The state’s former status as a model of progressive lawmaking has become overwhelmed by special-interest money and a rotten Democratic Party. prospect.org/?p=147431

Expanding Democratic representation to new and strange terrains needn’t put the expanded party at cross-purposes with itself. prospect.org/?p=147411

In the past decade, lawsuits alleging environmental mismanagement by coal companies have become less common and less successful. prospect.org/?p=146578

Democrats got elected in unlikely places in the former Confederacy, not just because Black turnout swelled, but because lots of white people voted for Democratic candidates, white or Black. prospect.org/?p=147406

Two Southern Democratic women, Victoria Broderick and LaKesha Womack, flipped congressional seats in two stunning victories on Tuesday. prospect.org/?p=147398

Big business got in bed with the Trump administration from the opening bell. Now, the business world has a problem. prospect.org/?p=147377

Allegheny County is the first in the nation to institute such a benefit, one step toward resolving the county’s maternal and infant mortality crisis. prospect.org/?p=147340

So far, there has not been much of an attempt to lay the blame where it mostly belongs—at the feet of Donald Trump. prospect.org/?p=147367

Across the country, voters signaled their intention to get corporate and dark money out of politics in several major ballot initiatives. prospect.org/?p=147357

A handful of anti-establishment, anti-monopoly Democrats from the heartland broke through on Tuesday night. prospect.org/?p=147350

Due to the blue wave and the magnitude of the repudiation, Democrats will gain new power in the lame-duck session of Congress. prospect.org/?p=147299

It was a stunning, almost fantastical journey-come-true for the former state Senate president and logger, the fifth generation of his family to work in the Maine woods along the Canadian border. prospect.org/?p=147324

One might argue that Musk’s spending improved a margin of defeat that otherwise would have been even worse. But that doesn’t track with the fact that in Texas—where he spent $224 million—Republicans did far worse than they did elsewhere. buff.ly/irC5eUX

The South was whistling anything but Dixie in yesterday’s elections. buff.ly/WrsfY1w

North Carolina and Texas completely repudiated the Republican Party. buff.ly/cVqTyLp

Despite the Republican tilt of the federal judiciary, Trump’s ploys were so offensive and egregious that he managed to lose the courts, decisively. buff.ly/LG2pcRo

The victories came just 72 hours after the federal government published its 2027 rates for Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, insurance on the exchanges, which went up by an average of 13 percent. buff.ly/6qWaFON

National Democratic PACs were hesitant to divert resources from high-profile Senate races to Nixon’s insurgent campaign. Neither the Senate Majority PAC nor the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spent a dime to support Nixon through Election Day. buff.ly/Q9WrdiO

Democrats should be laying the groundwork for reforms that they can take into the 2028 election as a national program, refining ideas, developing support for them, and even getting Trump to veto popular bills that will then be teed up for 2029. buff.ly/tBdUqVW