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🗞️ Story file #1344

Democrat James Talarico wins Texas Senate race

Nov 3, 10 PM ET to Nov 3, 11 PM ET

19outlets carried it
🫏9 · 1 · 9🐘left · center · right
1 houron the front pages
25front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions
1fact-check
9 of 10parts of a saga

📰 read it at: Alternet HuffPost Raw Story The Guardian The New Republic AP The Washington Post USA Today Yahoo News Newsweek Washington Examiner Breitbart Newsmax Red State The Daily Wire The Gateway Pundit The Post Millennial The Western Journal Townhall

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Nov 3, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 3, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: Alternet
Nov 3, 11 PM ETpeak: on 25 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

big for its age: stories this big this early went wide 6 times in 10 (53 stories)

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 3, 10 PM to Nov 3, 11 PM ET (peak 19), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“If We Lose Texas, We Lose America”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

HuffPost (2 wordings): “James Talarico Jumps Out To An Early Lead Over Ken Paxton In Texas Senate Race” → “Democrat James Talarico Defeats Ken Paxton In Texas Senate Race”

📰 Every outlet's headline 19left to right by AllSides rating

Alternet🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET Democrat James Talarico projected to take Texas Senate
HuffPost🕒 Nov 3, 9 PM ET James Talarico Jumps Out To An Early Lead Over Ken Paxton In Texas Senate Race
Raw Story🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET Senate earthquake as James Talarico declared winner in Texas
The Guardian🕒 Nov 2, 10 AM ET Five dimensional chess: inside James Talarico’s extraordinary bid to break Texas Democrats’ losing streak
The New Republic🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET James Talarico Becomes First Democratic Senator in Texas in 33 Years
AP🕒 Nov 3, 5 AM ET Republicans' grip on Texas is on the line in a close US Senate race between Paxton, Talarico
The Washington Post🕒 Nov 2, 8 AM ET Ken Paxton's last stand to keep a Texas Senate seat for Republicans
USA Today🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET James Talarico flips Texas Senate seat, becoming the first Democrat to win one in the state since 1988, DDHQ and NBC report
Yahoo News🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET Latest Texas Senate polls on Paxton vs. Talarico heading into midterms
Newsweek🕒 Nov 3, 9 PM ET James Talarico's Chances Against Ken Paxton—What Early Texas Results Show
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET Democrat James Talarico triumphs over GOP’s Ken Paxton in stunning Texas Senate upset
Breitbart🕒 Nov 1, 9 AM ET EXCLUSIVE: Ken Paxton Warns ‘If We Lose Texas, We Lose America’ as Senate Race Enters Final Days
Newsmax🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET Dem Talarico Wins Texas Senate Seat in Stunning Upset
Red State🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET James Talarico Flips Texas Senate Seat Blue
The Daily Wire🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET Texas Turns Blue: Talarico Delivers Democrats’ White Whale
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET BREAKING: POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: Talarico Defeats Ken Paxton in Texas Senate Race – Cornyn Gloats!
The Post Millennial🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET BREAKING: James Talarico wins Senate seat in Texas against Ken Paxton
The Western Journal🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET Breaking: Democrats Flip Texas Senate Seat for the First Time in Decades as James Talarico Prevails
Townhall🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET James Talarico Flips Texas to Give the State Its First Democrat Senator Since 1993

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🃏 The Babylon Bee 1

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Ken PaxtonJames TalaricoTexasRepublican PartySenate

what the fact-checkers looked into

🔎 Snopes: Texas showdown: 12 claims involving Talarico and Paxton, fact-checked

the running story it belongs to

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