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2026-11-04 · Mother Jones · Politics

Elon Musk Loses Texas Senate Race

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2026-11-04 · Mother Jones · Politics

Gina Hinojosa Wins Texas Governor’s Race in Political Earthquake

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2026-11-04 · Mother Jones · Politics

Rob Sand Said He Wasn’t Trying to Turn Iowa Blue. Well, He Did.

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2026-10-30 · Mother Jones · Politics

Inside the Fight to Flip the Biggest Battleground in Texas

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2026-10-29 · Mother Jones · Politics

It’s the Corruption, Stupid

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2026-10-26 · Mother Jones · Politics

How “One of the Most Costliest Blunders Anyone’s Ever Made” Helped Put a Republican Seat in Play

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2026-09-04 · Mother Jones

🔮 That year, thanks to a furious lobbying effort and the work of lawmakers like Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, the industry fended off a repeal effort with only a minor tweak—lengthening the period an investment firm had to hold onto an asset before it could apply the discounted rate, from one year to three. assertive

2026-09-12 · Mother Jones

🔮 It’s a cliche, at this point, to suggest that if elected officials in this country talked about members of any other religious group the way they talk about Muslims, they would be shunned from polite society—or at least called to account for it. assertive

2026-09-17 · Mother Jones

🔮 When Jon Rosenthal announced his campaign last fall for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, he never expected to talk about the short-lived Republic of Rhodesia. assertive

2026-09-29 · Mother Jones

🔮 “I will not kick us off.” assertive

2026-10-09 · Mother Jones

🔮 The reference—a one-off post with no accompanying context or follow-up—might have gone over the heads of most of Collins’ constituents. assertive

2026-10-19 · Mother Jones

🔮 I don’t mean that I don’t understand it—I mean I don’t know what it is, because before I could listen to his remarks at the launch of the “Come and Take It” bus tour in Rockwall, Texas, on Saturday morning, I was kicked out of the event and escorted to my car by a police officer. assertive

2026-10-20 · Mother Jones

🔮 In a district Donald Trump would have carried by 11 points in 2024, a C-SPAN camera was there too, to capture the scene in what is shaping up to be one of the more unexpectedly competitive House races of 2026. assertive

2026-10-26 · Mother Jones

🔮 Donald Trump would have carried the district by 18 points in 2024 and Republicans were so encouraged by recent swings in South Texas that they redrew the maps to secure a clean Republican sweep. assertive

2026-10-29 · Mother Jones

🔮 If you’ve been paying any attention to national politics this year, you could probably guess what she said: “Corrupt.” assertive

2026-10-30 · Mother Jones

🔮 Mason argued that she had never been informed she couldn’t vote, and that she cast only a provisional ballot, which was never counted. assertive

2026-11-04 · Mother Jones

🔮 After defeating Sen. John Cornyn by a two-to-one margin in the primary runoff in May, he seemed to more or less stop working. assertive

2026-11-04 · Mother Jones

🔮 To national Democrats, Sand may seem like something of a unicorn—a bow-hunting, churchgoing small-town Democrat who’s never lost an election in a state Donald Trump has carried three times. assertive

2026-11-04 · Mother Jones

🔮 She demanded a full moratorium on their construction until the legislature could convene—next year—and hash out a new set of regulations. assertive