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Hegseth vows fight as Democrats plan subpoenas

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Hegseth did issue a video message vowing to fight impeachment efforts and calling the Iran war “courageous and historic” after Democrats won control of Congress in the 2026 midterms.

Top Democrats did immediately signal subpoenas and investigations after the midterm wins; the Fox segment's comment about voters wanting lower prices is opinion/commentary. This is a vague opinion/joke with no specific factual claim to check.

Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms, so Republicans will not continue to control Congress. The White House remains under Trump, and the Supreme Court retains a conservative majority.

As of the current post-election period, Republicans still control the existing Congress until newly elected members take office in January; Trump controls the White House and the Supreme Court has a conservative majority. But Democrats won the 2026 midterms, so the next Congress will not be Republican. This is an article headline/promotion, not a standalone factual claim.

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Hegseth did issue a video message vowing to fight impeachment efforts and calling the Iran war “courageous and historic” after Democrats won control of Congress in the 2026 midterms.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a video message vowing to fight efforts in Congress to impeach him and defending the Iran war as ‘courageous and historic’ after voters punished Republicans over it in this week’s midterm elections https://t.co/16EHsRSk2q

Original post · @Reuters

[investing.com](https://www.investing.com/news/politics-news/hegseth-vows-to-keep-fighting-from-pentagon-defends-iran-war-5006083) NAMES: Hegseth = US Secretary

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Top Democrats did immediately signal subpoenas and investigations after the midterm wins; the Fox segment's comment about voters wanting lower prices is opinion/commentary. This is a vague opinion/joke with no specific factual claim to check.

Democrats are talking subpoenas. @pdoocy tells @seanhannity that voters are looking for lower prices. The Fox News correspondent questions why newly elected Democrats are already discussing investigations into President Trump instead of laying out plans to tackle affordability. h

Original post · Fox News (@FoxNews)

[foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawyer-up-dems-immediately-put-trump-notice-amid-republicans-midterm-bloodbath) NAMES: pdoocy = Peter Doocy, Fox

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Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms, so Republicans will not continue to control Congress. The White House remains under Trump, and the Supreme Court retains a conservative majority.

If Paxton loses, the Dems pick up one seat in a senate they’ll likely still be the minority in. Republicans will still control congress, the DOJ, the Supreme Court and the White House, as they have for the last 2 years. This end of times bullshit MAGA’s pushing is fucking insane

Original post · The Rational Raven (@Rational_Raven)

[foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawyer-up-dems-immediately-put-trump-notice-amid-republicans-midterm-bloodbath) NAMES: Paxton = Ken Paxton, Texas

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As of the current post-election period, Republicans still control the existing Congress until newly elected members take office in January; Trump controls the White House and the Supreme Court has a conservative majority. But Democrats won the 2026 midterms, so the next Congress will not be Republican. This is an article headline/promotion, not a standalone factual claim.

Four boxes of liberty. Americans have realised Box #1 and Box #2 will not save them; but Box #4 is so scary they just keep unsuccessfully trying Box #3. The Red Team currently controls the Congress, Senate, Supreme Court and White House - voting Red or Blue cannot save them.

Original post · Libertarian Parties of New Brunswick (@LPNewBrunswick)

[investing.com](https://www.investing.com/news/politics-news/hegseth-vows-to-keep-fighting-from-pentagon-defends-iran-war-5006083) NAMES: Red Team = Republican

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What the hosts said

BFox News posted a clip of Peter Doocy telling Sean Hannity voters are looking for lower prices.
BAnd the first thing Democrats are doing is talking subpoenas?
BThat's the Fox point. They want investigations before they even have the gavels.
BThey don't have the gavels yet. The new Congress is not sworn in until January.
BThen why are they already threatening subpoenas?
BBecause that is what a new majority does. It draws its lines early.
BBut voters said lower prices. That is not a line about prices.
BThey also said they want oversight. Those two things can be true at the same time.
BCome on. The first move was talk about possible subpoenas.
BAnd the next one was about affordability. The coverage chose the subpoenas.
BThe coverage covers what the new majority says first.
BMaybe. But the bigger mess is a post going around that gets basic power wrong.
BThe Rational Raven account on X posted that Republicans will still control Congress, the Justice Department, the Supreme Court and the White House.
BThat is flat false. Democrats won the House and the Senate.
BThe White House and the Supreme Court part still holds. The Justice Department answers to the president, so that lever is his too.
BRight, Trump is still president and the court still has a conservative majority.
BBut the core claim about Congress is wrong. And people are sharing it like it is a settled fact.
BIt feeds the line that voting doesn't matter, that both parties are the same.
BThat is dangerous. If you tell people their ballot can't change Congress, they stop using it.
BAnd it is not true. The ballot box just did change Congress.
BSo why is every single part of this debate starting from a false premise?
BBecause false premises are more useful than hard facts when you want to keep people angry.
BBut the Fox segment is not a false premise. It is a real clip of Democrats talking process.
BThe clip is real. The framing — that Democrats don't care about prices — is an opinion.
BIt is a fair opinion when the first answer to an election is a subpoena list.
BIt is a convenient opinion. They can do oversight and still lower costs.
BOversight doesn't lower the price of eggs.
BNeither does a debate that only talks about subpoenas.
BFair. That is the whole problem with this exchange.
BAnd the false claim about who runs Congress keeps spreading underneath it.
BThat part should be corrected everywhere. Wrong is wrong, even when the frustration is real.
BThe frustration is real. But the new Congress is real too.
BThen they will own whatever comes next.
BThey will. And so will the people getting the basic power structure wrong.

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