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How Republicans lost the midterms, why it’ll get worse, and a way for Democrats to take on the immigration issue.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Nov 07, 2026
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I’ve got a big midterm postmortem this morning on the front page of Washington Monthly.

The whole country came together to cough up the phlegm that’s been stuck in our throat for too long. Beyond an accounting of the Republican Party’s losses—and those were immense, generational, even—it’s also a…

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