It didn’t take long for Democrats to drop the mask and reveal that they have no real intention of delivering on the “affordability” promises that filled their campaign ads. Their real agenda? Endless political witch hunts and pointless impeachments.

It’s no secret that Democrats are downright giddy at the prospect of retaking full control of Congress. But what they seem to be most excited about is using their subpoena and investigatory powers to harass and frustrate not just President Donald Trump, but the entire executive branch, Big Tech executives, Republican donors, and anyone else who gets in their way.

As it became clear that Democrats would win the House, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), who now looks set to become chair of the House Oversight Committee, posted on X, “LAWYER UP.” Other Democrats echoed that message, with Oregon Senator Ron Wyden issuing a post that simply read “Subpoenas.”

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, meanwhile, declared that “they are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we’ll be printing,” and Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) rattled off a list of Trump administration officials that should expect to be hauled before Congress. Democrats reportedly have even already put out job postings for investigators.

Far-left activist and podcaster Hasan Piker was even more explicit, posting on X, “WE’RE GONNA PUT YOUR A$$ IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WOKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” His threat appeared to be directed at every conservative, rather than just members of the Trump administration. Piker is notably close with incoming Michigan Democrat Senator Abdul El-Sayed, along with several other socialist candidates who won this week. It is likely that Piker will continue to have their ear in Congress and could hold sway over how the new Democrat majorities wield their investigatory powers.

Americans can expect talk of a third Trump impeachment to begin almost immediately, and especially after Democrats officially retake power in January. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is also a top target, along with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Of course, while impeachment in the House requires only a simple majority vote, conviction and removal from office in the Senate requires 67 senators, a number Democrats are still well short of.

So, in short, any impeachments will yet again be nothing more than political theater. The first two Trump impeachments cost an estimated $13.4 million, and that’s not to mention the hidden costs of wasting time that could be spent legislating on performative political witch hunts. The party that promised “affordability” is going to spend most of the next two years abusing its power to exact revenge on their enemies – and it won’t do a thing to lower costs for anyone.

None of this should come as a surprise to Americans who could read between the lines leading up to Election Day. As AMAC Newsline reported all the way back in September, Democrats have not done a very good job of hiding that their number one priority is vengeance. Even before the midterms, Texas Democrat Rep. Al Green forced yet another impeachment vote against Trump (it failed). Shortly after that vote, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries – soon to be Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries – stated that he “hadn’t ruled anything out in terms of impeachment.” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has also called impeachment “a critical tool in the toolbox” for Democrats.

Moreover, not a single Democrat who won on Tuesday made a compelling case that their party has a plan to lower costs.

We are just a few years removed from the last Democrat trifecta – when inflation soared above nine percent and fuel costs were, adjusting for inflation, far higher than they are today. There is no indication that Democrats have changed their agenda at all. If anything, it has only become more radical. One of Democrats’ greatest legislative ambitions is “Medicare for All,” which would cost literally trillions of dollars, in addition to turning the American healthcare system into a Canadian-style disaster.

So don’t expect much price relief from a Democrat Congress. To the extent that prices do come down, it will be thanks to executive action from the Trump administration. Democrats simply do not have a platform that is at all conducive to economic prosperity.

The good news for Democrats is that their “affordability” hoax seems to have worked. But whether they can maintain the charade long enough to secure lasting power remains an open question.

Shane Harris, AMAC Newsline

EL PASO, TX — After the political winds ushered in sweeping changes to the Lone Star State last night, with radical Democrats taking power in what had been a staunchly conservative stronghold, millions of Texans were seen crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico.

As Democrats prepared to give Texas a drastic makeover, longtime conservative residents of the state packed up their most treasured possessions and prepared to flee in search of a better life somewhere south of the border.

“We’re setting off to find a place where we can live in freedom,” said conservative Texan Derek Johnson. “I’ve got a wife and kids, so I’m wanting to give them a better life somewhere where they won’t have to live under oppressive third-world tyranny. I think life in Mexico under the cartels sounds a lot better than living in a blue Texas. The food is really good, too.”

