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NPR's senior political editor/correspondent Domenico Montanaro joins the newsletter today to break down the 2025 off-year elections.

Up and down the ballot, Democrats did well , from the marquee gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey to a key redistricting ballot initiative in California and even state Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania. Here are five takeaways from the 2025 off-year elections :

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It's still the cost of living, stupid. Prices, prices, prices. Affordability was a through line in most of the rac

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