DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Moves To Primary Some House Democrats

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg is aiming to unseat certain incumbent Democratic members of Congress in the 2026 primary elections.

Leaders We Deserve, a political organization which Hogg, 25, co-founded in 2023, announced plans on Tuesday to spend $20 million in an effort to help elect younger Democratic leaders, including primary challengers to incumbent House Democrats, The New York Times first reported. While the group did not say which incumbents it plans to challenge, it told the Washington Post it will focus its efforts on targeting members in reliably blue districts and will not challenge Democrats facing tough reelection battles against GOP opponents.

“Everyone in our party says they want to start winning again, and they do—but that simply will not be possible with our current set of leaders, too many of which are asleep at the wheel, out-of-touch, and ineffective,” Hogg wrote Tuesday in a post to X.

Hogg rose to prominence for co-founding gun control advocacy group March for Our Lives with classmates after surviving the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. He was elected as the DNC’s vice chair in February and is notably the youngest person ever to serve in the role.

Leaders We Deserve describes itself