Democrats

The AOC 2028 Buzz Has Hit the House. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Says She’s Focused on ‘Now.’

By Tinashe Chingarande

16 hours ago
House Democrats Are Calling for Hegseth to Be Fired — Or Resign

By John T. Seward

16 hours ago
Democrats Say They’re Furious Over FTC Firings — But Maybe Not Furious Enough to Block Trump’s Nominee

By Samuel Larreal and Claire Heddles

19 hours ago
Ro Khanna Argues Democrats’ ‘Old Guard Needs To Go’

By Tinashe Chingarande and Emily Kennard

2 days ago
Inside Democrats’ Reshuffling on Trans Issues

By Oriana González

Mar. 21, 2025
A Democratic Senator Inched Closer to Calling for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside

By Tinashe Chingarande and Daniella Diaz

Mar. 20, 2025
Chuck Schumer Digs In His Heels and Says He’s the ‘Best Leader’ for the Senate

By Daniella Diaz and Ursula Perano

Mar. 18, 2025
Bills, Rallies and New Caucuses: How Democrats Plan to Keep Housing in the Spotlight

By Amelia Benavides-Colón

Mar. 18, 2025
Democrats Fear the House’s China Select Committee Is Too Loyal to Trump

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Mar. 18, 2025
Democrats Stepped On Their Own Recess Week Messaging

By Tinashe Chingarande, Amelia Benavides-Colón and Daniella Diaz

Mar. 17, 2025
Angry Donors and Protests: Democrats Think Chuck Schumer Has Set Them Up to ‘Lose Fast’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Calen Razor and Tinashe Chingarande

Mar. 14, 2025
Why a New Democratic Member From a Red State Wants to Focus on the Issues

By Torrence Banks

Mar. 14, 2025
Senate Democrats Get Ready to Cave on Government Funding Standoff

By Ursula Perano and Ben T.N. Mause

Mar. 13, 2025
Democrats Hint at the Legislative End Game to Avoid a Shutdown

By Ben T.N. Mause and Ursula Perano

Mar. 13, 2025
Democrats Say They ‘Will Not Take a Lecture’ From Republicans on Decorum

By Daniella Diaz and Riley Rogerson

Mar. 13, 2025
Senate Democrats Weigh Their ‘Two Bad Options’: A GOP Funding Bill or a Shutdown

By Ursula Perano and Ben T.N. Mause

Mar. 12, 2025
Mike Johnson’s Government Funding Gambit: Disregard House Dems, Jam Senate Dems

By Daniella Diaz and Reese Gorman

Mar. 11, 2025
Trump 2028? Democrats Aren’t Ready to Deal With the Possibility.

By Torrence Banks

Mar. 10, 2025
Democrats Can’t Agree on Whether to Help Republicans Avoid a Government Shutdown

By Tinashe Chingarande

Mar. 6, 2025
California Democrats Aren’t On Board With Newsom’s Take on Transgender Athletes

By Mark Alfred and Samuel Larreal

Mar. 6, 2025
Republicans Say There’s Only One Way to Prevent a Shutdown. Democrats Aren’t Biting.

By Riley Rogerson and Helen Huiskes

Mar. 5, 2025
Democrats Tried to Make Their Resistance About the Issues. It Became About Trump.

By Daniella Diaz, Calen Razor, Shifra Dayak and Samuel Larreal

Mar. 5, 2025
Rep. Al Green Was Escorted Out of the House Less Than Five Minutes Into Trump’s Joint Address

By Amelia Benavides-Colón

Mar. 4, 2025
Democrats Say the Wind Development Ban Won’t Affect Projects in Progress. The Reality is Less Clear.

By Shifra Dayak

Mar. 3, 2025
Top Democrats Want To Know More About Scott Turner’s Interest in Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

By Amelia Benavides-Colón

Feb. 26, 2025
Moderate Democrats Lay Out Their Strategy to Reach Voters

By Daniella Diaz

Feb. 25, 2025
Democratic Senators Concede Age Matters in Elections — Just Don’t Ask Them If They’re Too Old to Run

By Ursula Perano

Feb. 14, 2025
Democrats Find Their Economic Message: What Happened to Trump Populism?