While Texas had long been viewed as the standard-bearer for conservative Republican states in the U.S., the “blue wave” looked to displace millions of patriotic Americans who feared for their futures under Democratic rule. “It’s not going to be safe to live here,” said Fort Worth resident Chris Wilson. “It’s time to go in search of liberty and a brighter future filled with more opportunity. Maybe Venezuela. It’ll be better there than here in a few years, that’s for sure.”

At publishing time, the incoming Democratic regime in Texas had reportedly planned to install a border fence to prevent fleeing Republicans from leaving the state.

Babylon Bee

Democrats and leftists HATE. They hate Trump. They hated Reagan, too. They hate capitalism. They hate wealth and private property (except their own). They hate choice over one’s own body (except for abortion and weed). They hate guns in the hands of good guys. They hate objective truth. They loathe reality. They hate white people. They hate Christians. They hate heterosexual men, especially if they possess any self-assertion. They hate Jews. They loathe independence and autonomy. They hate voter ID laws. They hate borders — especially for violent felons. They despise Americans. They hate police. They hate the military. They hate free speech. They hate America’s founders. They hate the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, especially when applied to anyone other than themselves. They hate mathematics and real science, or anything that smacks of certainty without serving their deranged and illusory Narratives. They hate human achievements. They hate progress and want to reverse the Industrial Revolution. They hate fossil fuels and — give them time — they will come to hate electricity too. They hate the momentum of technology and the beauty of innovation that serves human progress; they much prefer savages, because savages destroy the life forces they so hate.

I cannot think of a single thing that leftists love. Can you?

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

If you think about it, nothing has changed since the election Tuesday. Half of the country is enraged with the other half, hoping to retaliate against the other side in 2 years. This time, however, the victorious seem very certain they will not have to worry about losing power. Democrats are very confident in government, at least when socialists and Muslims are in charge. This speaks to their gullibility to socialism in the first place. “Put progressives in charge of all human enterprise, and everything will be great, forever.” They are not concerned about using government force to obliterate dissension or incorrect thinking. Socially leftist “progressives” and Muslims share this totalitarian attitude, which explains their bizarre yet ultimately impossible coalition.

The reality? We’re right back where we were two years ago. And two years before that. And two years before that. One side hates the other, and WILL NOT back down. I do not know how the story ends. I can only say with certainty: this is NOT sustainable.

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J.D. Vance says Republicans lost because of the Iran war. Does this mean he doesn’t think it’s necessary to stop Iran from having nuclear weapons? Does he think they would never use nuclear weapons as blackmail? Or does he not believe that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon?
The military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq were a pitiful and tragic waste. Iran may be the only legitimate reason to act militarily. Trump’s problem was that he didn’t finish them off.

Republicans lost because the brainwashed masses think socialism will preserve prosperity while reducing costs. Won’t they be surprised.

I do not trust Vance. I am open to Rubio. And DeSantis. America will be paralyzed and more toxic than ever by 2028. The economy will probably worsen. Something like COVID will also be orchestrated to prevent a Republican presidency. I cannot predict what it will specifically be (nobody can), but it will be bad. I don’t think it will be another exaggerated flu. It will involve shutting down things as a way to control people and enable more election fraud, fear and compliance. Given the state of our electorate based on yesterday, it shouldn’t be too difficult. Democrats in Congress will paralyze Trump, prevent him from doing anything good, and then blame him for worse inflation, debt and the like. Congress will also take extraordinary measures against Trump’s aides, Cabinet and their families. This will be really ugly and cruel. Democrats (now radicalized) are a horrific hybrid of mobsters, fascists and sociopaths like you find on true crime shows. You will see a lot of evidence for this. The torpid voters will probably go along with it, holding out for that elusive “affordability.” The government will make us all poorer and then make us more dependent on them when prices go up. It’s so obvious

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Ironic. The Democratic Socialist Party platform (now merged with the Democratic Party) calls for abolishing the U.S. Senate. They will use that same Senate to vote away our individual rights and destroy America. Nice job, voters. Hope you enjoy your slightly lower cost of gas (which will not happen).

