Hosts Jennifer Welch and Josh Welch react to the midterm results, calling the Democratic gains a blue wave and a repudiation of MAGA. They cite a sweep of Texas state races, Senate and House seat counts, and voter swings reported in an NBC poll among independents, Latinos, young voters and Black voters.
The conversation covers the Florida and Michigan Senate races, criticism of Democratic party leaders, the Mississippi and Oklahoma results, and the outlook for the House Oversight Committee. Listeners hear the hosts' views on Fox News coverage and calls for accountability, which are presented as commentary rather than settled fact.
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My name is Jennifer. My pronouns are she/her. Woke is back, the bigots lost, and you want to know what it looks like to get liberated from Christian, nationalist, MAGA, Hellscape? Look at Austin, Texas, last night when Gina Inahosa and James Talarico told MAGA to go pound sand, take your faux Christianity and your bigotry the fuck out of Texas. Play the clip.
This hits so hard for me because I know what it's like to live around a bunch of lying Christian nationalists that weaponize the Bible and lie and then just fleece, fleece, fleece the taxpayer. Good on Texas, you're blue. You did it, baby. It's Jover, it's a blue nomi. We did it, Josh. What do you have to say?
Well, and it's not just the governor and Talarico. It's not just those two races. It's the cross the board. They've got four or five Supreme Court, state Supreme Court ballots still outstanding on different nominees, and the Democrats are winning those races. You're seeing it across the board, the Attorney General's race in the state of Texas. And all of this reminds me of one person, the person that we love the most on this show, Elon Musk. What do you think he's thinking this morning? Because it's not just the governor, it's not just Inahosa and Talarico.
It is a sweep in state government. Think about that. State government in Texas. We've seen all of the diabolical shit that they do when you have these Democratic senators or politicians in the statehouse. Remember when they'd have to travel out of state because they were trying to uphold some right or something? That place has been so conservative and Republican, and now it's completely blue. It's amazing.
This is a complete repudiation on Elon Musk. The state of Texas said, "Hey, you packed your toys up and you didn't want to participate in California, and you thought you should be able to skirt the system." So he gets into Texas, he starts buying up prostitutes, and the citizens of Texas said, "No, no, no, we cannot fucking stand you." He spent half a million dollars almost nationally. I think it's 2 to 300 million in the state of Texas, which affects his net worth zero.
And he's so entitled. He thinks he doesn't have to pay taxes. He thinks everyone has to worship him. And everybody in Texas said, "We cannot stand you." Texas specifically is a repudiation of the tech oligarchs. I am incredibly proud, but it gets even better. Here's the blue nomi, baby. Look at the movement here. Look at this. Look at this blue map. Change in margin plus 10 points. This is the moment that we want to feel camaraderie with all of our fellow Americans who see this administration and their bigotry and their cruelty and their fleecing of tax dollars from working-class people, their pathological lying.
And we rejected it. We rejected it wholly. And to all of the MAGA voters out there that cannot stand diversity, tough titties, we are a melting pot. Diversity is our strength, and we proved that last night. And there's still some states, still some states out there. Mississippi, we'll get to that in a minute. Josh, what about this movement?
Well, and I want to throw a few numbers at you. With the independent voters, a 14-point swing in favor of the Democrats last night. This comes from an NBC poll. Latinos, a 22-point swing. Under 30 voters, a plus 47 instead of a plus 11 last election. Black voters, 89 to 9%. And the men, 85 to 13% black men. And so overall, men overall were Republican plus 12 in 2024.
Last night it was even. Even. So you're seeing these massive number shifts. Even in Oklahoma, even though we didn't win anything, we had a 15, 16, 17-point swing. We had two congressional races that came down to the last second that were within 1% and another one within 3%, which is unheard of in Oklahoma. No, we didn't win, but the swings on these are 15, 20 points. Look at Talarico wins by 12 percentage points. Think about that.
I don't know what Trump won was plus in 2024, but that's got to be 20, 30-point swing.
Every single one of Trump's handpicked pieces of shit, bigoted candidates lost. Every single one of them lost. And I just want to say, back to Oklahoma really quick. Stephanie Bai, she squeaked it out, but I will be watching you. It will be my mission in life to make sure your bullshit gerrymandered map where you are taking away the voice of people of Oklahoma City, the economic hub of that state. I'll be watching you. I'll be reporting on you. The clock is ticking.
