While the campaign certainly hasn’t lacked candidates, it has been missing star power. Could that change in the election year ...

During a House Oversight Committee hearing earlier this year in June, Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-IL) harshly scolded her ...

December 21, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Congressional ...

Image by Alex Csiki from Pixabay Padilla, Schiff, Lofgren and 26 members of the California congressional delegation asked the ...

As flooding in the state continues, California’s Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff have issued a joint letter urging the departments of Agriculture and Commerce to undo cuts to weather ...

On the Senate floor today, Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) speaks out in support of tomorrow's vote to extend the ACA tax credits. Padilla reminds his Republican colleagues of their growing unpopularity ...

Sen. Alex Padilla and his Democratic colleagues are teaming up to push a measure allowing people to sue federal law enforcement officers and agencies – notably immigration officials – in civil court ...

Political tensions escalated as Democratic officials from California, Arizona and New Jersey opposed President Donald Trump's ...

Media personality Stephen A. Smith has repeatedly taken Democrats to task over hot-button issues in 2025. The Democratic ...

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp is pushing California Sen. Alex Padilla over what he called "obstruction tactics" that are delaying Georgia's former adjutant general of the state National Guard, Lt. Gen.

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In other words, California Democrats have so thoroughly squelched the Republican Party that they’ve become victims of their ...