David Hogg

And a lot of people in this town don't have that.

And even if they do, there's too much cowardice to actually do the right thing, even if it is individually punishing, right?

I could have stayed at the DNC and just shut my mouth, sat on my hands and helped them write their strongly worded letters condemning fascism.

but that is not what's gonna actually help move our party forward.

If we're gonna change our brand, if we're gonna change who we are, that starts with changing not just our messaging, but changing who is actually in power, who are our candidates.

And I could not be more proud that we've supported candidates like Zoran and so many others around the country to change the face of this party, because we have the opportunity of a century as a party right now, but we are failing to meet it.

Donald Trump is so epically failing.

on everything that he ran on from failing to release the epstein files and they're fully unredacted for him because he's all over those files or the fact that he ran on ending forever wars and then started another one or the fact that he ran on addressing the cost of living that made it skyrocket because of a stupid decision he made himself to start another forever war

we have an opportunity to show the american people we are not going to continue that we will stand up against it but they don't believe us because we spent the past five years telling them the president's not too old even though you all are saying he is that your life is going great and that the cost of living is not too high because the stock market is doing well we have the opportunity to finally turn this ship around and what did we just do we turned straight into the goddamn iceberg

it is time for us to lay a new foundation for the democratic party and let a new crop of leaders rise and the good news is jen many of the people that are in power right now in washington as we are seeing are so geriatric they will not be there forever

including Donald Trump.

There will be a day that comes after him.

There will be a day that comes after so many of the members of Congress that are there right now.

The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Because people like Ken Martin, they're not going to answer it in case that isn't clear enough.

So it's up to people like you and I and people around the country to stand up and be the leaders that we've always needed and become the party that we always knew that we could be, but have failed our entire lives to actually be in the first place.

The party that stands up for the working class

not special interests and fully rejects them so that when voters go into the voting booth and they vote for a democrat they know that we are the people that actually stand up and fight for them and that republicans are the people that are out there fighting for the guys building the data centers in their backyard that republicans are the people that are going out there and lying straight to their faces and saying we're going to end forever wars while starting them they are the people that are going out there and giving insurrectionists not prison sentences but 1.7 billion dollars for people

It is the opportunity of a lifetime and we are completely failing to meet it.

But we can turn this around because it doesn't have to be this way.