David Hogg
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498 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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if they fought a tenth as hard against republicans and ice and people like ted cruz as they do against as they did against zoron as they did against aoc as they did against people like clara valdez and others we would not even be having this conversation right now because donald trump would not have won in the second term in the first place and what we need to do right now is not just look at congress we need to look at every level of government and realize jen we have the
opportunity of a lifetime because the establishment has become so largely geriatric that they're they're not going to be around forever they've become an imp a geriatric incumbent protection racket that time is against the question is what are we going to do to replace them and what we need to do in order to do that is not just work at the congressional level we need to start laying the groundwork for a generational revolution within the democratic party at the state legislative level
fielding candidates around the country so that they can prove themselves at the state legislature level, like Zoran did, so that they have experience in governing.
Then they can run for higher office with higher name ID, so it's easier for them to overcome attacks, inevitable from APAC or from other special interests.
and prove that we are competent at governing, that we don't just have the right values, we actually get shit done in the first place.
And that's what we're doing at Leaders We Deserve.
And the last time I was on your show, Jen, I talked a lot about the work that we're doing, especially at the state legislative level and congressional level.
And in that time since, we now are at 21 of our 26 election nights that we've had so far this election, we have won.
And some of those are obviously going into competitive general elections to break Republican super majorities and break Republican majorities because unlike the moderates and the establishment of our party, I don't believe that offering people the same thing again and asking them to behave differently is going to work for a third time here.
I believe we have to get better Democrats –
in order to defeat republicans at the same time and give a generation like those young people that i saw door knocking with clara valdez or abir kawas or in maryland with somebody like matt post or spencer dixon two of our most recently elected candidates to the state legislature there we need to give young people a reason to actually believe in the democratic party and show our country that actually no not both sides of the political aisle are owned by the same corrupt special interests like attack and the corporations that in the democratic party
While, of course, right now there is serious corruption that happens, there is a segment of Democrats that you actually can believe in because we, the real swing voters in this country, are the voters that not just theoretically vote, you know, the 5% of Republicans that might change their vote.
It's the 20% of Americans that never vote in the first place because they believe that politics is so corrupt there's no point in participating in this at all.
We have to present them something new in order to expand the electorate and defeat Republicans.
i think what's remarkable is the similarity between how the democratic establishment uh you know says that the left is constantly acting and creating problems in the party and how similarly they are projecting just like republicans constantly are everything every accusation that trump makes is a confession and nearly every accusation that the establishment of our party makes
is a confession where they're constantly saying vote blue no matter who vote blue no matter who and then when it's a candidate that actually is broadly supported by a large base of people that is getting thousands of people out to defeat somebody who has been horrific for women in this country which is susan collins because of her vote for brett kavanaugh
and vote for somebody like Graham Plattner, who just got the endorsement of who really matters here, which is groups like Planned Parenthood and the voters in Maine that elected him in a landslide.
It's not because Janet Mills wasn't on the ballot necessarily.
It's because
they wanted graham plattner and that's who they picked the irony of all this is they're constantly saying the left of our party is constantly dividing us they're not actually fighting against republicans and now we have an instance where we've gone through a competitive primary process that graham plattner won in a landslide and the center of our party refuses to consolidate around him and actually support him to get him across the finish line here and it's just
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