Candidates from different wings of the Democratic Party won key races on Election Day 2025 in the biggest test since President Trump's victory last year.

Donald Trump took to Truth Social after Democrats won big Election Day victories on Tuesday, Nov. 4, to claim it only happened because his name wasn't on the ballot

Congressional Republicans think they know when the shutdown is going to end. And the answer is: right after the election.

Majorities say the Republican Party (56%) and Democratic Party (58%) do not represent the interests of people like them.

Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat who holds his party's most Republican-leaning seat in the US House, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection, potentially giving the GOP a strong opportunity to flip the Maine seat next year.

Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District election is the only remaining contest this year after Democrats saw victory in every major contest on Nov. 4.

Similar gains in 2017 preceded a successful 2018 midterm election in which Democrats flipped 41 U.S. House seats, seven governorships, and six state legislative chambers (they also lost two net U.S. Senate seats thanks to a particularly difficult landscape). The parallels are occurring to a lot of people, as Politico reports:

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman demands an end to the government shutdown and weighs in on the state of the Democratic Party ahead of New York City’s mayoral election on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

Takis Karantonis will get another term on the Arlington County Board. The Democratic incumbent decisively defeated his divided competition in the County Board race, which was conducted via ranked choice voting.