IHIP News - DNC Releases Embarrassing 2024 Election Autopsy, Insider Exposes Everything
Episode Date: May 22, 2026Today we are joined by friend of the show David Hogg to discuss the disastrous rollout of the long awaited 2024 DNC Election Autopsy. Pre-order Jennifer’s new book Not Today, Fascists today...: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcastFollow Us:I've Had It Podcast: @IvehaditpodcastJennifer Welch: @mizzwelchSpecial Guest: David Hogg @davidmileshoggSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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All right, joining me today on IHIP News is David Hogg, former DNC vice chair and president of the leaders we deserve.
Of course, we are here today to talk about the utter breathtaking incompetence of Ken Martin, the DNC, and the autopsy.
David, let it rip.
I mean, Jesus Christ, we, last election was defined more than anything by the fact of the incompetence of the previous administration, only to then result in us having this whole, you know,
Ken's whole thing was running on releasing this autopsy report.
It's not like somebody forced him into this position.
It was literally the thing that he ran on while he was running to be chair of the DNC,
only for him to release a report that is incomplete, incoherent, incompetent, and terrible overall.
That doesn't mention Gaza wants.
It doesn't mention inflation.
It doesn't mention President Biden's age at all.
And it is ridiculous that we continue to have people in the Democratic Party that continuously fail upwards.
we need to actually hold people accountable and make sure that we have proper leadership.
The fact of the matter is if we have a guy at the DNC that cannot even put together a report in a year and a half,
how can we trust him to run the presidential primary?
I completely agree.
It is humiliating.
Anybody who cannot in this political climate where you have dipshit, incompetent, dementia-ridden,
criminals, dirty cops, committing crimes, covering up for pedophiles,
And our approval rating is it the same with our party as it is with nationally with Republicans?
Ken Martin is an abject failure.
He is representative of how Democrats wet the bed, crowdsource what they're supposed to believe in,
and do not put fighters at the top of the ticket.
I think Ken Martin needs to resign immediately.
I think you should run for DNC chair.
I am so sick of these lackluster milk toast Democrats.
I want to start with one of the most damning lines from the report.
The autopsy states that the problem wasn't democratic policy or party brand.
What's your response to that?
It's ridiculous.
Our brand is everything.
Our candidates are our brand.
That is why people go out and vote in the first place.
And what really pissed me off about this report more than anything was the fact that it's
because there weren't people in the room when they were creating this telling them,
hey, we need to talk about Gaza.
Hey, we need to talk about inflation.
Hey, we need to talk about the president's age, right?
I was the person in that room.
I ran to be vice chair of the DNC to speak for young voters and tell the institution of the
DNC what they needed to hear, even if they didn't want to hear it.
I remember in our first meeting of the officers in the DNC building when we were talking
about the results of the last election and the preliminary findings of the early autops,
what we were going to say, what we were going to talk about.
And nobody mentioned Gaza when they were talking about young voters.
So I said, I know you guys don't want to talk about this.
But if you're going to talk about why we lost young voters,
you're going to have to talk about what happened in Gaza and the atrocities that were going on there
that turned off many young voters.
And to my surprise, everybody's response in the room was no, David, no, no, no,
we absolutely do and should need to talk about that.
And then clearly they were too scared to put that into the report or anything of substance
into the report that actually was the driving result of the election in the first place.
And that's what really pissed me off, right?
We are in a position right now where this was a opportunity for the DNC to show voters
that we are turning a corner as a party, that we are actually holding ourselves accountable
and we're not just going to continue letting people like fucking Mike Donnellan make $4 million
off of losing elections that we're going to keep hiring the same consultants, that we're going
to keep hiring the same people over and over and over again that repeatedly fail,
over and over and over.
And yet that is exactly what this report does.
It proves that the establishment is effectively dead
and that this is an incumbent protection racket.
This entire town is focused not on winning elections for Democrats in D.C.
It is focused on keeping the same people in power,
even if that means it keeps us in the minority.
And it is beyond time that we go beyond this
and we bring in fresh blood into our party that actually does hold ourselves accountable
and doesn't just say, you know what?
our entire guiding philosophy as a party is to do whatever pisses off the fewest people
within the establishment or whatever pisses off the fewest donors.
Because guess what, Jen?
We're getting the worst of both worlds where we're both pissing people off and not fundraising
at the same time.
The DNC is $3 million in debt as the RNC has $100 million.
What the hell are we doing here?
How much longer are we going to let this continue?
