David Hogg
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498 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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We're happy to answer that call for entitled assholes like that by running people like Patrick Roth, a voting rights lawyer, against him, who has a real shot of winning.
But if we don't embrace a culture of competition in our party, especially in our safe blue seats, the reason we are here and they feel like all they need to do is write strongly worded letters is because they know that for most members of Congress in a safer seat, which increasingly they're going to be after all the redistricting that's happening, that it's essentially a lifetime appointment.
because it is so hard to defeat an incumbent.
But if we actually do challenge incumbents, even if we don't win every single race, when we do win, it means that it can be somebody like AOC who wins because it is so hard to overcome all the advantages they have.
And when they do win, they're so much better than their opponent.
Imagine if we didn't have AOC right now, right?
And even in the case of somebody like Netta, who came within 1,200 votes of her opponent, her opponent then embraced the Green New Deal.
Her opponent then signed on to block the bombs.
Her opponent then rejected AIPAC because these politicians are cowards.
They are defined by whatever keeps them in power, and that is what defines their decision-making more than anything.
And that is what we need to do, embrace a culture of competition in our party, and then do the work at the state legislative level.
Right now, so little is going to happen in Congress, especially as they get into more gridlock after redistricting.
We need to be laser focused on state legislatures where we can actually pass legislation and Republicans have built up power for the past 50 years.
That's how they've really done it.
And then Trump came in at the very end to do checkmate on the whole system.
But the thing that laid the groundwork for that was the takeover of state legislatures.
That's why the vast majority of the candidates that we support at Leaders We Deserve, what we do in Congress is really to make a point and change the culture of our party.
But the long-term focus, the real meat and potatoes of what we do
is state legislatures.
And just recently, we had the most wins we ever have had in one election night, electing tons of candidates across Georgia, Pennsylvania, and other states around the country.
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