Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg’s war with his own party is heating up after DNC Chair Ken Martin issued an ultimatum to his underling regarding Hogg’s intention to fund primary challengers to Democratic incumbents in 2026.

Earlier this month, Hogg announced that through another organization, he would spend $20 million to fund upstart candidates.

“People say they want change in the Democratic Party, but really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power,” mused Hogg in an interview with The New York Times. “That’s not actually wanting change. That’s selfishness.”

On Thursday, Martin presented Hogg with an ultimatum regarding his plan, telling reporters that “No D.N.C. officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary” and that Hogg was “more than free” to engage in such activity, but not if he wishes to carry on in his current role.

Martin also wrote an op-ed for Time Magazine Thursday in which he argued that “Recently, a DNC vice chair announced an initiative to put their thumb on the scale in democratic primaries,” before calling that plan “a mistake.”

“You can’t be both the player and the referee,” suggested Martin.

Hogg responded on social media, where he wrote:

They’re trying to change the rules because I’m not currently breaking them. As we’re seeing law firms, tech companies, and so many others bowing to Trump, we all must use whatever position of power we have to fight back. And that’s exactly what I’m doing.

This moment requires us to have the strongest opposition party possible to stop Trump from destroying people’s retirement savings, disappearing people, plunging our economy into oblivion—and to provide a real alternative to the Republican Party for voters that we simply do not have right now.

That will not change if we keep the status quo. We have no other option but to do the hard work of holding ourselves and our own party accountable.

The fact that we spent 2 BILLION dollars and still lost an election to a convicted felon who literally attempted to overthrow our government must be a cause for serious reflection and a prime example of why change is so needed.

We can’t fix a 27% approval rating by just changing our words. We need to change who we are.

Three weeks ago, we lost a vote that resulted in the largest cuts to Medicaid that we’ve ever seen, because two people passed away while in office. That is unacceptable.

Voters trust Donald Trump more on the economy than Democrats. That is an indictment of our party. Too many of our leaders are asleep at the wheel while Trump creates new crises every day that jeopardize our way of life

“The role of the DNC is to set the Presidential primary calendar, set the Presidential debate schedule, to help strengthen our state parties, play a key role in building our data infrastructure for the party, and to be the campaign in waiting for whoever the next Democratic nominee is,” concluded Hogg. “Nothing I’m doing is at odds with any of that.”

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