There is so much more risk in letting Ken Martin stay there as chair of the DNC than
is in finding someone new?
It's literally a layup right now to have the most popular Democratic Party imaginable.
Take out the incompetence and the breathtaking, glaring bullshit in this autopsy.
Remove that, put that aside for now, which is enough for Ken Martin to be fired for him to resign
this very second.
But just go with the fact that you have a culture at the DNC where they want to crowdsource
what should we believe?
We're nihilists that believe in nothing.
Let's crowdsource what we should believe in.
Also, we have the exact same pimps that MAGA has.
The APAC pimp buys Donald Trump, the big tech pimps by Donald Trump.
But they also are buying some of our Democratic leaders.
Yes.
And you cannot have a party of prostitutes that have the same pimps as Donald Trump has.
We have to be a full-blown opposition party.
And I am so fucking pissed off at Ken Martin.
I'm so fucking pissed off at focus groups.
I'm so fucking pissed off that I'm even registered as a Democrat because everything they're doing is brand damaging.
And I come from a red state.
I know what Republican supermajorities do.
I know how they are parasitic.
They are compulsive liars.
They weaponize faith to get these earnest voters to come in and vote for them.
They've been doing for decades.
And it's a race to the bottom.
And I believe in the Democratic Party, but this version of it is the most pathetic,
limp-dick version of any political party I've ever seen in my life.
It's absolutely unbelievable.
And what's crazy is I can tell you, you know, I find myself in an interesting position
of both working on the outside and shaking up the establishment, you know,
supporting challengers like My Vang against Doris Matsui, who took a max-out check from APEC and so many others.
and also being on the inside in D.C.
and having to figure out how do we actually get better people elected
in the first place and take back the house?
And I can tell you on the inside, what they'll say is,
you know, well, we have to take this corporate money
because Republicans are taking that money.
And I say to them, you know,
maybe if you didn't vote for such shitty policies
that's in favor of those corporations,
you wouldn't have to spend so much goddamn money
gaslighting voters into believing that you were for the working class
because you would actually be voting in their favor.
And it just doesn't break.
through to them. It is insane to me. Just last March, when we were challenging Valerie Fushi
with Nita alum, an incredible pro-Palestine candidate that was rejecting the influence of APEC,
she was on a pathway to victory defeating an APEC-backed candidate, Valerie Fushi, and then at the last second,
Akeem Jeffries, in collaboration with Anthropic Super PAC, came in and spent two million dollars,
six days before the election, to defeat a grassroots candidate in a safe blue seat, simply to
to consolidate his own power and protect himself
in defense of an incumbent who was heavily backed
by APEC in her first election.
What the hell are we doing here, right?
We came in within 1,200 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 of the working class,
the party of the working class as the working class and not even just the working class,
the working and middle class's lives get worse where young people are going out,
they're going to college, 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 and take corporate money out there and there shouldn't be any of them,
there is a cohort of young, a truly new generation that properly represents you and not special
interests like APAC or other groups that are responsible for whether it's the genocide in Gaza
or the evisceration of the American dream that we're seeing every single day.
Okay, a few follow-ups. Number one, this notion with
within the DNC, we have to take corporate money to be competitive.
This last race, Kamala outraised Trump.
She outraised him and he's still won.
So we had all of the corporate donations and we still lost against a dementia ridden convicted
felon that wears a full face of makeup.
We fucking lost to that guy who tried to overthrow a free and fair election.
So that fundraising thing, especially when you look at how Zohran mom don't
in New York took on billionaires.
He took on a Democrat named Andrew Cuomo with all the backers of all the establishment.
He beat his ass twice.
So I'm calling bullshit on all of that.
I think they enjoy being prostitutes.
They enjoy being pimped out by these corporations because why else would you continue to do it at this point?
Number two, the Democratic Party tries to treat us the way MAGA treats their base, which
is condescension in a patronizing way.
These are what we think.
This is how we're going to win.
We have to move to the center and you guys need to go along.
You may remember about a year ago or eight months ago,
Cory Booker on my podcast and I called him out for
Benjamin Netanyahu and APEC donations.
And he said, I don't like this.
They don't do this on the right.
They don't call each other on the right.
And it was like, well, yeah, they actually do.
And what happens is you're Massey, your Liz Cheney,
you get sent out to pasture, Jeff Flake,
etc. We have to call out our politicians. We have to say they're the cult. We're not. We hold our
own accountable. Hakeem, what the actual fuck are you doing, taking money from Palantir? What is
going on there? Chuck Schumer resign. And we have to have a DNC or some operation that
fights. I think if I think so many people, if they saw Democrats quit being pussies, our popularity
would explode. But I also want to say one thing to the people that are doing the work that you're
doing, that I think this is really important because I know that people will dunk on you.
