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- Stocks climb after Democrats win majorities in Congress
The stock market had its best day since April 2025 on Wednesday after Democrats won decisive majorities in both chambers of Congress on Election Day. [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - Trump and MAGA Lost, but Big Government Notched Another Victory
It's impossible—and unwise, regardless of your ideology—to read the midterm elections as anything other than a stinging, unambiguous rebuke of President Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda, including tariffs, unprecedented peacetime government involvement in businesses, ugly mass deportations, grandiose levels of personal corruption, and late-breaking obsessions with the male body and algae. Despite historically low approval ratings, Trump urged voters to "pretend I'm on the ballot" and reaped the whirlwind. Vice President J.D. Vance, the presumed heir to Trump's greasy and tarnished throne, is doing his damnedest to suggest that the only reason Republicans "lost is the war." In a long post on X, the teller of tall tales invokes two anonymous sources—"the smartest data guy" and "one of the smartest people I know in politics"—to assert that none of the many other things that the Trump administration did to make things more expensive and everyday life seem more precarious played a role in a gigantic wipeout. It's true that the war with Iran is an epic, unfinished disaster and, arguably, a departure from Trump's campaign promises to forego dumb wars. But it's absolutely of a piece with the president's "L'État, c'est moi" way of being. Certainly, Vance's unwillingness to disregard basic reality is nothing new. While promoting a false story about Haitian migrants eating cats in Springfield, Ohio, in 2024, he said, "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Right before the midterms, he changed his pitch slightly, this time claiming he'd seen a story about "illegal immigrant Somalis who are coordinating to flood the polls and drown out your vote." And when the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, met with widespread disgust for running a putrid, misleading, and ineffective ad featuring Democratic challenger Amy Acton's estranged mother, Vance lost no time in announcing he was "a little bit disgusted" by Republicans who criticized their own party member. That's the worldview that took a pounding in the midterms, and if Trump and Vance either can't or won't admit they and their fellow MAGA types lost because of the effects of their agenda, that's their problem. But who or what won the midterms? This is where things get deeply troubling, especially if you care about limited government, reduced spending (especially deficit spending), and… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - GOP Gerrymandering Worked in Tennessee—But Just Barely
In some ways, the outcome of Tennessee’s ninth district congressional election was determined in May, when Republican Gov. Bill Lee and the Tennessee legislature redrew the state’s legislative maps—carving Tennessee’s sole district in which white voters were not a majority into three new ones designed to lean Republican, following an April Supreme Court ruling that gutted the federal Voting Rights Act. While Republican gerrymandering efforts failed in Florida and North Carolina, they seem to have narrowly succeeded in Tennessee’s ninth district, which includes part of Memphis, and where Republican Brent Taylor declared victory late on the night of November 3, defeating Democrat Justin Pearson by about 2,500 votes with 99 percent of votes counted. Pearson, a Black progressive elected in 2023 to represent Memphis in the Tennessee House of Representatives, first rose to national prominence as one of the “Tennessee Three,” when he was removed from office after co-leading a personal protest for gun reform on the statehouse floor. He later won back his seat in a special election. The Democratic incumbent for Tennessee’s ninth district, Rep. Steve Cohen, said he would retire during the primary rather than try to win back his seat in a gerrymandered district where the Republican Party now held a 21-point advantage. But Pearson—facing worse chances than he had before the gerrymandering, in a district that now includes the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan—kept running. He centered his campaign messaging on opposition to data center buildout, a message of economic populism that he hoped could resonate with Republicans and Democrats in a district where Elon Musk’s xAI is aggressively expanding its footprint. “This MAGA-envisioned state and MAGA-envisioned country are not good for any of us, including MAGA people. Especially MAGA people,” he told the New Yorker in October. “Life should not be this hard in the richest country in the history of the world. My thing is that, if you are not a billionaire, you are one of us.” State Sen. Brent Taylor, Pearson’s Republican rival, has pitched himself as a hard-line conservative Christian. Taylor was endorsed by President Donald Trump, but his campaign was thrown into chaos days before the election when he was found to have sent a series of unsolicited nude photos. He