Voters didn’t just flip Congress. They rejected key anti-voting architects
Democracy Docket reports that the 2026 midterms, beyond handing Democrats sweeping gains, ousted prominent architects of voting restrictions: Bryan Steil lost Wisconsin's 1st District to Mitchell Berman, Chip Roy's Texas attorney general bid fell short, Kris Kobach lost the Kansas attorney general race to Chris Mann, James Talarico beat Ken Paxton for Texas' Senate seat, Roy Cooper defeated Michael Whatley in North Carolina, and Warren Petersen and Ross Berry also lost. It says the defeats, coming as the SAVE America Act stalled in the Senate, break the infrastructure behind the GOP's anti-voting agenda, though voters weren't rejecting those candidates solely over voting rights.
