Henceforth known in DC as footlong and six-inch juries

For old times' sake, here's the White House propaganda video of a whole SWAT team arresting Sandwich Guy—who had offered to turn himself in. x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

So many iconic Pelosi moments- ACA, IRA, ARRA, the '06 and '18 midterms... but for me it's the night of 1/6/21. We were waiting to see how many days until they could return to the Capitol to finish certifying the election. She told us, "tonight." I still tear up thinking about how that felt.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Every Republican member thinks this way about Nancy Pelosi. But few say so in public.

"You go through the gate. If the gate's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people." -Nancy Pelosi, the 🐐

I had roughly 200 elections on my big board for Tuesday, and we have results in now for the vast majority. Now that the dust is settling, you can explore at your leisure!

If I had known it was this easy to get excused from Shabbat dinner, I would have used this line on my own family.

Follow my witty, wise colleague @mollyroberts.bsky.social for Day 4 of the two-day Sandwich Guy trial! Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox suggests it will never end. Molly will let us know if he’s wrong!

There’s a sovereign immunity joke in here somewhere

Okay this is…shocking? "Doctored" is a way nicer word than any editor would use if they found out someone took quotes from completely different documents, chopped them up, and stitched them together as one quote that omits *directly contradictory context.* www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

“We can’t afford a king” (not an actual ad — yet)

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office. Democrats swept all 13. That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular). They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

12% of self-described socialists in the NYC mayoral election voted for Cuomo, but 9% of self-described MAGA voters voted for Mamdani.

Guess which liberal pundit said this today: "In Virginia, over half of Winsome Sears’ ads talked about transgender. And it’s not even the top five issues, according to voters." Oh wait it wasn't a liberal pundit, it was White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair! www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Always a great sign when your threat to fire leakers leaks

“In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important slices of bread.”

Don’t miss my @lawfaremedia.org colleague @mollyroberts.bsky.social ‘s, uh, subskeets!

The Sandwich Guy’s prosecutor seems unfamiliar with both baseball and the meaning of the verb “spike”

This is a stunning political realignment--Mamdani lost Jews, Catholics, and Protestants but won by sweeping "Other" and "None." As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.* Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

Oh no looks like it's death for our Country

This plus Spanberger/Sherrill being born in each other's states are the best 2025 election factoids I've seen.

Follow my wise and witty @lawfaremedia.org colleague @mollyroberts.bsky.social for day 3 of the 2-day Sandwich Guy trial. Accept no sub-stitutes!

Debs — born 170 years ago today — holds the post-Civil War record for best fourth-place finish in a presidential election (1912, 6%, behind Wilson, TR, and Taft) *and* won 3.4% in 1920 while imprisoned! His vote total was actually higher in 1920 than in 1912, thanks to the 19th Amendment.

It is wild the degree to which the formerly capitalist free market anti-socialism cohort in American politics has been absolutely silent about Trump behaving like the CCP and having the government essentially force giant companies to make the state a co-owner and give Trump a management say. Wild.

The Shaggy Defense

Given this and Trump's past comments about groceries (he calls the term "old-fashioned"), there is a legitimate, I'm-just-asking-this-as-a-factual-inquiry-purely-based-on-the-president's-own-rhetoric question to be asked: Does President of the United States know what getting groceries, like…is?

This seems huge, and deserves more attention. SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights. Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court. Feds fail us, states step up.

Mamdani voted for himself on the Working Families Party line and Sliwa voted for himself on his "Protect Animals" line, which means none of the candidates actually voted Democratic or Republican.

Election Night bombshell. Literally no one saw this coming

Not exactly what the GOP Congress wants to hear from Trump right now!

Whatever else can be said, thermostatic politics still seems to be a thing.

It's probable that young people (and people overall) moved left after 2024. But I'd be cautious about sweeping analyses like this based on incompletely weighted exit polls and relatively small populations.

Excited to see what bonkers thing Trump will do to push tonight's blue wave out of the headlines

This election is the first time since 1961 that New Jersey voters have elected a member of the same party for three consecutive gubernatorial terms.

All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least

well this feels a hell of a lot better than the last time I saw a Cuomo lose a general election

Note the NYC Board of Elections’ proper use of “on line” instead of “in line”

It took me until today to realize that the guy who likes cats has two kids with a woman named Katz

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Exit poll result of the night: 9% of voters finding Jay Jones' texts disqualifying voted for Jay Jones.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Remember: if you share numbers when less than 50 percent of precincts are in and the results haven’t been adjusted for what’s still coming in, you are part of the problem.

As always, this is the best guide to Election Night