When top Democrats convened a “WelcomeFest” event recently to discuss “abundance” — the hot new idea circulating in the Democratic Party — some critics on the left dismissed it as ...

WelcomeFest, held at DC's Hamilton Hotel on June 4, was the largest post-2024 election gathering to date of self-described centrist Democrats seeking to revive their party's fortunes ...

About an hour and a half into “WelcomeFest”—last week’s “largest public gathering of centrist Democrats,” self-described—the inevitable happened. Protesters against the Israeli ...

The initiative, known as WelcomeFest, aims to energize moderate voices and build a structured political movement to counterbalance the party’s progressive wing. Read the full article here.

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

Organizers of WelcomeFest, an event billed as “the largest public gathering of centrist Democrats,” were expecting disruptions when they convened in D.C. on Thursday — you could even say they welcomed ...

The answer to Democrats’ troubles at WelcomeFest, the moderate Democrats’ Coachella, include: purity tests are toxic, being unpopular on the social media site Bluesky is cool and winning again ...

Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss the Washington, D.C., gathering of the centrist wing of the Democratic Party who argued that the party needs to take control of Congress in 2026 and beyond ...