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Placards adorn a wall at an Uncommitted Minnesota watch party during the presidential primary in Minneapolis on Super Tuesday.

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'Uncommitted' movement spreads to Super Tuesday states

4:12pm March 06, 2024

by Elena Moore

Just a week after 100,000 Michigan voters chose uncommitted on their Democratic ballots, hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country made a similar statement on Super Tuesday.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., leaves the Senate chamber after a live quorum call at the U.S. Capitol this week.

After months of speculation, Sen. Joe Manchin will not run for president in 2024

2:03pm February 16, 2024

by Elena Moore

After speculation the powerful centrist Democrat would run third-party, Manchin announced Friday he would not be running for president in the 2024 election. But he did not endorse a candidate.

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in North Las Vegas, Nev., Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024.

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Beyond the primary, Nevada Democrats have to turn policy playbook into actual votes

5:01am February 08, 2024

by Ximena Bustillo

Democrats are looking to keep Nevada voters in Biden's corner this year and they hope his policies to do it. But communicating the federal dollars isn't the easiest way to excite voters.

Left to right: Lourdes Pereira, 23, Matthew Holgate, 23, Alec Ferreira, 25, Shelbylyn Henry, 32, Xavier Medina, 25, and Nalani Lopez, 19. The six voters met with NPR at the Phoenix Indian Center in downtown Phoenix.

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In Arizona, these young Native American voters seize their political power

10:47am February 01, 2024

Young voters and Native American voters are two groups that showed up for President Biden in the 2020 election. But ahead of his 2024 match-up, it's unclear if he'll be able to keep their support.

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Kirsten Engel, an Arizona Democrat running for U.S. House, speaks during a Women's March rally in Phoenix on Jan. 20.

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House Democratic candidates make abortion access top focus of '24 campaigns

5:00am January 28, 2024

by Susan Davis

Democrats are targeting seats with first-term GOP incumbents in states where access to abortion rights could resonate with swing voters.

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1,000 "Dark Brandon" signs were placed around Miami ahead of the third Republican Debate in Miami last November.

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Meme-ifying 2024: how some young organizers are working to get their peers engaged

11:27am January 22, 2024

by Elena Moore

Democrats are counting on young voters to come out in big numbers in 2024. And strategists say a strong online presence is a key way to keep them engaged. Which in part means, here come the memes.

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Pins are pictured at a display counter during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Okla., on Sept. 30.

Sometimes overlooked by campaigns, Native voters could decide major elections in 2024

10:43am November 20, 2023

by Ximena Bustillo

A voting bloc that hasn't gotten as much national attention, Native voters are an influential constituency in several swing states, making them a group to watch in 2024.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (center) walks with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., (left) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on September 21. Zelenskyy made his renewed case for American aid to Ukraine to a deeply divided Congress.

The fate of Ukraine funding lies in the balance with speaker's race

11:34am October 06, 2023

by Lexie Schapitl

The next House speaker will need to win the support of 218 members and Ukraine aid is expected to be a significant factor.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pauses as he addresses reporters about efforts to pass appropriations bills and avert a looming government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on Friday. He is joined at right by House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., and Rep. Monica de la Cruz, R-Texas.

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How the far right could remove McCarthy and why his fate could be in Democrats' hands

5:00am September 30, 2023

by Susan Davis

At least one House Republican, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, is publicly threatening to offer a resolution to try to remove the speaker. Here's how that procedural motion would work.

John Wahl, 37, is the youngest GOP state party leader in the country. He also runs a business as a butterfly farmer in Athens, Ala. "This is me, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, in his natural habitat," he told NPR during a visit to his butterfly farm.

This butterfly farmer wants to strengthen the Republican Party's hold on Alabama

5:11am September 07, 2023

Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl is the youngest state GOP chair. He wants to increase GOP turnout among Black and young voters amid a larger redistricting battle and a looming election.