Democratic Party

Carl Heastie, the speaker of the Assembly, has not yet endorsed his fellow lawmaker. He’s not the only prominent Democrat to hold back support.

By Benjamin Oreskes

Three months earlier, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

By Reid J. Epstein and Gina Kolata

Republicans and Democrats agree they will need a temporary measure to fund the government past Sept. 30, but have yet to come to terms on what it should look like.

By Catie Edmondson

Is there a way for them to get rid of the scarlet L for loser?

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers went to the Capitol to ask Congress to get behind their calls for more disclosures, but momentum for a bill demanding it appeared to stall.

By Michael Gold

Senator Mark Warner’s visit was classified and not intended to be publicized. It was to include a meeting with the head of the agency and a briefing on the agency’s use of artificial intelligence.

By Julian E. Barnes, Robert Draper and Robert Jimison

Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging “legal war” against Beto O’Rourke, a possible Democratic rival, threatening jail and an investigation that could bankrupt his organization.

By J. David Goodman

Readers offer analysis and advice about the Democrats’ plight. Also: An Israeli’s heroism.

The conversations have also involved finding a place for Curtis Sliwa with the goal of giving Andrew Cuomo a better chance of defeating Zohran Mamdani in November.

By Dana Rubinstein, Nicholas Fandos, Maggie Haberman and William K. Rashbaum

Dan Kleban enters a crowded Democratic primary as party leaders wait for Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who is “seriously considering” a run for Senate.

By Shane Goldmacher

The court said the commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, had been illegally terminated “without cause.”

By Cecilia Kang

Representative Jerrold Nadler’s departure is still 16 months away, but Democrats are already testing the waters in what is expected to be a highly contested race.

By Nicholas Fandos

How should his opponents respond?

By Thomas B. Edsall

Representative Jerrold Nadler, the ex-House Judiciary chairman who helped lead President Trump’s impeachments, will not seek re-election in New York.

By Nicholas Fandos

The demonstrations were part of the continuing effort by Trump opponents to try to pressure his administration, even if many events were modest in size.

By Robert Chiarito, Abigail Geiger, Sean Piccoli and J. David Goodman

The parade on Labor Day marks the beginning of a two-month sprint to Election Day, as Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s rivals try to narrow his lead.

By Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Even if Mamdani is as awful as his opponents insist, campaigning against an opponent’s flaws works only if you don’t seem even worse.

By Nicole Gelinas

Why the labor movement needs to act as though its future is under grave threat.

By Erik Loomis

Republicans and Democrats in Congress are wary of the potential consequences of President Trump’s drive to redraw districts.

By Annie Karni

Opponents of the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City have derogatively called him both a socialist and a democratic socialist to make a dent in his lead in the polls.

By Jeffery C. Mays

Democrats once had a chance to blunt a couple of the moves President Trump is making now, on redistricting and the takeover of the police force in Washington, D.C.

By Reid J. Epstein

After a bruising redistricting fight, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new congressional map into law. But the Republican-led Legislature, newly emboldened, has not stopped there.

By J. David Goodman

Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.

By Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva

What Gavin Newsom is up to in his “Patriot Shop.”

By Jesse McKinley

Where the center of American politics may be alive and well.

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

The brutality of our immigration policy is no longer quarantined to the border. Both parties are at fault.

By Jean Guerrero

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, is fending off attacks that seek to link him to some of the D.S.A.’s more controversial stances.

By Jeffery C. Mays, Dana Rubinstein and Eliza Shapiro

Both parties appear to be weighing gatherings that would gin up excitement for candidates in 2026 — and give a major platform for ambitious politicians hoping to lead the parties in 2028.

By Shane Goldmacher

Who is offering an instructive example to help lead the party out of a very deep hole?

By Frank Bruni, Lauren Egan and Adam Jentleson

“An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” said Mayor Justin Bibb of Cleveland, who led a private strategy call on Wednesday.

By Katie Glueck

The Democratic Party is counting on a new type of leader to counteract Trump.

By Michelle Cottle

The Senate seat in the Sioux City area had been held by a Republican. It would be the second time this year that Iowa Democrats had flipped a legislative district.

By Mitch Smith

Officials made no mention of politics in cutting ties with a network of nonprofit funds, but Bill Gates has made other moves to insulate the charity from political pressures.

