For the first time in a decade, election predictions far exceeded public expectations. What pollsters anticipated as a blue wave billowed into a blue tsunami. Wins that held ground for already blue seats eased nerves, and the flips of swing states like Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio energized the blue base. But red-belt-busting wins in Republican strongholds like Texas, South Carolina and Kansas alongside pending races in Alaska and...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) won’t be the lone Senate Democrat defending the filibuster next year. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor elected in Kansas on Tuesday, would vote to keep the 60-vote threshold intact, while former Gov. Roy Cooper, the senator-elect in North Carolina, hasn’t been quite so definitive but praised it recently as a firewall […]

Dominick Williams dowilliams@kcstar.com Missouri Democrats flipped 16 House seats and 2 Senate seats. Kansas elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and may elect Democrats statewide. Democrats are still the minority party in both states.

“Kansas, get ready to learn what a polycule is,” read one Tuesday night tweet. All in due time. Let Kansans rest up. (This includes the ethically nonmonogamous community in Lawrence.) Kansas must be exhausted. It swung left 21.06 points Tuesday. As everyone now knows, the state elected Adam Hamilton, a recent Democratic convert and founding pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country, as its first Democratic U.S. senator since...

Over the last 12 years of midterm elections, Tuesday's had the second highest voter turnout in the five-county area.

Democrats secured at least 54 Senate seats after Tuesday’s midterm elections. While some newly elected Democratic senators, including Adam Hamilton in Kansas and Troy Jackson in Maine, said during their campaigns that they would not vote for Schumer as majority leader,

There are just four races for U.S. Senate and governor that The Associated Press has not yet called as of Thursday. Contests in Alaska, Kansas and Mississippi have narrow margins with votes still outstanding even as the scale of Democrats’ midterm victory across the country comes into focus,

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon said White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other political consultants should be “removed immediately” following the losses suffered by the GOP in the midterm elections. Democrats secured wins in battleground states across the country on Tuesday, flipping GOP-held seats in Texas, South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio,…

The midterms Blue Tsunami flipped Texas statewide for the first time since 1992 and saw Kansas elect a Democratic senator for the first time in 94 years.