If you back a candidate and then she loses, then you have all the centrist, the third way people
that come out and want to dunk on you online. It's important that we keep the faith that,
look at what Bernie did. He never won president. Or AOC? Yeah. They are making a difference.
And so you got within 1,200 votes. We're going to keep organizing. We're going to,
keep fighting. We're going to tell the Democratic Party, quit being prostitutes, quit hoaring yourself out
to the same pimps that own Donald Trump. It's gross. It's disgusting. Nobody likes it. Grow a pair
and fight. Okay, let's get a little bit more into the autopsy. I just had to respond to all of those
things really quickly. Let's talk about the omissions. So they left out Gaza entirely. And I think that
it would have been helpful, like actually, no, nobody gave a shit about Gaza, or actually, yes,
it caused a lot of people to sit at home. And then it's my understanding they didn't bring up
inflation? No. Okay, go off. They didn't bring up inflation at all. They didn't talk about any of
the real, well, if you do a command F, inflation comes up 18 times in the document. And every time that
it is mentioned, it is in regards to inflation-adjusted fundraising, comparing different presidential cycles.
It's not talking about the skyrocketing cost of living, which Jesus Christ, right?
It doesn't talk about age at all.
And it doesn't talk more than anything about what I truly believe we didn't need a 200-page autopsy to tell people,
which is that if you spend $3 billion or however many billions of dollars they had to try to gaslight people after you tell them,
when they tell you the president is too old, and then you tell them, no, he's not.
And then 107 days before the election, yes, he is.
And then you tell them when they say that there's atrocities happening,
in Gaza, no, there aren't, just shut up and vote harder.
Then on top of that, they tell you that their cost of living is too high and you say,
no, it's not look at the stock market and look at the GDP.
If you tell people not to believe their eyeballs or what they're feeling in their wallets,
you're going to lose them, no matter how much money you spend on ads.
That more than anything is what decided the election.
And the fact that we can't grapple with that, and yet what we focus on is, you know,
what color of lipstick should we put on the pig?
What, you know, how much can we spend on the lipstick instead of what are we
about the actual pig in the first place is the overall problem here because the fact of the matter is nobody is ever held accountable in any real sense in our party when it comes to losing these elections in a major way and they go off and make millions of dollars off of it i think part of the reason they're happy to take that corporate money is because there's a lot of people getting rich all this mike donnell it made four million dollars off of losing the election and the dnc is currently three million dollars in debt if mike donnellin is watching this which i'm sure
he's not because he's too old he should pay this back he should pay that money back with fucking
interest to the dnc it is ridiculous right but the idea that we can continue just saying you know what we're
just going to continue to take more of the same money from the same bad sources and prioritize the
same bad policies as republicans and try to just manipulate the american people into voting for us more
it is not going to work and the question is what comes after that because we have the opportunity
as a party to be the party of the little guy the party that stands up for the working class
for real and not just in our fucking ads, but for real in our policy and show people how we are
fully rejecting the influence of corporations and special interests in standing up for the American
people. And I guarantee you, even if we raised less money from that, which we wouldn't,
because we would make up for it and how much more people actually believe in us and what we
actually stand for, instead of just saying we're not Donald Trump, if we did that, our policies
would be so popular that we wouldn't have to raise as much money overall because people would
actually believe in us and we could call out every time that republicans are having corporate funded
ads and so much more that they are bought and paid for especially in the wake of trump giving
one point seven billion dollars to fucking insurrectionists and traders to our country
you're exactly you're on to something to be the anti-corruption party jen and it is it makes
me so fucking livid that we're in a place where people continue to prioritize their own self
interests over the betterment of this country, over democracy itself, because they're saying,
well, you know, at least I can go and make my four million dollars off of this and we can
ride off into the sunset because I'll be fine in fucking Geneva as America falls apart.
That is not acceptable for a political party.
We need to hold ourselves accountable and that means having the conversations that many people
don't want to have about the people that got rich off of last election and the people that
continue to get promoted despite epically failing in a way that wouldn't even be allowed
for a middle schooler. If you turned in this report to a middle school teacher, you would fail.