By Calen Razor

Feb. 14, 2025
‘Elon Musk, Elon Musk, Elon Musk’: Democrats Go After a Common Enemy During DOGE’s First Hearing

By Mark Alfred

Feb. 12, 2025
Democrats Name Their Battlegrounds for the Next Two Years of State-Level Races

By Calen Razor

Feb. 11, 2025

House Democrats Were Shut Out of the Department of Education

By Helen Huiskes

Feb. 7, 2025
Democrats Are Finally Coming to a Plan to Counter Trump. Maybe.

By Tinashe Chingarande, Calen Razor and Katherine Swartz

Feb. 4, 2025
Ken Martin Will Be the DNC Chair as Democrats Attempt to Rebuild

By Calen Razor

Feb. 1, 2025
Democrats’ Leadership Vacuum Has Made the DNC Race a Popularity Contest

By Calen Razor

Jan. 31, 2025
Rural Democrats Want a Reckoning. The DNC, Not So Much.

By Katherine Swartz

Jan. 31, 2025
The Next DNC Chair Will Walk Into a Firestorm

By Jasmine Wright and Calen Razor

Jan. 30, 2025
Jaime Harrison’s Final Memo as DNC Chair Goes After Project 2025

By Katherine Swartz

Jan. 30, 2025
‘The Republican Rip Off’: Democrats Are Branding Trump’s Chaotic Federal Aid Freeze

By Violet Jira

Jan. 28, 2025
OMB’s Freeze Chaos Isn’t Getting in the Way of Russell Vought’s Confirmation

By Oriana González, Ben T.N. Mause and Shifra Dayak

Jan. 28, 2025
‘It’s DOGE Season’: The State-Level Push to Rebrand Government Efficiency

By Shifra Dayak

Jan. 28, 2025
Democrats Are Out on Social Media — But They Know They Can’t Quit

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Tinashe Chingarande and Torrence Banks

Jan. 27, 2025
Democratic Groups Worry Their DEI Work Will Come Under Attack in the New Trump Era

By Tinashe Chingarande

Jan. 23, 2025
The First 24 Hours of Trump for a Democratic State Attorney General

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

Jan. 22, 2025
Republicans and Democrats Have Their Doubts About Trump’s Vision of ‘Manifest Destiny’

By Katherine Swartz and Anna Kramer

Jan. 20, 2025
Democrats Help Trump Secure His First Policy Win on Immigration

By Ben T.N. Mause

Jan. 20, 2025
A Smaller Women’s March Adapts to a New Era of Trump

By Violet Jira

Jan. 18, 2025
What a Veteran of Bernie Sanders, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi Thinks the DNC Is Getting Wrong

By Calen Razor

Jan. 18, 2025
The Laken Riley Act Has the Votes to Pass Over Democratic Objections

By Ben T.N. Mause

Jan. 17, 2025
Democrats Wave Away the Inroads Republicans Made in Blue States

By Helen Huiskes and Mark Alfred

Jan. 17, 2025
Party Veterans Defend Their Work Amid Growing Pressures to Clean House at the DNC

By Calen Razor

Jan. 16, 2025
The Elon Musk Problem: Democrats Debate Whether They Need Their Own Billionaires

By Calen Razor

Jan. 16, 2025
Georgia Ethics Commission Fines Stacey Abrams’ Old Group for Illegally Supporting Her Campaign for Governor

By Ben T.N. Mause

Jan. 15, 2025
Democrats Face Their First Postelection Test on Trans Rights

By Oriana González

Jan. 14, 2025
Ben Wikler’s Winning Over Every Type of Democrat. Winning Elections Is a Different Story.

