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Warnock and Talarico anchor an election-year boomlet for progressive Christianity
Democratic pastors and seminarians are linking their Christianity with their politics on the campaign trail.
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
Insurgent left becomes Democratic leaders’ next headache
Both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer live in the five boroughs where establishment Democrats got swept away.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Socialists sweep in New York primary
Left-wing challengers ousted two House Democrats in New York on Tuesday, a victory for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his faction of the party.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Mamdani makes a big bet on Democratic socialism
The mayor is staking his clout on three congressional challengers.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Democrats start forging a post-Trump and post-Biden foreign policy
National security Democrats are eyeing a new future for the party’s foreign policy — and new personnel to run it.
Annabelle Gordon/Elizabeth Frantz/Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Chris Murphy vs. the cults
The Connecticut senator thinks Democrats need to pick bigger fights.
Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters
Mamdani-backed democratic socialist leads incumbent Espaillat in key House race
Darializa Avila Chevalier leads incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat 39-35 in a new poll from Data for Progress.
Why Democrats rejected ‘class traitor’ Steyer in California
As Steyer grew more ambitious, the donor-doer billionaire came to embody the Democratic Party’s problems.
Beleaguered in DC, Platner enters his comfort zone
Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine isn’t going anywhere, despite the wishes of some in his party.
How one Tennessee student started a red-state anti-Pride push
The movement to counter June’s role as a celebration of LGBTQ rights is catching on with Republicans.
Platner asks for the Biden treatment from skeptical Democrats
Both Jill Biden and Graham Platner have highly scrutinized marriages (and families) that have made them political celebrities, and both argue that the public interest in their past missteps is a waste of time.
Busy primary day sweeps the nation
What to watch for as voters head to the polls in California, Iowa, and New Jersey.
Democratic primaries get an even bigger AIPAC problem
The group’s toxicity within the party is now so acute that it’s tied to both the war in Iran and the backlash against “dark money.”
Black Democrats confront their post-Voting Rights Act crisis
The scramble for a shrinking map is getting more intense as southern-state redistricting forces competition.
Platner: Collins ‘trying to offload her mistakes’
Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner isn’t backing down from his comments that GOP Sen. Susan Collins “sent me” to fight in Iraq, charging her with “trying to offload her mistakes” for pointing out that he chose to enlist.
Why Democrats prefer their own messy primaries
The US political parties are best understood by looking at Texas and California, whose 2026 primaries tell a story: Republicans are run from the top, Democrats aren’t run at all.
‘Circular firing squad’: Democrats question state conventions after Michigan debacle
The party is reevaluating its nominating practices that some warn could result in activist-driven sideshows.
DNC autopsy prompts more questions
The Democratic National Committee’s incomplete 2024 “autopsy” report contains no mention of the war in Gaza.