In 2019, a man robbed a Virginia bank at gunpoint and walked off with $195,000. The investigation went cold. Police went to Google. They served a geofence warrant — a legal instrument that compels the company to produce location data on every phone within a defined radius of a crime scene during a defined window. Nineteen accounts came back. One of them was Okello Chatrie. He is now serving nearly twelve years.

Wisconsin voters elected a liberal justice to the state supreme court on Tuesday, expanding the court’s liberal majority in a race that continued a pattern Democrats have been quietly building since 2025: consistently outperforming their presidential race margins in every special and off-cycle election that comes up.

The pattern started in 2025 and has continued without interruption. Democrats are winning races in competitive states, flipping seats in districts that went for Trump in 2024, and doing it in low-turnout environments where motivated opposition voters typically dominate.