If you want to read about Senator-elect Adam Hamilton, and the way he became the first Democratic senator from Kansas in nearly 100 years, I have the piece for you: vox.com/politics/507577/kans…

I keep getting pitched on studies and reports or policy proposals, offering “exclusives” in exchange for having like 2-3 days to write it. This is bad PR strategy! Get in touch much earlier if you’re actually serious about coverage. And assume we are already in the middle of something, can’t just abandon that assignment, and probably have our next story lined up too. Offering a coverage opportunity but with no time to really report on it signals to me you don’t want serious engagement and want to shape it as a press release. Maybe that is what you want but odds of getting a yes dramatically lower

A lot of the online debates over what counts as moderate or progressive are a bit colored by 2019-era discourse, when it was en vogue in some circles to label Klobuchar a conservative and Warren a moderate. But there are also interesting philosophical questions at play. Talarico ran on being way tougher on immigration than Michael Bloomberg in 2020 — and on being way, way to the left economically of him. Josh Turek is more conservative on trans issues than Kyrsten Sinema — and also supports prescription drug caps she opposed. It matters a lot what metric you use to define ideology, and it's never been more three-dimensional

Post-election foie gras specials are here 👀 (Keep in mind the ban doesn’t go into effect until next July.)

take back everything nice i ever said about them…this is so destructive

firs item on the woke 3 agenda

Talarico to me on the fraying of the evangelical-GOP alliance, and the rise of the religious left.

But it’s a very concerning trend that both Democrats and a Republicans are restricting press access to voters. If you’re working a campaign you believe in, you should want reporters talking to supporters who also believe in your candidate.

France Riots results vs No Kings Protests results

I spent last night with Democrats in my hometown, in one of Iowa’s many river counties — which pivoted from Obama to Trump in 2016. Democrats here have not experienced joy in a while. It was interesting to watch them process the results: theatlantic.com/politics/202…

Dems did especially well in Catholic places

The Midwest is back on the map for Democrats. But what the party does next matters: “This is not a coronation of the Democratic Party,” one IA Democrat told me. It is an expression of frustration from voters looking for something different. “Our problem will be creating that something different.”

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I bet the Siberian Orchestra is going to be even more Trans this year.

New from me: For voters across the political spectrum, concern over immigration was no longer an abstract debate about the southern border. Federal operations in cities, suburbs and rural job sites had brought the issue to the doorsteps of many Americans. nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/im…

Center-Left Dems flipped red places blue & delivered the House. Mainstream Dems backed by @TheWelcomeTeam @VoteNewDems @BlueDogBark have flipped more than 29 seats (going to be close to 40). On avg they ran 15 pts ahead of 2024 margins. Since 2018 mods have flipped 79 seats blue

This is one of the best soundbites I’ve seen from this cycle tbh

NEW midterm analysis from @ThirdWayTweet @TheWelcomeTeam Red-State Democrats—all moderates—overperformed & delivered the Senate. On avg they ran 21 points ahead of Harris’s 2024 margin & 5 points ahead of Dem statewide House vote. Talarico: +26 vs Harris, +6 vs House Democrats

This week's @TheFP column: How the New Right Failed: thefp.com/p/how-the-new-righ…

“The new right in power was a force for libertinism, with corruption in Washington, D.C., going hand in hand with policies that favored vice. The pro-life movement vanished, the quest for pro-family policy was stillborn, and the idea of a new patriotic elite for a new America dissolved into a grifter’s mindset, leering side-eyed at Sydney Sweeney’s bust. Any religious revival in the wider culture probably helped elect religious Democrats, not a sinful-seeming GOP.”

damn the avs were quick with those AOC jerseys @WhatChaosShow