Will Democrats be as unpopular in 2028 as Republicans are now? I wish I could be so sure. The precursors to the radicals elected Tuesday are Bernie Sanders, AOC, Ilhan Omar and a few others. Again and again, they have all won reelection. I am unaware of any state that has flipped Democratic to Republican; but even before Tuesday, there were examples of states that had moved from red to purple or blue. Now we have even more: South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, and even Mississippi. North Carolina and Virginia were already succumbing to socialism.

For the last 20 years or more, the trend has been: Democratic states, once Democratic, stay Democratic. Forever. Many Republican states turn, but Democratic ones don’t. Tuesday’s horrifying election results merely escalated that trend. Florida remains the one exception; however, Florida was a purple state, never really a blue one, before going red. As it looks now, Florida may be the only red state left before long.

The problem is deeper than politics. It’s propaganda of one side posing as objective media and education. And almost nobody has critical thinking skills any longer. The present 20 and 30 somethings have been so brainwashed they cannot even grasp an alternative to what they voted for on Tuesday. I would love to be wrong. I wish to be wrong more than anything; truly I do. But the evidence is growing, and on Election Day, it was staggering.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) issued a stark warning on Wednesday evening after Democrats flipped a Texas Senate seat and the governor’s mansion in the midterm elections.

In a lengthy statement shared on social media, the GOP senator said that “Texans will be hurt” by the blue tsunami that swept across the state and country on Tuesday.

“Their assault on business will make Texas a much less attractive place to start or grow a small business,” he wrote. “Texas will become more like California if they succeed in halting all new investment into AI.”

State Reps. James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa became the first Democrats elected to the U.S. Senate and Texas governor’s office in decades in a stunning upset for Republicans in the Lone Star State on Election Day.

“Texas is blue. That is a hard sentence to utter,” Cruz wrote. “But Texas, today at least, is blue. As we sit here today, I am the only statewide elected Republican who remains in Texas. That’s not something I ever thought I would say.”

The Texas Republican and other prominent GOP leaders, including President Trump, backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in the Senate race. Talarico defeated the Republican nominee by over 12 percentage points, according to Decision Desk HQ.

Cruz said he spoke with the Democratic victor following his win on Tuesday evening to congratulate him “on his very impressive victory.”

“It was a pleasant conversation, and I told him that I looked forward to working with him to try to benefit Texas,” he said.

The Republican senator said his party will need to do “two things” in the next two years under new Democratic control of both chambers of Congress: “fight the madness” and “rebuild.”

Sarah Davis, The Hill

When I think of the election results from Tuesday, I am immediately reminded of what happened on November 5, 1946.

It was barely one year after the end of World War II. Harry S. Truman had assumed the presidency when FDR died in April 1945.

Only nineteen months after taking office, there was a mid-term national election. Here is a brief story of what happened.

The nation was restless, exhausted, and bitter. Americans were grappling with post-war inflation, meat shortages, crippling nationwide labor strikes, and what many in the Washington press corps sneeringly viewed as nothing more than a failed Missouri haberdasher stumbling in FDR’s enormous shoes.

The Republicans rallied around a devastatingly simple two-word slogan: “Had Enough?”

The voters roared back that they had.

On election night, the GOP swept into power with a vengeance, picking up 55 seats in the House and 12 in the Senate to capture both chambers for the first time in sixteen years. It wasn’t merely a midterm setback; it was an absolute repudiation.

Truman had gone back home to Independence, Missouri, to vote and await the returns. When the catastrophic scale of the massacre became clear, he didn’t hold a late-night press conference. He simply went to bed.

The next morning, waking up to the grim reality of the results, he faced a horde of reporters and refused to offer any public comment. His mood was somber, quiet, and deeply wounded.

He knew the electorate had just handed down a personal vote of “no confidence” against the former haberdasher turned accidental president.

Almost immediately, the Washington establishment and prominent voices within his own party treated him as an irrelevant ghost walking through his own presidency.

Senator J. William Fulbright, a fellow Democrat from Arkansas, publicly suggested that Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and then resign from the presidency altogether to spare the country two years of bitter paralysis.

Truman was privately furious, dismissed him as “Senator Half-bright,” and dug his heels in.