We cannot continue on this path. I completely agree with you. And you tap into something that I think
is such great messaging right now for the Democrats. And it is. Do you want to vote for the guy
who is funded by these oligarch billionaires who don't pay taxes, who are parasites off the
working class, who receive all of the social safety net that you accuse poor people of getting?
They get loopholes. They get tax breaks. They get subsidies. All of the things you think these poor people are getting. It's actually the billionaires that are getting them. It's corporate welfare. And we need to make it so brand damaging that if you take corporate money, it is that brand damaging. It is that toxic that corporations no longer want to touch it. The Supreme Court isn't going to help us. That DNC sure as fuck isn't going to help us. But we need to make that incredibly brand damaging. And I want to read to you a part.
of loser Ken Martin's post.
And I think this guy is a stage five loser
and the hubris that he still stays in that position,
doesn't tuck his tail between his legs
and get away from the DNC right now,
shows how selfish the rot is at the epicenter
of the DNC, pop this up.
Here's the last paragraph.
For full transparency, I am releasing the report
as we received it in its entirety.
Unedited and unabridged, it does not,
meet my standards and it won't meet your standards. But I am doing this because people need to be
able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word. What the actual fuck that makes zero sense.
It is the dumbest thing I've ever read and I feel dumber for having read it. And it's also to say,
you had a year and a half to do this, Ken. And who did you hire? You didn't create something like the
NTSB like they have after a plane crash, you know, an impartial committee to really focus in on what
cost us the election, to go and interview people in swing states, to go and interview campaign
operatives, to go and do the actual work of what cost us the election and focus on that. Instead,
he hired a volunteer that was his friend, who's, from my best knowledge, last political experience,
was working on Bill Clinton's fucking campaign before I was alive and expected that person to
succeed. And then when you get the dog shit report, it's not to say, hey, this is not where
I wanted to be. We're going to redo this process, make it much more transparent and bring in a lot
more experts that are not just friends of mine. It's to say, here's a report. That's it.
Let's go, folks. Hopefully we win the midterms. It is insane. And let me tell you this much,
Jen, the reason why things continue to be this way, I've seen it myself. I saw after, you know,
we were one of the largest supporters of Zoran. We spent $300,000 on him in his primary. And it was
actually a lot of the money that we raised in the wake of the DNC that I literally took directly after
that and cut a check to support Zoron through an independent expenditure. And I saw after how we
did that, the same major donors that go to me and say, how do we win back young voters?
How do we win back young voters?
Then came to me after we supported him and said, I'm sorry, I can't give you, you know,
X hundreds of thousands of dollars because I don't support your candidates in the fact that
they want to tax the rich more or that they don't agree with, you know, the U.S. policy on Israel.
And the good news is that leaders we deserve, 80% of our money comes with people that give
less than $1,000 to us.
That enables us to have the independence to do this work.
But the reality is most people in this town don't have that kind of independence.
It's the only reason I'm able to tell those donors to go and take a hike and prioritize the guy that got three times the voter turnout of 18 to 24 year olds that Kamala Harris got, which is Zoron.
The only reason I'm able to do that is because we have so many small dollar donors that leaders we deserve.
And a lot of people in this town don't have that.
And even if they do, they're too, 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, you know, them write their strongly worded letters,
condemning fascism. But that is not what's going to actually help move our party forward.
If we're going to change our brand, if we're going to 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 Zoron 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 fucking 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 fucking 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 turn 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
this, Jen, many of the people that are in power right now in Washington, as we're 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 in 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 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.
And I really hope that people understand that it doesn't have to be this way.
I truly believe, and I know that you do too, Jen, a better world, a better party is possible.
But that starts with our candidates and it starts with laying a new foundation of them across the country.
showing our generation, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, that the Democratic Party is one that you should vote
for, not because we're just not Republicans, but because we're Democrats. And we actually get shit
done. We build great communities and we build a better government that's not beholden to special
interests. And more than anything is beholden in the way it should be to voters.
And I would point out you were talking about what the Republican Party believes in and what they do.
And I think a huge Democratic messaging point that we need to take, and I'm dead serious about this,
we need to play offense on why are Republicans obsessed with gay sex?
Why are Republicans obsessed with genitalia?
Yeah, the Democratic establishment is so, you know, eager to throw groups under the bus.
And it's like the people who are obsessed with trans porn, with trans people with gay sex are Republicans.
Let look no further than Lindsey Graham or Moses Mike Johnson.
You'll see exactly what you, Big Titty Brian.
Exactly. He said he wants to be a trans,
Bimbo slut named Crystal.
All of this happens in the Maga Party.
