Democrats

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

By Helen Huiskes

November 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

November 12, 2024
New York Democrats Reckon With Harris’ Underperformance

By Violet Jira

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

By Alex Roarty, Em Luetkemeyer and Helen Huiskes

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

By Oriana González

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

By Shifra Dayak

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

By Mark Alfred

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

By Noah Kirsch

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

By Alex Roarty

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

By John T. Seward

August 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

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

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

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

By Claire Heddles

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

By Katherine Swartz

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

By Claire Heddles and Katherine Swartz

August 21, 2024
Democrats Pass the Mic to Republicans at the DNC

By Byron Tau

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

By Calen Razor

August 20, 2024
Progressives Are Having Their Moment With Tim Walz

By Tinashe Chingarande

August 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

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

By Claire Heddles

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

By Jasmine Wright

July 24, 2024
Democrats Have Stopped Despairing

By Haley Byrd Wilt

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

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

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

By Byron Tau and Nuha Dolby

July 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

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

By Nuha Dolby

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

By Jasmine Wright

July 21, 2024
Joe Biden Won’t
Run For Reelection

By Riley Rogerson and Calen Razor

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

By Calen Razor

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

By Tinashe Chingarande

July 19, 2024

Democrats Hope Project 2025 Will Help Them With Black Voters

By Tinashe Chingarande and Calen Razor

July 18, 2024
Democrats Return to Their Campaign Against Trump

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

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

By Ryan Hernández

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

By Alex Roarty and Evan McMorris-Santoro

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

By Tinashe Chingarande and Calen Razor

July 11, 2024
Biden Is Digging In

By Katherine Swartz

July 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

July 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

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

By Alex Roarty, Riley Rogerson and Matt Fuller

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

By Casey Murray

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

By Jasmine Wright

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

By Ben T.N. Mause and Reese Gorman

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

By Oriana González

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

By Ryan Hernández

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

By Oriana González

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

By Oriana González

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

By Alex Roarty

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

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

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

By Calen Razor

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

By Anna Kramer

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

By Jasmine Wright

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

By Oriana González

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

By Calen Razor

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

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Casey Murray

June 18, 2024
Pro-Immigrant Voters Don’t Want Trump. Democrats Warn They May Not Want a Hard-line Biden, Either.

By Casey Murray

June 17, 2024
Democrats Begin Their Offensive Against the Comstock Act

By Oriana González

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

By Oriana González

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

By Calen Razor

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

By Oriana González

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

By Calen Razor

June 4, 2024

House Democrats Are Going on the Offensive on Birth Control

By Oriana González

June 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

April 30, 2024
How Parenthood Changed Pete Buttigieg

By Dan Merica

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

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

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

By Katherine Swartz

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

By Casey Murray

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

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Oriana González

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

By Claire Heddles

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

By Jasmine Wright

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

By Casey Murray

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

By Claire Heddles

March 28, 2024
How a Former Democratic Operative Is Testing the Limits of What a Newsroom Can Be

By Maggie Severns

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

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

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

By Ben T.N. Mause

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

By Katherine Swartz

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

By Jasmine Wright

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

By Casey Murray

March 11, 2024

Joe Biden’s Immigration Language Has Gone Too Far for Some Democrats

By Ben T.N. Mause

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

By Claire Heddles

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

By Alex Roarty and Nuha Dolby

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

By Dan Merica

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

By John T. Seward

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

By Oriana González

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

By Ryan Hernández

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

By Dan Merica

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

By Calen Razor

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

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Nuha Dolby

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

By Ben T.N. Mause and Katherine Swartz

February 9, 2024
Democrats’ Hard Right Turn on the Border

By Alex Roarty, Tara Kavaler and Tinashe Chingarande

February 9, 2024
Can Jim Clyburn Save Joe Biden Again?

By Jasmine Wright and Tinashe Chingarande

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

By Katherine Swartz and Casey Murray

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

By Ben T.N. Mause

January 23, 2024
Democrats Would Rather Not Talk About Fani Willis

By Ben T.N. Mause

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

By Jasmine Wright

January 8, 2024