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Washington State Democratic Party: Statement on Stephen Miller Appointed WH Chief of Staff
SEATTLE, Washington, Nov. 7 -- The Washington State Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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November 6, 2026
Statement on Stephen Miller Appointed WH Chief of Staff
Seattle, WA - Today, Chair Shasti Conrad released the following statement reacting to the firing of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and her replacement by Stephen Miller:
"Rather than learn from the overwhelming statement voters across the country made on Tuesday night to reign in his authoritarian impulses, Trump has fired his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and replaced her with the architect of his administration's
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SEATTLE, Washington, Nov. 7 -- The Washington State Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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November 6, 2026
Statement on Stephen Miller Appointed WH Chief of Staff
Seattle, WA - Today, Chair Shasti Conrad released the following statement reacting to the firing of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and her replacement by Stephen Miller:
"Rather than learn from the overwhelming statement voters across the country made on Tuesday night to reign in his authoritarian impulses, Trump has fired his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and replaced her with the architect of his administration'smost inhumane policies. Thankfully, Democratic control in the House and Senate ensure oversight of this lawless and chaotic administration. Stephen Miller should know our country and the world are watching as he seeks to double down on the policies that led to the worst Republican electoral performance since Watergate."
The Washington State Democratic Party is committed to advancing progressive policy, empowering the grassroots, and ensuring Democratic victories up and down the ballot. Chair of the Washington Democrats, Shasti Conrad, is the first Indian-American woman to chair a major state party and led the most successful Democratic state party in 2024 and continued that streak in 2025.
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Original text here: https://wadems.org/press/11-6-26-statement-on-stephen-miller-appointed-wh-chief-of-staff/
Statement From DNC Chair Ken Martin On First Administration Official To Resign Following Republicans' Historic Midterm Defeat
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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November 5, 2026
NEW: Statement from DNC Chair Ken Martin On First Administration Official To Resign Following Republicans' Historic Midterm Defeat
The White House today announced that Donald Trump's Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has resigned. Dhillon is the first administration official to resign after the midterm elections on Tuesday, in which Trump and Republicans were resoundingly rebuked by the American people.
Dhillon -- one of Trump's former personal lawyers -- upended the
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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November 5, 2026
NEW: Statement from DNC Chair Ken Martin On First Administration Official To Resign Following Republicans' Historic Midterm Defeat
The White House today announced that Donald Trump's Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has resigned. Dhillon is the first administration official to resign after the midterm elections on Tuesday, in which Trump and Republicans were resoundingly rebuked by the American people.
Dhillon -- one of Trump's former personal lawyers -- upended theCivil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue Trump's personal and political agenda, and during her tenure, more than 75% of the division's staff departed. Attorney General Todd Blanche and Dhillon declined to open a civil probe into the fatal shooting of Renee Good, and Dhillon dismissed police reform efforts for police departments in Kentucky and Minnesota after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Dhillon backed Trump's lies about the 2020 election and when running her private law firm, she launched litigation against multiple states, trying to overturn voter protections.
In response, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:
"Harmeet Dhillon will be the first of many Trump-Vance administration officials who resign in disgrace after Republicans were humiliated in the midterm elections this week. Dhillon was an executor of Donald Trump's toxic agenda, leveraging her position to achieve Trump's personal and political interests instead of fighting for the American people. Now that voters have spoken and there's no more denying that Americans are outraged by this administration, Dhillon is fleeing -- but Americans won't forget that she was one of Trump's most loyal foot soldiers."
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Original text here: https://democrats.org/new-statement-from-dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-first-administration-official-to-resign-following-republicans-historic-midterm-defeat/
Democratic Governors Association: New York Times - "Democrats Will Control Most Governorships, a Generational Shift"
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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New York Times: "Democrats Will Control Most Governorships, a Generational Shift"
Nov 04, 2026
New reporting from the New York Times spotlights how, after last night's commanding victories, Democrats will control the majority of governorships, including in "deep red states where they have not held the top jobs in decades."
The report added that DGA Chair Governor Andy Beshear "celebrated the wins as the product of years of work, chiseling away at Republicans' longtime dominance of governors' mansions."
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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New York Times: "Democrats Will Control Most Governorships, a Generational Shift"
Nov 04, 2026
New reporting from the New York Times spotlights how, after last night's commanding victories, Democrats will control the majority of governorships, including in "deep red states where they have not held the top jobs in decades."
The report added that DGA Chair Governor Andy Beshear "celebrated the wins as the product of years of work, chiseling away at Republicans' longtime dominance of governors' mansions."
Gov.Beshear told the Times: "Tonight, we delivered a Democratic governor in every swing state from the past several elections, and we expanded the map."
