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Nov 06, 2026
The president has bulldozed through obstacles as he has sought to remake the face of Washington. But newly empowered Democrats and angry judges are setting up a high-stakes showdown.
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Nov 06, 2026
See the full list of the Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents and challengers for Congress and state offices previously held by Republicans.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats' wins in the Lone Star state exceeded their wildest dreams.
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Nov 06, 2026
James Talarico's worn-in Lucchese cowboy boots helped shape his image during his Senate campaign in Texas. Vanessa Friedman, our chief fashion critic, explains the political meanings they carried.
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Nov 06, 2026
Behind the scenes, the world's richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country's politics to his will. He couldn't.
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Nov 06, 2026
Anger over tariffs and higher costs because of the war in Iran led many Republican farmers and ranchers to vote blue — or stay home.
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Nov 06, 2026
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said in a statement that he would spend several weeks recovering at a rehabilitation center.
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Nov 06, 2026
A looming impeachment push could put President Trump's polarizing defense secretary in a standoff with Democrats and Republicans.
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Nov 06, 2026
Anthony Constantino, a self-funded sticker magnate who recorded a rap album in tribute to President Trump, defeated Blake Gendebien, a second-generation dairy farmer.
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Nov 06, 2026
Scott Colom, the Democratic nominee, has kept his edge over the Republican incumbent, Cindy Hyde-Smith, as more provisional and mail ballots were reported throughout the state.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here's how.
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Nov 06, 2026
The rare Democrat in a fabled family of wealthy Republicans, he served 30 years as senator and helped bring health insurance to millions of low-income children.
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Nov 06, 2026
He's the country's top Democrat now. He needs to act like it.
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Nov 06, 2026
"The Daily" goes to Capitol Hill to talk with Senator Chuck Schumer.
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Nov 06, 2026
Anger over tariffs and higher costs because of the war in Iran led many Republican farmers and ranchers to vote blue — or stay home.
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Nov 06, 2026
Among those elected to Congress on Tuesday are a mathematician, a microbiologist and a chemical engineer. They plan to take on a White House that has threatened funding cuts to research.
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Nov 06, 2026
The Trump administration has sought to reshape the nation's research infrastructure. Democratic lawmakers, newly empowered, are preparing to push back.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here's how.
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Nov 06, 2026
He's the country's top Democrat now. He needs to act like it.
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Nov 05, 2026
Democrats are on track to win the largest House majority since 2008, when they won 257 seats.
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Nov 05, 2026
A phalanx of lawyers, observers and campaign officials are watching the counting of votes in the race for Senate, where a Democratic challenger has a slim lead.
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Nov 05, 2026
The districts are very different, but they all explain how the Democrats won so big.
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Nov 05, 2026
A ballot-counting issue in the key suburban district delayed the official result, but even before the race was called, Mr. Lawler conceded to Ms. Conley.
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Nov 05, 2026
In the latest edition of "Sound Off," Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor at The New York Times, speaks with the author Amy Siskind about her reaction to our reporting on the Alaska Senate race.
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Nov 05, 2026
The store agreed to settle a claim that it was not entitled to the loan because its owner is married to a U.S. senator.
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Nov 05, 2026
Mary Peltola, the Democrat, was leading Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican, in incomplete returns. A New York Times analysis suggested she was on track to prevail.
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Nov 05, 2026
Obviously, the Texas election was about more than shoes. But the symbolism mattered.
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Nov 05, 2026
Plus: A critic of our Alaska Senate race story, and election night inside The Times.
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Nov 05, 2026
The Democrat, a retired Marine, defeated Representative Juan Ciscomani, a two-term Republican, in a highly competitive district in southeastern Arizona.
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Nov 05, 2026
Juggling celebration and concern, American Jews are negotiating their place in a dramatically shifting political landscape.
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Nov 05, 2026
They won Senate races in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, with a Mississippi race still too close to call. Their wins lifted down-ballot candidates too.
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Nov 05, 2026
The union leader's victory gives his party its first congressional seat in the state in more than 30 years.
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Nov 05, 2026
Shannon Taylor's defeat of Representative Rob Wittman adds to Democrats' overwhelming gains across the country.
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Nov 05, 2026
Representative John McGuire, a Republican, held off a challenge from former Representative Tom Perriello, a Democrat.
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Nov 05, 2026
Scott Colom, a Democrat, ran a viral ad and courted Republicans at a Trump rally before winning virtually the same number of votes as Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican.
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Nov 05, 2026
Several midterm winners broke barriers, but with campaigns that focused on delivering material change to the lives of Americans.
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Nov 05, 2026
In the latest edition of "Sound Off," Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor at The New York Times, speaks with the author Amy Siskind about her reaction to our reporting on the Alaska Senate race.
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Nov 05, 2026
A Massachusetts liberal who has never sought the No. 1 leadership spot, Ms. Clark is known as an adept member manager.
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Nov 05, 2026
Many donated money to President Trump's favored causes and became his allies. Now that political alignment may be a liability.
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Nov 05, 2026
Years of organizing met a moment of voter discontent, as James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa offered Texans a message of economic relief and political change.
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Nov 05, 2026
What an amazing election night.
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Nov 05, 2026
The Ozymandias election.
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Nov 05, 2026
What an amazing election night.
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Nov 05, 2026
Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the president's tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.
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Nov 05, 2026
Years of organizing met a moment of voter discontent, as James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa offered Texans a message of economic relief and political change.
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Nov 05, 2026
Gov. Kathy Hochul will again face pressure for a millionaires' tax, and New Yorkers are wondering if the city will gain from having one of its own as speaker of the House.
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Nov 05, 2026
Many Muslim Americans said they voted for Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the Senate, because of his policies, not just his faith.
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Nov 04, 2026
How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.
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Nov 04, 2026
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
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Nov 04, 2026
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
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Nov 04, 2026
The president's approval was essential to winning Republican Senate primaries. It became lethal in competitive general-election races.
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Nov 04, 2026
A two-term Democratic governor and a suburban revolt against President Trump laid the groundwork for Adam Hamilton's victory.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats are clinging to small leads in both states, and it may take quite a while until the winners are known.
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Nov 04, 2026
The conservative justice has told friends he does not plan to step down before the end of the court's term, even as Democrats are set to seize the Senate in January.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats' sweep of Congress further whittled the already small ranks of Republican women.
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Nov 04, 2026
Global leaders shared their reactions a day after Democrats routed the Republican Party in the midterm elections and were on track to control both the House and the Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
Gov. Kathy Hochul erased doubts over her performance in the 2022 midterms, scoring a crushing 20-point win over Bruce Blakeman that set the tone for her party.
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Nov 04, 2026
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
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Nov 04, 2026
The Maine Republican survived tough cycles in the past even as the political ground shifted underneath her. But the anti-Trump fever in her state doomed her this time.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats' strong showing included wins in every statewide race.
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Nov 04, 2026
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held news conferences on Wednesday to celebrate the Democratic Party's gains in the midterm elections.
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Nov 04, 2026
The race for U.S. Senate is incredibly close in Mississippi, which does not allow for vote recounts in statewide elections.
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Nov 04, 2026
The president loves combat and chaos. He's about to get more of it.
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Nov 04, 2026
President Trump usurped power from the legislative branch with Republican help for two years. Democrats are now positioned to try to claw back some of Congress's prerogatives.
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Nov 04, 2026
Republicans tried to redraw congressional maps to tilt more seats in their favor. Democrats captured many of the new districts instead.
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Nov 04, 2026
Mr. Villegas flipped a district held by Representative David Valadao, a moderate Republican, in the state's traditionally conservative Central Valley region.
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Nov 04, 2026
Fairshake, the major industry super PAC, spent $46 million on ads against the Democrat, Sherrod Brown, who won.