He didn’t surrender to the panic. Instead, once the initial sting subsided, Truman realized that disastrous night had given him the exact adversary he needed.

Stopped from trying to placate everyone, he went on the attack. He vetoed their tax cuts, challenged their labor restrictions, and aggressively drew contrasts with the conservative majority.

By 1948, the defeat of 1946 had handed him his most formidable weapon: the foil of the “Do-Nothing, Good-for-Nothing 80th Congress.”

He took to the rails on his whistle-stop tour, bypassed the media, and turned a political graveyard into the famous front-page headline: Dewey Defeats Truman—with Truman holding the paper, grinning ear to ear.

Trump doesn’t need a blueprint, but already the political waters are similar with people in his own party calling for his resignation. Trump would do well to follow the Truman playbook.

Nikos Vlachos

America is preparing for a midterm election that will almost certainly see the Democrats recapture one, if not both, houses of Congress. In a normal year, the Left would use the power shift to grind the Republican agenda to a halt and negotiate legislative concessions with the president. But this is not a normal election, and the Democrats’ plans and strategies are not normal, either.

They have telegraphed a not-so-subtle message: reprisals are coming.

In a recent address, Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA agent, indicated that she would use the power of the Congress to investigate White House officials. She hoped that the threat of prosecutions would send a “deterrence message” to any college graduates considering a career in the Trump administration.

Other left-wing figures set their sights on Elon Musk. Vox Media podcast host Kara Swisher suggested that the technologist was destined for prison. “Under Kamala Harris, he might be in jail right now,” she said. “He has a very big sense of fate, and I think it’s coming for him.” Jonathan Last of the Bulwark made the same point in more vulgar language: “We start with the U.S. Congress, and it ends at the fucking Hague for Elon Musk.”

In normal times, this kind of loose talk could be dismissed as bluster, but ten years into the Trump era, the evidence demands that we take it seriously. In President Trump’s first term, the Democrats hatched the Russiagate operation and impeached him twice. During Trump’s time in exile, Democrats orchestrated a series of politically motivated prosecutions, which led to nearly three dozen felony convictions. They even put his mugshot in the newspaper.

What’s driving the desire for reprisals?

First, the Democrats have long sought to invalidate the Trump phenomenon. They simply cannot accept the fact that Donald Trump became the president of the United States and that his ideas—build the wall, restore law and order, Make America Great Again—enjoy popular support. They believe Trump is an embodiment of every “ism” and “phobia” in the book: racism, sexism, nativism, Islamophobia, transphobia. To invalidate his presidency, they believe, is to invalidate these prejudices.

They want to turn Trump into another Richard Nixon. If the president ends his political career in disgrace—or in prison—it will serve as a warning to any future right-wing populist that that is the inevitable fate of his movement and, if he attempts to win the presidency, his life.

The second motivation for reprisals is to create a permanent deterrent against the development of a right-wing counter-elite. In previous decades, the staffer class of Democrats and Republicans had a mutual understanding, in which Republicans in Washington agreed to the boundaries determined by the Left. The Democrats might campaign hard against someone like Mitt Romney or oppose the fiscal policies of someone like Paul Ryan, but everyone understood that both Republicans would respect Democrat-defined boundaries of what was acceptable.

The Trump movement is different. The Republican staffer class has seen generational turnover. Young conservative staffers are notably more impatient and iconoclastic than their elders. Senator Slotkin understands this dynamic and wants to shut it down.

Finally, a reprisal campaign would protect the Left’s institutional hegemony. The Democrats often campaign on the slogan “our democracy,” and they mean it literally. The federal bureaucracy, public universities, and public schools are almost monolithically left-wing. Democrats believe that these institutions are proprietary tools for their political movement, and that any use of them by the Right is illegitimate. They will not only seek to roll back any incursions by the Trump administration but also engage in reprisals to ensure that it never happens again.

This kind of politics poses a real danger. In a competition of reprisals and counter-reprisals, the Left maintains a distinct advantage. Progressives understand the levers of power and stand ready to use them; conservatives wield the rhetoric without understanding the consequences. Trump foolishly boasted about locking up Hillary Clinton and prosecuting Anthony Fauci, but neither event came to pass. It was all bluster—but bluster that Democrats could use as justification for taking real action.

