Dem Youth Revolt: Upstart Leftists Seek To ‘Clean-Up Shop’ By Ousting ‘Corporate’ Members Of Their Own Party

Some Democrats are anxiously looking inward to revamp their party’s marketing and reconnect with young and working-class voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, The Hill reported Thursday.

Some Democrats are also claiming that their party’s voters are ready to elect younger leaders in the 2026 midterms, The Hill reported. The article comes amid a growing number of recent reports that the Democratic Party has been facing mounting intraparty tensions and struggling to reconnect with voters in the aftermath of the GOP’s 2024 election victories.

“There’s a reason that the Democrats’ popularity in Congress is at a historic low. And there’s a reason that people are so willing to primary their incumbents from the Democratic establishment,” Usamah Andrabi, a spokesperson for the Justice Democrats, a left-wing PAC, told The Hill. (RELATED: ‘Not Normal’: Dems Say Their Party Members ‘Have Begun To Speak Like Professors’)

“The people of this country, particularly Democratic voters, are ready to clean-up shop in this party and unseat this large majority of corporate, do-nothing Democrats to elect real working-class champions who will fight back against [President Donald] Trump and [Elon] Musk’s corporate coup with the urgency that this moment demands,” Andrabi told the outlet.

In April, DNC vice chair David Hogg announced plans to spend millions of dollars to primary incumbent Democrats who he viewed as “ineffective,” sparking a wave of public criticism from members of his own party.

Justice Democrats describes its mission as aiming to “build people power in our country” by “electing a bloc of working class leaders in Congress who meet the urgency of our political moment and serve the people’s agenda,” according to the group’s website.

Some longtime congressional Democrats are facing young primary challengers ahead of the 2026 midterms. Harry Jarin, a 35-year-old volunteer firefighter, announced on Thursday that he is entering the race to replace 85-year-old Democratic New York Rep. Steny Hoyer, Politico reported. Jarin told Politico that he is launching his congressional campaign because he believes that Democrats must “stop treating congressional seats like lifetime appointments.”

Meanwhile, some Democrats have said that their party needs to do more to regain working-class voters and moderates ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, The Hill reported.

“We’ve got to win back some independents, moderates — we’ve got to win back working people, and there isn’t just one voice that’s going to do that,” Democratic Vermont Rep. Becca Balint told The Hill.

“I want to see everybody generating content, us sharing that content, and having an apparatus to take on the media ecosystem, because we’re losing on that front. We know that,” Balint told the outlet. “We’ve seen the data in terms of the things that are getting shared and going viral. It’s overwhelmingly Republican stuff right now.”

Similarly, Democratic Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, the youngest current member of Congress, told The Hill he believes the Democratic Party needs to talk more about working-class Americans and “the working poor” if his party wants to win elections.

“We should set more on economic populism, talking more about the working class, the working poor, to win elections,” Frost told the outlet. “But then when we get in office, we should do stuff on behalf of those communities.”

“A lot of people are pissed off, and we have to keep talking about it. But it can’t be about defending this stuff. We have to talk about where we want to go,” Frost added. “I didn’t run for Congress just to protect this stuff. I ran for Congress to think about what’s the next iteration.”

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