Democrats

"A ‘swing of this magnitude is not something that can be dismissed,’"Gov. Ron DeSantis said on a social media post. "Republicans should be clear-eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms.”

After a bruising 2024 election cycle that left Florida Democrats reeling, party leaders in Miami-Dade say the narrative of decline no longer fits what they’re seeing on the ground. A string of off-year wins in 2025, both locally and nationally, has reinvigorated organizers who believe Miami-Dade could once again become competitive terrain heading into the 2026 midterms.

U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego is emerging as a key figure for the Democratic Party as it aims to regain Latino support lost in 2024. The Arizona Democrat has been active in New Jersey, Virginia and Florida, supporting Democrats who won their elections.

“Let’s be clear, in Virginia and New Jersey, the GOP would have had a much better chance of winning if the Hispanic vote would have stuck with the GOP," Salazar said in her widely viewed social media post

The Parkland lawmaker is one of two Florida Democrats the NRCC has listed as "prime pick up opportunities for Republicans" in next year's midterm elections to boost their majority rule in the House.

Attorneys on behalf of a dozen U.S. House Democrats Thursday pushed for a federal judge to force the Trump administration to comply with an appropriations law that allows for unannounced oversight visits at Department of Homeland Security facilities that detain immigrants.

PolitiFact Florida explores House Speaker Mike Johnson's larger point about what Democrat lawmakers said before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case.

The eight Democrats said Thursday they introduced the “No Cages in the Everglades Act." The bill faces long odds of passage in the House, where Republicans hold a 220-212 majority.

More than two dozen labor, community, and advocacy groups have formed the Battleground Alliance, a political action committee aligned with Democrats to target three Republican-held congressional House districts in Florida, including the South Florida seat held by U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar.

South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined other top House Democrats at a Louisiana town hall Thursday night to preview one of the party’s strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.

Florida House Democrats in Tallahassee are demanding answers from the state Department of Children and Families over its role in handing over a foster child from Honduras to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The boy, Henry, is a suspected undocumented immigrant.

Florida Senator Jason Pizzo is resigning as Senate Minority leader and leaving the Democratic Party On the Senate Floor Thursday, Pizzo who represents parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, announced he has switched over to No Party Affiliation.