Heather Cox Richardson's daily letter surveys the week after the midterms: Congress returned with unchanged membership, Speaker Mike Johnson kept hidden the January 6 officers' plaque that Democrats plan to relocate, and Thomas Massie's eight impeachment articles against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went to the Judiciary Committee. She also covers inflation beating expectations, sixteen Democratic senators seeking to delay Medicaid work requirements, Jim Jordan's election as House Republican leader, Trump's revival of the Big Lie, and Russell Brand's ten-and-a-half-year sentence.