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This article is being published in partnership with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Last week, Abundance co-author Ezra Klein went viral on social media. In a widely shared video clip from Jon Stewart’s podcast, Klein described the maddeningly …

After Democrats lost the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives in last year’s election, Saikat Chakrabarti waited for the party’s leaders to acknowledge — if not address — their mistakes. “I was sort of expecting the Democrats to have a big realization that, ‘Oh my Gosh. We …

Illinois 9th District has only been represented by two people since 1965, and there hasn’t been a competitive primary since the race Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the district’s current representative, won in November 1998. “I wouldn’t be born for another four months,” deadpans Kat Abughazaleh, the TikTok-famous political commentator now …

For years, Democrats have stood by as their leaders have insisted they are powerless to do what they’ve promised, only to watch Donald Trump, in his second term, do whatever he feels like, no matter what the law says — be it firing tens of thousands of federal workers, freezing …

Trump’s interminable address to Congress was met with Democratic responses ranging from angry heckling, from Texas Rep. Al Green, to sober counterprogramming, from Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin. The split response underscores the lack of unity among Democrats in how to respond to Trump’s destructive opening blitz. At times, the two …

Donald Trump’s first week in office was defined by a torrent of executive orders and proclamations, with the president openly hailing the beginning of a transformative era of American politics. While Trump is more than happy to brag about the orders he’s signed cracking down on undocumented migrants, targeting transgender …

WASHINGTON — Everybody in a position of power failed to protect you from this. Many of those same people and leaders are now cashing in, paying millions in protection money, or laughing about what has happened. Others are pretending there was nothing they could do to stop it — and …

WASHINGTON — At least four Democratic political committees suspect their former campaign treasurer is behind the “misappropriation” of hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds, according to federal records reviewed by Rolling Stone. The committees — including those led by Virginia’s two U.S. senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner …

Four candidates have declared their intention to compete for chair of the Democratic National Committee, but as the race heats up, an aggressively polite, exceedingly Midwestern cold war has broken out between factions backing the two state party chairs in the race: Ben Wikler of Wisconsin and Ken Martin of …

Republicans in Washington have vowed to cut off medical treatment for most trans Americans — and may try to do so next year once Donald Trump takes over. Democrats in Congress can likely stop it from happening if they stand together and hold the line, but it’s unclear if they …