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The stakes: If Democrats retake Congress in the 2026 midterms, a lot more power and resources will flow to this Washington

Our state’s elected officials stick around. The “Gold Dust Twins” — legendary Senators Henry M. Jackson and Warren G. Magnuson — served together in the United States Senate for twenty-eight years. Nowadays, Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell have been in office since 2001. With seniority comes power, and the opportunity to get stuff done. Ditto in the House, where Representative Adam…

The stakes: If Democrats retake Congress in the 2026 midterms, a lot more power and resources will flow to this Washington

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Scramble for the Senate: How Democrats hope to flip four seats to regain a majority in the 2026 midterms

The horse race analogy for United States Senate races, in this state, has produced a salient joke: Most Republican hopefuls couldn’t pass the urinalysis test. Still, email blasts from our senior United States Senator Patty Murray inevitably warn of Republican expenditures and carry the moniker: “Fight back.” The national struggle for U.S. Senate control gives Democrats a fighting chance, if…

Scramble for the Senate: How Democrats hope to flip four seats to regain a majority in the 2026 midterms

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By not standing firmly for their own policies, Democrats send a message to voters that the unending Republican criticism of the president is legitimate. There is much that is going right in this country, and there is still time for Democrats to say so.

— The New York Times, suggesting in a strongly-worded editorial that Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kay Hagan, and other Democratic candidates stop trying to avoid being associated with President Barack Obama and Obama’s accomplishments.

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The Atlantic’s Molly Ball reports on the “unprecedented political organizing effort” to win in states that Mitt Romney carried in 2012, including Arkansas (where longtime Senator Mark Pryor is up for reelection) and North Carolina (where freshman Senator Kay Hagan is up).

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Well-funded Republican operative Karl Rove is targeting Democratic Senators Kay Hagan in North Carolina and Mark Pryor in Arkansas for saying nice things about the deficit reduction plan generated by the Simpson-Bowles Commission. The ads equate the Senators’ praise for the Commission’s plan with cuts to Social Security and Medicare, suggesting that Hagan and Pryor want to hurt both.