Democrats flipped seven Senate seats in a 2026 midterm referendum on Trump, ousting Susan Collins and defeating Attorney General Ken Paxton.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Adam Hamilton, a pastor who became the first Democrat in nearly a century to win a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas.

Senate control hangs in the balance as Americans head to the polls in one of the most closely watched midterm elections in years.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said “America is back” as CNN projects that Democrats will gain control of both the House and Senate.

A small polling place in rural Leavenworth County, Kansas briefly ran out of paper ballots at 8 a.m. because a county clerk didn’t order enough. Bryan Caskey, the state’s director of elections, said t

Because of an "ordering" mishap, a voting location in Linwood, Kansas, briefly ran out of ballots around 8 a.m. Tuesday. "We were able to figure that out really fast."

"At that point, her contractions were about five minutes apart," said Jake Fisher, Shawnee County assistant election commissioner. "... She goes, ‘I'm here to vote, and I'm going to vote my ballot.'"

In the once reliably red South, Republicans shed Senate seats in both Carolinas while Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff enjoyed a commanding reelection victory. The missing Republicans in the Plains states stayed missing as Republicans lost Iowa — a state Trump won thrice — and Kansas,