The Times notes how "Their wins were a remarkable turnaround from eight years ago, when Democrats held just 16 of the country's 50 governorships. They steadily gained ground to hold 24 governor's seats going into the midterm elections."
Read more about last night's Democratic victories:
New York Times: Democrats Will Control Most Governorships, a Generational Shift
* A string of stunning Democratic upsets in governors races across the country will put Democrats in charge of deep-red states where they have not held the top jobs in decades.
* Democrats flipped five governors' seats, all in states that President Trump won in 2024, sometimes by double digits. The victories gave them a total of 29 governorships and control of a majority of American governorships for the first time in a generation.
* Their wins could expand the state-level resistance to Mr. Trump's policies on tariffs and immigration, while also putting new Democratic-run states into play as potential swing states in the 2028 presidential election.
* Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, celebrated the wins as the product of years of work, chiseling away at Republicans' longtime dominance of governors' mansions.
* "Tonight, we delivered a Democratic governor in every swing state from the past several elections, and we expanded the map," Mr. Beshear said in an interview on Tuesday. "There will be some 2028 candidates who can compete in a place like Iowa or Ohio."
* Mr. Beshear said the Democrats won with campaigns that were "laser focused on the lives of our people, and not just fealty to Donald Trump."
* In Texas, Gina Hinojosa unseated Gov. Greg Abbott to become the state's first Latina governor as well as its first Democratic governor in more than 30 years. She has criticized Mr. Trump's moves to expand the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and could become a new opponent to his immigration enforcement efforts in a state with one of the largest Latino populations.
* Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, flipped a Republican-held governor's seat in Georgia, to become the country's first Black woman governor and Georgia's first Democratic leader since 2003.
* In the Midwest, Amy Acton was elected Ohio's first Democratic governor in 20 years after a bruising, bitterly personal campaign, and Rob Sand became the first Democrat Iowa has elected since 2006.
* Voters in the swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin also elected new Democrats to replace their outgoing Democratic governors.
* Their wins were a remarkable turnaround from eight years ago, when Democrats held just 16 of the country's 50 governorships. They steadily gained ground to hold 24 governor's seats going into the midterm elections.
* After Tuesday's elections, about 75 percent of Americans will live in a state with a Democratic governor, according to the Democratic Governors Association.
* No Republicans flipped a Democratic-held governor's seat this year.
* But nearly everywhere else, Democrats won by tapping into national anger over high prices, the war in Iran and Mr. Trump, in general.
* Mr. Sand, who flipped a governor's seat in Iowa, focused on cancer rates in farm country. Ms. Lance Bottoms highlighted the erosion of Black voting rights in Georgia. Ms. Hinojosa campaigned on the proliferation of data centers in Texas.
* In Nevada, the state's Democratic attorney general, Aaron Ford, campaigned on worries over a slowdown in Las Vegas's tourism economy to unseat the incumbent Republican governor, Joe Lombardo.
* But fundamentally, they all tapped into a pervasive feeling among voters that Americans' lives were getting worse and that leaders in Washington and state capitols were not listening.
* Still, the Democratic governors will be able to reshape their states by appointing their own agency heads, signing executive orders and vetoing Republican bills they don't like.
* They may also be a new barrier to any Republican efforts to redraw legislative districts ahead of the next presidential election.
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/new-york-times-democrats-will-control-most-governorships-a-generational-shift/
DNC Congratulates Cait Conley on Her Election to the U.S. House of Representatives
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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November 5, 2026
DNC Congratulates Cait Conley on Her Election to the U.S. House of Representatives
In response to Cait Conley's election to the U.S. House of Representatives, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:
"Congratulations to Cait Conley, the New York Democratic Party, and all of the organizers who worked around the clock to flip this seat from red to blue. As a decorated special ops combat veteran and national security expert, Cait has tirelessly served her community
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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November 5, 2026
DNC Congratulates Cait Conley on Her Election to the U.S. House of Representatives
In response to Cait Conley's election to the U.S. House of Representatives, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:
"Congratulations to Cait Conley, the New York Democratic Party, and all of the organizers who worked around the clock to flip this seat from red to blue. As a decorated special ops combat veteran and national security expert, Cait has tirelessly served her communityand our country. In the House, she will be a fierce advocate for her constituents while fighting to lower costs, expand access to healthcare, make housing and childcare more affordable, take on corruption, and invest in her community to make life better for those in the Hudson Valley."
