Democratic Party

The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?

November 21, 2018 By Sam Pizzigati

Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school...

Democrats make strong gains in Arizona

November 14, 2018 By Joe Bernick

The reality is that Democrats made huge gains in the Grand Canyon State.

California’s midterm elections promise progressive gains

September 17, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon And Jo Allen-Eure

California Republican incumbents’ dogged fealty to the Trump agenda seems overall to be working against them.

Democratic Party factional struggles on hold for midterm elections?

August 3, 2018 By C.J. Atkins

At the Netroots Nation conference, left-center unity is being showcased, but tensions between the grassroots and the party “establishment” are still evident.

What’s the matter with Kansas? Brent Welder intends to find out

July 25, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

When Welder backs Medicare for All, it has one of his primary opponents screaming that he's a “Bernie Sanders extremist.”