Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we get you up to speed before polls close tonight in California, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and beyond.

Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist, created history after he became the first Indian, Muslim and the youngest person to win the NYC mayoral elections. Here’s what his victory tells u

Shutdowns are terrible,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) admitted several times in an October television interview. Clark spoke of “families that are going to suffer.” She insisted that her party,

Washington, D.C., is Hollywood for ugly people. That old joke is the best description of our failing politics, as the seat of global power has now become

NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani faces controversy after his filmmaker mother's 2013 comments saying he's "not an American at all" resurface.

The left demonizes “Zionists” as a euphemism for “Jews,” while the right is openly antisemitic, often in the crudest terms.

American politics is broken, but not in the way most people think. The problem isn't just the money – it's where the money comes from. Since Newt

Political messaging can be seen everywhere in American media in 2025. It’s seen in apocalyptic thrillers, teen dramas and even superhero films, making everything we watch a commentary on the paths the U.S is going down.

In the face of Reagan’s right-wing presidency, he offered a vision, strategy, and agenda that would have led Democrats and the country in a very different direction. Robert L. Borosage Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years,