A To-Do List Taped to the Refrigerator on the Way Out.

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The House Freedom Caucus did something useful Monday. It wrote things down. In a short document posted to social media, the caucus gave Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune a list. It wasn’t a manifesto or a threat. It was a list: Pass a funding bill through reconciliation. Put border security into law. Cap annual spending. Pass an energy bill. Ban members of Congress from trading stocks. It reads like the note you leave on the counter the week you move out of a house you loved. Here’s what still needs doing. Here’s what we said we’d

The Wave Came In. Stewart Wants the Old Guard Out.

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Democrats woke up Wednesday with both houses of Congress. Jon Stewart woke up with a list of demands. On his podcast, “The Weekly Show,” a listener asked whether Chuck Schumer should step aside now that Democrats have the Senate back. Stewart unloaded. “It is a bulls–t system and it needs to go,” he said. He meant the seniority ladder, the old arrangement that decides who leads, who waits, and who gets the microphone. Then he turned to the man himself. People were already handing Schumer credit for the wave, Stewart said, and that was rich. “Chuck Schumer fought tooth and

The Party Won. But The Leader May Get a Pink Slip.

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The ballots were barely counted when the left decided what Democrats needed after their best night in years: a new boss. On Wednesday, the progressive group Indivisible called on Senate Democrats to replace Chuck Schumer. That was less than a day after his party took both chambers of Congress. “Yesterday, voters made it very clear that they want a new generation of Democratic fighters,” the group posted. “It’s time for Senate Democrats to choose new leadership.” Most leaders get a honeymoon. Schumer got an eviction notice. He spent Wednesday morning savoring the win, calling it “a generational remake of the

They Got the Gavels. But He Has the Power of the Pen.

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The hat said one word. Late Tuesday night, with the returns coming in and the map turning a color Republicans hadn’t braced for, President Trump posted a picture of a red cap to Truth Social. Not “Make America Great Again.” Just “VETO.” That’s the message. That’s also the plan. Democrats took the House and the Senate on Tuesday, flipping at least seven Republican Senate seats and more than two dozen House districts. It was a rough night for the GOP, and the president didn’t pretend otherwise. “I’m a little bit surprised,” he said. “I thought they’d do better.” But he

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