The drama between David Hogg and the Democratic National Committee has deepened, and it sure looks like electing an anti-gun grifter to be the vice chair of the party wasn’t such a hot idea.
According to a new report, the DNC may now boot Hogg from his position and instead give a Native American woman a shot at the spot with a new election. That comes after tensions boiled over recently regarding the support for incumbents in the coming 2026 primary cycle.
Scoop: DNC could vote to oust David Hogg. Will hear a challenge next month by a Native American DNC member who lost the vice chair race, and wants a new election, citing “fairness and gender diversity” rules. https://t.co/yKKbBUtkfr
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) April 29, 2025
There’s a bit of inside baseball going on here, but the short version is that Kaylan Free, a Native American who lost the election the first time around, claims the DNC violated its charter and “discriminated against three women of color candidates” in how it counted ballots.
In her complaint, shared with Semafor by a Democratic source, Free argued that she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates,” and asks for “two new vice chair elections.” In February, after several rounds of voting, the race came down to five candidates – Kenyatta, Hogg, Free, and two other women. Kenyatta and Hogg claimed the open spots.
“By aggregating votes across ballots and failing to distinguish between gender categories in a meaningful way, the DNC’s process violated its own Charter and Bylaws, undermining both fairness and gender diversity,” argued Free, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation.
Such a complaint might not normally have legs, but many within the DNC are fuming at Hogg for fundraising and promoting primary challengers to incumbent Democrats. The DNC’s official stance is that leadership is supposed to remain neutral, and unofficially, it’s a big no-no to try to take out those who have already won office. With that as the backdrop, Free’s request is likely to be used as a vehicle to kick Hogg to the curb by those who oppose him, and there’s good reason to believe they’ll have the votes.
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Honestly, it’s hilarious that this is even an issue. Free’s complaint comes down not to the idea that she was the better candidate (though it’s tough to be worse than Hogg), but to a complicated set of gender and race-based rules that the DNC has regarding representation. She claims that the ballots were counted in a way that undermined those rules.
At issue, according to her challenge, is whether Democrats will fight for “free and fair elections” and fight against “discrimination of women and people of color.”
Democrats have been warned for years that their obsession with intersectional theory would be their downfall. I’ve lost count of how many articles I’ve written noting that their “diverse” coalition is unsustainable because every wing of it believes they deserve the most deference. Black? Muslim? Transgender? Woman? They are all fighting for dominance, and when an intraparty fight begins, there will be losers. We already saw those cracks turn into destruction in 2024 when Hispanics shifted heavily toward Republicans.
Still, I just keep coming back to electing Hogg in the first place. Even if these gender and race issues weren’t on the table, he was an awful choice for the position of vice chair. To the extent that he has any influence, it’s with the far-left Bernie Sanders wing, and that’s the last part of the party any Democrat should want to see promoted. This ending badly was so predictable, and something tells me Hogg isn’t going to go quietly.
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