Nov 04, 2026

Midterm results are in, and Democrats won big. In this solo recap recorded the morning after Election Day, Jenny Beth Martin reads the damage without sugarcoating it. As she lays it out, Democrats took the Senate seats in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and South Carolina, flipped Maine and North Carolina, and may have won Mississippi and Alaska, for at least seven Senate pickups and possibly eleven. Republicans lost the House, and Speaker Mike Johnson will not run for minority leader. Democrats won the governorships in Georgia, Texas, Ohio, and Iowa, and for the first time since 2010 will hold more governorships than Republicans. State legislative chambers flipped in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, and Georgia. Then the question in the title: do we even have a country left? Her answer is the plan she has run before. Take a breath and turn off the news for a day or two. Brace for Washington: leadership fights, a funding deadline, and investigations in January. Look at the nearly 500,000 local elected seats in America and ask whether one should be yours. Go back to the founding principles. And remember that the Tea Party movement was born in the weeks after Republicans lost everything in 2008, when one conference call became 48 rallies and 35,000 people a week later, and more than 850 six weeks after that. Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

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