By Nuha Dolby

Jan. 14, 2025
Democrats Are the Opposition Party. Are They Going to Act Like It?

By Tinashe Chingarande and Evan McMorris-Santoro

Jan. 14, 2025
The Laken Riley Act Could Reshape Immigration. Advocates Say Democrats Don’t Get It.

By Casey Murray

Jan. 13, 2025
The ‘Uncommitted’ Movement Grapples With Organizing Under Trump

By Tinashe Chingarande

Jan. 13, 2025
Senate Democrats Get on Board With a Republican Immigration Bill — For Now

By Casey Murray

Jan. 9, 2025
California Democrats Worry Trump Will Block Fire Aid

By Samuel Larreal

Jan. 8, 2025
House Republicans Are Divided. Democrats Want to Take Advantage.

By Tinashe Chingarande and Calen Razor

Jan. 3, 2025

Desperate Democrats See Reason for Optimism in the 2025 Special Elections

By Shifra Dayak

Dec. 27, 2024
‘One of the Best’: Democrats Say Biden’s Legacy Will Look Good in Time

By Tinashe Chingarande

Dec. 24, 2024
How Democrats’ Old Guard Beat Out AOC

By Riley Rogerson and Violet Jira

Dec. 17, 2024
Inside the Democratic Party’s Reckoning With Wokeness and the Working Class

By Calen Razor

Dec. 9, 2024
Democrats’ Next Debate: What Makes a Good Democrat Now?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Alex Roarty

Dec. 2, 2024
Democrats Want Major Change Ahead of the DNC’s Leadership Elections

By Calen Razor

Nov. 26, 2024
Should Rahm Emanuel Be DNC Chair? Some House Democrats Don’t Think So.

By Helen Huiskes

Nov. 22, 2024
‘We Have a Problem’: Democrats in New Jersey Are Trying to Figure Out How to Keep the Governor’s Seat

By Shifra Dayak

Nov. 12, 2024
New York Democrats Reckon With Harris’ Underperformance

By Violet Jira

Nov. 7, 2024
Democrats Got a ‘Huge Surprise’ in the Suburbs: ‘It Just Didn’t Work’

By Alex Roarty, Em Luetkemeyer and Helen Huiskes

Nov. 6, 2024
Democrats Can’t Rely on Abortion to Win Elections

By Oriana González

Nov. 6, 2024
Internal Document Reveals a Quarter of House Dems Severely Behind in Dues to Campaign Arm

By Shifra Dayak

Nov. 1, 2024
Ro Khanna Goes After Wall Street Landlords to Address Rising Home Prices

By Mark Alfred

Oct. 22, 2024
The War in Gaza is Fracturing Al Gore’s Nonprofit

By Noah Kirsch

Oct. 21, 2024
The DNC Has So Much Money That It’s Now Spending in Idaho

By Alex Roarty

Sep. 27, 2024
How Democrats Messaged Trump’s Election Interference at the DNC

By John T. Seward

Aug. 23, 2024
Democrats’ Four-Day Sigh of Relief Is Over. Now Come the White-Knuckle Weeks.

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Calen Razor

Aug. 23, 2024
The DNC Influencers Don’t Get the Frustration. They Just Think They Give Democrats Something New.

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

Aug. 22, 2024
A Muslim Delegate Peacefully Protested at the Convention. She Said Her Party Turned Against Her.

By Claire Heddles

Aug. 22, 2024
Democrats Put Border Security Front and Center at the DNC

By Katherine Swartz

Aug. 21, 2024
Centrist Democrats Are Throwing Their Support Behind Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s Challenger

By Claire Heddles and Katherine Swartz

Aug. 21, 2024
Democrats Pass the Mic to Republicans at the DNC

By Byron Tau

Aug. 20, 2024
The Big Drama of DNC Day One: Bus Delays

By Calen Razor

Aug. 20, 2024
Progressives Are Having Their Moment With Tim Walz

By Tinashe Chingarande

Aug. 7, 2024
‘He Told Me to Get Past It’: Biden’s Close Friend and Philly’s Dem Party Leader Turns His Operation to Harris

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

Jul. 26, 2024
Why Did Progressives Leave Rashida Tlaib to Protest Netanyahu on Her Own?

