Flipping Tables

OH MY GOD!!!
Sources:
On This Day: NPR — Obama elected, Nov. 4, 2008 | History.com — Obama elected first Black president
The night: NBC News — Democrats capture full control of Congress | CBS — Senate results | CBS — House results | CNN live — Democrats take control of Congress | 19th News — How Democrats flipped the House | NPR — Jeffries celebrates | OPB/NPR — Democrats win full control
Texas: Houston Public Media — Talarico ends 32-year streak | Texas Tribune — Talarico defeats Paxton | Dallas Morning News — “A mandate the size of Texas” | Click2Houston — Paxton concedes | Texas Tribune — Hinojosa defeats Abbott | NBC — Hinojosa takes down Abbott | KUT — Ending decades of Republican control
Georgia: ABC — Bottoms first Black woman elected governor | Fox 5 Atlanta — Bottoms wins after Jackson concedes | WSB Radio — Jackson concedes | IBTimes — Billionaire spent over $200 million | Yahoo — “Shoulders made of steel”
Michigan: Bridge Michigan — “Michigan, we did it” | The Hill — El-Sayed wins | CBS Detroit — El-Sayed, Benson win
Iowa: NBC — Turek flips Iowa | Iowa Public Radio — Turek defeats Hinson | NBC — Sand wins governor
Kansas: NPR — First Democratic senator from Kansas in nearly a century | Washington Post — Hamilton wins | Wikipedia — 2026 Kansas Senate election | Religion News — Kansas last sent a Democrat in 1932 | Kansas Reflector — Governor’s race deadlocked | KWCH — Holscher narrow lead | NBC — Kansas governor live results
Ohio: Statehouse News Bureau — Acton, Brown win on historic night | PBS — Brown wins Senate race
North Carolina: WRAL — First NC Democrat to win Senate seat since 2008 | Axios — Cooper defeats Whatley
South Carolina: Time — Andrews defeats Graham | NPR — Andrews defeats Graham | CBS — Andrews flips seat
Nevada: NBC — Ford unseats Lombardo | NPR — Ford beats GOP incumbent | Fox 5 Vegas — First Black governor
Maine / Mississippi / Alaska: NPR — Jackson wins over Collins | Maine Public — Collins concedes | Mississippi Free Press — Colom leads by 28 votes | WLOX — Neck-and-neck | The Hill — Mississippi too close to call | Mississippi Independent — Colom pulls ahead | Newsweek — Why Alaska still matters | Anchorage Daily News — Tight Senate race
Firsts: Stateline — Historic night for governors | NBC — Historic first for Black governors | NPR — Nine governor candidates made history | Newsweek — Historic firsts | NBC — Governor results
Tennessee: WBIR — Goldberg projected to win HD18 | WATE — Democrat flips Knoxville seat
Garcia / Trump / GOP: Yahoo/HuffPost — “Lawyer up” | Crooks and Liars — New Oversight chair to Trump admin | IBTimes — Truth Social fury: Fox, Abbott, VETO hat | Newsweek — Trump refuses blame | Forbes — Congratulates Democrats, posts VETO hat | France 24 — Says Iran war played role | Dawn/AFP — Politicians react | WHEC — Party leaders share reaction

get out and vote!!!
