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Rahm Emanuel
Abby Livingston • June 2, 2025
As Trump’s grip weakens, Democrats are recruiting candidates straight from the Rahm Emanuel 2006 playbook: military vets, small-business owners, health care workers, etcetera. Career politicians and Biden insiders need not apply.
Gerry Connolly
Abby Livingston • May 26, 2025
As the Tapper-Thompson exposé on Biden’s gerontocracy hits Washington, House Democrats are coming to terms with their own culpability in supporting an aging caucus.
Mike Johnson
Abby Livingston • May 19, 2025
A growing contingent of Republicans point to Trump’s decision to unleash tariffs before tax cuts as a tactical error—and wonder if they still have the political momentum to pass his megabill with all its components intact.
Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik
Abby Livingston • May 12, 2025
Republicans are enjoying a sudden reprieve from the looming economic calamity of tariff-induced dislocations and the specter of empty shelves. But there’s still plenty of political pain ahead, from a battle over SALT and Medicaid cuts to nagging fears that the G.O.P. could be in trouble in Texas.


Jasmine Crockett
Abby Livingston • May 5, 2025
Gerry Connolly’s looming retirement from Oversight has once again set off a leadership scramble: A.O.C. may be out, for now, but the dam has broken for a House Democratic caucus riven by generational change.
Jon Ossoff
Abby Livingston • April 28, 2025
News and notes on the mixed reaction on Capitol Hill to Jon Ossoff’s flirtation with the “I” word. Plus, what Democrats are really saying about Trump’s frontal assault on ActBlue.
Hakeem Jeffries, Mike Johnson
Abby Livingston • April 21, 2025
The party seemed to have renewed pep in its step. Then the Q1 fundraising numbers came in… Donors are still exhausted, exasperated, pissed over Biden, and worse. But the Q2 prospects look better.
Mallory McMorrow
Abby Livingston • April 14, 2025
The Democratic establishment has traditionally tried to clamp down on primaries for U.S. Senate races, to conserve money in what can turn into $50 million races. But early jockeying for open seats suggests that ambitious pols are in no mood to take orders from Chuck Schumer.


Mike Johnson
Abby Livingston • April 8, 2025
Republicans are now, for the most part, standing by Donald Trump in his trade war. But dissent is brewing within the party, and Democrats are salivating at their own newly brightened prospects.
wes moore
Abby Livingston • April 1, 2025
The early maneuvering of a dozen-plus Democrats to fill the party’s leadership void has triggered an early frenzy among consultants and operatives scouting a generational talent pool… and a billion-dollar opportunity.
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