Delaware’s House Majority Caucus decided its three leadership positions in an apparently close vote Wednesday night.
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All three of the composers represented on the program have connections to the quartet that go beyond the notes on the page.
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Democrats' new House supermajority includes a growing group of Working Families Party backed membersThe national midterm blue wave that tipped the scale in governor's races helped Delaware’s Democratic Party gain a stronger foothold at Legislative Hall.
This Week on "The Green"
The 2026 Midterm Election is over, and the headline is Democratic success across the board locally and nationally.What issues prompted this “blue wave?” What does it mean for politics here in the First State, and across the country between now and the next election in 2028?To do a post-mortem on what we saw at the polls this week, we checked in with Paul Brewer, University of Delaware communications professor — previously Delaware Politics director at UD’s Center for Political Communication — and a voice we’ve leaned on regularly for perspective on the political state of play in Delaware.
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From the first Native American elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Muslim who will join the upper chamber to the Senate's first Paralympian, voters elected historic candidates in the midterms.
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The razor-thin margin between GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom is shining a light on an election process in Mississippi that is among the slowest and most decentralized in the U.S.
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The change comes after sweeping Republican losses in the midterm elections.
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A healthcare intelligence-sharing organization is warning its members to lock down systems following cyberattacks on cold storage systems, including a French blood bank.