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night.

Not overwhelmingly excited, but definitely there are

some positive things that happen. So I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piclo. Rewire.com news is

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to hear more of it, please donate online. You can support us at rewire.new news slash donation. That's rewire. dot news slash donation. All right, Amani, so the midterm elections happen, and unless you were trapped under something heavy, you probably saw that it was kind of a big deal. I mean, we got some good news, right? Like the fact that Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, but we also got some bad news. The Democrats took town with a habit of Habibah.

Sorry, that was just me being very excited. Because it's big news. And I feel like there, I've seen a

lot of people on Twitter talking about, oh, it wasn't a blue wave. It was a blue fart. And I think

that, and I think that we need to actually

recognize that despite the Republicans' best efforts to gerrymandered Democrats out of existence,

Democrats still took the House back. So that's big. It is big. It really is. And it's,

I think you're totally right on the money that we need to like take the time to savor these wins because a a it's been a real long two years so far and b it's going to be a

real long two years coming into the next election too so like let's take this moment and enjoy it um but

we also got some kind of crappy news out of the election too like all that voter disenfranchised stuff

that we've talked

about is happening, right? And it happened last night. So bad that it maybe flipped some of the races.

Yeah. I mean, I really want Brian Kemp to fall down into a shallow puddle. Like, I don't want to

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