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The delivery room was on the ballot tonight, and voters showed up for it.
Democrats won the Senate and the House (NBC News), flipping 7 Senate seats and 28 House seats. Texas, a total-ban state, elected Talarico to the Senate and Hinojosa as governor.
The other side didn't win Dobbs in one election. They won it over 49 years of building institutions that outlast every cycle. That's the work now.
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The CBO projects that 4.6 to 8.6 million people lose Medicaid coverage under OBBBA. Work requirements alone account for around 5 million.
2.1 million of them are women of reproductive age.
January 2019: 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
The 2021 peak: 33.8.
December 2025: 16.6.
Seven years. A near doubling. And a return to roughly where we started.
69% of the people cut from Medicaid during the unwinding were cut for paperwork reasons.
Not because they earned too much. Not because they had moved. Because a form was missed.
4.6 million of them were children, disproportionately Black and Hispanic.
A pregnant woman entering a US jail has a 62.3% chance of never being given a pregnancy test.
The number of incarcerated women grew more than 600% between 1980 and 2023, from 26,326 to 186,244. That is twice the rate of growth for men.
The Compromise of 1877 pulled the last federal troops out of the last three Southern states still under military Reconstruction, and it did that in exchange for the presidency.
What happened after that was not a resumption of anything.
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The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act's enforcement rules took effect January 1, 2025, and were paused in May 2025 after legal challenge.
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Both stopped for the same reason: somebody showed them the file.
Neither was persuaded by being told to trust the ruling.
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