DENVER – Democrats are calling on their party to get to work during the final two years of President Donald Trump’s administration, saying the risk is too high to not find areas of common ground. At the two-day What’s Next conference in Denver, a celebration of the Democratic Party’s historic election gains, strategists and lawmakers […]
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Democrats add Lutnick to a second target list, then meet to seek peace with his boss.

As it ran on the front
On Oct. 26, House Judiciary Democrats released a report naming four officials of the Trump administration — Howard Lutnick, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and Marco Rubio — as the actual targets of the investigations the new Congress had promised.
This week produced two more documents.…
…(cont) The first came out of Denver, where strategists and newly elected Democrats gathered for a two-day conference called What's Next. Senator-elect James Talarico of Texas told the room he wants to make Trump's last two years "the most productive of any presidency." It is a position he has held before: on Nov. The results came in. The position did not move. Fox News ran the Denver conference under the headline "The mistake newly-elected Dems admit they can't afford to make with Trump." The Washington Examiner's version: "Democrats dare each other to try."
The second came from a coalition of ten advocacy groups — Guardrails Action, Indivisible, the American Federation of Teachers and seven others — in a letter to Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries. It asks Congress to "aggressively wield their investigative powers" over one relationship: Donald Trump, his administration, and Jensen Huang, the resigned chief executive of Nvidia. "While CEO Jensen Huang has resigned," the letter reads, "that should not mean that he escapes scrutiny of Nvidia's actions." Separately, other Democrats spent the same day in Denver asking for peace with the administration he serves.
The letter closes on a question of its own: "Should a handful of billionaires and a corrupt president have the power to sell out the rest of us so they can get even richer, or do the American people get a say in their..." Our copy of the letter stops there.
Two documents arrived this week, about a list that already existed. One added Lutnick's name to it for the second time. One put Democrats in a room to seek peace with the administration he serves instead. All three now sit on the record at once.
“They put Lutnick's name on a list in October, then put it on a second list this month, and somewhere in between some of their own members went to Denver to make nice with his boss. That's not oversight, that's a negotiating position. You don't ask a man for common ground while his name is still on your subpoena wish list.”
“Look, these are newly elected Democrats being responsible adults, focusing on costs and policy instead of settling scores — that's just good governance. It's not about protecting anybody named Lutnick, nobody even brought him up in Denver — wait, why am I tracking whether his name came up in Denver? Forget I said his name.”
Earlier in this story
- Federal prosecutor tells the lawmakers investigating the White House to preserve their own records; subpoenas issued: zero. By Mitch · the afternoon edition, 12 November 2026
- A federal prosecutor orders the senator investigating Trump's ballroom donors to preserve his own records. By Mitch · the morning edition, 12 November 2026
- White House labels oversight a crime before any exists; Justice Department labels the one that arrives a threat. By Mitch · the morning edition, 12 November 2026
- White House letter names one Democrat a future criminal; another says 'come at me, bro.' By Mitch · the afternoon edition, 11 November 2026
- White House says the investigation that hasn't happened yet may be 'blatant criminality.' By Mitch · the afternoon edition, 11 November 2026
- Trump's new chief of staff is defended by branding his own deportation record misinformation. By Chip · the evening edition, 11 November 2026
The receipts
We've got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt - Trump promised it done over eight years The Washington Post, 31 March 2016 interview
Talarico wants to make Trump's last 2 years 'the most productive of any presidency'Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-Texas) told a gathering of Democrats that they must work with President Trump and cannot wait until a new president takes the oath to start delivering for Americans. Talarico, speaking Thursday to the What’s Next conference in Denver, said Democrats need to work with Trump to deliver on economic relief…
Democrats of all stripes declared victory on Tuesday night in clearest sign yet voters have had enough of Trumpism No single Democratic coalition can claim victory after Tuesday’s resounding midterm results – all parts of the Democratic coalition can. Their wins were so sweeping, so resounding, that factional divisions fail to explain…
Democrats are running an average of 11.5 points ahead of their 2024 baseline across 2026 special elections MultiState Elections, 2026 special-election tracking
The mistake newly-elected Dems admit they can't afford to make with Trump after sweeping 2026 winsNewly elected Democrats at a Denver conference urged their party to work with Donald Trump on costs and policy rather than focus solely on investigations.
A broad coalition of advocacy organizations on Friday urged Democratic lawmakers to aggressively wield their investigative powers in the new Congress to scrutinize US President Donald Trump and his administration's relationship with Jensen Huang, the scandal-engulfed former chief executive of the AI chip giant Nvidia. "While CEO Jensen…
· Abdul El-Sayed: Democrats must ‘win by massive numbers’ to fend off Trump election denial from the morgue, 11 Oct 2026
· Talarico says he wants to work with Trump on bipartisan MAGA agenda from the morgue, 3 Nov 2026
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