Flipping Tables

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On This Day: Rutgers — The first game, 1869 | History.com — First college football game

Arch: CBS — Judge blocks construction for now | WJLA — Blocked hours after final approval | ABC7 — Judge blocks Trump arch

Newsom: SF Chronicle — Commutes all 548 | KQED — Moves to empty death row | CalMatters — Clemency details | DPIC — Largest mass commutation in U.S. history

Iran talks: AP via WHEC — Talks with Iran on deporting Iranians | Arab News — Court documents

Mississippi: Democracy Docket — How curing works | Democracy Docket — Heads toward ballot fight | ABC — Recount rules | CBS — Still a toss-up | DeSoto County News — Hyde-Smith preservation demand

House: CNN — Over 250 seats | CNN — Majority trending historic | 19th News — 100 Democratic women | Detroit News — Republican women lose ground

Trifectas: NBC — Full control of five state governments | NCSL — Results and what they mean | Stateline — Flipped legislatures, won trifectas | New Republic — Blue wave in red America

Trans sports: AP via ABC — Washington, Colorado join conservative states | 19th News — Results | Stateline — Approval in four states | Colorado Sun — Prop 134

Markets: NPR — $2 trillion rout | DPA via Yahoo — Tech stocks plunge | Fox Business — Experts break down sell-off

Hammack: inkl/Reuters — Favors gradual rate-hike path | Fox Business — Multiple hikes needed | CNBC — “Now is the time to act”

Measles: NBC — Wisconsin’s first death in decades | WBAY — Infant dies | CIDRAP — Third U.S. death this week

Gemini: The Hill — Lawsuit over school Chromebook | Gizmodo — “Life-threatening obsession”

Apple: Reuters via MarketScreener — Predictive text restrictions | Reuters via Investing.com — Researcher finds

Good news: BirdGuides — Gannets and puffins rebound on Alderney | NatureScot via Down to Earth — Bird flu and seabird populations

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On This Day: National Archives — Susan B. Anthony voting arrest | Library of Congress — Anthony trial
Iran blame: Fox News — Vance’s Iran war postmortem | Arab News/AFP — “Largely true” | Al Jazeera — Allies distance themselves from Iran war | CBC — Day-after reactions
Talarico: Rev — Victory speech transcript | Il Foglio — David defeated Goliath | Houston Public Media — 32-year streak
Johnson: NPR — Johnson steps aside | Bloomberg — Won’t stay on as GOP leader | Washington Post — Won’t seek minority leader | Newsweek — Scalise vs. Jordan
Mississippi / Alaska: Mississippi Free Press — Liveblog, 1,138 votes | ABC — Recount rules in Mississippi | NBC — Mississippi live results | The Hill — Peltola narrowly leads | Alaska Public — Tight Senate race
Legislatures / Huffines: Texas Tribune — Democrats flip Texas House | PBS — Full control of more state governments | NCSL — 2026 state legislative results | KERA — Eckhardt unseats Huffines | Fox 4 — Huffines and the Epstein ranch
Klobuchar: CBS Minnesota — First woman governor | NBC — Klobuchar wins
Afghans: NBC — Judge blocks Afghan deportations | AP via Yahoo — Temporary block
Hush money: ABC — Judges to hear appeal | CBS — Lawyers argue for conviction to be overturned | AP via WRAL — Appeals court
Musk: NPR — Musk will face scrutiny | Reuters via Yahoo — Little to show for record spending | Fortune — $474 million poorer | CBC — Possible investigations to come
Hegseth: Roll Call — Massie vows week-one vote | MS NOW — A vote is coming | The Hill — Lame-duck impeachment dilemma | Epoch Times — Trump not considering replacing Hegseth
Investigations: NPR — Long list of Trump investigations | ABC — What Democrats plan to investigate | The Hill — Trump officials lawyer up | CBS — Democrats aim to derail agenda
WHO: WHO — One in four adolescents reported no active days | Euronews — Problem barely changed in 15 years | Health Policy Watch — Less than one hour a week
Melania: WAFB — $5M endowment | Yahoo Sports — First Lady to attend
Good news: Time News — Five Micronesian survivors rescued

