25 hours ago · Missouri, United States
How a ‘flaming liberal’ podcast host won a US House seat in conservative Missouri
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Guardian UK and NBC News Top Stories are the outlets attached to this story. The reports are tied to Missouri, United States. The first report grouped here was at 5 Nov 2026, 12:22 UTC. 2 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “How a ‘flaming liberal’ podcast host won a US House seat in conservative Missouri”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Fred Wellman, host of the progressive podcast On Democracy, defeated longtime incumbent Republican Ann Wagner Fred Wellman’s victory in Missouri’s second congressional district on Tuesday was such a surprise that NBC News’s star data analyst Steve Kornacki didn’t even have a graphic prepared, he told supporters on election night.
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How a ‘flaming liberal’ podcast host won a US House seat in conservative Missouri
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