Saikat Chakrabarti is a candidate to represent California's 11th Congressional District. He is the cofounder of Justice Democrats and the think tank New Consensus and a former chief of staff to Rep.

California progressives, who have long struggled for influence, hope to break through to mainstream voters by challenging the establishment and rejecting corporate spending.

California progressives rejoiced as democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayoral primary. But replicating it may be harder in California.

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In a dramatic late-night session on Saturday, Senate Republicans narrowly cleared a critical procedural vote — 51‑49 — to advance President Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill," that includes spending ...

The social-media savvy Zohran Mamdani trounced the former governor Andrew Cuomo in a mayoral primary but the party’s establishment fears a shift to the left ...

Pelosi, 85, already has one Democratic challenger, Saikat Chakrabarti, 39, a founding software engineer at Stripe, if she chooses to run for reelection in 2026.

WASHINGTON − Thirty-nine-year-old Saikat Chakrabarti is looking to pull off a political earthquake: Oust California Democrat Nancy Pelosi in next year's primaries. The 85-year-old former House ...

Saikat Chakrabarti, the 32-year-old former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is taking on one of the most iconic figures in the Democratic Party: former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.