WASHINGTON — It was the wave election of 2025.

Democrats, furious about President Donald Trump’s remaking of American government and society, turned out in extraordinary numbers for an off-year election to sweep virtually every competitive election on the map.

The results served as a rebuke of Trump and his Republican Party and a salve for Democrats who have not had many good nights in the past year. Next will come a fierce, yearlong fight, first in redistricting battles and then the midterm elections, for control of the House of Representatives and the fate of Trump’s agenda during the final two years of his term.

Here are six takeaways from the first major elections of the second Trump era.

Democrats finally showed some fight.

Democrats have spent the past year locked out of power

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