Fourteen MS NOW hosts are converging on Arlington this Saturday for a day-long community gathering, with Rachel Maddow and 13 other familiar cable-news faces set to appear at College Park Center. Together in Texas: We the People 2026 kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday, September 26, and organizers are framing the state as ground zero for the fights shaping the 2026 midterm elections.
According to MS NOW, the event is a day-long community gathering designed to feature conversations with top newsmakers alongside insights from the network's own hosts, plus what it calls unprecedented opportunities for audience interaction and connection. The network says it chose Texas because the state has become the place where the country's biggest political questions are tested, according to the network. The gathering arrives on the eve of the 2026 midterm elections, uniting MS NOW journalists with their audience in one room.
The scheduled lineup reads like a rundown of the network's primetime bench: Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jen Psaki, Stephanie Ruhle, Ali Velshi, Ari Melber, Chris Hayes, Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez, Jacob Soboroff, Eugene Daniels, Michael Steele, Luke Russert and Rev. Al Sharpton are all scheduled to appear, per MS NOW. The lineup names 14 hosts.
Live Programming and Audience Features
The Arlington stop's marquee programming includes an audience Q&A pairing Maddow and Psaki, a live taping of the podcast Clock It with Symone & Eugene, and an interactive audience segment led by Soboroff, according to arlington.org.
The event also includes a limited-seating We the People Community Dinner, arlington.org reports. Admission to that dinner is included only with the purchase of Platinum Seats, and those Platinum tickets — dinner included — were already listed as sold out when utatickets.com published its ticket page. Platinum ticket holders also get additional opportunities to connect with MS NOW hosts and fellow attendees.
Ticket Prices Conflict, and the Clock Is Ticking
Would-be attendees should note a pricing discrepancy between sources. MS NOW's own event page advertises tickets starting at just $30, while the UT Arlington ticket listing lists a starting price of $32.40. Neither source explains the gap. What is clear: all ticket sales end Friday, September 25, at 5 p.m., and tickets will not be available for purchase at the venue on Saturday, per utatickets.com. Tickets remain available only through UTATickets.com, AXS.com, or the College Park Center box office, and parking passes run $20.
Every ticket, regardless of tier, comes with a complimentary one-year membership to MS NOW's forthcoming Membership experience, arlington.org reports. That membership is described as giving attendees access to exclusive content, real-time connections and ways to engage with the MS NOW community long after the Arlington crowd goes home.
Where to Find the Arlington Venue
The gathering takes place at College Park Center, located at 600 S Center St in Arlington, Texas. The venue sits on the University of Texas at Arlington campus, giving the network a Dallas-Fort Worth-area stage as it leans into its stated argument that Texas has become a focal point for nationally consequential political questions ahead of the midterms.
