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Democrats’ vice chair ignites civil war, targeting ‘asleep at the wheel’ incumbents in primaries

A move by a top Democratic Party official to spend millions of dollars through his outside political group to primary-challenge some older Democrats in blue districts is further igniting intra-party tensions that have rocked the party since President Donald Trump’s convincing election last November.
The reverberations started instantly after Leaders We Deserve, a political organization led by recently elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair David Hogg, announced on Wednesday that it will spend $20 million to help elect younger Democrats. The effort includes supporting primary challengers to House Democrats in safe seats that Hogg argues «are asleep at the wheel.»
The move by the 25-year-old Hogg, a survivor of the horrific shooting seven years ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in south Florida, to spend money against fellow Democrats is seen as an unprecedented action by a DNC official.
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Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg is causing a stir in the party with his efforts to primary incumbents he believes are insufficiently progressive. (Reuters/Emily Elconin)
«There are strong opinions on both sides,» a DNC voting member told Fox News Digital.
The voting member, who asked for anonymity to speak more freely, said that «behind the scenes, people are expressing their strong opinions towards each other. There’s certainly not a consensus.»
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DNC chair Ken Martin, who along with Hogg and other party officials, were elected to their positions at the beginning of February, praised Hogg in a statement but also spotlighted the DNC’s longstanding position of staying neutral in primaries.
«David Hogg is a passionate advocate and we are grateful for his service to the Democratic Party, whether it be in his role as a DNC Vice Chair or in an outside capacity,» Martin said in his statement.

Newly elected Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin speaks after winning the vote at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
But Martin added, «In order to ensure we are as effective as possible at electing Democrats to office, it is the DNC’s longstanding position that primary voters — not the national party — determine their Democratic candidates for the general election.»
The move by Hogg comes as the party’s base is angry, and very energized, in fighting back against Trump’s sweeping and controversial moves, since returning to the White House three months ago, in upending the federal government and longstanding national policies. That anger is directed not only at Trump and Republicans, but also at Democrats many in the party’s base feel haven’t been effective or vocal enough in pushing back against the president.
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The energy has been evident at town halls this winter and early spring held by both Democratic and Republican members of Congress. And progressive champions Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have drawn very large crowds to their «Fighting Oligarchy» rallies across the country over the past six weeks.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., acknowledge the cheering crowd during a «Fighting Oligarchy» event in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and other politicians who are leading the fight against Trump — including Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut — have seen a surge in their fundraising over the past three months.
Another leader on the left who has been among those vocal in their resistance to the Trump administration, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview that «we have to have a whole rebrand of the Democratic Party with a coherent platform and a future-oriented platform, and many leaders need to do that, new leaders, not the old guard. And I hope to be part of that.»
Khanna, who was interviewed on Tuesday, ahead of Hogg’s news, added that «we need Democrats speaking out, not just on the economy. We need them speaking out on civil liberties, on the rights of immigrants and on the rights of universities.»
While Democrats are increasingly energized to resist Trump, a slew of national polls earlier this year indicated the favorability ratings of the Democratic Party sinking to all-time lows.
Hogg, in a series of social media posts, pointed to one of those polls as he explained his move.
«The party has hit an all-time low approval rating of 27%,» Hogg wrote on X.
And he argued that «too many elected leaders in the Democratic Party are either unwilling or unable to meet the moment and are asleep at the wheel while Trump is demolishing the economy, challenging the foundations of our democracy, and creating new existential crises for our country by the day.»
Pointing to Democrats whom his group may target, Hogg said «through all of this, some incumbents will rise to the challenge and emerge stronger. Others will demonstrate why they should be replaced. Either way, we all win. Especially when we are not challenging frontline Democratic incumbents — we all want the House back.»
A Democratic Party operative who works on campaigns and who asked to remain anonymous told Fox News Digital that «this is unusual, but we do need some better Democrats in office and there’s been a push to have a new generation come in and replace the 70- and-80-year-olds who have been in elective positions and shown that they’re not up to the fight.»
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DNC vice chair David Hogg is critical of incumbent Democrats he sees as ‘asleep at the wheel’ in their opposition to President Donald Trump. (AP/IMAGN)
Chris Moyer, a Democratic strategist and communicator who is a veteran of presidential and statewide campaigns, noted the timing of Hogg’s move.
«It’s all about how you break through, and the old ways of doing things have not worked. And this is an inflection point,» Moyer said. «So it’s understandable that there’s a desire to get some new blood into important roles and take the party in a more effective direction.»
But a DNC voting member who was granted anonymity to speak more freely said that «because we are so close to winning the [House] majority, having that money spent picking up seats to win the majority is probably a better use of the funds.»
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Una joven quedó paralítica después de que un hombre se tirara de un tercer piso y cayera sobre ella

