Two 19th-century elections are a reminder that a sizable midterm shift, like the one expected in November, can signal long-lasting changes in American politics that set the country in a new direction.
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In correspondence with their constituents, Democrats are talking about corruption six times as much as they did in 2022.
Trump-endorsed candidates are performing badly in primary ballots.
Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
How will Democrats in Congress deal with the DSA-affiliated candidates likely to join their ranks in the new year? There are lessons from the tea party’s challenge to traditional GOP values.
Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
With major shutdown impacts beginning to set in, a scholar of Congress says the House has all but abdicated its position as ‘The People’s Chamber.’
The states are high, so the Trump administration is trying to change voting laws, while both sides gerrymandering to give them an advantage.
Creators who conceal financial support while weighing in on matters of interest to their funders are falsely presenting themselves as independent voices.
Anger at the other side, as represented by the political party opposing yours, is a powerful motivator to engage in protests.
The last eight members of Congress who died in office were Democrats. A younger generation of office seekers has raised their opponent’s age as a significant issue in their campaigns.
The Republican and Democratic parties are united in protecting their chokehold on American politics, despite the view by America’s founders that parties had no legitimate place in the republic.
After Sinclair won the California Democratic primary in 1934, business and media elites helped derail his bid for the governorship.
Ten years after Donald Trump launched the Make America Great Again movement, a poll offers some insight into what the slogan means to Republicans and Democrats.
Zohran Mamdani is one of the first Democratic candidates to successfully leverage Donald Trump’s focus on cost of living, explains a political strategist.
While there is widespread agreement on Iran within US politics, the incendiary nature of agreeing with your adversary makes it seem more fractured than it is.
Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
In some cases, long Senate speeches don’t produce clear results. In other cases, they can help pass or prevent new legislation.
The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this destabilizing pattern last?
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson was an American political icon. But above all, he was a Southerner.
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