WelcomeFest speakers said they want Democrats to take popular positions, but their own agenda is controversial ...

Some advocates acknowledged to The Bulwark that certain groups, particularly Latino organizations, inflated their analysis of ...

Watching hundreds of nerds get together to bash the left and gush about “abundance” was as off-putting as it sounds.

At WelcomeFest 2025, centrists offered their diagnosis for what ails the Democratic Party: too many people making demands of ...

When I told a friend that I’d just been to WelcomeFest—billed as the “largest public gathering” of the center-left—she asked ...

Centrist Democrats are trying to replicate the movement politics that drive the progressive wing of the party, but it’s not ...

Democrats are still staring down bleak polling numbers about their party’s brand, even as President Donald Trump’s favorability also has dropped. The answer to Democrats’ troubles at WelcomeFest, the ...

Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss the Washington, D.C., gathering of the centrist wing of the Democratic Party who argued ...

At a wonky gathering in Washington, centrist Democrats argued that they were the majority-makers the party needed to take ...

What is “WelcomeFest”? Well, Politico called it the “moderate Democrats’ Coachella.” Progressives say the event shows the party is still tone deaf. MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin, Catherine Rampell and Elise ...

Billionaires are funding a centrist movement within the Democratic Party called WelcomeFest, aimed at energizing moderates.