OH MY GOD!!!
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On This Day: NPR — Obama elected, Nov. 4, 2008 | History.com — Obama elected first Black president
The night: NBC News — Democrats capture full control of Congress | CBS — Senate results | CBS — House results | CNN live — Democrats take control of Congress | 19th News — How Democrats flipped the House | NPR — Jeffries celebrates | OPB/NPR — Democrats win full control
Texas: Houston Public Media — Talarico ends 32-year streak | Texas Tribune — Talarico defeats Paxton | Dallas Morning News — “A mandate the size of Texas” | Click2Houston — Paxton concedes | Texas Tribune — Hinojosa defeats Abbott | NBC — Hinojosa takes down Abbott | KUT — Ending decades of Republican control
Georgia: ABC — Bottoms first Black woman elected governor | Fox 5 Atlanta — Bottoms wins after Jackson concedes | WSB Radio — Jackson concedes | IBTimes — Billionaire spent over $200 million | Yahoo — “Shoulders made of steel”
Michigan: Bridge Michigan — “Michigan, we did it” | The Hill — El-Sayed wins | CBS Detroit — El-Sayed, Benson win
Iowa: NBC — Turek flips Iowa | Iowa Public Radio — Turek defeats Hinson | NBC — Sand wins governor
Kansas: NPR — First Democratic senator from Kansas in nearly a century | Washington Post — Hamilton wins | Wikipedia — 2026 Kansas Senate election | Religion News — Kansas last sent a Democrat in 1932 | Kansas Reflector — Governor’s race deadlocked | KWCH — Holscher narrow lead | NBC — Kansas governor live results
Ohio: Statehouse News Bureau — Acton, Brown win on historic night | PBS — Brown wins Senate race
North Carolina: WRAL — First NC Democrat to win Senate seat since 2008 | Axios — Cooper defeats Whatley
South Carolina: Time — Andrews defeats Graham | NPR — Andrews defeats Graham | CBS — Andrews flips seat
Nevada: NBC — Ford unseats Lombardo | NPR — Ford beats GOP incumbent | Fox 5 Vegas — First Black governor
Maine / Mississippi / Alaska: NPR — Jackson wins over Collins | Maine Public — Collins concedes | Mississippi Free Press — Colom leads by 28 votes | WLOX — Neck-and-neck | The Hill — Mississippi too close to call | Mississippi Independent — Colom pulls ahead | Newsweek — Why Alaska still matters | Anchorage Daily News — Tight Senate race
Firsts: Stateline — Historic night for governors | NBC — Historic first for Black governors | NPR — Nine governor candidates made history | Newsweek — Historic firsts | NBC — Governor results
Tennessee: WBIR — Goldberg projected to win HD18 | WATE — Democrat flips Knoxville seat
Garcia / Trump / GOP: Yahoo/HuffPost — “Lawyer up” | Crooks and Liars — New Oversight chair to Trump admin | IBTimes — Truth Social fury: Fox, Abbott, VETO hat | Newsweek — Trump refuses blame | Forbes — Congratulates Democrats, posts VETO hat | France 24 — Says Iran war played role | Dawn/AFP — Politicians react | WHEC — Party leaders share reaction

get out and vote!!!
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Iran strikes: PBS/AP — U.S. strikes Iranian targets in Strait of Hormuz | Washington Post — Mideast news Nov. 2 | US News/AP — Where things stand on Iran | CBS live — Election eve | ABC live — War cost “peanuts,” $47 billion
Israel aid: Reuters via Yahoo — US will stop $4 billion aid | Fox News — Israel can still buy weapons | Jerusalem Post — Agreed with Netanyahu
ICC: AP via News4Jax — ICC president hits back | ICC — President addresses General Assembly | The Hill — Vows to defend court | The New Arab — Nine of 18 judges sanctioned
DOJ monitors: Spotlight PA — What to know | Newsweek — Largest operation in DOJ history | Democracy Docket — Where DOJ will deploy monitors | CBS Philadelphia — Four Pennsylvania counties | ABC live — Monitors, Walton ruling
Courts overnight: NBC — Supreme Court quickly rejects California bid | CalMatters — What to know | Democracy Docket — Ninth Circuit wipes out panel stay | NBC — Administration appeals Thompson order | Bloomberg Law — DOJ appeals Alaska dismissal | Brennan Center — What 34 courts have said | NBC live — Reflecting Pool, early vote
Approval / closing: Al Jazeera — Approval near record low | Silver Bulletin — Approval tracker | NBC — Final rally of blitz | Spectrum — Closing pitch at Reflecting Pool
Stevens / AIPAC: CBS — Dingell: “galvanizing” | Detroit News — Stevens explains | CNN — How unity exploded | The Intercept — AIPAC isn’t retreating | Sludge — AIPAC tops $100 million | Bridge Michigan — Outside spending | NPR — AIPAC halts endorsements | CNBC — AIPAC retreats | FactCheck.org — UDP 2024, Bowman
SpaceX / Musk: TechCrunch — SpaceX wants Boost Mobile | Deadline — Talks with EchoStar | CNBC — Grain spectrum deal | Mediaite/Politico — Democrats plan Musk probes | Washington Post — Musk says he will fight back | IBTimes — “I’d do it,” preemptive pardons
Automakers: CNBC — Automakers urge permanent ban | CBS — Ban Chinese vehicle sales | Alliance for Automotive Innovation — Letter | The Hill — Auto alliance asks for ban
Harvard: Harvard Crimson — Lawsuit dismissed | CNBC — Judge dismisses probe case | ABC/AP — Judge dismisses lawsuit
DePodesta: WBEZ — Broadview 6 heats up as ex-FBI boss sues | Washington Post — Pushed out over “politically motivated” cases | AP via WRAL — Sues Justice Department
Pregnancy protections: Wisevoter — Administration moves to scale back | Joe.My.God — EEOC to roll back protections (NYT) | EEOC — 2024 final rule statement | Ogletree — Louisiana vacatur of abortion provision
Learjet: CNN — Victims identified | NBC Miami — What to know | ABC — Parents and two children among victims
Binance: CNBC — North Korea denies | Bloomberg — Outflows $4.7 billion | Help Net Security — FBI attribution
Murphy: Newsweek — “Responding well” | Axios — Hospitalized after stroke

