

It Was Failed Election Meddling, Not Absence of Election Meddling

Yes, the Trump administration attempted to meddle in the 2026 midterm elections, even if the meddling didn’t work.

cato.org

Judge: What you’re telling me is that the United States of America is going to send individuals back to that region facing what you and I and everyone who would ever look at this would know would be at a minimum a serious threat of certain death? Gov’t Lawyer: Yes, Your Honor. …

This is so good. Before you scream to replace Jeffries, make sure you understand what his job actually is, and how damn good he's been at it. He's a part of the team and is playing his position, and well.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hakeem Jeffries is not YOUR leader. There are actually people leading the resistance well already. He is the leader of 255 incoming Members of Congress, more than half of whom are more conservative than you, than me, and even than Hakeem Jeffries. emptywheel.net/2026/11/05/o...

I stopped by Renee and Alex’s memorials today and was inspired to see all those who showed up to pay their respects and leave an “I voted” sticker. We have not forgotten. Accountability is coming.

🚨 BREAKING: Court upholds win against confusing FL Medicaid termination notices, protecting hundreds of thousands! @flhealthjustice.bsky.social "This victory helps ensure families have the information they need to catch mistakes and defend their access to health care” healthlaw.org/news/federal...

Federal Appeals Court Confirms Florida’s Medicaid Notices Violate the Constitution and Upholds Major Victory Protecting Hundreds of Thousands of Floridians - National Health Law Program

Decision affirms constitutional protections against confusing termination notices as states prepare to implement new Medicaid work requirements JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA — The National Health Law Program ...

healthlaw.org

Thankfully, you already blogged it ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

ballsandstrikes.org

House Republicans are expected to vote to directly repudiate Pete Hegseth in a matter of days. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the famously anti-Trump GOP lawmaker, plans to trigger a vote to impeach Hegseth when Congress returns next week — and multiple GOP sources said they expect it to pass.

Republicans quickly turn against Pete Hegseth after midterms rout | CNN Politics

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. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for so...

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Substitute "Catholic" and it's a Klan screed in the 1920s.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Substitute “Jewish” for “Muslim” and this is just a Silver Shirt or German-American Bund post ca. 1939.

Talarico received more early votes than Paxton received in total That race was over before the polls opened yesterday

It would be really useful for people who know better to not promise that Congress can prosecute (as opposed to impeach) people. It is a VERY difficult problem to solve, how to prosecute the villains. Congress can be a big part of laying groundwork. But they can't prosecute.

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 3d ago

bzzt wrong. we want prosecutions. i want to see these bastards investigated and prosecuted so extensively that when we’re done with every living ICE agent and epstein associate, we dig up the bones of the dead ones and hold a cadaver synod.

NEW: Thousands of Mississippians — whose votes may decide a critical U.S. Senate race — are still waiting to have their ballots counted. That’s because of the GOP secretary of state’s contract with Experian, a global credit reporting agency whose data has been described as riddled with errors.

everywhere you look a different Guy Who Sucks is going down in flames and I think that’s beautiful

VoteHub@votehub.com · 2d ago

Republican Kris Kobach appears to have lost Kansas’ attorney general race, with Democrat Chris Mann leading by roughly 12,000 votes. The remaining ballots are concentrated in deep-blue Johnson County.

"Now is not the time for-" i'm gonna stop you right there, it's the time for EVERYTHING

67% of Michigan Jews voted for Abdul To all the legacy institutions who tried to play them for chumps- you lost

I also remember this because I had a 20-minute conversation conversation with Jeremy Peters about how nearly every No Kings rally was the product of an ongoing cycle of local organizing, not just a one-off mobilization, and then he left it all out of the article

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 3d ago

lol just remembering this

Stunning result in Alabama as Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures holds House seat GOP won #SCOTUS fight to take away from him www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/u... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Shomari Figures Holds Redrawn Alabama House Seat for Democrats

Representative Shomari Figures won even though a new Republican-drawn map changed his district, a move prompted by the Supreme Court decision weakening the Voting Rights Act.

nytimes.com

It was not a major headline, but one of the most important #CripTheVote stories: Virginia passed a constitutional amendment that would restore the right to vote to formerly incarcerated people AND people with disabilities who are under guardianship.

I say Congresswoman-Elect Nancy Lacore should get to introduce the impeachment resolutions against Hegseth, for the sake of balance

Navy admiral fired by Hegseth flips Mace’s South Carolina seat

Democrat Nancy Lacore, a former Navy Admiral who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is projected to win in the traditionally red House district in South Carolina against Republican Jenny …

thehill.com

JUST IN: Democrats have won control of the state government of Wisconsin. For the first time since 2010. They have flipped the state Senate & flipped the state House, and kept the governorship. Among the thingS they're likely to do: repeal Scott Walker's restrictions on collective bargainins.

Wowza! In the Alaska Senate race, Dan Sullivan is up about 2.5K votes with 72% reported, but if you look at which precincts have reported, the Sullivan+ districts are mostly in, while the Peltola+ districts still have a lot more to go (as is usually the case). Peltola is v. likely to win.

Delighted to see that Musk just wasted almost a half a billion dollars.

Trump's direct intervention seems likely to have lost the GOP at least two Senate seats.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

reminder as Talarico wipes the floor with Ken Paxton that Donald Trump pushed John Cornyn out for a historically terrible candidate. He owns this result.

HOLY SHIT: North Carolina Democrats just overcame gerrymandering and flipped the state House, ending 16 years of Republican legislative dominance. This has enormous implications for gerrymandering and voting rights

The States Project@statesprojectus.bsky.social · 3d ago

VICTORY: The North Carolina House has flipped for the first time in 16 years! Congratulations to the lawmakers in this new majority who will head to Raleigh to continue their work to improve the lives of all North Carolinians!

Raskin: We now have the first-person accounts of five different women saying that they were sexually assaulted by Trump. And then we have another six women, for a total of 11, who link him to the whole network of sex trafficking of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Always love a solid application of "Which Side Are You On" Great closing ad from osbornforne.bsky.social

Pretty strong closing argument ad from Roger Marshall blaming his collection agency for having his former OB/GYN patients arrested. I was barely involved!