The Handmaiden media pulled some sleight of hand this morning. They made you look at Wisconsin as the bellwether for the 2026 midterms, but not Florida. The cheese heads did something remarkable. Backed by millions from progressive oligarchs like George Soros, JB Pritzker, and Reid Hoffman, they defended a State Supreme Court seat they already had – by a ten-point margin.
It’s the end of the Trump mandate, they crow, in a state that passed a resolution requiring voter ID during that same election.
On the same night, Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly passed a state constitutional amendment requiring voter ID— a key conservative priority. You’d think the same voters who elected a Soros judge would also reject voter ID. They didn’t. Some suspect foul play; who knows. But cheating will be much harder next time with the new ID requirement.
No worries. That 4-3 court majority can just declare what voters want as unconstitutional. After all, Democracy is what the robed justices make of it, not something the people decide amongst themselves.
A bump in the road, not to be confused with the special election in Florida.
In the FL-6 race (to fill former Representative Mike Waltz’s seat), unpopular Republican state Senator Randy Fine beat Democrat Josh Weil, a teacher and “progressive activist,” by +14%. If you ask me, +14% was a miracle.
Over in Florida’s First Congressional District (Pensacola area), in a battle over Matt Gaetz’s old seat, Republican Jimmy Patronis, the state’s popular chief financial officer, handily dispatched Gay Valimont, a Democratic “gun-control activist.” Patronis won by +15%, around the same as Fine’s margin.
Democrats invested a fortune trying to flip these seats, outspending Republicans by an average of 4-1. Raise money they can, but lose they did.
osh Weil, the public school teacher, reportedly raised around $10 million, dwarfing the $1 million raised by Randy Fine. Gay Valimont raised around $6.5 million compared to Jimmy Patronis’s paltry $2.1 million.
By any measure, it was an expensive flogging—a 16.5 million dollar money pit that got them double digit losses despite the in person appearance of communist dimwits like Bernie Sanders. But they did manage to pull in considerable money and big names, which, as Jeff Childres notes in the linked piece, is evidence the Dems are not as dissarayed as we’d like to think.
Of course the Democrats aren’t led by the bumbling dummies out front, who can hardly scrape a coherent sentence together. They are led by Soros and Pritzger and the rest of their leftwing oligarchs. The left isn’t floundering. They’re testing, probing, and learning.
Wisconsin and Florida proved the Democrats’ secret leadership is not in any kind of disarray. They aren’t broke. They aren’t confused. They just mounted a massive, off-year special election machine spending record amounts of money—and still stayed off the radar. And —albeit at terrific cost— they held onto their Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.
Put in simple terms, Republican complacency will cost them.
We’ve been saying it since the day after the election. Start building campaign coffers and squaring up your contests. Find the chinks in the armor by going after purple districts and pushing as hard as you can against the blue ones (New Hampshire could flip two Congressional seats and a Seante seat to red). You do that by doing the ground work now.
Democrats are embarrassing themselves almost daily, from supporting criminal aliens to their silence on violence and vandalism by their base. And defending DC waste and corruption will have legs in 2026, but if you are not capturing that content now, it’ll be gone when things get hot and heavy.
We literally can’t do that work for you. Your town committees and grassroots groups need to coordinate this and save the crazy. It will reap rewards in those key races and help you hang on to the ones you already have.
