Democratic Party Blog Posts

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.

One of the best things about a two-party system is that it requires compromise between its factions in order to move forward in any meaningful and impactful way. The worst thing is that such a need fo...

Tuesday was election day in America. Virginia and New Jersey elected Democratic governors, three Democratic supreme court justices retained their seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Californi...

This is an opinion from the Center.Ever since the federal government shut down last week, the Republicans have been on the warpath. The GOP leadership on Capitol Hill has lambasted the Democrats for t...