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Ken Martin, Democratic National Committee chairman “The state under Donald Trump has amassed a chilling record of restricting speech, extorting private companies, and dropping the full weight of the government censorship hammer on First Amendment rights. This is no exaggeration. Trump’s attorney general has directly confirmed that they’ll come after you for your speech, and now his FCC chair has doubled down. It’s not the bully pulpit anymore — it’s the thought police presidency.” Wanda Sykes, comedian “I was supposed to go over and have a chat with my friend Jimmy Kimmel on his show, but as you have heard...

During the recent gathering of Democrat Party bosses in Minneapolis, there was no shortage of deranged rhetoric, usually about the dark doings of the “dictator” Trump. But the most delusional diatribe was delivered by DNC Chair Ken Martin, who unintentionally captured why Democrats have been unable to recover from their drubbing last November – and why their prospects aren’t much better moving forward. Martin opened the first session of the three-day meeting with a predictably dull speech full of progressive platitudes and mangled metaphors that ended with this bizarre call to arms: “The Democratic Party has to stop trying to...

From dollars to Gaza and messaging to polls, nothing is going right. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) held its annual summer meeting this week in Minneapolis, beginning on Monday, August 25. The party no doubt went into the three-day event hoping to find some direction as it fumbles with messaging and faces plunging poll numbers, party division, fundraising issues, and a massive drop in voter registration. Instead, the event was another tiresome display of cognitive dissonance and wishful thinking: a lot of talk about change without displaying a willingness to break away from the destructive path it continues to...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin says President Trump is a "dictator-in-chief" whose agenda is "fascism dressed in a red tie" and his party must fight back against his policies. "Now look, folks, I'm sick and tired of this Democratic party bringing a pencil to a knife fight," Martin said. "We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore. We've got to stand up and fight. We're not going to have a hand tied behind our back anymore." Speaking during the first session of the DNC's summer meeting in Minneapolis on Monday, Martin said...

Democratic Party officials are quietly battling over which state will be the first to vote in the 2028 presidential primary — a fight that's set to break into the open next week, when the officials meet in Minneapolis. * Nevada, New Hampshire, and Michigan are currently the frontrunners to be "the new Iowa," and lead off the 2028 Democratic primary season, according to several people familiar with the Rules and Bylaws committee that will determine the order. Why it matters: The candidate who wins the first state primary gets a boost that can help propel them to the nomination —...

Republican push for gerrymandered congressional maps triggers down-and-dirty from new generation – will it work?It was a stirring speech that brought Democrats to tears. “When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” Michelle Obama told them in Philadelphia in 2016. “No, our motto is: ‘When they go low, we go high.’”Fast forward to Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaking in Chicago this week. “This is not the Democratic party of your grandfather, which would bring a pencil to the knife fight,” he insisted. “This is a new Democratic party. We’re...

The Democratic Party has built its brand around “tolerance,” but in reality, that word has become a smokescreen for some of the most extreme, indefensible positions in modern politics. They call it women’s rights, but what they really mean is unrestricted abortion on demand—right up to birth. They label it transgender rights, but we’re talking about grown men exposing themselves to young girls and being celebrated for it. The party’s so-called “big tent” isn’t inclusive—it’s a sanctuary for fringe activism and moral decay. What once passed for liberalism has morphed into a disturbing embrace of chaos, all under the false...

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin brushed off concerns from Jewish Democrats on Wednesday about New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada.” Martin, elected to lead the DNC in February, suggested that his party welcomes users of the chant associated with violent uprisings against Israel, in an interview with PBS. “You know, there’s no candidate in this party that I agree 100% of the time with, to be honest with you,” Martin said, when asked by “PBS NewsHour” host Amna Nawaz about Mamdani’s repeated defense of the rallying cry for anti-Israel protesters....

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin has warned that Americans will "die" as a result of Donald Trump's “big beautiful bill,” after Congress passed the president’s signature domestic policy package. The House narrowly voted to approve the bill Thursday, which includes massive tax and federal spending cuts. The legislation will now be sent to the president, who is expected to sign it on Friday. Martin said the bill’s provisions means Americans will "starve, lose critical medical care, lose their jobs — and yes, some will die as a result of this bill."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the recent political violence in Minnesota, Democrats have come forward to urge all Americans to avoid inflamed, violent rhetoric unless it's against Trump, the next Hitler who must be stopped at all costs. According to DNC Chair Ken Martin, Americans have a civic responsibility to use peaceful, non-violent speech to build up society, unless they're talking about Trump, who is essentially Hitler and who must be thwarted no matter what. "On behalf of the DNC, I urge my fellow citizens to stop using inflammatory rhetoric," Martin said. "There is no call whatsoever for hateful or violent...

