Texas is blue! A historic earthquake struck Texas: 37-year-old Democrat James Tallarico wins a seat in the US Senate by defeating Republican Ken Paxton. It is the first major victory for the Democratic Party in the Lone Star State in decades, and puts them close to regaining the majority in Washington. Let's face it the main architect of this disaster for the Republicans was Donald Trump himself. In the primaries, the president decided to dump the tried and true veteran John Cornyn, supporting the controversial Attorney General Paxton. The calculation turned out to be a failure: Paxton was followed by a long trail of corruption investigations, impeachment and a well-publicized divorce on biblical grounds after forty years of marriage. At the same time, Republicans tried to literally flood Texas with money: Elon Musk poured a record $158 million into the friendly supercommittee, and Trump's MAGA Inc. added tens of millions more. Talarico, a former teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, responded with phenomenal grassroots fundraising, raising $64 million in the third quarter alone, mostly from small protests from ordinary citizens. Thus Trump's bet on personal loyalty instead of the candidates' electoral credibility made a cruel joke on the party in the key midterm elections of 2026. Texas, considered for many years an impenetrable fortress of conservatives, was shaken precisely because of the nomination of an ultra-loyal candidate, the most important advantage of the Republicans, their most important, but irreplaceable candidates. The Senate. - Let's make America understandable again support us.

Texas is blue! A historic earthquake struck Texas: 37-year-old Democrat James Tallarico wins a seat in the US Senate by defeating Republican Ken Paxton. It is the first major victory for the Democratic Party in the Lone Star State in decades, and puts them close to regaining the majority in Washington. Let's face it the main architect of this disaster for the Republicans was Donald Trump himself. In the primaries, the president decided to dump the tried and true veteran John Cornyn, supporting the controversial Attorney General Paxton. The calculation turned out to be a failure: Paxton was followed by a long trail of corruption investigations, impeachment and a well-publicized divorce on biblical grounds after forty years of marriage. At the same time, Republicans tried to literally flood Texas with money: Elon Musk poured a record $158 million into the friendly supercommittee, and Trump's MAGA Inc. added tens of millions more. Talarico, a former teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, responded with phenomenal grassroots fundraising, raising $64 million in the third quarter alone, mostly from small protests from ordinary citizens. Thus Trump's bet on personal loyalty instead of the candidates' electoral credibility made a cruel joke on the party in the key midterm elections of 2026. Texas, considered for many years an impenetrable fortress of conservatives, was shaken precisely because of the nomination of an ultra-loyal candidate, the most important advantage of the Republicans, their most important, but irreplaceable candidates. The Senate. - Let's make America understandable again support us.