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 "title": "The 2026 midterms, in data",
 "description": "Five interactive data stories on the 2026 US midterms, a Brand Truth check of twelve media claims, and full methodology.",
 "url": "https://politic.design/midterms-2026/",
 "published": "2026-11-05",
 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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  "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
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  "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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 "credit": "politic.design",
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 "terms": "Free to reuse, adapt and republish, including commercially, by any outlet or person, as long as you credit politic.design as the source (with a link to the page where you can). Figures that politic.design took from third parties (exit polls, election results, Wikipedia, GDELT and others named on each dataset) stay under those sources' own terms, so credit them as well.",
 "independence": "politic.design has no affiliation with any political party, candidate or campaign, in the US or anywhere else.",
 "status": "Preliminary: results are counted before certification (states certify in December 2026).",
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   "description": "The seven Republican-held Senate seats Democrats flipped.",
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