The most right-wing House Democrats founded the Blue Dogs in 1995. Many of them eventually jumped the fence and joined the GOP, including...

Both CA-13 Candidates Are Putrid CA-13 came into existence after the 2020 census in time for the 2022 midterms. There was no incumbent in...

Bernie sent his supporters an e-mail called “Tough Times,” yesterday. He noted that “The American people understand that our economic and...

What Went Wrong In New York And New Jersey? The partisan split in the House is going to be incredibly close. MAGA Mike will probably have...

Bernie Speaks For Me Remember Jared Golden’s OpEd about how a second Trump term wouldn’t be so bad. He might not be in Congress to...

The other day, there were a flurry of reports in the political press about how some extremist lunatics in the House GOP conference were...

Golden Say's Trump's Going To Win & He's Fine With That It’s hard to say exactly who the worst Democrat in the House is. At one point it...

In The Long Run, Blue Dogs And New Dems Can Be Worse Than Republicans When conservatives are allowed to appropriate the word “moderate”...

Republicans Are Also Screwing With Democrats Over Israel Policy The House GOP acerbated the problems at the border by voting down the...

I’m not really that familiar with Melanie Mason’s reporting. I’ve seen her stuff at Politico and I have no impression that she is...

The any-blue-will-do drumbeat has begun— from the DCCC and from the DCCC-minded. Most of the candidates in the DCCC’s Red to Blue program...

How would you like to see more Joe Manchins, Henry Cuellars, Josh Gottheimers and Kyrsten Sinemas among congressional Democrats? The...

70% of voters just blindly select whichever candidate has a “D” or an “R” next to their name. In congressional races that usually enough...

Scandal-scarred and censured former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was back in Congress in 2018— and on the wrong side of Señor...

This Is What You Get When You Support A GOP-Lite Democrat Yesterday, Wisconsin votes, decisively, rejected the anti-democracy Trumpist...

The Corrupt Conservative Caucus Just Fell Apart Members of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party— the Blue Dogs— aren’t overtly...

South Texas Congressman Vicente González, a shady Blue Dog, with a “D”-rated voting record, thought was making the smart decision to move...

The title of Jonathan Chait’s column in New York Magazine today sounds like a DWT post: Josh Gottheimer Is on a Mission to Destroy Joe...

The Democratic Party Is Self-Destructing At The Worst Possible Time Yesterday, if you got past my reminiscences about my early...

Before dawn this morning, with around 95% of the votes in TX-28, yesterday's primary runoff is still too close to call, about 175 votes...