Midterm Elections

How Texas’s Senate Race is a Blueprint for the future of American Politics

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Throughout my previous posts, I have discussed extensively about the ideological divides inside political parties. On the Democrat’s side, there is a growing divide between firebrand progressives who make headlines for constantly opposing Trump, and more grounded, moderate candidates who tend to focus on so-called “kitchen table issues”. On the Republicans side, more and more […]

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Is Trump’s “Big Tent” Coalition Faltering?

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In 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain to become President, winning 28 states and 365 votes in what is still the largest landslide of the 21st century. Not only did Obama run up margins in traditional Democratic strongholds and capture swing states, but he also found himself within striking distance of McCain in multiple Republican

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How the 2025 Election Results have emboldened Democrats in next year’s midterms

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The democrats had a great night this election day. While the biggest of the night from the media was Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York Mayoral Race, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo in a campaign largely defined by affordability, it wasn’t actually the biggest story of the night. For example, Democrats won

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Gerrymandering, Explained

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A few months ago, Texas made waves after its Republican government revealed that they were planning to redistrict the state’s congressional seats. The reason: to make Texas districts more conservative, by either packing many liberal areas into one district, or cracking a heavily liberal area among multiple districts. In this, the GOP legislature’s goal is

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Three Primaries to Watch Out for in the 2026 Midterms

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While the 2026 midterms probably don’t matter to most voters right now, they definitely do to the candidates running for them. In order to secure a spot on the ballot in the November general election, candidates of both parties are participating in a one year marathon in order to succeed in their own respective primary.

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New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Career, Explained

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Much has been said about now house speaker Kevin McCarthy’s seemingly never ending struggle to become Speaker of the House (though he did eventually pull out), with the notion that being speaker was McCarthy’s “biggest dream.” And to an extent, this is true, as McCarthy has wanted the job for almost a decade. But let’s

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Everything to know about Georgia’s Runoff

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On Tuesday December 6th, a runoff will occur in Georgia between Democrat Rapheal Wornock and Republican Herschel Walker. This race will occur due to either candidate clearing the 50 percent threshold in the general election that happened earlier this month. The shortcomings of both Wornock and Walker are attributed to Libertarian Chase Oliver, who has

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Pundits said it would be a red wave. It wasn’t.

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Intro (I was right): Republicans should have had this election cycle in the bag. Instead, they find themselves thinking about what they did wrong. And this is because going into election day, everyone expected Republicans to win – and win by a lot. Everyone except me of course, because in my October 6th post “How

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Midterm Elections: What’s Happening?

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Yesterday, midterm election results started coming out, and while control of the house and senate have not been determined yet, there’s still a lot of takeaways. The takeaway: Pundit’s expected Republican’s to win handly. They didn’t. However, with failure, there’s always a silver lining, and with success, there’s always a place for improvement, as shown

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