Democratic Party Blog Posts

What to expect as early voting gets underway

As the midterm elections draw closer, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to imagine how the immense motivational advantage that Democrats enjoy with their voters does not translate into sweeping gai...

By the time centrist Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley squeaked into the general election with an excruciating advantage of less than half of one percentage point over DSA insurgent Francesco H...

Is the rise of progressive and democratic socialist candidates necessary to energize working-class voters, or does it risk alienating swing voters and fracturing the party's broad coalition?

What to make of Democrats moving toward socialism.

I switched my party registration to Independent just over 15 years ago. Since then, rarely a week has gone by when I was not asked by a resentful Republican or a disappointed Democrat why I was not a...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the lessons to be learned from the politics of my home state of Wisconsin for this fall’s midterm campaigns. Today, let’s look at my adopted home of California for simil...

Allowing politicians to draw their own district lines is like letting teenagers set their own curfews.

The Democratic National Committee’s leaders are seemingly determined to learn nothing from their 2024 presidential election defeat—or make sure that no one else does.

Democrats won campaigns in November by focusing on the economy and cost of living. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania to sell his administration’s actions on affordability.