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Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the blue wave

November 7, 2026 · 41 min

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November 7, 2026; 12pm: Texas went blue after the midterms – in a big way. Tania Chavez Camacho breaks down the numbers and the history that was made after Democrats were voted into every statewide office in the state; Lieutenant Governor-Elect Vikki Goodwin reacts to her historic win in Texas and lays out her upcoming administration’s agenda; The Republican party tried to gerrymander its way to control of Congress but it backfired big time. Ari Berman breaks down what went wrong and what drove voters to defy the purposefully manufactured restrictions on Congressional districts; Artificial intelligence was on the ballot this year and voters across the nation overwhelmingly backed measures to restrict or ban the data centers that power it. Nick Owens explains what this means for Big Tech moving forward.

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