I cannot wait for your next election. All right, let's go back to nationally. Here's the Senate map. Pop this up.
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All right, Senate. We are right now, as of this morning, 54 Democratic seats. The bigots, the bigoted MAGA party is at 44. But here's, leave that up for a second. Okay, you've got Kansas and Texas Democrats. 50 state strategy is here. And I want to talk for a second about Florida. Florida, Angie Nixon came within one point and Chuck Schumer fucked her.
The National Democratic Party fucked her over. And we should have won that seat. And Bernie and Chris Murphy and others went down there and campaigned with her. But I will, this is to me disqualifying the loss of the seat of Florida and the abandonment of the Democratic Party of embracing her and giving her the funds that she needs. Also, Congressman Vindman, who ran against her in the primary, had $7 million left in his war chest, and he promised to give it to her. Do you know how much money he gave her?
Her fellow Democrat? Zero. So these Democrats, they're closer to MAGA than they are with the progressive wing of the party. Our work today on these people begins because we do not want a political party that is beholden to corporations. And we've proven that you can win without it. Angie Nixon should have won. I don't think the Republicans beat her. I think Democratic negligence left her there to lose that just barely.
But let's talk about Michigan. Michigan is massive. Abdullah Al-Sayed had tweeted three months ago that he was going to beat Mike Rogers by seven. He called his shot. He took his shot, and he won. And this is a watershed moment for the Democratic Party, for all of the bedwetter Pearl Clutcher's in the Democratic Party that spoke about Hassan Piker, ad nauseam. When everybody in the country was trying to build a big tent and saying, "We are not bigots," the bigotry is coming from MAGA and from people within the Democratic Party that are allowing this rabid Islamophobia to a once-in-a-generational candidate.
Abdul, we love you. This is such an incredible moment. And most importantly, Abdul is an incredible candidate. He is going to be an incredible senator.
Let me say this too. The first thing I would say this morning is, Fetterman, Manchin, get the fuck out. We don't need you. We're at 54, possibly going to grow. We don't need you in the party. So we don't even want to talk to those guys. And the Democrats, they won in spite of Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, and Hakeem Jeffries. Not because of, in spite of. Let me just tell you a few things. You talked about how Schumer recruited Vindman, who lost poorly to Angie Nixon and then wouldn't give her the funds. He also recruited Janet Mills.
She dropped out before the primary. Recruited Haley Stevens. Abdullah Al-Sayed kicked her ass. They cannot, we cannot afford to have Chuck Schumer or Cory Booker or Hakeem Jeffries, any of those guys, leading our party moving forward. Period. That's got to be an end. There was an interview with Schumer yesterday about how he might try to work with Donald Trump. If we hear that bullshit again, again, he's going to write a mean letter, reach over party lines.
Now is the first step. The second step is crush these motherfuckers. Period.
That's right. And I know that a lot of you are probably saying, "Hey, let's celebrate this morning." This is the time that we are building a massive coalition. The presidential race starts today for 28. It starts today. And we have to, as beautiful as this map is right now, to defeat these fascist bigots, we have to expand this map in 28. And I echo everything that Josh says. I want full accountability on what Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner met about. Full accountability on that. Jared Kushner, in my opinion, is committing war crimes actively.
He is a traitor to, in my opinion, a traitor to the United States of America with his relations with Netanyahu, with his relations with the Russians. This is not somebody we meet with other than to say, "Your ass is going to have to appear in front of Congressman Robert Garcia." But let's take a moment to talk about the defeat of domestic terrorist Susan Collins, who always, every chance she could get, threw women off the bus. Every single chance she could get, she lost.
Susan Collins' reign of terror, her pedophilia apologist, the Donald Trump has learned his lesson, that Brett Kavanaugh is a great guy when I think several hundred people accused him of sexual assault, allegedly. She's gone. Bye. Bye, Susan.
