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What We’re Reading: It’s A Blue Wave, Not Red, Trumpalooza ’26, The Crumbling EU … And More

Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

How Did The 2026 Election End? With A Blue Wave (with late updates)

Democrats flip Senate after winning House (with updates) — CNBC

Democrats capture full control of Congress, NBC News projects, fueled by victories in deeply Republican states — NBC News

Top 50 2026 House results — Real Clear Politics

Late Odds For House: Dems 250, GOP 185 — Polymarket, via Real Clear Politics

‘I am absolutely willing to accept those results,’ President Trump — New York Times

Trump Acknowledges Iran War Is Partly to Blame for Republican Losses — Wall Street Journal

Trump Breaks Silence as Republicans Suffers Midterm Bloodbath Despite 30 Rallies and Thousands of Supporters — International Business Times

Trump Reveals How He’ll Still Get Things Done If Dems Win House (Veto, Veto, Veto) — Conservative Brief

Angry voters in red America will swing the election — Washington Post

The DSA’s Coming-Out Party — Matt Welch, Reason

The Midterms: A Blue Wave, a Senate Fight and a Campaign Without Rules — Carl M. Cannon, Real Clear Politics

ICYMI: Did Trump Blow It? Sure Looks That Way — Issues & Insights

Midterms: Even When It’s Not About Trump, It’s About Trump

Trump’s Agenda Faces National Test on Election Day — The Epoch Times, via Liberty Daily

President Trump To Voters: ‘Pretend I’m On The Ballot’ — Geller Report

Trump Reveals How He’ll Still Get Things Done If Dems Win House (Veto, Veto, Veto) — Conservative Brief

‘Progressives’ would rather take out Trump than stop socialists from burning down the republic — The Federalist

Supreme Court rejects Trump administration push to set aside thousands of possibly illegal California ballots — AP

ICYMI: Just As Voters Go To The Polls, Trump’s Approval Rating Climbs: I&I/TIPP Poll — Issues & Insights

Hacked Fridges, EU Meddling In Poland: What In Heck Is Going On In Europe?

An EU Coup Against Poland? — Frank Furedi, Spiked

Giorgia Meloni’s ‘Exit Tax’ On Wealthy — Charles Oliver, Reason

Bomb threats ground flights across Europe — The Telegraph, via Yahoo News

EU’s Crumbling Welfare States — Sharyl Attkisson

Spain Is A Socialist Dictatorship — American Thinker

Second Wave Of Cyberattacks Paralyze Supermarket Fridges Across EU, Weeks After Gov’ts Urged Food Stockpiling — Zero Hedge

Flashback: Cyberattack Disrupts Refrigeration Systems At Hundreds Of French Supermarkets — France 24

Maybe making everything in this world hackable by the latest frontier model wasn’t the best idea — Zero Hedge, X

Should U.S. Be Worried Too? AI Cyberattacks Could Literally Turn off Our Electricity and Cause an Extended Blackout at Any Moment — Economic Collapse Report

Is Britain Committing Demographic Suicide?

Births in England and Wales at lowest level in nearly 50 years — Live Action

Why are so many British teens being treated as terrorists? — Joanna Williams

A New Phase Of Iran Conflict?

What Are They Preparing Us For? — American Thinker

‘Unconvincing’: Tehran rejects US response, says Hormuz won’t reopen until conditions met — Press TV

Iran foreign minister says deal with US hinges entirely on ‘political wisdom’ in Washington — Press TV

America’s Gulf allies prepare for new round of strikes on Iran — and the blowback — Wall Street Journal, via MSN

Will the Iran War Cost Republicans Control of the Senate? — Reason

Iranian Regime Plans Disruptions and Cyber Attacks on U.S. Election Day — Catherine Salgado, PJ Media

Belmont Club: Keeping Score in Iran — Richard Fernandez, PJ Media

Miscellaneous, But Important, Stuff …

California released thousands of murderers, sexual predators and other criminals into streets with sanctuary policies: feds — New York Post

Greenland Parliament Ratifies Security Deal Agreed With Trump — Daily Signal

Trump to cut off $4 billion in foreign aid to Israel by year’s end, convert to weapons sales — Just The News

Problem Solved? Most People Have No Idea How Insane Democrats Have Become — Hot Air

AI meltdown: $2 Trillion wiped from tech stocks as investors question AI spending — Natural News

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