On October 20 in Conroe, Texas, a pastor laid hands on Ken Paxton and prayed that God would "give him favor with voters." Two days later a dozen Catholic bishops were filmed praying over Donald Trump in the Oval Office with Paula White-Cain standing behind the chair. Two weeks before that, Jim Bakker died. This episode traces the idea underneath all three: that success is God's verdict on a man.
It starts with a clockmaker in Belfast, Maine, in 1838. Phineas Quimby decided disease was an error of belief, his patient Mary Baker Eddy turned that into Christian Science, and a fired editor named Emma Curtis Hopkins turned it into New Thought, ordaining twenty women in her first class in 1889 and training the founders of Unity, Divine Science, and Religious Science. Then the men moved in. Ralph Waldo Trine, Napoleon Hill (whose Carnegie meeting no archive can find), Bruce Barton's Jesus as "the founder of modern business," and Norman Vincent Peale, who married Donald and Ivana Trump in 1977 and whom Trump still calls his teacher.
Alongside it, the gospel of wealth: Russell Conwell's "it is your duty to get rich," delivered 6,152 times. The frontier panic of Turner and Roosevelt, the Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911, and Billy Sunday's war on "effeminate" Christianity, all arriving as women organized to vote. Fundamentalism, paid for by Union Oil's Lyman Stewart. And E. W. Kenyon, who learned mind-cure at a Boston elocution school and passed it, word for word, to Kenneth Hagin of McKinney, Texas, Paxton's hometown. From Hagin: Copeland, seed-faith, Osteen, Paula White, and a 2006 poll in which 61 percent of American Christians said God wants people to be rich.

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Kate Bowler, Blessed (Oxford, 2013)
Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom (University of California Press, 1999)
Catherine Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit (Yale, 2007)
Gail Harley, Emma Curtis Hopkins: Forgotten Founder of New Thought (Syracuse, 2002)
Donald Meyer, The Positive Thinkers (Doubleday, 1965)
Richard Weiss, The American Myth of Success (Basic Books, 1969)
Mitch Horowitz, One Simple Idea (Crown, 2014)
D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel (Hendrickson, 1988)
George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture (Oxford, 1980)
Darren Dochuk, Anointed with Oil (Basic Books, 2019)
Kevin Kruse, One Nation Under God (Basic Books, 2015)
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne (Liveright, 2020)
Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (Knopf, 1977)
David Edwin Harrell Jr., Oral Roberts: An American Life (Indiana, 1985)
Carol V. R. George, God's Salesman (Oxford, 1993)
David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (Penguin, 2006)
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lectures IV–V
Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds; Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889
Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite (1897); Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937); Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (1952); Oral Roberts, The Miracle of Seed-Faith (1970); Kenneth Hagin, You Can Have What You Say (1979); Kenneth Copeland, The Laws of Prosperity (1974); Marabel Morgan, The Total Woman (1973); Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now (2004)
Matt Novak, "The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill," Gizmodo, Dec. 2016
Time, "Does God Want You to Be Rich?" Sept. 10, 2006
Texas House Resolution 2377, May 27, 2023; Texas Senate Court of Impeachment, Sept. 2023
Angela Paxton, petition for divorce, Collin County, July 10, 2025
Ballotpedia and NBC News, Texas Senate runoff results, May 26–27, 2026
Fox News, Angela Paxton at the Texas Federation of Republican Women, Sept. 23, 2026