WASHINGTON, DC – Democratic state attorneys general won big during the 2026 midterms, winning a majority of the AG seats and flipping five states including a historically deep red Texas.

“The Democratic Party’s historic midterm rout came with a special bonus for state attorneys general,” POLITICO Magazine wrote. “Not only did Democrats capture five Republican-held state AG offices, strengthening the party’s hand in legal and policy battles to come over AI, voting rights, energy, health care and corporate power — they unexpectedly seized one of the most powerful AG offices in the country by winning in Texas.

“‘There will be a change in how the Republican attorneys general have to engage nationally if they do not have Texas at the front,’ Sean Rankin, President of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, told POLITICO.  ‘Having Texas not on the other side, that’s a game changer.’

Key highlights from POLITICO:

• “Rankin, a longtime Democratic operative who’s run DAGA for a decade, was at the heart of a multi-year effort to recruit and support the AG candidates who ultimately defended hard-fought seats in Minnesota and Michigan and flipped them in Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas and Georgia, where rising star Tanya Miller could turn the office into a major regional presence.”

• “After donors put nearly $58 million into DAGA’s push this year, Democrats will control at least 29 state AG offices, plus the District of Columbia…”

• “What worked really well for us in our target states is that we controlled the things that we had the power to manage,” Rankin said. “We had very well-run campaigns. We had strong fundraising […] This was our biggest fundraising haul ever. It’s still continuing. We still have funds rolling in and will for the next 60 days.”

• “I think that’s really the takeaway from this cycle for us, is that we were very careful and thoughtful about getting things together, working with candidates quite early to get them moving. And then because we had done our jobs, it gave us the room to be opportunistic when the landscape told us that we had additional states.”

• “Tanya Miller [from Georgia] is a star, right? She is every bit as dynamic in person as she seems when she’s on video, she’s incredible. She’s going to do a fantastic job of resetting that office and making a difference for constituents.”

• “And I’ll say this on Texas, we took the head of the snake. So fundamentally, there will be a change in how the Republican attorneys general have to engage nationally if they do not have Texas at the front.”

• “That is a fantastic and noteworthy change that people should understand, because Texas has played an outsized role in the actions taken, in my opinion, against many of the issues that I care about, that the AGs fight for, that we believe the American people support — having Texas not on the other side, that’s a game changer.”

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