Slate

The Democrats who love to infuriate their own party were all smiles at their big gathering in Washington. It was easy to see why.

Politico

Adam Frisch, the former congressional candidate and director of electoral programs at Welcome PAC, said his party is “out of touch culturally with a lot of people.”

Mass Live

Liam Kerr, co-founder of the group behind the centrist Democrats’ WelcomeFest told Politico that “of course” Democrats should welcome Musk into the party, Lorenz reported.

Politico

Liam Kerr, co-founder of the group behind the centrist Democrats’ WelcomeFest meeting today in Washington, said “of course” Democrats should, ahem, welcome Musk back into the party. “You don’t want anyone wildly distorting your politics, which he has a unique capability to do. But it’s a zero-sum game,” Kerr said. “Anything that he does that moves more toward Democrats hurts Republicans.”

Politico

Liam Kerr, a co-founder of Welcome PAC, which launched in 2022, said now that the “leftist fever dreams died down,” they’re growing a movement with “a sense of, ‘We need to think differently, we need to do things differently.’”

New York Times

The centrist wing of the Democratic Party gathered on Wednesday in a hotel basement in downtown Washington with a grand plan. The party should start winning, and stop losing.

Salon

A political consultant and co-founder of the Welcome Party, Lauren Harper Pope, told Salon that “WelcomeFest,” kicking off Wednesday in Washington, D.C., is the “largest public gathering of centrist Democrats.” The goal, she said, is to seek “advice from Democrats who overperformed this cycle” and discuss "what it means to be a partisan centrist."

Semafor

Centrist Democrats want a fight with the left

Politico

Just this week, Welcome PAC, a moderate-focused group, is holding “WelcomeFest,” a day-long event they describe as “the largest public gathering of centrist Democrats.” Several speakers at WelcomeFest, including Slotkin and Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), also attended Wildflower.

Free Beacon

Liam Kerr, the cofounder of a PAC backing centrist Democrats, called the new vice chair a "symptom" of the party's problems, saying Hogg not only "panders" but also "shits on moderates who won."

Politico

Others like Lauren Harper Pope, co-founder of WelcomePAC, which supports center-left candidates, agrees with Bera and the nine others who voted to censure. She added that if Democrats hope to win back the House in 2026, they should listen to “winners” of competitive districts, not those in deep-blue ones like the one Green represents in Houston.

Wall Street Journal

Lauren Harper Pope of the Welcome PAC, which supports centrist Democrats, said those who censured Green know what it takes to win over voters in competitive districts

Daily Yonder

Adam Frisch, “One of the things I’ve learned is that 80% of us in the country believe about 80% of the same values and issues. People want stable economic opportunities for themselves and their children. They want good, safe neighborhoods and good, safe schools. After that, everything is minor.”

The Atlantic

Adam Frisch (…) wrote about his own experience in the DNC campaign. He noted how just about the only people he’d encountered in his DNC politicking who hadn’t gone to college were “the impressive delegates from the High School Democrats of America.”

Politico

“But Hogg’s elevation was a reminder of how tense some of those intraparty rifts remain. Following the election, Liam Kerr, co-founder of a PAC supporting centrist Democrats, wrote on X that Hogg was a “symptom” of many Democratic problems, including being a “white guy who panders” and a Democrat who “shits on moderates who won.”

Daily Mail

“Twenty big cities, Aspen and Martha's Vineyard - that's what's left of the Democratic Party,' Adam Frisch told The Wall Street Journal over the weekend.”

The Wall Street Journal

“If you don’t think Trump is funny and perceived as funny, it’s going to be hard to crack the puzzle” of how Democrats can better respond to him, said Liam Kerr, co-founder of WelcomePAC, which supports centrist Democrats.”

Politico

Lauren Harper Pope, co-founder of WelcomePAC, which supports center-left candidates, told the Recast: "This election was not...about racism and mysogyny. It was about Harris not being a reliable and authentic centrist for voters to trust her over Trump." But Harper Pope hopes the next two years will give Dems plenty of time to “recenter and recalibrate” the party’s future.