As Democrats met in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for the Center for American Progress (CAP) Ideas Conference — a center-left gathering of pundits and politicians — the mood inside the ballroom oscillated between campaign-year optimism and constitutional alarm.

The party’s rising figures spoke repeatedly about affordability, health care costs, and economic anxiety. But threaded through nearly…

Democrats continue winning in elections. A Virginia ballot initiative to redraw congressional districts has passed by a narrow margin, setting off a new front in the national fight over redistricting and drawing immediate praise from LGBTQ+ advocates and Democratic leaders who cast the result as a check on partisan power.

According to Decision Desk HQ, the measure was approved by 51.26…

With advocates at her side and an eye on a volatile national legal landscape, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger Friday signed legislation sending a slate of constitutional amendments to voters, including a measure that would finally erase the state’s ban on same-sex marriages and replace it with an affirmative right to marriage equality.

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