By Theodore Schleifer

The measures were almost entirely symbolic, yet laid bare the broader fault lines dividing and shaping the party nearly two years after the war began.

By Katie Glueck and Shane Goldmacher

The Illinois governor pointed out that eight of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans.

By Julie Bosman

The former vice president has been raising the funds to pay all of those expenses and to keep the party whole financially. But small donors making those contributions have been left in the dark.

By Shane Goldmacher

Plus, Spotify playlists can spill your secrets.

By Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger, Devlin Barrett and Michael Forsythe

With red states growing fast, the Democratic Party will have a tough path to the White House without making more states competitive, according to a New York Times analysis.

By Nick Corasaniti, Jeff Adelson, Irineo Cabreros and Charlie Smart

Mario Cuomo’s failed mayoral campaign was a training ground for his son Andrew, who would mount his own bid decades later.

By Adam Nagourney and Benjamin Oreskes

We cannot let this dark moment consume us.

By Jamelle Bouie

As a handful of states have made moves and begun discussing redrawing their maps, here’s what’s at stake.

By David W. Chen and Ashley Cai

Gerrymandering is a form of cheating. And it is preventable.

By The Editorial Board

A year after her father became the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, the 24-year-old Hope Walz reflects on all that has changed for her and the world.

By Callie Holtermann

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers moved quickly to create new districts that could help their party flip five congressional seats. Their plan still requires voter approval.

By Laurel Rosenhall

The figure makes plain how a gerrymandering push that began in Texas but spread nationwide has energized the Democratic base.

By Shane Goldmacher

Lawmakers in the nation’s two most populous states were voting Thursday on competing proposals as the battle over U.S. House maps intensified.

By J. David Goodman

The former president suggested that Democrats opposing G.O.P. efforts in Texas and elsewhere should advance their own gerrymandering plans.

By Kellen Browning

Leaders of the Appropriations Committee are trying to tighten up funding legislation to give the Trump administration less leeway to refuse to spend federal money.

By Carl Hulse

State representatives ripped up permission slips that Republican House leaders gave Democratic lawmakers trying to leave the Capitol building. One even spent the night sleeping inside the chambers.

By Shawn Paik

The State Senate will vote Thursday on a congressional map intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats. California Democrats will counter on the same day.

By J. David Goodman

Thirty states, as well as Washington, D.C., allow voters to register with a political party. Here’s what the data shows.

By Shane Goldmacher

If you want to understand the health of a political party, take a look at their voter registration numbers. And for the Democrats, it’s not looking good.

By Shane Goldmacher, Claire Hogan, David Jouppi and Zach Caldwell

The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.

By Shane Goldmacher and Jonah Smith

Democrats hoping to retake the Senate in the midterm elections next year are targeting the seat of Senator Collins, a Maine Republican who is seen as a moderate.

By Theodore Schleifer and Brooks Barnes

A state representative in Connecticut had posted on Instagram about immigration enforcement efforts in his district but did not give detailed information.

By Ana Ley

Nicole Collier, a state representative, slept in the Capitol rather than agree to police surveillance imposed by Republicans after a Democratic walkout. “I am resisting,” she said.

By J. David Goodman

Republican state lawmakers argue that Democratic lawmakers violated 30-day disclosure rules in the California Constitution.

By Laurel Rosenhall

President Trump has latched on to concerns about crime, as liberals point to its decline. The politics often flip when it comes to mass shootings.

By Shaila Dewan

Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man’s pitch thinks he has a better chance.

By Annie Karni

Crime is tricky territory for Democrats and President Trump knows it.

By Jess Bidgood

Also, Texas Democrats ended their walkout over redistricting. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

By Matthew Cullen

Democrats see the federal takeover of Washington as a way for President Trump to stoke fear for political gain. But they are mindful that issues of public safety continue to resonate with their own supporters.

By Jess Bidgood and Lisa Lerer

Democratic lawmakers’ returned to the Capitol, and Republicans redrew their maps again, trying to flips seats and make their existing districts stronger.

By J. David Goodman

Many state delegations are already under single-party control. New maps could tighten the partisan grip while decreasing the importance of general elections.

By Carl Hulse

Thousands assembled around the country to demonstrate against a Republican effort to redraw congressional maps in their favor for 2026.

