Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance)

Mississippi is roughly the same % Black as today’s Bed-Stuy, which is represented by an entirely Black slate of local officials, as well a Black member of Congress.

But Mississippi does not have early in-person voting, requires photo ID to vote, and has a felony disenfranchisement law dating to 1890 that today permanently bars nearly 70,000 state residents from voting.

@DemocracyDocket reports that in the last midterm election, that state "ranked dead last in the nation for voter turnout" and that this year voters there had to overcome "a system that perhaps makes it more difficult to vote than anywhere in the country."

Scott Colom's win is a remarkable achievement.

Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance 5d

This election cycle truly had everything

Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ Verified account @JayShams 5d

The rare Republican win in a blue state?

Luigi Mangione's cousin, Nino Mangione, who appears poised to win a Baltimore city council seat

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Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance Nov 4

From the Lincoln Project and MeidasTouch to Congress!

Fred Wellman Verified account @FPWellman Nov 4

Democrat Fred Wellman ousts Republican Ann Wagner in Missouri congressional upset missouriindependent.com/2026/11/03/dem…
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Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance Nov 4

Good reminder that the boat bombings deserve their own hearings & investigations

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The right did a total auto-goal by mistaking the cruel nastiness of online with real world America.

Americans' self-narrative is that they're a kind, moral people. I wouldn't have called Texas and S. Carolina, but I figured there'd be a rout in 2026 when I watched a boomer aged Republican yell "This isn't America!" as ICE violently carted off his gardeners. Note: not, "Don't take them before they finish my lawn!" but "This isn't America."

Watch Vance and Rubio suddenly discover that their Catholic faith means washing the feet of refugees. But it won't work. You can't un-bomb the boats in the Caribbean or Minab or make people unsee ICE thugs beating up women
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Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance Nov 4

Former FTC Commissioner:

Alvaro Bedoya Verified account @BedoyaUSA Nov 4

Dear dozens of new economic populist members of Congress,

You’ll face fast pressure to deliver economic results. How to do it? Subpoena CEOs. A shocking amount of time, they'll change what they are doing long before you pass a bill or actually cut off their federal funding. So:

- Subpoena Google for cramming AI down our kids throats. Threaten to amend the FAR to prohibit contracting across the U.S. government with any company forcing kids to use AI.

- Subpoena the private equity managers enshittifying hospitals, dialysis centers, your local vet, your local primary care provider. Name individuals, not just companies. Shame them. Show the public (and public pension funds) how they make their money.

- Subpoena health insurers who use AI to auto-deny valid claims, triage mental health emergencies, or upcode diagnoses. Make them stop that.

- Subpoena the airlines for systematically denying cash refunds to travelers. (“Here’s a voucher instead!”) Show your hand – threaten the subpoena now, before Thanksgiving.

- Subpoena Brazilian meatpacker JBS for literally anything. For child labor, for getting fat and rich off of cattlemen, for making their workers work so fast their hands curl into claws, for persistent hygiene allegations.

- Subpoena corporate landlords. Show the public how they get rich off of hidden fees and not fixing their apartments.

- Subpoena any company that has been slow to issue tariff refunds to small business owners. I bet they’ll get their checks a lot quicker!

Will it work? See what happened when Instacart was exposed as secretly marking up your grocery cart... Yes, it can work.

P.S. If anyone tells you “No, you can’t do that” or “No, there’s a process for that,” ignore them. You know what time it is.
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