Grace Spence Green sufrió un accidente que cambió su vida por completo. En 2018 un hombre saltó desde el tercer piso de un shopping de Londres con la intención de suicidarse y cayó sobre ella provocándole lesiones irreversibles en la columna que le impidieron volver a caminar.
Todo pasó el 17 de octubre cuando su amiga pasó a buscarla por su casa y la acercó hasta el centro comercial, se despidieron junto a la escalera mecánica y ella se fue rumbo a la facultad. Estaba en cuarto año de la carrera de medicina. En aquel entonces tenía 22 años y muchas metas por cumplir. Sin embargo, de repente sintió un golpe y cuando despertó ya nada fue igual.
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Cuando recuperó el conocimiento estaba tendida en el piso, rodeada de gente y a su lado el hombre que había provocado el accidente. “Recuerdo gritar y no poder sentir mis piernas“, relató en un artículo publicado por la BBC.
Ella no entendía nada, pero la gente le explicó que la habían golpeado y al hombre le decían que se había caído. Más tarde se enteraría de que en realidad había saltado voluntariamente desde 40 metros de altura y había aterrizado sobre su espalda.
El hombre se tiró desde el tercer piso y cayó sobre ella. (Foto: Farid Qureshi a través de BBC)
Grace fue trasladada al hospital donde atendieron la emergencia y minutos más tarde estaban allí sus papás, su pareja y sus amigos. Los médicos le explicaron que en el impacto su columna vertebral se se había quebrado en varios puntos, provocándole la parálisis.
Como estudiante de medicina, tenía conocimiento sobre ese tipo de lesiones, pero el shock que atravesaba le impedía asimilar lo que estaba sucediendo. “No soy discapacitada, no voy a estar en una silla de ruedas. Esa no soy yo”, se repetía a sí misma constantemente.
Lo que le tocó vivir le hizo darse cuenta de que tenía un enorme prejuicio hacía las personas con discapacidad. “Pensaba que las personas discapacitadas tenían menos calidad de vida porque eso era lo que me habían enseñado”, reveló. El shopping de Londres donde ocurrió todo. (Foto: Reuters)
Cuando vio las imágenes de la resonancia, fue un golpe de realidad. Al observar ese estudio con ojo médico, entendió que la pesadilla que estaba viviendo era una realidad. Entonces, asimiló que a partir de ese momento iba a necesitar una silla de rudas para tener autonomía.
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“Comencé a seguir a personas discapacitadas en las redes sociales y fue muy importante para mí verlos publicando sobre su vida normal y pensar que yo podría tenerla también”, contó y dijo que la verdadera revelación fue cuando conoció a un médico que era usuario de silla de ruedas, porque le hizo ver que ella podía serlo también. Grace fue a sesiones de rehabilitación y aprendió a usar la silla de ruedas. (Foto: Instagram/@gracesg)
Así fue como retomó sus estudios después de mantenerlos un año en pausa: “Tener esta cicatriz tan visible me ayuda en mi trabajo porque es obvio que he sido una paciente, y me doy cuenta de que los pacientes son mucho más abiertos conmigo”, dijo sobre sus experiencias en el consultorio.
Qué pasó con el hombre que cayó del tercer piso del shopping
Grace sabe muy poco del hombre que cayó sobre ella y aseguró que no tiene interés en averiguar más. “Creo que la gente busca algún tipo de justicia restaurativa o ver si lo perdoné. Pero no lo perdoné porque no existía ningún enojo, para empezar”, señaló.
“Me dijeron que había saltado, luego fue a la cárcel y más tarde fue deportado. Y eso me molestó porque no quería que hubiera más ramificaciones de este hecho”, relató y contó que si bien muchas personas esperan que ella sienta algún tipo de resentimiento contra él, ella no lo experimenta. “La aleatoriedad de lo que pasó fue tal que me ayudó a no sentir ninguna ira. Pero la gente a menudo no lo entiende”, relató.
“Pasé por muchos ‘qué hubiera pasado si…’. ¿Qué hubiera pasado si hubiera estado allí dos minutos antes o dos minutos después? ¿Qué hubiera ocurrido si…? Me di cuenta de que probablemente él estaría muerto si no hubiera frenado su caída” reflexionó y concluyó: “También me hizo pensar: ¿y qué tal si me hubiera muerto ese día?“.
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Federal judge partially blocks law banning adults from helping minors get out-of-state abortions

