David Hogg

It is insane to me.

Just last March, when we were challenging Valerie Foushee with Nita Alam, an incredible pro-Palestine candidate that was rejecting the influence of AIPAC, she was on a pathway to victory, defeating an AIPAC-backed candidate, Valerie Foushee.

And then at the last second,

Akeem Jeffries, in collaboration with Anthropic Super PAC, came in and spent $2 million six days before the election to defeat a grassroots candidate in a safe blue seat simply to consolidate his own power and protect himself in defense of an incumbent who was heavily backed by APAC.

in her first election.

What the hell are we doing here?

Right?

We came in with within 1200 votes in that election, and we could have had an amazing new member of Congress.

And yet we find ourselves addicted to defending the status quo instead of figuring out how can we actually win?

Because the American people are sick and tired of being gaslit by our party saying, Oh, we're the party, the working class for the party, the working class.

as the working class and not even just the working class the working and middle classes lives get worse where young people are going out they're going to college they're getting they're trying to get a job and they're doing everything we've been told throughout our lives only to find ourselves in a worse position than our parents while we're being told by this party just believe in democracy just believe in democracy we actually have to make democracy work for the people

if people are going to actually believe in it.

And increasingly, young people are losing faith in it.

In Harvard's most recent public opinion poll of young people, they found that only 13% of 18 to 29-year-old Americans believe the country is on the right track.

Our country is not on the right track, and it is going in the wrong direction.

And the only people with a real chance to be able to turn it around theoretically

are in the Democratic Party.

But right now they are so clearly failing to do that.

It could not be more obvious that the establishment is dead and it is time to bring in a new cohort of candidates.

And that's why I'm so glad I'm not at the DNC anymore, because we're doing the work every day at Leaders We Deserve to back the right candidates, to show young people and people of all ages, while there are Democrats that take corporate money out there and there shouldn't be any of them, there is a cohort.