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Nov 04, 2026
Troy Jackson, a former Democratic state lawmaker, upset Senator Susan Collins, a Republican who had served the state for 30 years.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats clinched control of Congress, but the full scale of the party's landslide, and Republicans' losses, remained unknown.
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Nov 04, 2026
For once, the numbers provided a quick, decisive verdict. But from Fox News to the Kornacki Cam, the voices and faces told the story.
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Nov 04, 2026
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Republican aides that he would step down, according to a person familiar with the comments, after the party suffered heavy losses in the midterm elections.
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Nov 04, 2026
And what the party should do with its new majority in the House and Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
"Sometimes life is bumpy and you have to man up," Representative Jeff Van Drew said as he acknowledged his loss to Zack Mullock, the mayor of Cape May, N.J.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats celebrated a seismic triumph in the midterm elections, winning control of the Senate and the House as voters delivered a blistering rebuke to President Trump. Peter Baker, The New York Times's Chief White House correspondent explains what this historic reset of the balance of power in Washington means.
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Nov 04, 2026
The midterms were full of firsts, including the first Black woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state and the first openly gay man to serve in the Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat and outspoken critic of Israel, won Michigan's Senate race, maintaining his party's hold on a crucial battleground seat and becoming the nation's first Muslim senator.
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Nov 04, 2026
Investors are already picking the winners and the losers after Democrats glided to a landslide victory in the midterm elections.
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Nov 04, 2026
The party's midterm victory reshapes the political landscape.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats flipped several Senate seats, most of which had been held by Republicans since former President Obama was elected in 2008.
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Nov 04, 2026
What mattered most in these midterms?
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Nov 04, 2026
The party clinched the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, giving Democrats a powerful platform to counter President Trump.
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Nov 04, 2026
Plus, how to vote from space.
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Nov 04, 2026
The race could take weeks to be decided.
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Nov 04, 2026
The race could take weeks to be decided.
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Nov 04, 2026
In Michigan, Adbul El-Sayed outlasted former Representative Mike Rogers in a Senate campaign marred by ugly attacks.
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Nov 04, 2026
"People hate the way that Trump is running this country," the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues. Her fellow columnists and the American electorate agree. Democrats had a great night, but what now? Eight Opinion columnists offer their views on what Democrats need to do next, and what Trump's final two years in office might hold.
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Nov 04, 2026
Gov. Kathy Hochul won re-election to a second full term, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez secured a fifth term in Congress.
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Nov 04, 2026
In Michigan, Adbul El-Sayed outlasted former Representative Mike Rogers in a Senate campaign marred by ugly attacks.
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Nov 04, 2026
The Democratic Party wrested control of Congress from Republicans in a wave of midterm victories as voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Trump.
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Nov 04, 2026
Commentators abroad wondered what the president's electoral losses might mean for oil prices, the war on Iran and the end of the Trump era.
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Nov 04, 2026
Mr. Ricketts secured Republicans' grip on the deep-red state by defeating Dan Osborn, a mechanic and military veteran.
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Nov 04, 2026
Republicans lost control of the House and Senate as voters offered a stinging rebuke to President Trump's agenda.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats won shocking victories all over the map and flipped the Senate and House with ease, leaving the president weakened. "There was a mood in the air, I guess," he said.
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Nov 04, 2026
Representative Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, the first openly gay man to win a Senate seat, spoke about a Democratic victory over the "broken status quo" and gave a shoutout to his husband.
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Nov 04, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will become the nation's first Muslim senator. He triumphed in one of the country's most bitter and expensive races, keeping his party in control of a crucial seat.
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Nov 04, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed's victory answers several questions.
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Nov 04, 2026
Voters from South Carolina to Ohio to Texas have elevated a new class of Democrats who could not be more different from one another.
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Nov 04, 2026
Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democratic state senator and Lutheran minister, beat Representative Zach Nunn, a Republican who had tied himself closely to President Trump.
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Nov 04, 2026
In his victory speech, Senator Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, said he hoped his daughters would inherit a better future.
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