Democrats Are Overplaying Their Midterm Hand Before the New Congress Is Even Close to Sworn In

James Talarico, the Texas Democrat who once called God nonbinary, is headed to the United States Senate.

He sold Texans a moderate, and his party dropped the disguise before the last ballots were counted.

The new majority has not taken office yet, and it is already repeating the mistake that cost Democrats the House twice.

Talarico Wore a Moderate Costume All the Way to a Texas Senate Seat

Talarico beat Ken Paxton on election night and gave Texas its first Democrat senator since 1988.

Democrats flipped Senate seats from Kansas to Maine in the same wave, and a lot of them won the same way Talarico did, by running as moderates.

Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson laid out how Talarico's explanation for his nonbinary-God remark kept shifting as the campaign wore on.

M.D. Kittle at The Federalist flagged the same costume change up and down the Democrat ticket, and predicted Democrats would overplay their hand the moment they got power.

They did not make him wait long.

Democrats Lined Up Subpoenas Before the Last Races Were Called

With dozens of House races still uncalled, California's Robert Garcia, in line to chair House Oversight, posted two words on X: lawyer up.

Before Election Day, Garcia had told Punchbowl News his probes were already in the works, covering Trump family business ties, immigration enforcement, alleged corporate corruption, and the Epstein files.

Sen. Ron Wyden posted a one-word preview of his own: subpoenas.

Sen. Ed Markey joked that the administration would need to plant new forests to supply the paper for all the subpoenas Democrats plan to print.

Illinois Democrat Delia Ramirez rattled off the names of Trump officials, including Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, and told them to clear their calendars.

Her list even included Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired as Homeland Security secretary in March.

Hakeem Jeffries had already promised that one of the first jobs of a Democrat majority would be to "run Pete Hegseth out of town," as Fox News reported.

House Democrats have also filed articles of impeachment against Hegseth over the Iran war.

That is the agenda before a single new member has been sworn in: subpoenas, impeachment, and a two-year circus aimed at the men who shut down Biden's open border.

Not one of those hearings lowers a grocery bill.

Jayapal Wants a House Vote On Government-Run Health Care in 2027

The investigations are only half of the overreach.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, the lead House sponsor of Medicare for All, is pushing for committee action and a full House vote in 2027.

"I want to make sure we have the requisite number of co-sponsors," Jayapal said, according to Newsmax.

The House bill already has 118 co-sponsors.

Bernie Sanders is next in line for the gavel on the Senate's health committee, and newly elected Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wants a seat on it.

Jayapal's bill would put every American on one plan run out of Washington and bar private insurers and employers from selling coverage that duplicates it.

Medicaid and the Obamacare exchanges get wound down, and existing Medicare gets swallowed into the new system.

Dr. Joel Zinberg of the Paragon Health Institute puts the added federal cost as high as $47 trillion across ten years.

Even Jeffries keeps his distance on this one.

"I haven't co-sponsored the Medicare for all legislation," Jeffries said, as Fox News' Chad Pergram reported.

The leader who needs swing districts runs from the bill, while the socialist wing behind him counts heads.

Democrats Overplayed Their Hand in 1994 and Again in 2010

Democrats have run this exact overreach before.

In 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to push a government takeover of health care through a Democrat Congress.

Voters answered in 1994 by handing Republicans the House for the first time in forty years.

In March 2010, Nancy Pelosi rammed Obamacare through the House over the objections of a furious public.

That November, Republicans picked up 63 House seats.

Both times, Democrats mistook a win for a mandate to remake the country from Washington.

Voters Sent Democrats a Gas Price Message and They Heard Subpoenas and Socialism

Ned Ryun of American Majority predicted Democrats "will draw all the wrong conclusions" from their win.

The first moves out of the gate proved him right.

Exit polling showed 87 percent of voters worried about gas and diesel costs.

Those voters wanted cheaper fuel and cheaper groceries.

Government-run health care does not knock a single penny off a gallon of diesel.

Neither does dragging Tom Homan in front of a committee or impeaching the secretary of war.

Ryun argues Republicans can turn this around within six to nine months by getting back to affordability, the economy, and deportations.

Democrats are about to make that job easier.

None of their wish list becomes law without getting past 60 votes in the Senate and Donald Trump's veto pen.

Democrats won Congress by promising lower prices, and they will hand it right back the moment they mistake a gas price revolt for a mandate to subpoena and socialize.

Sources:

• M.D. Kittle, "Republicans Got Pummeled in the Midterms, But Dems Will Overplay Their Hand," The Federalist, November 4, 2026.
• Morgan Phillips, "'Lawyer Up': Dems Immediately Put Trump On Notice Amid Republicans' Midterm Bloodbath," Fox News, November 4, 2026.
• Newsmax Wires, "Democrats' Medicare for All Push Looms as Midterms Wrap Up," Newsmax, November 3, 2026.
• Chad Pergram, "Democrats' Medicare for All and Green New Deal Promises May Not Pass," Fox News, October 20, 2026.
• Guy Benson, "James Talarico's Problematic 'God Is Nonbinary' Timeline," Washington Examiner, May 28, 2026.
• U.S. Congress, "H.R. 3069 – Medicare for All Act," U.S. Congress, April 29, 2025.
• Amber Duke, "Exit Poll Reveals GOP's Biggest Vulnerability With Midterm Voters," Daily Caller, November 3, 2026.