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Texas Democrats plea for donations to extend their walkout and block Trump’s redistricting plan

After leaving Texas for Illinois to prevent a legislative vote on a Republican redistricting plan, state House Democratic leader Gene Wu needed a means to project his voice — and viewpoints — to a national audience. So he tapped his campaign account to buy a microphone for news conferences. When it came to covering the hefty hotel bill for Wu and his roughly 50 colleagues, the lawmaker said he relied on money from his chamber’s Democratic Caucus. Now Texas Democrats are pleading […]

todayAugust 7, 2025 2

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Jeffries slams Texas governor as ‘cowardly, fake bully’ after calling for arrests of Democrats

After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for the arrests of more than 50 Democrats who fled the state to prevent the passing of a controversial voting map, Congress’s top Democrat, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, called Abbott’s actions “cowardly” and praised Texas Democrats for their “courage,” “character,” and “conviction.” “The Texas governor is a cowardly, fake bully,” said Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. The New York congressman slammed Abbott and Texas Republicans for, at the direction of […]

todayAugust 5, 2025 1

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Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with Trump-backed congressional map

Texas Democrats on Monday prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump to shore up Republicans’ 2026 midterm prospects as his political standing falters. After dozens of Democrats left the state, the Republican-dominated House was unable to establish the quorum of lawmakers required to do business. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has made threats about removing members who are absent from their seats. Democrats counter that […]

todayAugust 5, 2025 3

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Jasmine Crockett shows support to Texas Democrats with her framed arrest warrant

As Texas House Democrats face threats of civil arrests and removal from their offices amid a political battle over the voting rights of Black and Latino voters in the state, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is sending them support with a reminder of her own threatened arrest. “Here is my beautifully framed warrant from ‘21!” Crockett wrote in the caption of a post with an image of her framed arrest warrant sitting on top of her office desk when she […]

todayAugust 4, 2025 1

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Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left state over Trump-backed redistricting

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to block redrawn U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants before the 2026 midterm elections. The revolt by the state House Democrats, many of whom went to Illinois or New York on Sunday, and Abbott giving them less than 24 hours to come home ratcheted up a widening fight […]

todayAugust 4, 2025 1

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Democrats implore Trump to step up role in addressing suffering and starvation in Gaza

Senate Democrats are imploring President Donald Trump’s administration to step up its role in addressing suffering and starvation in Gaza, with more than 40 senators signing onto a letter Tuesday urging the resumption of ceasefire talks and sharply criticizing an Israeli-backed American organization that had been created to distribute food aid. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Republican president’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, the senators said the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, created in February with backing from the Trump administration, has […]

todayJuly 29, 2025

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Senate Democrats see record number of diverse staffers, even as diversity is ‘demonized and distorted’

Senate Democrats are touting a record number of diverse staffers working in their offices, in direct conflict with the political climate in Washington, D.C., as the Trump administration declares war on DEI. TheGrio exclusively reports that the 2025 Senate Democratic Diversity Initiative, an annual survey, found that the diversity of Capitol Hill staffers has reached its highest levels since being recorded in 2017. “At a time when diversity is being demonized and distorted in too many corners of this country, […]

todayJuly 18, 2025

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‘Who’s got next?’ Democrats already lining up for 2028 presidential race in early voting states

The first presidential primary votes won’t be cast for another two and a half years. And yet, over the span of 10 days in July, three Democratic presidential prospects are scheduled to campaign in South Carolina. Nearly a half dozen others have made recent pilgrimages to South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa — states that traditionally host the nation’s opening presidential nomination contests. Still other ambitious Democrats are having private conversations with officials on the ground there. The voters in these states […]

todayJuly 16, 2025

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Former President Obama tells Democrats to ‘toughen up’ and ‘stop looking for the messiah’

Former President Barack Obama expressed some tough love for the Democratic Party as it navigates the political climate of the MAGA takeover under President Donald Trump. America’s first Black president urged his party to “get in there and do something” amid major victories for Trump and the Republican Party, including their “Big” bill that includes $3.8 trillion in tax cuts largely benefiting the rich, increased funding and enforcement of mass deportation and immigrant detentions, and historic cuts to social safety […]

todayJuly 14, 2025