Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is defending her April trip to Cuba after revealing she met directly with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, foreign ambassadors, and senior government officials to discuss lifting U.S. sanctions and the American fuel embargo against the communist island.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced Monday he is leaving the Democratic Party, saying the party now tolerates antisemitism that would have been unthinkable when he first joined it, Reuters reports.
State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat seeking to flip one of the most competitive congressional seats in the country, is facing renewed scrutiny this week over a 2021 video showing her reciting a Muslim prayer on the Iowa Senate floor, and a separate interview in which she described Iowa as insufficiently diverse and implied constituents harbor "horrible animosity" toward Muslims.
A former Democratic congresswoman's seat may be making headlines, but it's a sitting Democratic congressman who was investigated for allegedly hitting on young Capitol Hill interns, new reporting reveals.
President Donald Trump called Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday and pressed him to redraw the state's congressional maps, a move that could eliminate the state's only Democratic House seat, held by Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis.
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D) signed a sweeping vaccine bill into law that preserves state standards for inoculations and reinforces a ban on religious exemptions for students in public schools.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) went on MSNBC Thursday and said the quiet part loud: Democrats intend to impeach President Trump if they flip the House in November.
