What is “WelcomeFest”? Well, Politico called it the “moderate Democrats’ Coachella.” Progressives say the event shows the ...

Centrist Democrats are trying to replicate the movement politics that drive the progressive wing of the party, but it’s not ...

Billionaires like James Murdoch and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman are backing a new centrist movement within the Democratic Party.

Democrats are still staring down bleak polling numbers about their party’s brand, even as President Donald Trump’s ...

Billionaires are funding a centrist movement within the Democratic Party called WelcomeFest, aimed at energizing moderates.

Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss the Washington, D.C., gathering of the centrist wing of the Democratic Party who argued ...

At WelcomeFest 2025, centrists offered their diagnosis for what ails the Democratic Party: too many people making demands of ...

Watching hundreds of nerds get together to bash the left and gush about “abundance” was as off-putting as it sounds.

As the party diagnoses its 2024 losses and charts a path to lasting electoral victories, it seems voting rights are being ...

At a wonky gathering in Washington, centrist Democrats argued that they were the majority-makers the party needed to take ...

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Searchlight, a name inspired by the birthplace of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, comes at a precarious moment for a ...