David Hogg, the gun control activist-turned-party official, rekindled long-simmering tensions over what he called a “culture of seniority politics” on Tuesday when he confirmed his outside group, Leaders We Deserve, would funnel millions into challenging Democratic incumbents.
For weeks, Democrats have found little reprieve from that divide as candidates from New York to California announced campaigns with a message calling for generational change.
But the decision by Hogg, a 25-year-old Democratic National Committee vice chairman, to reject the party’s public neutrality in primaries has given the fight newfound prominence.
With a $20 million budget, his outside group is poised to force that conversation across the 2026 map as Hogg weighs interventions in both House and state legislative races.
Underlying that fight is the return of
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