Midterm Elections 2018
Coverage of the 2018 midterm elections: the House, Senate, ballot initiatives, and more.


What centrists like Nick Kristof and Bret Stephens get wrong about the midterms.


Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Rick Scott, and Marco Rubio are all suggesting nefarious forces are at work.


And it’s not going to get better soon.


Kemp resigned as Georgia secretary of state one day after declaring victory in the state’s close governor’s race. Votes are still being counted.


Democrats won the midterms. But Republicans might have learned that undermining elections works.


With Congress divided, newly elected Democrat governors are poised to charge ahead with clean energy.


The gun control advocate and “Mother of the Movement” unseats Republican Karen Handel in Georgia’s Sixth District.


Leaders are waiting to see if and how a divided government might change Trump foreign policy.


White evangelicals are still Trump’s base. But they’re in decline.


On Tuesday, they joined four other states whose “trigger bans” take effect if Roe v. Wade falls.


Amendment 4 restored voting rights for people with felony records. That could have flipped the state.


With a successful election behind her, Pelosi is about to make her case to lead House Democrats.


Progressive energy helped moderate Democrats win on election night. But progressive candidates weren’t so lucky.


Voters in the 2018 midterms chose to elect candidates who look, worship, and love like them.


Gun control advocates didn’t get every win they wanted, but there were some big victories.


It was a good night for Democrats, but not good enough.
The 2018 midterms were huge for women candidates. Here’s how they could change policy.


Ballot measures to raise the minimum wage had widespread support in Arkansas and Missouri.


Hunter is under federal indictment on charges of campaign fraud.


Full legalization won in Michigan, and medical legalization won in Missouri and Utah.


“That’s a racist question,” Trump said to PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor.


McCaskill’s loss in Missouri is a serious blow to Senate Democrats.


Davis gained national notoriety for refusing to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples.


Every governor seat Democrats have flipped in the midterm elections, in one post.


Scott’s lead is within the window for an automatic recount.


Voters chose to require more space for farmed animals and to end commercial greyhound racing.


More than 600,000 low-wage workers will get a raise.


The blue wave crashes hard in Michigan.


Education, not immigration, was the top issue for voters in this border state.


The measure was an attempt to get marijuana legalization in a conservative state. It failed.


A ban on future soda taxes was approved under the guise of a “Yes! To Affordable Groceries” campaign.


The New York Democrat defeated incumbent Rep. John Faso on Tuesday.


The 2018 US midterm election results are in — and Russia feels like it lost.


In a contentious battle for the seat, DeWine defeated Democrat Richard Cordray to retain the governor’s mansion under GOP control.

It’s a return to power after eight years in the minority.


It was the only state ballot measure on guns this year — and it won.


Dave Brat, once the face of the conservative insurgency, has lost reelection.


Two years after a similar amendment failed, voters approved a measure that will remove state language allowing forced prison labor without pay.


Now, will the state legislature?


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