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A federal judge has blocked a portion of a Tennessee law that made it a crime for adults to help minors obtain out-of-state abortions without parental consent.
Known for prohibiting «abortion trafficking of a minor,» the law, enacted in 2024 by Republican Gov. Bill Lee, with support from the GOP-controlled legislature, criminalizes certain behavior toward pregnant, unemancipated minors by adults who are not their parents or legal guardians who help them receive abortions – even if the abortion is legal in another state.
U.S. Circuit Judge Julia Gibbons, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, took issue with the law’s «recruitment provision,» which criminalizes giving information to minors about how to receive an abortion out of state or helping minors make travel plans. In a summary judgment Friday, Gibbons agreed the provision violates the First Amendment because it «prohibits speech encouraging lawful abortion while allowing speech discouraging lawful abortion.»
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti leaves a press conference discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision that upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender transition treatments for minors in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (The Tennessean )
«That is impermissible viewpoint discrimination, which the First Amendment rarely tolerates – and does not tolerate here,» Gibbons, who sits on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote.
Gibbons permanently blocked enforcement of the provision banning encouraging a minor to seek a legal out-of-state abortion.
«The recruitment provision targets speech because of its message – that abortion is safe, common and normal – and available in certain states – and is presumptively unconstitutional,» the judge added.
Gibbons noted that she was brought in to hear this lower court case after four judges from the Middle District of Tennessee recused themselves. If Tennessee appeals the decision, the case will advance to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
The Tennessee attorney general has already appealed a November decision by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger that temporarily blocked the recruitment provision. That appeal remains pending in the Sixth Circuit Court.
The case was brought by Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn, who is a licensed social worker, and Rachel Welty, a Nashville attorney and pro-abortion advocate.
«Because plaintiffs wish to speak about legal abortions and seek to help minors obtain legal, out-of-state abortions, their intended speech is protected under the First Amendment,» Gibbons wrote.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the anti-abortion trafficking law last year. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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In response to the decision, Welty and Behn’s lead counsel, Daniel A. Horwitz, said Gibbons’ «thoughtful and well-reasoned opinion protects the right of all Tennesseans to share truthful information about abortion without fear that crusading prosecutors will try to punish them criminally for doing so.»
«It also affirms that the government has no authority to enact overbroad laws that criminalize pure speech based on the government’s disagreement with a speaker’s point of view,» he added in a statement. «This is a major victory for Ms. Welty, Representative Behn, and all Tennesseans who believe that the government has no right to prosecute citizens for sharing truthful information.»
In the final decision, Gibbons, however, rejected the plaintiffs’ claims that the law is too vague to be constitutional under the Due Process Clause. The judge sided with the state on that matter, saying the law is sufficiently specific in what behavior is forbidden. Gibbons did not block portions of the law criminalizing physically transporting minors across state lines to receive an abortion or harboring a minor for the purpose of helping them receive an abortion.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, left, with Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, R-Franklin, look on during a press conference discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision which upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender transition treatments for minors at the state capitol on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (The Tennessean )
«The court grants summary judgment for the plaintiffs on their free speech claims and enjoins enforcement of the recruiting prong of the statute,» Gibbons wrote. «The statute is not, however, void for vagueness. The court therefore grants summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff’s vagueness claim.»
The law does not apply to the minor’s parent or legal guardian, licensed media providers acting in emergency situations, or law enforcement acting within official duties.
Violations constitute a Class A Misdemeanor punishable by up to 11 months and 29 days in jail or a fine of up to $2,500. The statute provides that violators «may be held liable in a civil action for the wrongful death of an unborn child who was aborted.»
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After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Tennessee enforced a «trigger law,» effectively banning abortions in most cases, with limited exceptions.
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Delta plane aborts takeoff in Mexico City after plane nearly lands on top of aircraft

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A Delta Air Lines passenger jet aborted takeoff this week in Mexico City after its flight crew observed another plane landing in front of it on the same runway.
The incident Monday involving Delta Flight 590 happened just days after a pilot of a SkyWest Airlines flight operated by Delta Air Lines was forced to perform an «aggressive maneuver» to avoid a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber. Another Delta flight also experienced an apparent engine fire shortly after departing from Los Angeles last week, forcing it to turn around.
«Because nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, Delta will fully cooperate with authorities as the circumstances around this flight are investigated,» a Delta spokesperson told Fox News Digital regarding the Mexico City incident. «We appreciate the flight crew’s actions to maintain situational awareness and act quickly – part of Delta’s extensive training.»
The spokesperson said the Boeing 737-800 plane, carrying 144 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants, was initiating its takeoff process for Atlanta Monday morning when the flight crew spotted another plane landing in front of them. That plane was identified in media reports as an Embraer E190 operated by Aeromexico.
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A Delta Air Lines airplane is seen at Benito Juarez international airport in Mexico City, Mexico, on Jan. 19, 2023. (Reuters/Henry Romero)
The flight crew safely stopped the takeoff and returned to a gate at the airport, according to the spokesperson.
Then after taking on additional fuel and consulting with Delta safety and flight operations officials, the plane left Mexico City for Georgia about three hours later.
The Delta spokesperson also said the airline filed reports with aviation authorities in Mexico as well as the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
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A Delta plane approaches for landing at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City on July 22, 2025. (Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images)
Officials said Delta Flight 590 and Aeromexico Flight 1631 were just 200 feet apart at the time of the incident, with the Delta aircraft only reaching speeds of about 60 mph before braking, according to WSB-TV.
Aeromexico did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday from Fox News Digital.

Video shows flames shooting from a Delta Air Lines plane as it departed Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, July 18. (LA Flights)
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«We are working closely with the corresponding authorities to conduct a detailed investigation,» a spokesperson told Simple Flying. «At Aeromexico, the safety of our customers and employees is, and will always be, our highest priority.»
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