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Original text here: https://democrats.org/dnc-congratulates-cait-conley-on-her-election-to-the-u-s-house-of-representatives/
DNC Congratulates Amish Shah on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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November 5, 2026
DNC Congratulates Amish Shah on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives
In response to Amish Shah's election to the U.S. House of Representatives, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:
"Congratulations to Dr. Amish Shah, the Arizona Democratic Party, and all of the organizers who flipped this seat from red to blue. As an emergency room physician and former member of the Arizona House of Representatives, Dr. Shah has a record of fighting and delivering
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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November 5, 2026
DNC Congratulates Amish Shah on His Election to the U.S. House of Representatives
In response to Amish Shah's election to the U.S. House of Representatives, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:
"Congratulations to Dr. Amish Shah, the Arizona Democratic Party, and all of the organizers who flipped this seat from red to blue. As an emergency room physician and former member of the Arizona House of Representatives, Dr. Shah has a record of fighting and deliveringfor Arizonans. In the House of Representatives, Dr. Shah will work to lower costs for working families, protect Social Security and healthcare, and support public education."
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Original text here: https://democrats.org/dnc-congratulates-amish-shah-on-his-election-to-the-u-s-house-of-representatives/
DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene on Democrats' Landslide Victory: "A Resounding Statement From the American People"
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene on Democrats' Landslide Victory: "A Resounding Statement From the American People"
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Arriving in a "F*ck Around and Find Out" sweatshirt, DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene stopped by the Punchbowl News Townhouse on Thursday to discuss what powered House Democrats' historic midterm victory and what Democrats will focus on in the 120th Congress.
DelBene also explained that while Republicans seemed to have infinite resources to attack Democrats, none of it worked because
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene on Democrats' Landslide Victory: "A Resounding Statement From the American People"
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Arriving in a "F*ck Around and Find Out" sweatshirt, DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene stopped by the Punchbowl News Townhouse on Thursday to discuss what powered House Democrats' historic midterm victory and what Democrats will focus on in the 120th Congress.
DelBene also explained that while Republicans seemed to have infinite resources to attack Democrats, none of it worked becausevoters were eager for leaders who would focus on pocketbook issues and lowering costs, but instead Republicans lit their money on fire with ineffective, baseless attacks against Democrats that voters saw right through.
Punchbowl News, Fly Out Day: What comes next for Democrats after the midterms? DCCC Chair DelBene weighs in
Highlights from Chair DelBene's interview below:
"Think of the underlying issues that really drove this. One, people are hurting across the country, and they across the board were tired of the broken promises they had heard from the administration, from Republicans, and no recognition at all this entire cycle of what folks were going through. Then you have great candidates, and we really do. [...] They're all incredible. They really were the secret sauce for us, who are on the ground talking about the issues that matter and communicating with folks. Because I think a lot of Republicans shied away from even talking to their constituents. And then [...] you have kind of all the changes that went on with trying to rig the system, gerrymandering, et cetera, and so people are angry about that too. And definitely, the people of Florida and Texas and North Carolina were angry about that. They didn't get to have a say. And so I think it's the combination of all of those things that really drove what we saw happen on Tuesday night. People really wanting a change and wanting folks who are going to stand up for them.
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"So I smile because leading up to this, all I heard from folks was, 'Oh, you guys might be stretching too much here, looking at all these districts.' And when we started out, we had seats like Kentucky 6 on our map, Ohio 10, and folks were like, 'What are you thinking? How could those even be on your map?' And so we were looking at what a map would look like early on, and clearly there was redistricting that got involved, especially when you talk about Florida, et cetera, or Tennessee, North Carolina, even. And so, absolutely, we were expanding all the way through. We put out our memo talking about how we had opportunities, we needed more resources, and then we had our 'F Around and Find Out' kind of push at the end for seats that we saw coming online at the end, where we wanted to make sure we had more resources and people respond. And even in those final list of 15 of, you know, of the FAFO seats, we won eight of them, so we were expanding all the way through, and absolutely saw the shift that was happening, and we're trying to get resources as much as we could out to all of these districts.
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"We're going to be fighting on affordability, you know, tariffs, on health care, the cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act tax credits, the war, right? But it's all of those things, and moving forward in terms of making sure that we are moving forward to build--to address the issues that happen, but actually build a place where people feel like they have opportunity again.
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"I think we've got to make sure that we put policy in place that puts working families first, and make sure that our policies and our agenda is supporting them. [...] We need to make sure that working families are thriving across the country. They are struggling across the board, and so policy that flips that on its head, that makes sure that families are able to not just struggle to get by, but can thrive. That's important. And so the way I look at it, and I'm a little bit of a geek, so, but the way I look at it, it's about making investments that give us a great return on our investment, and return is not just the dollar return, which can be one piece of it, but it's also the return that we get in terms of impact on our communities and how our kids are doing. And the investments we make and health care is a good example. We actually do better when folks across the country have affordable health care, when they're able to get primary care when they need it. We actually save money, and our communities do better. [...] Republicans ignored this.