dismissed those allegations and called the acts “youthful indiscretions,” although the Nashville Scene found that Taylor sent some of the photos as recently as 2021, when… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - Warmongers Blame War For Election LossThe day after the midterms, Vice President JD Vance started posting about why his party lost as if he were an uninvolved pundit and not the vice president. One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was…— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 4, 2026 The Republican Party’s losses in the House and Senate, he said, could be blamed on Trump’s war on Iran and America’s relationship to Israel. His “smartest data guy” said so. “The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote. To turn it around, he said, the Republican Party must do four things: End the war Focus on cost of living/inflation Put America First Change our relationship to Israel Vance, an Iraq War veteran, has long claimed a more isolationist position than even his boss. But he hasn’t shied away from supporting America’s foreign wars when it’s politically expedient for him to do so. “A lot of people recognize that we need to do something with Iran—but not these weak little bombing runs,” he said on Fox News the day after he was selected as Trump’s vice presidential candidate in 2024. “If you’re going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard.” In positioning himself as the party’s future Vance took a different tack. He also neglected every non-Iran reason voters might have been uninterested in the Republican Party’s platform this cycle: its wildly unpopular and violent immigration policies, its systemic destruction of anything resembling a social safety net, its promotion of a government that does nothing for its citizens. But just as in 2008—as the disastrous US-led war in Iraq unraveled—no viable candidate for president in 2028 will be able to take a pro-war stance. And Vance isn’t alone in recognizing that. John Bolton, a man who has been agitating for war with Iran since well before this year’s first-time voters were born, also chimed in. Our lengthy operation against Iran is a direct consequence of Trump surrounding himself with a cadre of yes-men. Americans are not happy to be in another seemingly endless war, and they are placing the blame squarely on Trump.https://t.co/8H4P15U0EK— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) November 3,… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago
- Gener8ion and Yung Lean storm UK Music Video Awards 2026 winning five trophies
Romain Gavras’ epic video for Gener8ion starring Yung Lean’s "Storm" emerged as the night's biggest winner at the UK Music Video Awards 2026 [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - Fox Runs Three Different Segments Saluting Sophie Cunningham Day After Massive M...
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham was mentioned in three separate segments on Fox News Wednesday as the network continues to grapple with the implications of GOP losses in the midterm elections. Cunningham’s first mention was bright and early on Fox & Friends, when host Ainsley Earhardt and conservative commentator Brett Cooper heaped praise on Cunningham. Earhardt touted social media statistics and commented, “Ainsley: There is this Sophie surge. You see Sophie Cunningham, who is defending women’s sports and fairness in women’s sports, and so many followers. She has gained more followers than any of the top 49 WNBA players combined. She has almost 3 million, and those 49 combined have 2 million. I’ve always felt sorry for her because I thought she was on an island by herself.” Cooper noted: Well, I think that politics aside, Sophie Cunningham is hot and she’s funny. Being an attractive woman and actually being a joyful person. Loving your sport and loving what you do, loving the opportunities that arein front of you, she is not biting the hand that feeds her. She is a joyful player, somebody that everybody loves watching, I think that that goes a long way, and, you know, in talking about the other WNBA players not agreeing with her or whatever, when you actually listen to her teammates talk about her, they say we don’t care about what the public is saying and what other teams are saying, she is a significant part of our team. She rallies us together, she holds us together. She is an important part of our locker room. We love her. They ride or die for her. She is not on an island by herself. She faced a lot of flack in the media and people love her on social media and on her team and that’s really what matters. Cunningham’s second mention came about thanks to anchor Harris Faulkner, who was discussing four states in which strengthened bans on transgender girls participating in sports on Outnumbered. Faulkner said: I notice something in all of this, though, if you have all four of these states, you then reach into a category of where 23, 24 other states already are with the idea of where the NCAA and the Olympic Committee are. How you are born is your birth sex, that’s how you compete. No one is saying they don’t love… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago
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