By Claire Heddles

Jul. 25, 2024
Is Chicago’s Mayor Ready to Host a Messy Democratic Convention?

By Jasmine Wright

Jul. 24, 2024
Democrats Have Stopped Despairing

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Jul. 23, 2024
Progressives Showed Loyalty to Biden. They Expect Kamala Harris to Take Notice.

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

Jul. 22, 2024
Republicans Will Make Swapping Nominees Complicated. But They’ll Likely Fail.

By Byron Tau and Nuha Dolby

Jul. 21, 2024

With Biden Out, the DNC Needs to Decide a Course of Action. Here Are the Options.

By Katherine Swartz, Tinashe Chingarande, Byron Tau and Nuha Dolby

Jul. 21, 2024
The Democrats Floated as Alternatives to Harris Are Keeping Their Plans Quiet

By Nuha Dolby

Jul. 21, 2024
With Biden’s Endorsement, Is It Kamala Harris’ Time?

By Jasmine Wright

Jul. 21, 2024
Joe Biden Won’t
Run For Reelection

By Riley Rogerson and Calen Razor

Jul. 21, 2024
Who’s Next? For Joe Biden’s Doubters, Getting Him Out Might Be the Easy Part.

By Calen Razor

Jul. 21, 2024
‘Time for You to Pass the Torch’: More Democrats Call for Biden to Withdraw

By Tinashe Chingarande

Jul. 19, 2024
Democrats Hope Project 2025 Will Help Them With Black Voters

By Tinashe Chingarande and Calen Razor

Jul. 18, 2024
Democrats Return to Their Campaign Against Trump

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

Jul. 16, 2024
Bob Menendez Could Get Pushed Out of the Senate

By Ryan Hernández

Jul. 16, 2024
Down-Ballot Democrats Aren’t Feeling Biden’s Electability Problem — Yet

By Alex Roarty and Evan McMorris-Santoro

Jul. 15, 2024
The Congressional Black Caucus Has Biden’s Back — Publicly

By Tinashe Chingarande and Calen Razor

Jul. 11, 2024
Biden Is Digging In

By Katherine Swartz

Jul. 8, 2024
Biden’s Highly Anticipated Interview Didn’t Calm Nerves. It Was Never Going To.

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Ben T.N. Mause, Calen Razor and Tinashe Chingarande

Jul. 5, 2024
Democrats Had a Chance to End the Trump Era After Jan. 6. Some Are Now Haunted by It.

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Oriana González

Jul. 5, 2024
The Democratic Dynamic: Publicly Support Biden, Privately Hope for the End

By Alex Roarty, Riley Rogerson and Matt Fuller

Jul. 3, 2024
Democrats Are Shifting Right on Homelessness, With the Supreme Court’s OK

By Casey Murray

Jul. 3, 2024
‘Her Future Is Intertwined With His’: How Kamala Harris Is Approaching Her Most Pivotal Stretch With Biden

By Jasmine Wright

Jul. 3, 2024
Inside the GOP Effort to Make Sure Biden Is the Democratic Nominee

By Ben T.N. Mause and Reese Gorman

Jul. 3, 2024
Democrats Want Pharmacies to Offer Abortion Pills After the Supreme Court Preserved Access

By Oriana González

Jul. 2, 2024
The First Democratic Member Just Called for Joe Biden to Withdraw

By Ryan Hernández

Jul. 2, 2024
Democrats Say the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling Proves Its Pro-Trump Bias

By Oriana González

Jul. 1, 2024
The Supreme Court Punted on Abortion. Democrats Think It’s Election-Related.

By Oriana González

Jun. 27, 2024
Biden’s Record Is Full of Climate Wins — So Why Don’t Voters Know It?

