The Democrats who entered the DNC chair race first remain ahead in public DNC member commitments; the winner needs a majority of their 448 votes when the party meets outside DC on Feb. 1.

Candidates for Democratic National Committee leadership posts largely embraced President Joe Biden’s warnings of an oligarchy taking shape in America during a series of forums Thursday in Detroit that ran nearly eight hours.

Candidates seeking to lead the Democratic National Committee were pressed about President Joe Biden at a forum in Detroit.

Desperate to bounce back after their 2024 drubbing, Democrats look for new leadership at the dawn of a second Trump administration

Former Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir has thrown his hat in the ring. Since he’s joining the race just a couple weeks before the DNC’s members vote, it will be a challenge for him to catch the front-runners. But Shakir’s entry is significant nonetheless: Unlike most of his competitors, he wants to transform the party.

Democrats in Minnesota’s state House staged a boycott on Tuesday, walking out and not showing up for the first day of the legislative session in defiance over how the chamber will be divided. When

Further down ballot, candidates also used the forum to discuss their own visions for how to correct what went wrong for Democrats in 2024. Anti-gun violence activist David Hogg is running for a DNC vice chair spot. He said the party had a problem with listening.

Former vice presidential hopeful Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is backing Ken Martin, the Democratic state party chair in Minnesota, in his bid to take the helm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The strategist who managed Bernie Sanders’s presidential race says the party needs vision and conviction “to restore a deeply damaged Democratic brand.”

The DNC held the first of four officer forums, and candidates for top leadership roles laid out their platforms and strategies for the party.

New York state Sen. James Skoufis is dropping out of the Democratic National Committee chair’s race — and has endorsed Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin.