How Elon Musk and Big Tech Poured Millions Into the Midterms, and Lost

By Leah Feiger, Hugo Lowell, Vittoria Elliott, David Gilbert · Wired · Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 22:18 (3h ago) · Original article ↗

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the historic blue wave that swept the midterms and delivered a rebuke to the Trump administration, Big Tech, and data centers.

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