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Democrat Alex Holladay won the special election to represent Arkansas’s House District 70, beating Republican Bo Renshaw. Holladay won with 57% of the vote flipping the seat previous held by Republican Carlton Wing. Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin touted Holladay’s “exceptional” campaign and said in a statement Wednesday that his win “is a sign that voters are ready to put their...

Danvers Democrats convened on Thursday, February 26 at the Delegate Caucus to elect 14 delegates and 4 alternates to represent Danvers at the State Convention in Worcester on May 29 and May 30. The delegation consists of 9 men and 9 women. In addition to our 18 delegates, we will also have 4 ex-officio delegates that are invited to the convention due to their office. This includes our State Rep,...

Democrat Jennifer Mazzocco cruises to victory in Pennsylvania special election for State House 42 district. In a district that has voted 2-to-1 for Democrats in recent years, Jennifer Mazzocco won with 81.7% of the vote. Ana Tiburcio defeated Republican former school board member Robert E. Smith Jr. in the 22nd Legislative District election. She won more than 67% of the vote. These victories help...

Louisiana’s state legislative special election was supposed to be a very different kind of contest. A Democratic state representative gave up his seat to become commissioner of the state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, and Republicans saw this as a unique opportunity to do something the party hasn’t done in a while: flip a seat from blue to red. That didn’t happen.  Democrat Chasity...

Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a deep red Republican State Senate district in Fort Worth Texas by 14 points in Saturday’s special election.  Republicans have held this seat for decades and Trump carried it by 17 points in 2024.  This 30 point swing has continued our string of winning virtually every special election since March.

The DanversDems hosted our annual MLK Jr. Day of Service.  This year we hosted a food drive for our Danvers People to People Food Pantry. Thank you to Liz and the Blue Crew for hosting a most successful Food Drive for the Danvers People to People Food Pantry. Despite the weather, DanversDems and the people of Danvers turned out to help their neighbors. When we left the Food Pantry at 2:00 PM, we...

Democrat Renee Hardman made history after winning the Iowa Senate District 16 seat to become Iowa’s first Black female senator, defeating Republican Lucas Loftin in a Dec. 30 special election to hold off a GOP supermajority. Hardman earned 71.4% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Iowa Secretary of State, to represent the district that includes parts of West Des Moines, Clive...

Since Nielsen started measuring TV ratings in 1950, there has not been a U.S. president as obsessed with them as Donald Trump. He boasts about his own ratings, uses them to bash his rivals, and even makes suggestions about how various networks and shows could improve their own ratings. Kennedy Center Honors, have been a holiday programming staple since it began in 1978. However, this year Trump is...

Democrats continued their run of successes in special elections by flipping a state House seat in Georgia Tuesday, . The Democratic victory, in a district that voted for President Donald Trump by about 12 percentage points last year, comes ahead of next year’s critical midterms, when Georgians will vote in closely watched races for Senate and governor. Gisler won 51% of the vote a swing of 14 points. Eric...

Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving Democrats another example of strong performance in elections during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term. Higgins, a former county commissioner, will defeat city manager Emilio Gonzalez, who was endorsed by Trump. She secured 59% of...