What Changes the Day You Flip Congress

Oversight comes back, the grift ends, and your ballot turns into the loudest voice in the room. Here is what the midterms put back in your hands.

You sit at your kitchen table on a Tuesday night. The bills lean in a crooked stack against the salt shaker. Your phone lights up with one more headline about one more guardrail coming down in Washington, and the same tired weight settles across your shoulders. You wonder whether anything you do in November moves a single thing. Stay with me for the nex…