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Brooklyn Democrats moved one step closer to allowing gender nonbinary people to run for the borough party’s lowest rung of elected office.

After presiding over a wild 13-hour Brooklyn Democratic Pary Zoom meeting last week, the party’s ceremonial chair Carlo Scissura resigned from his position Monday.

Think you’ve got it bad with a few hours of back-to-back Zoom meetings?

Progressives secured a victory over the Brooklyn Democratic Party bosses, passing a slate of new rules to make the party more transparent.

The Brooklyn Democratic Party’s first ever virtual full membership meeting went off the rails Wednesday, with party bigs miscounting votes and members pushing them for more transparency during a wild 13-hour Zoom call.

A judge ripped leaders of the Brooklyn Democratic Party for illegally filling 2,400 vacant party positions without input from other members of the organization’s county committee. Brooklyn st…

Most state Supreme Court candidates who won in November were donors to the parties that nominated them, a New York Focus investigation found.

Divisions between reformers and longtime county loyalists have persisted.

An investigation by New York Focus found most of the city’s state Supreme Court candidates who won in November have donated to Democratic county parties and leaders. Some have spent thousands, thanks to a widely used loophole in ethics rules.

The plaintiffs are represented by Frank Carone, an attorney with deep ties to both the Brooklyn Democratic organization and mayoral candidate Eric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president.

The inability of all wings of the party to have their voices heard, and to have a seat at the table, will tear our democracy down.

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So went the contentious leadership meeting of one of the largest local Democratic parties in the country.

A dozen Democrats sued the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Thursday over a recent rule change shifting the power to fill thousands of membership vacancies from

Brooklyn Democratic Party bigwigs used a new gender non-binary inclusion rule to consolidate power among their executive ranks, progressive pols and activists — including the borough’s LGBTQ political club — claim.

Brooklyn Democratic Party bigwigs used a gender inclusion rule to consolidate power among its executive ranks, progressive pols and activists claim.

The Brooklyn Democratic Party is making moves to reduce its reliance on the gender binary. But some say those moves...

The move comes three months after lawmakers assembled a task force to study gender equality to make sure women and transgender New Yorkers aren’t left out of the political process.

Assemblymember Colton sent three separate mailers endorsing political club ally for County Committee seat, called challengers “an outside group” who support defunding the police

A state judge slapped the leadership of the Brooklyn Democratic Party for violating election law by failing to hold its organizational meeting. The Kings County Democratic Committee organizational …