Five Things
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Five Things: Wednesday, November 4
Good morning. Here is what matters today, in five.
1. Democrats take the House and the Senate. Voters flipped more than 20 House seats and six Senate seats, including Texas, Kansas and Maine, handing Democrats both chambers for Trump’s final two years. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that gas prices after the Iran strikes did the damage. via The Center Square.
Some Democrats promised impeachment hearings before they promised a single cheaper grocery bill.
2. Texas elects a Democrat governor for the first time since 1990. Gina Hinojosa beat Gov. Greg Abbott 57 to 41 percent, and James Talarico beat Ken Paxton by nearly 20 points for the Senate, the state’s first Democratic senator since 1988. via The Center Square.
3. ICE pulls 230 illegal immigrants out of the trucking industry. Operation Guardian, a three-day sweep across 15 states, arrested more than 230 illegal immigrants, over 40 of them holding commercial driver’s licenses, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in Tulsa. via The Center Square.
4. Ohio voters tell the AI boom: not in our backyard. Ohio carried 21 of the country’s 41 local data-center measures on Tuesday, and at least 14 municipalities voted for bans or restrictions on new data centers, on top of 125 local moratoriums already in place. via Fortune.
5. The Times’ “Jews for Abdul” list still includes Jack Mehoff. Seven weeks after the New York Times hyped a 1,000-signature letter of Michigan Jews backing Abdul El-Sayed, the gag name is still on the list and no correction has run. El-Sayed won the Senate seat anyway. via The Daily Wire.
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Chuck Schumer
Senate Democratic leader, New York. Known for: the reading glasses, the Sunday press conferences, and a sharp eye for talent.
Certified LeftistHonored for fostering critical debate within his party. The senator recruited Rep. Haley Stevens for Michigan’s open Senate seat and endorsed her in the Democratic primary, which she narrowly lost to Abdul El-Sayed. On Sunday, two days before the election, Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, citing her concerns with El-Sayed’s ties to extreme leftist Hasan Piker (no doubt a future nominee for the Leftist of the Day). Mr. Schumer who spent the spring telling Michiganders that Stevens was the one to trust, quickly changed his mind.
“This is a despicable betrayal from Rep. Stevens.”
Source: Post on X, November 1, 2026, via The HillPhoto: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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From Our Allies
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From Our Allies: Wednesday, November 4
The best of the day from the Allies. Headlines link to the original; we add a line on each.
Feds Make Flurry Of Non-Citizen Voting Arrests Heading Into Election Day
The Daily Wire — The Justice Department charged another 63 people, most of them foreign nationals, with election crimes, bringing its nine-week voter-fraud arrest total to 195 across 25 states.
Reprisals Are Coming
City Journal — Christopher Rufo warns that a Democratic Congress will aim past blocking the agenda, using investigations and prosecutions to punish Trump officials and allies.
Madness in Michigan: Muslim Brotherhood-Friendly Radical Heads to US Senate
Washington Free Beacon — By Alana Goodman: “Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers on Tuesday, becoming the most radical candidate elected to the upper chamber in U.S. history.”
The Right Not to Speak: Why California’s Social Media Warning Law is Unconstitutional
American Enterprise Institute — A NetChoice lawsuit challenges California’s rule forcing platforms to show minors lengthy surgeon-general warnings, which the author says compels speech and cannot survive strict scrutiny.
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