Let's not forget the ProPublica report that dropped on her with all of the corruption associated with her. And the test for Democrats, now that you're going to gain control of these committees and be able to investigate, are you going to do it? Are you going to piss some of your colleagues off? Are you going to make it uncomfortable and capitulate? Or are you going to remember this blue tsunami in your constituents? Because the answer better be the latter. Seriously, we're done with those games. It's people like Susan Collins, Jared Kushner, anyone that did anything, a suspect, they're not safe.
No, we have to be the party of law and order. We have to. You cannot let these people off the hook. And just another thing. If I start hearing corporate media going after Abdullah Al-Sayed and saying, "What are we going to do to lower the temperature?" and putting that burden on him when he always kept the temperature low and he took fire. He was called a jihadist. He was called a terrorist. He was called colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood. When the people who collude with the Muslim Brotherhood is MAGA who colludes with Qatar and Qatar funds the Muslim Brotherhood.
That kind of shit, I am so sick of it. And there's going to be so many, so many country club Republicans popping up and saying, "I'm just sick of the divisiveness on both sides." Fuck off. I mean, all right, let's look at these wins. Let's talk about Mississippi. As of filming this morning, you guys, these ass hats, these MAGA bigots that had to cheat and gerrymander everything, and the Supreme Court who gutted the Voting Rights Act, these fucking morons are going to lose Mississippi.
Mississippi. We are going to see a blue Mississippi. And I want to say to every Black American, thank you. Thank you because you always reliably vote for everyone. For everyone. It's just incredible to live in this country and be on the side that embraces diversity, that embraces universal human rights for every single person in this country. And the MAGA bigots can go pound sand because you are going to lose Mississippi.
And I echo the same praise and kudos to the Black community for getting out to vote. And think about this. They've been shit on the past four to eight years. Just shit on. And what do they do? They turn out in record numbers to vote. Georgia has an African-American woman, a Black woman, as a governor. Think about that. They turned out and we owe them a great amount of thank you for showing up and voting. It's amazing.
All right, now here is the House map as of now. And I just want to remind our viewers, Kyle, you can pop this up, that where you see a lot of red, nobody lives in those areas. Land doesn't vote. And I say that to you all because MAGA has a hard time when they see these.
Generally for Biden's so thank you for presenting.
As of right now, we are at 228. I believe that predictions are saying that we're going to take at least 258 seats when all the races are called. This is a net gain of 43 seats. And this is where little Moses Mike Grinder Johnson, the little pipsqueak, the little ventriloquist, the little I live with the evangelical past weird evangelical anti-gay pastor and answer the door in my panties.
That guy, the guy whose balls are securely tucked in the resolute desk in the Oval Office. Bye. See ya. You have proven to everybody and put on a masterclass in being what a hypocritical Christian is. Every single day when you wake up, you are a walking, breathing embodiment as to why the numbers of Christianity are declining because Christianity has been hijacked by pieces of shit hypocrites like yourself.
I hope he starts his little lawn mowing business in Louisiana and he has just a great time.
Yeah, I was going to say, he better crank that mower up. And while he's riding that big mower in the acreage of Louisiana in a 105-degree temperature, he can read his Bible.
That's right.
He can read his Bible while he's doing that. And he can think about all this stuff because this was a direct repudiation of MAGA. It was a repudiation of hate and fear-mongering and racism and Islamophobia. A repudiation of all of it. And another thing that we haven't talked about, for some of these kids that voted, they don't know politics but for Donald Trump being in the Oval Office, with the exception of Biden. They don't know what politics is like. And they showed up in record numbers. And these kids are all, you know, they're all reasonable.
They're all pretty liberal and progressive in their belief system. We see that with our boys. This old generation of politics, the people in their 60s and 70s and 80s, that's moving. And it's only going to get better, better.
Because these kids have grown up in a more diverse America. It's more diverse than when we grew up. And the one thing that MAGA targets is the one thing I love, diversity. I love that. That is the only culture we have as Americans, is we are multicultural. This is a complete repudiation on mediocre white bigots and the women that carry the water for them. A complete repudiation. It is so beautiful.
It is so delicious. And now I want to move on to Fox News and their meltdown, which last night, I have to say, I thought, you know what? This is great watching CNN and NBC, but I'm going to go over and drink Caderaid and watch Fox.
You snuck it in.