By Alex Roarty

Jun. 26, 2024
Jamaal Bowman’s Primary Is Confusing Progressives to the Very End

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

Jun. 25, 2024
This North Carolina Race Could End the GOP’s State Legislature Supermajority

By Calen Razor

Jun. 25, 2024
Greg Casar Wants to Fix Texas’ Power Grid. The Politics Make It Near-Impossible.

By Anna Kramer

Jun. 24, 2024
Angela Alsobrooks Is Campaigning for History — If She Can Best Larry Hogan

By Jasmine Wright

Jun. 21, 2024
Inside Democrats’ Plans to Repeal the Comstock Act

By Oriana González

Jun. 21, 2024
‘Couch 2024’: Some Pro-Reparations Activists Are Encouraging Black Voters to Stay Home

By Calen Razor

Jun. 19, 2024
Pro-Immigrant Democrats Are Finally (but Warily) Happy With Biden

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Casey Murray

Jun. 18, 2024

Pro-Immigrant Voters Don’t Want Trump. Democrats Warn They May Not Want a Hard-line Biden, Either.

By Casey Murray

Jun. 17, 2024
Democrats Begin Their Offensive Against the Comstock Act

By Oriana González

Jun. 14, 2024
Democrats Don’t Want Voters to Get Too Excited About the Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling

By Oriana González

Jun. 13, 2024
A New Project Backing Democratic Women Is Injecting Cash in State-Level Races

By Calen Razor

Jun. 11, 2024
Senate Republicans Say They Support Birth Control. They’re Also Backing Restrictions.

By Oriana González

Jun. 5, 2024
Republicans Insist the DOJ Is Biden’s Political Tool — Even With Hunter Biden on Trial

By Calen Razor

Jun. 4, 2024
House Democrats Are Going on the Offensive on Birth Control

By Oriana González

Jun. 4, 2024
Anti-Abortion Activists Want a Seat at the Political Table. Neither Party Wants Them There.

By Oriana González

May 30, 2024
‘The Patrón’: How Henry Cuellar and His Family Control Webb County, Texas

By Casey Murray and Byron Tau

May 24, 2024
‘Republicans Can’t Have It Both Ways’: Why Democrats Held a Second Vote on a Doomed Border Bill

By Claire Heddles

May 23, 2024
Biden Has a Problem With Men. He’s Running Out of Time to Fix It.

By Jasmine Wright and Evan McMorris-Santoro

May 15, 2024
Henry Cuellar Is Losing Staff After His Indictment

By Ryan Hernández

May 13, 2024
Henry Cuellar, Under Federal Indictment, Has Some Unusual Defenders

By Ryan Hernández

May 9, 2024
Democrats Say They Didn’t ‘Save Mike Johnson’

By Calen Razor, Tinashe Chingarande and Oriana González

May 8, 2024
Henry Cuellar’s Indictment Creates a Mess for Democrats in Texas

By Casey Murray and Ryan Hernández

May 3, 2024
A Ballot Issue Could Rock the Primary Race for Detroit’s U.S. House Member

By Tinashe Chingarande

May 3, 2024
Democrats Don’t Want to Talk About the Police Response to Campus Protests

By Nuha Dolby and Tinashe Chingarande

May 2, 2024
Democrats Doubt Netanyahu as Cease-Fire Negotiations Come Down to the Wire

By John T. Seward

May 1, 2024
Florida Democrats Want to Win on Abortion. They’re Facing Many Hurdles.

By Claire Heddles

May 1, 2024
Students Are Protesting.
The Democratic Convention
Is in Chicago. Is This Another 1968?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

May 1, 2024
Democrats Want a Bill to Combat Antisemitism. But Which One?

By Tinashe Chingarande

Apr. 30, 2024
How Parenthood Changed Pete Buttigieg

By Dan Merica

Apr. 25, 2024
Politicians Say They Are Ready for a TikTok Ban Panic

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Ben T.N. Mause

Apr. 24, 2024
Summer Lee Just Won a Tough Primary. Other Progressives May Use Her Playbook.

