Originally published by The 19th

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — Several minutes into President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on Monday, as he began talking about immigration, Yvena Jean François dug through a desk drawer for a notebook and pen.

On election night 2024, Omaha-area Democrats were on top — just not the way they had expected.

For the fifth time in a row they narrowly lost to Republican Congressman Don Bacon. And this time, the Democrats set a record they’d rather not hold.

In the heat of the summer, the distant cold of the winter seems a smudged dream: hazy, and far off. Unlike a normal dream, it comes with the perfect assurance that the pallid cold will come regardless of how well one does or how many mistakes are made. The slowly arriving, but ever-impending winter may come with a gentle kiss of cool winds, or as a tyrannical father, it should punish all unending – but the winter will come.