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"You had just kind of MAGA Inc. and Elon Musk, and just I mean, it was infinite money, and no message [...]. You know, when they were spending all this money against our candidates, against our incumbents, they had nothing to say. And so, you know, my quip has always been: infinity times zero is still zero. The impact that they had of spending all this money [...], they lit that money on fire.
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"The reflecting pool speech at the end, kind of, like, was a perfect culmination of where Republicans were at. No interest in what people were going through, never addressed or had policy ideas about how they were going to help folks, and they spent all this money with no message, and again, nothing from that. [...] It's not about-you can't just throw all that money [and] expect to win because you spent more. It's about the substance, and I think that's what we knew even last cycle. You know, we won 14 districts that Trump won in. It's about having great candidates. It's about investing smartly so they can get their message out. But fundamentally, it's on the ground, actually, understand what people are going through and talking about the issues that matter. And [Republicans] never seemed interested in that."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/dccc-chair-suzan-delbene-on-democrats-landslide-victory-a-resounding-statement-from-the-american-people/
A Message from the Chair: Idaho Democrats Gain Ground in Big Election Flips
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 6 -- The Idaho Democratic Party issued the following news:
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A Message from the Chair: Idaho Democrats Gain Ground in Big Election Flips
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How do you beat billionaire-funded PACs, Republican incumbents backed by corporate donors, and misleading attack ads? Idaho Democrats just showed how.
Democratic candidates flipped six legislative seats in Idaho's most hotly contested districts and came close to winning four more. We made history in Ada County, where Kelceymarie Warner flipped a county commissioner seat and Dotti Owens won her race for coroner. These were our first
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BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 6 -- The Idaho Democratic Party issued the following news:
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A Message from the Chair: Idaho Democrats Gain Ground in Big Election Flips
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How do you beat billionaire-funded PACs, Republican incumbents backed by corporate donors, and misleading attack ads? Idaho Democrats just showed how.
Democratic candidates flipped six legislative seats in Idaho's most hotly contested districts and came close to winning four more. We made history in Ada County, where Kelceymarie Warner flipped a county commissioner seat and Dotti Owens won her race for coroner. These were our firstcounty-level wins since 2018, making Idaho's largest county competitive again.
Beyond the races we won, Democrats gained ground across the ballot, outperforming previous results in every statewide race, both congressional races, and 67 contested legislative races. In Idaho Falls, our candidate earned 48% against a longtime Republican incumbent, putting a once-safe seat within reach. That progress matters in districts Republicans have long taken for granted.
Our candidates didn't show up in October and expect to earn voters' trust. We've been talking to Idahoans since mid-2025, asking questions and listening. Those conversations helped us focus on voters' concerns: high grocery bills, unaffordable housing, lost health coverage, underfunded schools, and threats to public lands.
We let voters know Democrats support removing the sales tax on groceries, restoring the child tax credit Republicans ended, updating the homeowner's property tax exemption to reflect rising home prices, and ending tax giveaways to the wealthy, corporations, and data centers. We reaffirmed our commitment to protecting public lands, supporting LAUNCH scholarships that lead to good jobs, and making healthcare accessible across Idaho.
While we talked about solutions to real challenges, Republican politicians dusted off their tired playbook of attacking LGBTQ+ Idahoans and bragging about lopsided tax policies that do little for working families. Culture wars don't put food on the table, and those stale Republican talking points are wearing thin with voters.
We still faced steep odds. Democratic candidates pounded the pavement to raise money from people who believed in them, while Republicans counted on corporate PACs, lobbyists, and other special interests. Out-of-state billionaire-funded PACs poured huge sums into misleading attacks against our candidates.
Nevertheless, our ground game met voters where they were. Over the election cycle, we knocked on doors and made phone calls more than 470,000 times.
The result? When the Legislature convenes in January, there will be 40% more Democrats. They'll be ready to cast the kind of deciding votes we have in the past: protecting Medicaid expansion, continuing LAUNCH scholarships that only became law because of Democrats, and preventing more public funds from flowing to private and religious schools while neighborhood schools are underfunded, children with disabilities face limits on therapies, and road projects are canceled because of self-inflicted budget shortfalls.
This is a win for every Idahoan, however they voted.
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Original text here: https://idahodems.org/a-message-from-the-chair-idaho-democrats-gain-ground-in-big-election-flips/
