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WIRED’s Midterms Races to Watch

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WIRED’s Midterms Races to Watch

The midterm elections are a month away and the candidate pool has never been more WIRED. Races are being run—and likely decided—on Silicon Valley funding, data center debates, AI regulation, extremism, and more. From the contests that will decide the Senate to less attention-grabbing ones that will decide who controls voting in key swing states in 2028, these are the candidates and races we think are most worth watching closely in the weeks to come, and which we'll be keeping an eye on.

Former America PAC lawyer Chris Gober is running to represent Texas’ newly gerrymandered 10th district. Gober served as counsel for the Texas Republican congressional delegation for the 2025 redistricting effort that saw a new, gerrymandered map created for the 2026 midterms—one that was meant to create five new Republican congressional districts.

In addition to representing Musk’s PAC, Gober’s law firm, Lex Politica, has also represented Elevate New Mexico, a limited liability company that ran an advertising campaign supporting a controversial data center project in the state, as well as the Danube Institute USA, a think tank aligned with Hungary’s former right-wing leader Viktor Orban.

According to reporting from The New York Times, Gober was one of several lawyers who advised on the structure of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the weeks leading up to President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The 10th district also includes Grimes County, where SpaceXAI and Tesla have said they plan to open a 100-million-square-foot “terafab” facility to manufacture semiconductors.



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