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Iran strikes: PBS/AP — U.S. strikes Iranian targets in Strait of Hormuz | Washington Post — Mideast news Nov. 2 | US News/AP — Where things stand on Iran | CBS live — Election eve | ABC live — War cost “peanuts,” $47 billion
Israel aid: Reuters via Yahoo — US will stop $4 billion aid | Fox News — Israel can still buy weapons | Jerusalem Post — Agreed with Netanyahu
ICC: AP via News4Jax — ICC president hits back | ICC — President addresses General Assembly | The Hill — Vows to defend court | The New Arab — Nine of 18 judges sanctioned
DOJ monitors: Spotlight PA — What to know | Newsweek — Largest operation in DOJ history | Democracy Docket — Where DOJ will deploy monitors | CBS Philadelphia — Four Pennsylvania counties | ABC live — Monitors, Walton ruling
Courts overnight: NBC — Supreme Court quickly rejects California bid | CalMatters — What to know | Democracy Docket — Ninth Circuit wipes out panel stay | NBC — Administration appeals Thompson order | Bloomberg Law — DOJ appeals Alaska dismissal | Brennan Center — What 34 courts have said | NBC live — Reflecting Pool, early vote
Approval / closing: Al Jazeera — Approval near record low | Silver Bulletin — Approval tracker | NBC — Final rally of blitz | Spectrum — Closing pitch at Reflecting Pool
Stevens / AIPAC: CBS — Dingell: “galvanizing” | Detroit News — Stevens explains | CNN — How unity exploded | The Intercept — AIPAC isn’t retreating | Sludge — AIPAC tops $100 million | Bridge Michigan — Outside spending | NPR — AIPAC halts endorsements | CNBC — AIPAC retreats | FactCheck.org — UDP 2024, Bowman
SpaceX / Musk: TechCrunch — SpaceX wants Boost Mobile | Deadline — Talks with EchoStar | CNBC — Grain spectrum deal | Mediaite/Politico — Democrats plan Musk probes | Washington Post — Musk says he will fight back | IBTimes — “I’d do it,” preemptive pardons
Automakers: CNBC — Automakers urge permanent ban | CBS — Ban Chinese vehicle sales | Alliance for Automotive Innovation — Letter | The Hill — Auto alliance asks for ban
Harvard: Harvard Crimson — Lawsuit dismissed | CNBC — Judge dismisses probe case | ABC/AP — Judge dismisses lawsuit
DePodesta: WBEZ — Broadview 6 heats up as ex-FBI boss sues | Washington Post — Pushed out over “politically motivated” cases | AP via WRAL — Sues Justice Department
Pregnancy protections: Wisevoter — Administration moves to scale back | Joe.My.God — EEOC to roll back protections (NYT) | EEOC — 2024 final rule statement | Ogletree — Louisiana vacatur of abortion provision
Learjet: CNN — Victims identified | NBC Miami — What to know | ABC — Parents and two children among victims
Binance: CNBC — North Korea denies | Bloomberg — Outflows $4.7 billion | Help Net Security — FBI attribution
Murphy: Newsweek — “Responding well” | Axios — Hospitalized after stroke

On October 20 in Conroe, Texas, a pastor laid hands on Ken Paxton and prayed that God would "give him favor with voters." Two days later a dozen Catholic bishops were filmed praying over Donald Trump in the Oval Office with Paula White-Cain standing behind the chair. Two weeks before that, Jim Bakker died. This episode traces the idea underneath all three: that success is God's verdict on a man.
It starts with a clockmaker in Belfast, Maine, in 1838. Phineas Quimby decided disease was an error of belief, his patient Mary Baker Eddy turned that into Christian Science, and a fired editor named Emma Curtis Hopkins turned it into New Thought, ordaining twenty women in her first class in 1889 and training the founders of Unity, Divine Science, and Religious Science. Then the men moved in. Ralph Waldo Trine, Napoleon Hill (whose Carnegie meeting no archive can find), Bruce Barton's Jesus as "the founder of modern business," and Norman Vincent Peale, who married Donald and Ivana Trump in 1977 and whom Trump still calls his teacher.
Alongside it, the gospel of wealth: Russell Conwell's "it is your duty to get rich," delivered 6,152 times. The frontier panic of Turner and Roosevelt, the Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911, and Billy Sunday's war on "effeminate" Christianity, all arriving as women organized to vote. Fundamentalism, paid for by Union Oil's Lyman Stewart. And E. W. Kenyon, who learned mind-cure at a Boston elocution school and passed it, word for word, to Kenneth Hagin of McKinney, Texas, Paxton's hometown. From Hagin: Copeland, seed-faith, Osteen, Paula White, and a 2006 poll in which 61 percent of American Christians said God wants people to be rich.