It was injected into my veins. I loved it. And here's a little sample of that. They're reading a statement from Congressman Robert Garcia, who is the head of the Oversight Committee. And they're reading his response on air. Play the clip.
What could be the incoming Oversight Chairman, Robert Garcia, just put a statement out. If they go on to secure the majority in the House, he would be the chairman of the Oversight Committee. He has two words, quote, "Lawyer up." That's the message of.
Harold.
Okay, and here's how Robert Garcia responded to Fox. Pop this up. Oversight DIMS says, "Read it again." I love this. Hakeem. But listen, if you are not full tilt like this, then the Progressive Caucus needs to do something before we give the gavel out. We don't have to do the seniority crap. That's their thing. Those are the preservationist corporatist Democrats. We don't have to do that.
Establishment candidates got their asses beat all over the country. The new DIMS are here and the new DIMS right into the hornets' nest said, "You're right. Lawyer up. Read it again, motherfuckers. Read it again." There's no secret meetings and playing patty cake with failed son, Jared fuckface Kushner. None of that shit. None of it. If you think that we are not still going to be all gas on this thing until MAGA is crushed completely and thoroughly and a museum is erected with every single fascist name and every single person who gave money to these piece of shit bigots with their names chiseled in marble, I'm telling you, hell hath no fury.
Like our party's scorned for these people.
Yeah, when he says "Lawyer up," I think, please don't tease me with a good time. Please don't. Because they need to. And we went through this Merrick Garland thing, and I'm sorry to have to bring that up, but that's my fear here. Democrats want to, when they gain power, reach across the aisle and be nice and legislate and compromise. Those days are over. If you show any hint of proceeding forward like that, if you elect, in my opinion, Chuck Schumer to be the majority leader, that's a disqualifier.
If they do Chuck Schumer, if he is the majority, if he is the majority leader, I will start a movement for everybody to film themselves going to change their voter registration.
I agree. I agree.
From Democrat to independent. That will be the death of independent voters.
I know, but that's what's coming next for us. And so we have to put our foot on the gas and be vocal and be loud about this because this is just the beginning. I mean, we're going full throttle. If we don't take them out and investigate them completely in depth and charge people. And in 28, we haven't even talked about this, but if Texas stays blue and you get the electoral votes from Texas, what do you think that does to the presidential map in 28? It's game over for Republicans.
And you better start acting like it. We went through this one time before, and we didn't fight like this to not get results, to not go after people. All these people that were hated on, all these trans people that were marginalized and trolled and people shot, you know, ICE agents shooting people and trolling them afterward, calling them terrorists. Don't forget that shit. Go after every one of those motherfuckers. Seriously.
I completely agree. I completely agree. And the movement, I want to shout out to our community and to other communities of our peers in independent media. Media has been democratized. And you all are trusting us and coming to sources like us and our other peers in independent media to get less of a corporate message and to get the truth and to know the people that are delivering this to you believe in what you believe in. And this is a huge, huge movement. And this movement won.
This movement won. If we would have listened to corporate media, then you got the candidates that Chuck Schumer picked that got their asses beat in their primaries. And so kudos to this community who tunes into this channel every day and listens. And as we have all detoxed and deprogrammed off of corporate news and corporate messaging, because we are a country of we the people and we the people saved us, our elections held. They held. And so this is just an incredible day to celebrate, an incredible day for a victory, but also an incredible day to let our leaders know, no, no, no, we are not taking our foot off the gas.
If anything, now we're smashing it through the floorboard. Accountability, walk and chew gum, govern, deliver materially for people, go tell your corporate masters to go pound sand.
Yeah, the one word for them, that's consequences. Consequences. Think about that, Democrats. Consequences.
All right, this is all we have for this episode. We're going to drop a bunch today. My favorite episode, Ryan's preparing right now, is we are going to play a lot of clips of Fox and their reaction to all of this, which I cannot wait to film. I did order a MAGA Tears mug yesterday, but it's not going to arrive till tomorrow. So tomorrow we'll drink MAGA Tears as well. It's a great day to be an American. It's a great day that we can celebrate with each other, that the bigots and the white nationalists and the criminals lost in the most embarrassing way imaginable.
And it's beautiful. We'll be back later with more news.
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