Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter reports that on November 3, 2026, Democrats flipped both chambers of Congress, seven Senate seats, and governorships from Iowa to Texas, electing historic firsts including Georgia's Keisha Lance Bottoms as the nation's first Black female governor, with turnout near 124.3 million. She reads the result as a rejection of Donald Trump and the Republican ideology of the past four decades, noting Trump said he would accept the outcome yet posted a "VETO" hat image, J.D. Vance blamed the Iran war, and a commenter calls her account rose-colored, a Gettysburg rather than the war's end.