By Katherine Swartz

Apr. 23, 2024
House Democrats Aren’t Committing to Save Mike Johnson Just Yet

By Casey Murray

Apr. 16, 2024
Inside the Rapid-Response Machine Ready for Trump’s Abortion Pivot

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Oriana González

Apr. 16, 2024
Matt Gaetz Says He Isn’t Running for Governor. Nobody Seems to Believe Him.

By Claire Heddles

Apr. 12, 2024
Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff Are Trying to Keep Everyone (Mostly) Happy on Israel

By Jasmine Wright

Apr. 5, 2024
Republicans’ Pull With Latinos Is Hitting Its Limits In South Texas

By Casey Murray

Apr. 2, 2024
Florida Democrats Can’t Even Win Over Themselves

By Claire Heddles

Mar. 28, 2024

How a Former Democratic Operative Is Testing the Limits of What a Newsroom Can Be

By Maggie Severns

Mar. 25, 2024
Democrats Are Baffled by Joe Manchin’s Judicial Nominee Vow

By Ben T.N. Mause and John T. Seward

Mar. 21, 2024
This Democrat Has a Liability. His Opponents Are Steering Clear.

By Ben T.N. Mause

Mar. 21, 2024
Does the Progressive Movement Still Have Juice? Summer Lee’s About to Find Out.

By Katherine Swartz

Mar. 18, 2024
Black Women Worry the Biden Campaign Isn’t Listening

By Jasmine Wright

Mar. 12, 2024
Democrats Have a New Border Whisperer. He’s Been Here All Along.

By Casey Murray

Mar. 11, 2024
Joe Biden’s Immigration Language Has Gone Too Far for Some Democrats

By Ben T.N. Mause

Mar. 8, 2024
Florida Democrats Are Pleading for National Investment for 2024. It Probably Won’t Work.

By Claire Heddles

Mar. 4, 2024
Republicans and Democrats Are Finally Ready to Talk About Their Biggest Weaknesses

By Alex Roarty and Nuha Dolby

Mar. 1, 2024
Is Andy Kim Too Nice for New Jersey?

By Dan Merica

Mar. 1, 2024
Democrats Aren’t Ready to Abandon Lloyd Austin Yet

By John T. Seward

Feb. 29, 2024
Republicans Say They Support IVF — Just Maybe Not an Actual Bill to Protect It

By Oriana González

Feb. 27, 2024
Sheila Jackson Lee Might Lose the Primary to Her Long-Ago Intern

By Ryan Hernández

Feb. 22, 2024
Is Biden in 2024 a Replay of Bush in 1992?

By Dan Merica

Feb. 20, 2024
The House Race Democrats Can’t Afford to Lose in North Carolina

By Calen Razor

Feb. 16, 2024
Democrats Test-Drive Being the Aggressors on Border Security

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Nuha Dolby

Feb. 14, 2024
The Democratic Strategy to Fight the Special Counsel’s Report

By Ben T.N. Mause and Katherine Swartz

Feb. 9, 2024
Democrats’ Hard Right Turn on the Border

By Alex Roarty, Tara Kavaler and Tinashe Chingarande

Feb. 9, 2024
Can Jim Clyburn Save Joe Biden Again?

By Jasmine Wright and Tinashe Chingarande

Jan. 31, 2024
How Trump and an Army of Volunteers Won New Hampshire for Joe Biden

By Katherine Swartz and Casey Murray

Jan. 23, 2024
Are Georgia Republicans’ Maps Actually Helping Lucy McBath?

By Ben T.N. Mause

Jan. 23, 2024
Democrats Would Rather Not Talk About Fani Willis

By Ben T.N. Mause

Jan. 19, 2024
Inside The Private Meetings Where Black Women Gave Team Biden An ‘Earful’

By Jasmine Wright

Jan. 8, 2024