Sources
Kate Bowler, Blessed (Oxford, 2013)
Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom (University of California Press, 1999)
Catherine Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit (Yale, 2007)
Gail Harley, Emma Curtis Hopkins: Forgotten Founder of New Thought (Syracuse, 2002)
Donald Meyer, The Positive Thinkers (Doubleday, 1965)
Richard Weiss, The American Myth of Success (Basic Books, 1969)
Mitch Horowitz, One Simple Idea (Crown, 2014)
D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel (Hendrickson, 1988)
George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture (Oxford, 1980)
Darren Dochuk, Anointed with Oil (Basic Books, 2019)
Kevin Kruse, One Nation Under God (Basic Books, 2015)
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne (Liveright, 2020)
Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (Knopf, 1977)
David Edwin Harrell Jr., Oral Roberts: An American Life (Indiana, 1985)
Carol V. R. George, God's Salesman (Oxford, 1993)
David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (Penguin, 2006)
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lectures IV–V
Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds; Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889
Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite (1897); Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937); Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (1952); Oral Roberts, The Miracle of Seed-Faith (1970); Kenneth Hagin, You Can Have What You Say (1979); Kenneth Copeland, The Laws of Prosperity (1974); Marabel Morgan, The Total Woman (1973); Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now (2004)
Matt Novak, "The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill," Gizmodo, Dec. 2016
Time, "Does God Want You to Be Rich?" Sept. 10, 2006
Texas House Resolution 2377, May 27, 2023; Texas Senate Court of Impeachment, Sept. 2023
Angela Paxton, petition for divorce, Collin County, July 10, 2025
Ballotpedia and NBC News, Texas Senate runoff results, May 26–27, 2026
Fox News, Angela Paxton at the Texas Federation of Republican Women, Sept. 23, 2026

Get out and vote tomorrow everybody!
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On This Day: Truman Library — The 1948 election | Chicago Tribune — Dewey Defeats Truman history
Mr. Veto / rich members: The Hill — Trump says he will become “Mr. Veto” | Washington Examiner — “veto everything” | Roll Call Factbase — Mar-a-Lago Halloween gaggle transcript | Yahoo/Daily Beast — “tacky boast” on eve of affordability election | CBS12 — “came as Donald Trump”
Alaska: CNBC — Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit | AP via ClickOrlando — Sullivan claims Peltola “still lying” | The Hill — Judge rejects DOJ bid | HuffPost/AP — Dismissal
Stevens: NBC News — Stevens endorses Rogers | NPR — Spurning El-Sayed | Bridge Michigan — Detroit appearance | Fox 2 Detroit — Democratic backlash
Murphy: NPR — Murphy hospitalized with stroke | NBC Connecticut — Hospitalized after stroke | CNN — Expected full recovery | Democracy Now — Murphy calls Iran plans “insane”
Election officials: Yahoo/Independent — Judge blasts Trump team for threatening election workers | Fox News — Judge blocks DOJ threats | Davis Vanguard — Judge bars DOJ election intimidation
Idaho: Boise State Public Radio — 9th Circuit lifts halt | Idaho News — Ninth Circuit stays injunction | JAMA — Abortion bans and infant mortality | Milbank Quarterly — State of the research 2025 | GEPI — Maternal mortality after bans | KFF Health News — Idaho drops maternal mortality panel | Idaho Capital Sun — Reconstituted committee
Preschool: NPR — Court hears universal pre-K religious freedom case | OPB — Colorado pre-K case | SCOTUSblog — Court will hear case | The Hill via WSPA — Religious vs LGBTQ rights | Becket — St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy
WSJ / BBC: CNN — Judge tosses WSJ suit for good | CBS News — Dismissed with prejudice | The Hill — Dismissed a second time | Newsweek — List of Trump media lawsuits, BBC deposition | Deadline — 285 Americans may have seen Panorama
Iran: Haaretz — Strikes as soon as one day after midterms | Times of Israel — Trump-Netanyahu call, WSJ | Haaretz — Rubio: no decision | CBS News live — “one way or the other”
