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Midterm Elections 2022

Coverage of the 2022 midterm elections: House, Senate, ballot initiatives, and more.

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Your 2022 midterms cheat sheet 

Here’s what is really at stake in the 2022 midterm elections.

By Li Zhou, Nicole Narea, and 1 more

Did George Santos lie about everything?

By Ben Jacobs

Attacks on New Mexico Democrats show the dangers of election denialism

By Nicole Narea

Democrats made historic gains at the state level. Can they build on them?

By Nicole Narea

Georgia is a perfect example of the growing power of Asian American voters

By Li Zhou

What to know about the most important elections in 2023

By Ben Jacobs

Kari Lake’s long-shot lawsuit challenging her midterms loss, explained

By Nicole Narea

How Democrats mostly neutralized Republican attacks on crime in the midterms

By Nicole Narea

A Pennsylvania county delayed certifying the midterms. That has scary implications for 2024.

By Nicole Narea

What America’s politicians get wrong about young voters

By Christian Paz

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The 2022 midterm elections, explained

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The 3 winners and 3 losers from the Georgia runoff

By Ben Jacobs

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Raphael Warnock is officially Democrats’ 51st senator. Here’s why that matters.

By Li Zhou

5 key questions the Georgia Senate runoff will answer

By Li Zhou

Kari Lake’s lonely, absurd quest to challenge Arizona’s election results

By Nicole Narea

“I’ve always been the youngest person in the room”

By Siona Peterous

The 2024 Senate map is terrifying for Democrats. That’s one reason Georgia’s runoff matters.

By Andrew Prokop

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The guy who got the midterms right explains what the media got wrong

By Nicole Narea

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How independent voters saved Democrats

By Christian Paz

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The high stakes and unique weirdness of the Georgia Senate runoff, briefly explained

By Li Zhou

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How the right’s radical thinkers are coping with the midterms

By Zack Beauchamp

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Democrats’ quietly effective strategy for defeating election deniers

By Christian Paz
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Why so many “election deniers” lost in 2022

By Liz Scheltens

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The midterm culture war over plant-based meat

By Kenny Torrella

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Kari Lake’s defeat in Arizona may only be a temporary blow to Trumpism

By Nicole Narea

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The GOP captures the House — and is ready for revenge

By Nicole Narea

Why some Republican senators are revolting against Mitch McConnell

By Li Zhou

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The GOP had terrible Senate candidates and it really did sink them

By Andrew Prokop

The impact of Sam Bankman-Fried’s support for Democrats is massively overstated

By Nicole Narea

Midterm elections Q&A with Li Zhou and Christian Paz

By Li Zhou and Christian Paz

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Democrats’ path to keep the House has gotten tougher

By Andrew Prokop

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8 questions the 2022 midterms answered

By Christian Paz

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Democrats kept the Senate. But Georgia is still important.

By Ellen Ioanes

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What we know so far about the 2022 midterms, in charts

By Youyou Zhou, Dylan Scott, and 1 more

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Why Ron DeSantis’s post-midterms glow up may fade

By Nicole Narea

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Democrats hang on to their crucial Senate majority

By Li Zhou

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Nevada just decided the battle for Senate control

By Dylan Scott

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America’s first Latina senator just saved Democrats’ Senate majority

By Christian Paz

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How a surprising Democratic strategy may have staved off the midterm red wave

By Ellen Ioanes

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Democrats had a surprisingly good midterms — but not in New York. Here’s what happened.

By Ellen Ioanes

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Lauren Boebert’s extremely tight race in a safe Republican district, explained

By Li Zhou