I’ll admit it.
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I → admit → it
I expected Republicans to lose more seats than they flipped.
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they → expect → seats
History suggested as much.
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History → suggest → much
But I certainly didn’t expect the results to be quite that bad.
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results → expect → ?
Still, buried beneath the headlines celebrating Democratic victories was a rather inconvenient development for the political left.
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development → bury → left
Americans may have voted to elect Democrats, but that doesn’t mean they’ve suddenly developed an appetite for the progressive social agenda again.
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they → vote → agenda
In fact, on one of the most contentious cultural issues of the last several years, voters delivered a remarkably consistent message.
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voters → deliver → message
In Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska and Washington, voters backed measures protecting female athletic competition on the basis of biological sex.
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voters → back → sex
Colorado and Washington are reliably blue states whose political leadership has spent years embracing progressive gender policies.
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leadership → spend → policies
Yet the same electorate willing to put Democrats in positions of power also voted to reject a central pillar of the modern progressive agenda.
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electorate → put → agenda
I don’t know how much clearer voters can make themselves.
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voters → know → themselves
For years, elected Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media have insisted that protecting women’s sports is an extreme position and that anyone who dares advocate for it is a hate-filled bigot.
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who → elect → it
And believe me, that’s one of the nicer things I’ve been called.
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I → believe → things
I understand why people are frustrated.
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people → understand → ?
We’ve been told that acknowledging biological differences between men and women is transphobic.
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acknowledging → tell → men
That girls who object to sharing locker rooms or competing against male athletes are the problem.
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who → object → athletes
That sports should prioritize inclusion and kindness, even when doing so comes at the expense of fairness and safety.
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doing → prioritize → fairness
I’ve personally experienced what happens when you challenge that orthodoxy.
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you → experience → orthodoxy
I’ve also watched countless female athletes lose opportunities, endure public ridicule and face enormous pressure to remain silent simply for asking for something as basic as a fair shot.
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athletes → watch → shot
I’ve watched politicians, university administrators and athletic organizations bend themselves into knots trying to explain why women should be expected to sacrifice their own opportunities in the name of inclusion.
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women → watch → inclusion
Voters made their position clear in 2024, when the Republican agenda prevailed nationally.
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agenda → make → 2024
Apparently, even after voting for Democrats in 2026, they still aren’t buying what the progressive left is selling on this issue.
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left → vote → issue
Opponents of the girls’ sports initiative reportedly raised roughly $4 million, with substantial backing from unions and progressive organizations, including Planned Parenthood.
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Opponents → raise → Parenthood
Proponents raised approximately $200,000, largely through grassroots efforts.
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Proponents → raise → efforts
They prevailed despite being outspent nearly 20 to 1.
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They → prevail → ?
That’s a staggering disparity, and an even more telling result.
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That → ’ → ?
At what point does the political left accept that this is a losing issue and give it a rest?
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this → accept → rest
Women’s sports protections are not some fringe position held exclusively by Republicans.
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protections → hold → Republicans
The issue cuts across party lines, and the people who have spent years insisting otherwise have a serious problem on their hands.
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who → cut → hands
Look at the response WNBA player Sophie Cunningham has received.
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Cunningham → look → response
After publicly expressing support for protecting women’s sports, Cunningham didn’t issue a groveling apology.
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Cunningham → express → apology
She wasn’t shunned into professional exile.
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She → shun → exile
Her public profile exploded.
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profile → explode → ?
Her social media following and engagement skyrocketed.
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following → skyrocket → ?
Her merchandise became some of the most sought-after in the league, and her Adidas shoes reportedly sold out almost immediately.
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shoes → become → league
On Halloween, I saw countless young girls wearing her jersey and dressing up as Sophie Cunningham.
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girls → see → Cunningham
The notion that expressing a common-sense view about women’s sports is automatically a career-ending offense looks increasingly ridiculous.
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expressing → express → sports
For years, corporations, celebrities and athletes were conditioned to believe that stepping outside progressive orthodoxy would destroy their reputations.
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stepping → condition → reputations
That threat doesn’t carry quite the same weight anymore.
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threat → carry → weight
And I think that’s worth celebrating, particularly after an election that otherwise gave conservatives plenty of reasons to believe a serious reckoning is overdue.
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reckoning → think → reasons
…and 54 more, not listed.
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