Patriots: CNN — $2.1 billion Patriot sale | The Hill — Ukraine gets approval
Markets: NBC News — Tech stocks wipe out $1 trillion | Reuters via Yahoo — AI cash burn fears | Yahoo Finance — October closes with sell-off
Jet crash: NBC Miami — 9 dead in Learjet 60 crash | CBS Miami — Jet from Texas crashes near homes | ABC News — Learjet crashes in Palm Beach County
Shootings: NBC News — 12 killed, 60+ injured across seven states | ABC/AP — At least 6 dead in nightlife districts | CNN — Dallas Deep Ellum | Fox 4 — Deep Ellum shootings | Dallas Morning News — Safety concerns
Jacobs: CBS Sports — Three other women accused Jacobs | AP via NFL.com — NFL will review allegations | Fox 11 — Records released
Polk sting: ClickOrlando — Ex-Mickey Mouse character busted | Fox 13 — 281 arrested | CBS12 — 17 worked at theme parks
Oversight: Fox News — House Dems plan investigation blitz | CNN via KRDO — Trump family, ballroom, Epstein probes | PBS — Vast oversight, impeachment an option | Reuters via Yahoo — Investigations over impeachment
Good news: Positive News — What went right this week | Portugal Resident — Corvo turns off lights | Azores Natural Parks — SOS Cagarro

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On This Day: History.com — Welles scares nation | Smithsonian — The infamous War of the Worlds broadcast was a magnificent fluke
Rallies / health: NBC News — Trump cancels weekend rallies for tele-rallies | CNBC — Trump, Vance scrap appearances | CBS — “I feel perfect” | AP via WENY — Trump to hold rallies after canceling them | CNN live — Trump revives two red state rallies | IBTimes — Georgia rally “sound” remark
Polls / Cook: The Hill — Cook shifts more races toward Democrats | Washington Post — Democrats could win up to 240 seats | The Hill — Democrats hold 10-point lead | Silver Bulletin — Generic ballot average | The Hill — Democrats leading in Texas, Michigan
Alaska: ABC News — New wave of subpoenas | CNN — Sullivan criminal probe accelerates | NBC News — Dunleavy orders separate investigation | Election Law Blog — Subpoenas
Pope: NBC News — Requested absentee ballot in Illinois | Chicago Sun-Times — Will vote from the Vatican by mail | EWTN — First pope to vote in an American election | Forbes — Requests Illinois mail-in ballot
Mass graves: Yahoo/Army Times — Army practicing digging mass battlefield graves | AOL — Rapid burial training not seen since Korea | Baller Alert — 2,400 soldiers a day
Iran / Murphy: Democracy Now — Murphy calls plans “insane” | Fox 17 — Resume Iran war after midterms is “insane” | CNBC — Iran claims tankers struck mines, strike fears | Fox News live — Pentagon offering options as deadline approaches | Fox News — “Anything’s possible”
G20: CBS Atlanta — U.S. cancels group photo | HuffPost — Scraps photo after allies object | PBS — UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s “appetite” for peace | RFE/RL — Divisions over Russia, Ukraine
Vance: Mediaite — Mocked for opener to affordability question | New Republic — Inappropriate answer on housing costs | Raw Story — Housing question into crude joke
Comey: CBS News — DOJ and Comey’s lawyers face off | AP via ClickOrlando — Lawyers will ask judge to block prosecution
Cornell: UPI — State Police to investigate future cases | CBS6 Albany — Cornell, State Police partnership | CNN — Judge questions request to remove James | ABC7 — James appointed special prosecutor
Missouri: KOMU — Provider group supports Amendment 3 despite most doctors opposing | KCUR — Would allow some abortions; whether women could get them is unclear | Springfield Daily Citizen — Doctors share differing views | Yahoo — First state to overturn voter-approved protections
Binance: Al Jazeera — $6.3bn stolen, what we know | CNN — North Korea suspected | Engadget — Record crypto theft | Axios — Trump pardons Binance founder (Oct 2025)
Israel: Times of Israel — All votes counted, 53-48-19 | NBC News — Neither can immediately form a government | Al Jazeera — No overall majority | Ynet — Netanyahu bloc 53, Eisenkot 48
Pike / Morley: RTE — “Pain in my mind and soul” | Mediaite — Pike speaks out | CNN — Truck sat in Illinois for a day | Newsweek — Morley sightings map | KFVS — Possible link to Wisconsin bank robbery
Good news: Chicago Sun-Times — Illinois medical debt relief | Good Good Good — Good news this week, Oct. 24