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People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

Orban owns the media. He controls the information environment. He rigged the electoral system to make defeat next-to impossible. The govt of the most powerful country on earth tried to bribe Hungarian voters in his favour. It didn't work.

Don’t give in to despair.

Fight with spirit & focus

JD Vance is on a historic roll:

He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose.

Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses.

Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably.

Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, like Trump, is also licking her wounds tonight after Orban's defeat.

She full-throatedly endorsed Orban for re-election three months ago in a campaign video in which she appeared alongside Le Pen and Netanyahu. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

We need this energy. Nothing less than completing Reconstruction.

'I demand the president of #Hungary to appoint to head the next government and then resign. I demand the head of the curia, of the media authority, to resign.
This regime is over. We will reintroduce the system of checks and balances. We will be a strong ally again in the EU and NATO' Peter #Magyar

'Our country wants to be a European country again' says Peter Magyar of #Tisza in #Hungarwinner election speech
Crowd chanting 'Ruszkik haza' (Russians go home - a demand of the 1956 revolution, crushed by the Soviets)

Also watch Orbán's moves in the next couple of weeks while he's still prime minister and he has wide-ranging powers.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government.

He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.

🇭🇺🤝🇪🇺

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

That’s not “integrity” you are seeing from the bloke who’s done everything he can to gerrymander this election.

That is a defeat so massive - on a huge turn out- that even a corrupt arse like him can’t wriggle out of it.

America: pay attention.

trying to do a NYT-style swing map but the swings are too mad

Orbán Viktor: Az eredmény egyértelmű, a Tiszának gratuláltam, de soha nem adjuk fel Egész nap helyszíni bejelentkezésekkel, interjúkkal, elemzésekkel, térképekkel mutatjuk meg, mi történik a választás napján. Karácsony Gergely, Zsiday Viktor és egy exkluzív kutatás 19 órakor.

Orban concedes. Tisza 2/3 majority is probably. Enormous and historic. telex.hu/video/2026/0...

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

If this holds, Tisza now has a supermajority.

90% in

Hungary’s Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Election

So a press-bashing, authoritarian leader can lose an election and concede to his opponent the same day? Interesting!

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:

Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Now Tisza projected at 138 seats against 54 of Orban’s Fidesz. If these numbers are confirmed, this is a larger victory than Orbàn’s 2010 landslide, which allowed him to change the 🇭🇺Constitution and start backsliding towards an illiberal democracy. A historic day.

One wonders what documents in Budapest might be being rapidly shredded.

Jokes aside, this is an incredibly important day for freedom and democracy and, most importantly, for basic common sense and human dignity, in the spirit of 1989.

it remains unclear to me what "price gouging" or "profiteering" means from people who believe in unregulated capitalism

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

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