Missouri Democrats flipped 16 state House seats and two state Senate seats, ending both Republican supermajorities, and Ann Wagner lost her seat in Congress. Voters rejected a Trump-backed congressional map 62% to 38%. Now the state's top election official is claiming the old map is unconstitutional, which the Supreme Court never said.
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Texas blue tsunami: Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton lost in a Republican wipeout.
After losing her seat, Susan Collins blamed a 'Trump tsunami' and asked what bigger break with Trump there could be than voting to convict him. That vote fell 10 short of the 67 needed. On the votes that could have stopped him, the record looks very different.
Two days after voters handed Democrats the House, Steve Scalise told Republican committee chairs to use their 'remaining days in power' to prepare for investigations of the Trump administration. Two years ago, he signed a letter praising Republicans' own 'robust oversight.'
A day after voters fired Greg Abbott, a Texas Republican demanded he call a special session to limit the powers the next governor will inherit. Those are powers Abbott used for years. Georgia's Republican governor rejected the same kind of move in writing. We found no response from Abbott.
Two days after the election, Tim Griffin moved to scrap a 35-year-old order that created 10 judicial seats in majority-Black subdistricts. He cited the Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund says no Black judges had been elected in Arkansas before it.
The Interior Secretary leads the Trump administration's data center push and oversees most of the federal land it wants to use. An analysis shared with ProPublica puts $18.1 million to $64.4 million of his investments in AI companies. President Bush's ethics lawyer says he would have had to step aside.
Days after voters across the country rejected data centers, Shelley Moore Capito's bill to speed up energy projects is heading for a Senate vote. The Natural Resources Defense Council says it would weaken water protections, tie the hands of courts and could leave taxpayers paying companies.
Under a new law, Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet branded CAIR a domestic terrorist organization with no charges and no jury. A federal judge let it take effect, and the group says it has been forced to stop its legal aid and advocacy in Florida.