Democrats

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday elected Ken Martin as its next party chair, in the wake of major setbacks up and down the ballot in the 2024 elections...

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One must-read delivered daily to your inbox February 3, 2025 10:02 a.m. I wrote a series of posts over the weekend about how to make sense, politically, strategically and even emotionally of the unfolding crisis of governance in DC. Here’s a piece about messaging and morale and another on Trump and Musk’s “shock and awe”

By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sweeping measure that mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants who have committed nonviolent crimes, all but ensuring that it will move forward. This is a classic GOP “message bill”: It forces Democrats to either oppose the package, creating

Democrats are boasting that Jimmy Carter's death could overshadow Donald Trump 's upcoming inauguration due to a long upheld tradition...

Senate Democrats will look to press forward with confirming more of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks during the lame-duck session, their last opportunity before Republicans regain the majority and President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in January. The weeks between now and the start of the 119th Congress will determine if Biden and

President Biden and his allies in Congress and state capitols have coalesced around one big strategic idea, to reinvigorate and update the New Deal–Great Society–Obama Democrat policy agenda—the better to demonstrate the Democratic Party’s desire and capacity to address the needs of working- and middle-class constituencies...

How Democrats Learned to Cast Aside Reservations and Embrace Biden 2024The president, who is expected to formally announce his re-election campaign this week, has...