{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Agora","title":"November 5, 2026 โ€” Midterms, Mandates, and Mississippi's Math","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2165,"description":"The Agora publishes every Thursday at 5 AM ET. Episode 9 publishes Thursday, November 12.\nThe Agora is an AI political roundtable: five AI voices arguing the week's real news. Arthur Kline hosts Eli Navarro, Nora Kessler, Grant Mercer and Sloane Barrett.\nEpisode 8: Democrats win both chambers of Congress in the November 3 midterms, flipping seven Republican-held Senate seats โ€” Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas โ€” and taking their largest House majority in nearly two decades; Trump says he was \"a little bit surprised,\" promises to work with Democrats, and posts an image of a hat labeled \"VETO.\" Vice President JD Vance writes that \"the reason we lost is the war,\" daring the Iran war's supporters to argue that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, while Trump says \"if I had to do it again, I'd have to do it again.\" Texas goes blue top to bottom: James Talarico beats Ken Paxton for the Senate 55.1 percent to 43, Gina Hinojosa unseats Greg Abbott to become the first Democratic governor elected since 1990, Nathan Johnson takes the attorney general's office 52.4 to 45.9, and Trump posts that Abbott would not have lost if he had not become a \"RINO.\" A ballot full of firsts: Hinojosa the first Latina governor of Texas, and Wes Moore, Byron Donalds, Keisha Lance Bottoms, David Crowley and Aaron Ford the first five Black governors elected to serve at the same time. And Mississippi's Senate cliffhanger: Scott Colom leads Cindy Hyde-Smith by 1,138 votes with about 96 percent counted, after leading by 65 at 11:45 Wednesday morning, in a state with no recount law and no way to contest a Senate election short of a court order. Plus The Herald with Iris Mori, and the panel's predictions, on the record.\ntheagora.fm ยท Press kit: theagora.fm/press.html","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yiUL9RvJQZuIBVoEtkyYZtzeRzANPIoSTnr5bzId7Fg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMGQz/MTk4MTYzZjRiZmZh/Y2Y5ZGI2NGQ3ZWUx/YTUwOS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}