David Hogg knows the DNC might oust him--but he's fine with that [View all]

05-29-2025

David Hogg knows the DNC might oust him—but he’s fine with that “If I do get removed, it only proves my point,” Hogg says. An interview with the Democratic upstart determined to help his party win.

BY
Devin Gordon

David Hogg, the Parkland school shooting survivor turned Democratic activist and rainmaker, likes to say that “the only good politician is a scared politician.”

His day job at Leaders We Deserve, the political action committee he cofounded straight out of Harvard in 2023 with veteran campaign manager Kevin Lata, is helping recruit and elect into office the next generation of young Democrats. But he spends just as much time antagonizing his party’s leadership and hectoring them about doing some post-election soul-searching.

Shortly after his successful run in February for one of five vice chair positions with the Democratic National Committee, Hogg announced that Leaders We Deserve would spend $20 million backing midterm primary challengers in safe Democratic districts represented by aging incumbents who, in his estimation, haven’t fought back hard enough against Donald Trump.

He expected a backlash, and he got it. DNC chair Ken Martin demanded that he sign a neutrality pledge or step aside, but Hogg declined to do either. Meanwhile, one of the defeated candidates in the vice chair election filed a protest of the outcome, arguing that the results violated DNC rules regarding gender representation. Hogg believes that party leaders have seized on this procedural issue as a means of ousting him from his position, as punishment for his primary plans.
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