Okay, David, this is really important.
I get so many questions in my community
because we all share this righteous anger.
We all share this desire to right wrongs.
We all share this desire to save what we can of our country,
to not let this man be,
our representative.
So let's talk to my audience about a plan of actions.
We can ignore the DNC.
We can ignore Ken Martin.
We don't have to send them assent.
So what Democratic organizations filter in that the DNC manages
and what are better ways for my listeners, for my community
to give money to people who are not beholden to corporations
in the Democratic Party to the real Democrats,
the people that are,
truly for the people, help my community with a plan of action that they personally can engage in
how to follow you and where they should give, even if it's $5,10.
Yeah, well, what I'll tell you is at Leaders We Deserve, we have done the work to, you know,
we started out with just a couple hundred people on an email list that, unfortunately,
included a few ex-girlfriends in mind that I found out after we sent our first emails.
But that is really how we started.
And we started because we, you know, Maxwell's Maxwell Frost's campaign manager.
And I co-founded this organization to find more people like Maxwell Frost and get them elected and across the finish line because we need that new generation.
And not just younger versions of the people that are currently in power right now that are going to only elongate our problem with a younger face, but the same donors, right?
But a truly new generation.
And our organization exists to embrace a culture of competition in the Democratic Party.
I think part of the reason why we are in this position is because we have assholes like Stephen Lynch who've been in Congress.
since 2001 that when they're saying that they're doing things to fight back against doge
cuts for example and they're asked to do more to fight back against Donald Trump by one of their
Democratic constituents says I'm the member of Congress you're not the member of Congress I am
if you want to be in Congress then you run for Congress 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 Nita, 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 APEC 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 it 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. And we got a runoff coming up. Right now in Texas, there's a
candidate named Julio Salinas that we're supporting that's in a runoff against a Democrat
who is actively still showing up to Tea Party meetings. And if we lose that seat, even though it's
a safer blue seat, he that his opponent, Sebi, could caucus with the Republicans and cost Democrats,
a future majority in the Texas state legislature.
We are doing the work at the state legislative level
to build an incredible bench of great candidates,
not just in blue states, not just in purple states,
but in red states as well,
where we know we are going to have to win
for the long term, especially for 2030,
after census reapportionment.
That's why we invest in Georgia, Texas, Florida,
and so many other states.
But in order to do that,
we need the independence to support the candidates
that the party does not fucking like,
but we absolutely do need.
And the way we do that is with small dollar contribution,
and the single best way people can help us out,
besides obviously voting for our candidates,
is donating not just one time.
Of course, I'm very grateful for that,
but donating monthly to support our work
because Donald Trump is a master of distraction, Jen.
Those small dollar donations, they ebb and flow a lot.
And when people are paying attention to state legislatures,
it's great, we can bring in a lot of money,
but we need to do the work consistently on a monthly basis.
And as we go into summer, our donations are about to go down.
Starting around Memorial Day weekend, they crater.
Because people obviously don't want to pay attention,
attention to the shift show that is the Democratic Party.
I hope that you take break to you, Jen, and don't have to do that.
But we are going to continue doing that work across the country.
This cycle, I have a goal of endorsing twice as many candidates as we did last cycle and
potentially even three times as many.
But in order for us to do that, we need more financial support.
So if people could donate $5 or $10 a month at Leaderswe Deserve.com, that goes a huge way
in giving us this ability to do the work of advising candidates on a daily basis and also
helping to fund their campaigns.
I will, the minute we get off of this stream, I'm going to sign up to donate monthly to leaders we deserve.
And I'm going to make pumps.
My co-host sign up, and I know she enthusiastically will.
And for my listeners who think David Hogg looks familiar, and you've seen him on, you know, cable or on YouTube,
his passion comes from a personal experience that he went to school one day in the United States of America.
And his friends were killed by a shooter.
And the Democratic Party and the Republican Party do fucking nothing.
And so he fights for his generation and for his friends that can no longer fight.
And this is a uniquely American problem.
And I'm just so grateful when I see the numbers of the MAGA support in people your age, is it 18%.
And I think we need to get that down to single digits.
I'm going to sign up immediately to donate monthly.
David Hogg, thank you for everything you do.
I want to throw all chips in and supporting you.
Fuck the DNC.
Fuck their incompetence.
And fuck the patronizing condescending.
way that they treat their educated, critically thinking voters and fuck them for not fighting
fascism.
Yeah.
Let's go and change it.
Thanks, Jen.
All right.
Bye-bye.
