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Petition Demands DNC Release 2024 Election Loss Report

Is the DNC hiding its 2024 failures to protect itself or already fixing them through real action?

APR 24·Updated APR 25

Petition Demands DNC Release 2024 Election Loss Report

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Above: Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, on Dec. 10, 2025. Image credit: Olga Onate/Getty Images

The Facts

Progressive advocacy group RootsAction has launched a letter-writing campaign urging the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to release its internal "autopsy" of the party's 2024 election loss, flooding DNC Chair Ken Martin and four other party officers with more than 9,000 emails from nearly 2,000 people.
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The Epoch Times
Martin pledged in February 2025 to publicly release the review after being elected DNC chair, but reversed course in December, saying publication would be "a distraction from the core mission" as the party focused on winning the 2026 midterms.
Politico
The Washington Times
The DNC's review was based on hundreds of interviews conducted across all 50 states. Axios reported the report found that the Biden administration's approach to Gaza cost Harris significant support among young and progressive voters.
The Epoch Times
Axios
RootsAction senior strategist India Walton, who was forcibly removed from the DNC's spring meeting in New Orleans after speaking up during proceedings, called the suppression of the report "political malpractice."
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Films For Action
The Epoch Times
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Washington Examiner Executive Editor Bob Cusack both publicly called for the DNC to release the autopsy report, with Schatz writing that "any organization that fails that spectacularly has to figure out what went wrong."
The Washington Examiner
The Hill
The unreleased DNC report identified issues including disorganized field operations, outdated data infrastructure and the party's failure to adequately address voter concerns on immigration and public safety. RootsAction also released its own 2024 post-mortem, blaming the party's loss partly on its pursuit of corporate donors over working-class voters.
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The Spin

Narrative A

The DNC promised transparency after 2024 but is stonewalling its own members by refusing to release the full election autopsy. More than 9,000 emails from nearly 2,000 people demanding answers have gone unanswered, which shows a party leadership more interested in protecting itself than fixing real problems. Hiding findings about what went wrong — especially unpopular foreign policy stances on Gaza and Israel — guarantees Democrats will keep losing.

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Narrative B

The DNC isn't standing still — it's already acting on lessons from 2024 with a sweeping new Organizing and Political Playbook that directly addresses what failed, like Kamala Harris' campaign making 300 million phone calls with only a 3% contact rate. The party is launching its first-ever partisan voter registration drive during a midterm year and overhauling how organizers build real relationships with voters. That's accountability through action, not just a report.

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