The DNC has seen plenty of drama, as we've been covering, given that DNC vice chairman David Hogg is not only out, but revealed he isn't running again when it comes for the revote that was scheduled. He's out for good, after serving in the role for just four months. He's not the only one who is out, though. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), sent a letter to DNC Chairman Ken Martin indicating she would not accept a reappointment as a DNC member.

David Hogg has been creating problems for DNC chair Ken Martin since he got the job as vice chair back in February. By April Hogg was using his PAC Leaders We Deserve to support primary opponents against moderate Democrats. By mid-May the DNC's Credentials Committee suggested Hogg and fellow vice chair Malcolm Kenyatta were elected in violation of party rules on gender diversity and should both have their wins voided. Today the party voted to hold new elections.In a 294-99 vote that concluded Wednesday, DNC members agreed to move forward with redoing the contest earlier this year that elected Hogg...

DNC Chair Ken Martin vented about party Vice Chairman and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg to the point of near tears in a recent call with top Dem brass, saying, “No one knows who the hell I am." “I’ll be very honest with you: For the first time in my 100 days on this job, the other night I said to myself for the first time, ‘I don’t know if I wanna do this anymore,’ ” Martin bluntly admitted in leaked audio of the May 15 Zoom meeting, which was obtained by Politico, Martin, who was elected boss of the...

Here we go! David Hogg has infuriated top Democrats, and they are now plotting to force him out as DNC Vice Chair. In February, the DNC elected David Hogg, 25, as Vice Chair – and Democrats immediately had buyer’s remorse as the ‘twerp’ began threatening to primary certain Dem lawmakers. Hogg has no experience in actually getting Democrats elected to office. He’s an online troll who is causing too much damage to the already ailing Democrat party, so now the Democrat leadership has the knives out for him. Last week, TGP reported that Hogg vowed to spend millions to unseat...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has announced the launch of a rogue “shadow government” dubbed the People’s Cabinet — a brazen attempt to sabotage President Donald Trump’s America First agenda. The announcement comes on the heels of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s shocking call for a “shadow government” during a recent town hall in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he openly advocated for what he called “alternate press conferences” to spin the public with Democrat-approved talking points. Now, DNC Chair Ken Martin is taking that vision a step further, turning it into an official operation.

The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives says Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is vital because the only way to challenge “gerrymandered” congressional voting maps is “if you have an enlightened Supreme Court” overseeing a legal challenge. Republicans say it’s proof Democrats are planning to redraw maps if liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford wins on April 1. Crawford’s campaign says she’s never commented on congressional redistricting and the GOP is trying to distract from Elon Musk’s support for conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel. During a Democratic National Committee update Monday afternoon, New York House Minority Leader Hakeem...

House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries just said the quiet part out loud about the upcoming election in Wisconsin. During a Democratic National Committee update broadcaster on Friday afternoon, Jeffries talked with DNC Chair Ken Martin about the importance of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday. Jeffries explained: In Wisconsin, that’s a 50-50 race, because we know Wisconsin’s a 50-50 state, and we have a strong Democratic candidate. Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why is that important? Because there are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin. Wisconsin’s a 50-50 state,...

Law enforcement and divers are gearing up for a deliberate mission to bring a vehicle believed to be connected to a 1958 cold case up to the surface of the Columbia. Divers clearing debris to remove suspected Martin family car from Columbia River | 7:45 KOIN 6 | 540K subscribers | 20,256 views | March 7, 2025

As Twitchy noted, the party of DEI last month decided to elect two white men to be the DNC's new chair and deputy chair. Democrats voted for former Tim Walz advisor Ken Martin to lead their party back to greatness, alongside deputy chair David Hogg. As. Rep. Jasmine Crockett is making herself the face of the Democrat Party in Congress, Martin is making his presence known as the face of the DNC. Martin was asked by an obviously biased reporter what he thought of Elon Musk and the teens he was working with at DOGE, and Martin had a very...

"This is a new DNC," party chairman Ken Martin proclaimed when he won his seat in February. On Monday, he appointed the DNC’s new executive director: a longtime political operative who has worked for at least four losing Democratic presidential campaigns and who lists his pronouns in Chinese on social media. .. Amid the scores of losing campaigns on his resume, Lau has made a point to clarify on his LinkedIn page that he has secured at least one win during his 22 years in the field. He served as campaign manager for former Rep. Niki Tsongas’s winning bid for...