The ultimate risk is the Brazilification of our politics, in which the stakes become thus: if you win, you face reprisals in the future; if you lose, you go straight to prison.

Christopher Rufo, City Journal

Even before the polls closed on Tuesday, an epic blame game had begun. How did Republicans fumble the success of 2024 into this midterm meltdown? How did we lose so many Senate seats, including in my home state of Texas, a conservative cornerstone for more than three decades and a state Donald Trump carried by 14 points in 2024?

Die-hard Never Trumpers will rush to eulogize the MAGA movement. Some populists will shop a stab-in-the-back narrative that blames the traditional conservatives they themselves chased away. But both sides miss the point. This week’s beat-down wasn’t only foreseeable, it was foreseen—because our party forgot four basic rules of coalition politics.

First, successful coalitions add, they don’t subtract. In 2024, a unified Republican Party dominated among the white working class, won Hispanic men outright and won the largest share of black voters since the 1970s. Lifelong conservatives and first-time Republican voters all embraced our message of lower prices, border security, cultural sanity and American strength. This year, losing candidates like Ken Paxton and Mike Collins shrank the tent, obsessing over “RINOs” and political theater. In Texas, statewide candidate Bo French poisoned the well even further with blatant bigotry against Indian-Americans, anathema to the party of Lincoln and Reagan. When nominees show contempt for voters and request a smaller Republican Party, voters oblige them.

The second forgotten lesson was even simpler: Be likeable. We are no longer in 2010, when articulate, appealing conservatives like Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey challenged “establishment” candidates over real policy differences. Today, it is fringe challengers who play down voting records and policy in favor of performative politics. A strange reverse personality test has taken root. If a candidate talks like an affable, reasonable person, he must be a sellout.

John Cornyn, Wall Street Journal

An elderly man both verbally and physically assaulted a young Turning Point USA volunteer at the polls, a video posted to X shows.

An elderly man both verbally and physically assaulted a young Turning Point USA volunteer at the polls, a video posted to X shows.

An 18-year-old man was volunteering with Turning Point Action outside a polling station in New Hampshire on Tuesday when an elderly man approached him and began to raise his voice. The confrontation then escalated, as depicted in a video included in Turning Point Action’s Tuesday afternoon X post.

The context of the conflict in the 40 second video is unclear. However, the elderly man is seen yelling, “you have no idea who I am, so how dare you say I don’t know much!”

The volunteer then responded, “you haven’t presented a single statistic.”

The elderly man then seemed to grow increasingly agitated, continuing to yell at the 18-year-old.

“Neither have you! Goddamn. I cannot believe that bullshit. You sat there and dare to look me in the face. And say I don’t know anything,” he shouted, gesturing at the teen before giving him the middle finger.

“That’s what I know. **** you,” the elderly man continued, slapping the volunteer in the face.

After bystanders can be heard saying “woah,” the old man marched away.

“He stayed calm. The left got violent,” Turning Point Action’s X post featuring the video stated. “Don’t cede the ground, show up to the polls. Your vote helps us outnumber these people.”

Jillian Butler

Vandals sent an apparently violent message to Maine Senator Susan Collins, waiting for her on Election Day, by defacing the longtime Republican incumbent’s office during the night.

Vandals sent an apparently violent message to Maine Senator Susan Collins, waiting for her on Election Day, by defacing the longtime Republican incumbent’s office during the night.

On Tuesday morning, staffers found the sidewalk outside Collins’ office in Biddeford, Maine, covered in red paint and splattered on the door with the words “blood on your hands” scrawled at the front entrance, WMTW-TV reported. The senator received the messages hours before polls close in her race for a sixth term against Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson — which the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates as a “toss up.”

“This is another incident in a series and the second attempt at our Biddeford office to intimidate the senator and her staff. These tactics are disturbing, but not effective,” Collins’ chief of staff, Katie Brown, said in a statement reported by WMTW-TV. “Our staff is undeterred and on the job.”

Libby Bandelin