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DNC could turn to DEI to oust David Hogg as vice chair

April 30, 2025 | | Print Article

Democratic National Committee Vice-Chair David Hogg is poised to get an eye-opening lesson in why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a bunch of backwards bull.

During elections held on Feb. 1st, Hogg won a position as a vice-chair of the DNC fair and square. But two months later, he now faces a challenge from a disgruntled DEI advocate.

Kalyn Free, a Native American attorney and activist, has claimed in a complaint filed with the DNC that Hogg’s Feb. 1st victory was flawed for reasons involving race and gender.

The complaint says that she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates,” according to Semafor.

“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,” the complaint reads.

The DNC has since agreed to hold a hearing on May 12th. Hogg, meanwhile, reportedly said that the election “was conducted in compliance with the rules in place at the time,” and that it’s “inappropriate to try to revise those rules or decisions after the fact through a credentials challenge.”

Hogg’s many, many critics on the right have responded to this controversy with deep amusement.

Notice how one critic accused the Democrats of secretly trying to oust Hogg because he’s “lousy as the job.”

This incident comes amid a broader battle in the DNC spurred by Hogg’s campaign to primary top Democrats he doesn’t like.

“A week after Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg unveiled a controversial plan to back primary challenges to longtime party incumbents, anger at the activist-turned-Democratic leader is only intensifying among party officials,” NOTUS reported last week.

“These Democratic critics say their fury at Hogg has grown amid what they see as his ill-conceived and insufficient efforts to make amends for his planned primary campaign — a campaign that, they say, threatens the DNC’s neutrality and its capacity to fight back against President Donald Trump,” the reporting continued.

Some Democrats have reportedly even called for the DNC to change its rules so that it can either force Hogg to drop the primary campaign or force him out of the vice chair position altogether.

“You cannot at the same time be a vice chair that is there to support the party and support Democratic elected officials and be part of an effort to unseat those very same Democratic elected officials,” New York State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs told NOTUS.

“We’ve got a lot of f–king problems right now,” another top Democrat official anonymously added. “And now an elected office of the DNC is creating new ones. And at the end of the day, DNC leadership should be building trust, not threatening or eroding it.”

Hogg has also been accused of using his platform to solicit donations for his own political action committee.

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