At first glance, Democratic performance in last year’s House races was great. But a close look under the hood reveals that, with a few smarter moves and a little more luck, we’d have Speaker Jeffries.

This is an exhausting—but non-exhaustive—list.

The Virginian represented one of the swingiest House seats in the country but still staked her reelection on defending democracy and investigating what actually happened on January 6.

The Arizona Republican echoed all of Trump’s election denial strategies from 2020. But this time, none of them worked.

It should alarm Democrats that these midterm contenders delivered big wins for the GOP, all without moderating their MAGA identity.

If you think that Republicans have learned any lessons from their disappointing midterm election showing, think again.

“Neither one of those guys is any good,” said one Democrat of the two candidates vying to run the House Democrats’ campaign arm.

Weeks after the midterm elections delivered a putative referendum on the former president and his future, barely anything has changed.

The would-be House speaker is already demonstrating that he lacks the class of any of his predecessors.

Resistance is not futile: From reining in social media to passing much-needed political reforms, history shows that we can succeed.

Democrats thwarted a concerted effort to catastrophize asylum-seekers, but it’s time they discarded the Trump-era ideas that enabled their success.

The Republicans will evidently control the House—and 70 percent of them are election deniers. And that’s just for starters.

Congress has an overwhelming to-do list in the final months of the year, including the not-so-small matter of funding the government.

They remade their party in his image. Now they want to say they’re over him? Fine. All they have to do is say they oppose his 2024 candidacy.

The pundits thought the Democratic Party’s closing argument for the midterms was going to end in certain disaster. Swing and a miss!

As the GOP’s margin of victory in the House dwindles in the direction of single digits, so too go his chances of becoming speaker.

It becomes the second state after Oregon to give the OK to psychedelics.

Despite pundits’ predictions, the country was energized to vote against election deniers.

A new analysis shows how the party might have done so well on election night, and what it should keep in mind.

As one jokester put it, “More like light spotting.”