The Democratic National Committee on Saturday elected moderate political insider Ken Martin as its chair, despite calls from voters for Democrats to urgently switch gears and respond to working people’s needs following the party’s crushing defeat in November.
Twenty-four-year-old gun control activist and survivor of the Parkland massacre, David Hogg, was elected to serve as one of the DNC’s vice chairs, becoming the first Gen Z DNC member to hold the position.
Activists with the group Climate Defiance disrupted events at the Democratic meeting this week to demand a “clean break” between Democrats and the fossil fuel industry.
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