Different Democrats have had all sorts of different strategies throughout the shutdown. But Democrats now want to try to speak with one voice.

Candidates from different wings of the Democratic Party won key races on Election Day 2025 in the biggest test since President Trump's victory last year.

As Democrats are riding the high of several notable electoral victories on Tuesday, the outlook for 2026 appears a bit tougher.

Elections this week that energized Democrats and angered President Donald Trump have cast a chill over efforts to end the record-breaking government shutdown, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of a breakthrough despite the punishing toll of federal closures on the country.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who served as the first and only female House speaker, said she will not run for re-election.

Democrats in Colorado hailed the flipping of Aurora's council, as progressives were set to take majority control from conservatives following Tuesday's election in a city U.S. President Donald Trump said had been "invaded and conquered" by illegal immigrants from Venezuelan drug gangs during the 2024 election campaign.

Spanberger outperformed Kamala Harris’ margin in 48 of Virginia’s 52 rural localities. And according to exit polling, she won 46 percent of rural voters — an 8-point deficit to Republican rival Winsome Earle-Sears, and a 19-point swing from 2021 Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe’s 27-point disadvantage.

The panel, which does not have the power to subpoena Andrew, made the request as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

James Carville predicts the next Democratic president will create a committee who will recommend expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices after winning in 2028.

Democrats say the message from voters is clear: don’t give in. “We are winning the hearts and minds of the American people,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, told reporters. “We’ve come this far and the American people seem to be with us.”