As vote tallies rolled through late election night Tuesday, uncounted competitive US Senate races remained outstanding, but election decision desks across major outlets confirmed Democrats had flipped enough seats to seize unchallenged majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, marking a sweeping, nationwide voter repudiation of former and sitting President Donald Trump’s Republican Party. The series of decisive Democratic Senate upsets included projected victories for Josh Turek in Iowa, Roy Cooper in North Carolina, Annie Andrews in South Carolina, Adam Hamilton in Kansas, Troy Jackson in Maine, incumbent Sherrod Brown holding his Ohio seat, and James Talarico delivering a shocking blue flip in deep-red Texas. Notably, Democrats did not lose a single Senate seat they previously held going into the election, and their projected majority is large enough that they will not require the vote of centrist Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who has frequently broken with his party on high-stakes issues including ongoing overseas military conflicts. MSNBC NOW anchor Chris Hayes broke down the unprecedented scale of the wins on live air, emphasizing that the Democratic performances were not narrow, marginal victories decided by 10,000 or 20,000 vote gaps. “This is a total shellacking,” Hayes stated, highlighting that the Texas Senate and gubernatorial races, in particular, were blowout results in a state that had operated as an unchallenged one-party Republican stronghold for nearly 30 years. Talarico is on track to win his Texas Senate seat by a commanding 7 to 8 point margin, a result so lopsided Hayes noted local Republican candidates were “getting their clocks cleaned.” In his victory address, Talarico rallied supporters, declaring “we just took back Texas” and sent a clear message to wealthy billionaire megadonors across the country that “in this state, in this country, power belongs to the people.” Earlier that evening, when decision desks first projected Democratic control of the House, Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, a Texas Democrat, framed the results as a historic turning point for working class Americans. “Working people came together to change the course of American history. From coast to coast, Americans are demanding a country that works for all of us, not just corrupt politicians and billionaires,” Casar said. Moments after the Senate majority was also called for Democrats, Casar made a direct public call to eliminate the Senate legislative filibuster, a longstanding procedural rule that requires 60 votes to advance most bills. Senior Democratic senators laid out immediate oversight and legislative priorities in the hours following the projected wins. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the likely incoming chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, cited sweeping oversight subpoenas as a top priority, a sentiment echoed by Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts who joked that federal authorities “are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we’ll be printing” to hold the Trump administration to account. The dual chamber majorities grant Democrats unprecedented leverage to block the remainder of Trump’s second term legislative agenda, launch sweeping formal oversight investigations into administration conduct, and even open the door to a historic third presidential impeachment in modern US history. Trump, who has posted historically low approval ratings amid widespread public anger over his administration’s illegal military conflict in Iran and a crippling national cost-of-living affordability crisis, took to his Truth Social platform late Tuesday to push back on the results, writing “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” For months prior to the election, election watchdogs warned Trump would likely refuse to concede unfavorable results, following his 2020 refusal to accept his presidential election loss. But in a late night phone interview with The New York Times shortly before 10:30 pm Eastern Time, Trump struck an uncharacteristically conciliatory tone toward the incoming Democratic congressional majority, stating “We’ll, you know, look forward to working with them… We’ll probably work something out.” Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin formally laid out the party’s governing mandate in an official statement after the majority projections were confirmed, noting the party had run aggressive campaigns across traditionally red districts to hold Republicans accountable for unpopular policies, elect working-class champions, and flip the Senate. Martin pledged the new Democratic majority would prioritize lowering grocery and energy costs, expanding healthcare access, reducing housing and childcare expenses, protecting labor rights, ending the costly Republican-led war in Iran, rolling back reckless Trump-era tariffs, investigating administration corruption, and directing new investment into underserved communities nationwide.