Hey John, it's David Hogg.
We have to ask ourselves: How do we build a Democratic Party that the working class wants to vote for?
Because right now, we're facing a real problem.
Millions of people are leaving blue states and moving to the South, where their votes are gerrymandered and suppressed out of power.
We say we want to win back the working class. We say we want dramatic change.
But then we turn around and expect to do all that without changing who’s in power.
That's not going to work.
The cast of characters that brought us here are not who’s going to get us out of here.
If we’re serious about saving our democracy, if we’re serious about becoming the party of the people, not just the lesser evil — then we need to start acting like it.
That’s why Leaders We Deserve is building a healthy, people-powered culture of primaries.
We believe that being in office for 30 years shouldn’t mean you get to coast through the next 10 without a challenge, especially not in the middle of a crisis.
We are a democracy. We are the Democratic Party. We need to have a healthy culture of ensuring that people, including incumbents, can be challenged in primaries — and it’s not looked down on. It is embraced and celebrated.
We’re not doing this to be divisive. We’re doing this because our party has to dramatically change if it wants to survive and win elections again.
We need to tangibly show voters why we are not the least bad of two options, but why we are the best option. Period.
And that’s not going to happen with the same insiders spouting the same empty talking points year after year.
We need a new generation of leaders — with new ideas, new energy, and the courage to tell voters the truth and actually earn their trust. And yeah, that might make some folks in power uncomfortable.
But guess what? That's the point.
Comfortable people — especially comfortable people with power — do not change. And right now, it is time for a change in management.
This is a moment of crisis. We cannot keep tiptoeing around the truth.
Our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight. And if we don’t meet this moment with urgency, courage, and new leadership — we will lose.
We have to change this culture and truly embrace democracy within our party if we are going to find our way out of this. Because no single person has the answer — but I can assure you, a healthy culture of competition is something our party can only stand to benefit from.
At Leaders We Deserve, we’re not afraid to shake things up. We’re building the bench. We’re challenging the status quo. And we’re backing the kind of young, bold, progressive candidates who have the guts to do what this moment demands.
But we need your support to do this work. We can only keep changing the game with folks like you stepping up to power our grassroots movement.
John, contribute $5 or anything you can right now to back us in this fight.
With urgency and gratitude,
David Hogg
Leaders We Deserve
