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 ...

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 ...

WelcomeFest featured a full-on declaration of war on the Bernie/AOC left and “the groups,” a codeword used to denigrate social justice movements of many varieties without quite naming them.

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.

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 ...

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 ...