By J. David Goodman

Republicans have a clear advantage over Democrats in the total number of states that could redraw their maps.

By Elena Shao and Nick Corasaniti

The actor-turned-governor helped overhaul how California draws political maps. In an interview with The New York Times, he said he would fight to preserve that legacy.

By Laurel Rosenhall

The plan would help Democrats flip five seats, offsetting the gains Republicans hope to make by redrawing maps in Texas.

By Laurel Rosenhall

The legislation has little chance of success, given that Republicans control Congress.

By Michael Gold

Plus, your Friday news quiz.

By Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and Katie Rogers

Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight.

By Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti

Will the battle over Texas’ gerrymandering lead to a new era for the party?

By Jia Lynn Yang

As an American and as a Jew, I regard the right to dissent as a patriotic duty.

By Lily Greenberg Call

The leader of Democrats in the Texas House said the battle over redistricting, which could determine control of Congress, is likely to continue in the courts.

By J. David Goodman

To be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change.

By David Brooks

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority kicked away the best, even last, chance at a national solution to a national problem.

By David Daley

Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.

By Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Raina Raskin

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who withheld an endorsement in the New York City Democratic primary, has yet to endorse the winner, Zohran Mamdani.

By Grace Ashford

Solomon Peña, who lost a bid for a seat in the New Mexico Legislature in 2022, was found guilty in March of orchestrating the attacks against state Democrats.

By Pooja Salhotra

Labour’s collapse in Britain should scare both parties.

By David Wallace-Wells

Obamaworld seems interested in understanding Zohran Mamdani’s sudden rise to prominence.

By Mara Gay

Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, has now used his “election integrity unit” to indict 15 Latino Democrats under a 2021 statute that outlawed delivering ballots for other voters.

By Edgar Sandoval and Samuel Rocha IV

Former Gov. David Paterson, who had endorsed his successor, Andrew Cuomo, in the Democratic primary, said he believed Mr. Adams “would run the city the best.”

By Nicholas Fandos

Trump puede eludir las consecuencias de sus actos; el resto de nosotros, no.

By Ben Rhodes

The former three-term senator is said to be running to get his old job back, delivering a recruitment coup for Democrats facing an uphill battle to win a Senate majority next year.

By Shane Goldmacher

How liberalism went to die on the Texas-Arkansas border.

By Thomas B. Edsall

The move is the first significant maneuver from Ken Martin to shape the party’s next presidential nominating process, but how much bite his proposal could have remains to be seen.

By Reid J. Epstein

A new level of partisan one-upmanship should spur urgent demands for reform.

By Roland Fryer

Interviews with nearly 30 working-class Americans who until recently voted Democratic laid bare the party’s deep challenges — and its pockets of opportunity.

By Katie Glueck, Claire Hogan, David Jouppi and Zach Caldwell

Working-class Americans who until recently voted Democratic said the party should not count on a backlash to President Trump to win them back. Still, there were pockets of opportunity.

By Katie Glueck

Zohran Mamdani began a Five Boroughs Against Trump tour to draw attention to the ways he believes the president’s agenda is hurting New York City.

By Emma G. Fitzsimmons

But he’s got some thinking to do.

By Jonathan Mahler

Trump may be able to escape the consequences of his actions; the rest of us cannot.

By Ben Rhodes

A Republican proposal to add five Republican congressional seats in Texas imperils Democrats’ midterm prospects.

By Alyce McFadden

Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.

By Michael Gold

Doubtful that President Trump has their best interests in mind, top union officials are redoubling efforts to push the Democratic Party to appeal more to their rank and file.

By Kellen Browning

Democratic lawmakers maintained their walkout to thwart a Republican gerrymander, prompting Ken Paxton to ask the state’s Supreme Court to remove 13 of them from their seats.

By J. David Goodman and Shawn Hubler

Republicans say they are preparing to impose rules changes to speed confirmations after Democrats thwarted them before Congress headed into recess.

By Carl Hulse

Amy Klobuchar has taken a crucial step toward the view of the party’s base.

By Lydia Polgreen

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s remarks about President Trump came just before The Times’s disclosure that he had spoken to Mr. Trump about the race.

By Nicholas Fandos, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Lauren Hirsch