In Texas, it was just as important we won the Lt Gov and AG.
AG in particular means Texas is no longer blanket supporting conservative legal positions towards federal laws.
Having CA, TX, and NY all submitting legal briefs on the same side of issues matters.
Lowercase "Nasa"?
As Governor she has limited ability to do much about abortion, especially with the Texas Senate still majority Republican.
The AG on the other hand, can make some significant strides in how abortion laws are prosecuted. Example: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/11/04/texas-abortion-ban-democrats-nathan-johnson-gina-hinojosa/
Texas is coming out of 3 decades of Republican control; not everything can change immediately. Let's wait to see what happens as well, because "not my priority" doesn't mean "no progress".
Still leaps and bounds better than re-electing Abbott!
Edit with some details form the linked article:
Anti-abortion advocates like John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, aren’t worried about a new “standalone abortion bill” being passed this upcoming session, but he is concerned incoming Democratic leadership will turn back decades of Republican-led inroads in restricting the procedure.
He could see Hinojosa and other Dems making it tougher for programs like the former Alternatives to Abortion program, now renamed Thriving Texas Families, which sends over $200 million to private contractors to, in part, counsel pregnant women out of abortions, among other services. He said Hinojosa has consistently voted against the program and that he could see her defunding it or transferring the funding to another program.
The agency overseeing the program, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, has an agency commissioner, Stephanie Muth, whose appointment expires Feb. 1. Seago said he also fears that Hinojosa could also use her own appointment power to put someone else in charge of the agency and begin to change how those private contractors are scrutinized.
Keep Texas Freaky?
Not all the races are called yet, but state-wide Texas was +5 or +6 Dem in down ballot races like Lt Gov, railroad commissioner, & AG. Yet it looks like 60-70% of the 38 US house seats will remain Republican. That's still gerrymandered AF.
The headline and reference to flipped seats make it seem like their gerrymandering didn't work... It just didn't work as well as it could have.
Looks like those races are being called too! AG Patrick conceded per Texas Tribune!
I'm tired but hyped!
Edit: Goodwin claimed, not yet Patrick conceded 😬. Too late for me to be posting
Double edit, AG was Middleton:
Middleton called Johnson to concede, according to a spokesperson for Johnson’s campaign.
Finally can stop passing up federal Obamacare $ for no good reason & reverse our declining hospital system!
Start investing in our public schools instead of subsidizing charters!
Hopefully enough state house & Senate seats flip we can start undoing dumb abortion & commandments in classroom laws!
Add Texas to the states where marijuana is legal, then put all that wasted enforcement money to better use.
And a ton more, let's hope for a super productive state legislature in 27!
Trump did not provide details and it was not immediately clear which funding he meant.
Ah, I'll file this next to those tariff checks he's going to send everyone...
Wish nonsense like this didn't fill our collective news feeds, because it's not even remotely valid nor verified.
Tesla wants to keep being a premium product, as that's a higher profit margin.
They keep saying they want to make a smaller / cheaper model but don't deliver on that. Meanwhile many other brands have introduced models below the Tesla price point.
Grave of the Fireflies.
Dark meaning depressing.
...received 4.4m votes more than Bolsonaro, with a 51.79% share to his 45-year-old rival’s 48.21%.
A ~3.5 point margin; the popularity of far right ideology is scary right now...
Congrats to Brazil for remaining sane for another term.
This is America is a true work of art.