Many DU'ers might be interested in supporting David Hogg's upcoming run for Vice Chair of the DNC.

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Hogg was the first to lobby Harris for MN Gov Tim Walz as her running mate.

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The Guardian's report...

Hogg announced on Monday that he would seek one of the party’s top leadership posts due, in part, to his frustration with a lack of accountability among prominent Democrats following Kamala Harris’s loss...
“I’m trying to take that accountability myself and realize it does not make us weaker as a party [or] as a person,” Hogg told the Guardian before his announcement. “It’s an essential part of leadership, just talking about what we could have done differently, so we can build a better future, so that something like this never happens again.”

Hogg also fears voters now associate Democrats with the institutions that they have come to distrust while Republicans have adopted a more skeptical and even combative approach to the so-called “establishment”.

“Over the past three elections, part of what enabled us to win was being so anti-establishment,” Hogg said. “And it seems like in the time since, because Republicans have gone after these institutions that many Americans are frankly rightfully angry at, that we’ve gone in the opposite direction of just defending them at all costs when the reality is that we do need to reform these institutions.”

One of the institutions most in need of reform is healthcare, Hogg argued, and his own personal experiences have guided his thinking on expanding and protecting access to it. Earlier this year, Hogg took a step back from the campaign trail to help care for his father, who was in the final stages of Parkinson’s disease....

Hogg may face an uphill battle in claiming one of the committee’s four vice-chair posts when the party holds its leadership elections on 1 February. At least three other candidates have already launched bids for the vice-chairperson seats: Joe Barbuto, chairperson of the Wyoming Democratic party; Shasti Conrad, chairperson of the Washington state Democrats; and James Zogby, a pro-Palestinian advocate and longtime committee member...

“You can’t go out there and say to me that Donald Trump is this major threat to democracy,” Hogg said. “The world’s going to end. He’s a fascist, and so on and so forth. And then tell me and people in our country after the election: ‘Well, guys, we tried our best. Here’s our participation trophy.’ That’s a loser’s mentality.

“We need to have a winner’s mentality.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/16/david-hogg-democratic-national-committee-vice-chair