Politics Today News Democrats Don’t Abandon Identity Politics, Get Them Right

Joy Reid says Dems' brand tainted by focus on trans politics and immigrants, abandoned rural White voters

Joy Reid says Democrats lose rural voters because their brand is associated with cultural issues like gay marriage and trans rights rather than economic concerns. Read More

Election Night Proved Democrats Don’t Need to Abandon Trans People to Win

Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays. After a night of historic wins for Democrats across the United States, one lesson ... Read More

Democrats Can’t Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures

Despite the attempts by so many in the party’s establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week. Zohran Mamdani waves the transgender ... Read More

Democrats had a big night. Here are 5 takeaways from the 2025 elections

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Has Trump lost his mojo? Rural voters sound off on Democratic wins

KILMARNOCK, Va. - If Democrats want to rebound from their 2024 election catastrophe in 2026, they're going need to win over voters like Valerie Rancourt. Rancourt, and her husband, Mike, voted for ... Read More

Trump’s 2026 redistricting scheme could wind up hurting democracy more than Democrats

President Donald Trump marched the nation into a historic redistricting arms race with his brazen move to get red states to draw as many new GOP-leaning districts as possible. Already, more states ... Read More