DNC Chair Ken Martin released the 2024 election autopsy. Unedited.

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11. I've screamed about this myself. *Many* times...and I'm still doing it.

Dems MUST COORDINATE THEIR MESSAGING and splatter it EVERYWHERE. They're 40 years behind on the messaging game. Both elected Democrats and election organizations (DNC, DSCC, DCCC). When they are out of power in particular, they have two very powerful weapons: MEDIA & MESSAGING.

Of course, screaming that at aides who run the Congressional, DNC, DSCC, and DCCC BlueSky accounts is useless. They likely never read the messages there and rarely, if ever, pass them on to anyone who would read or listen.

It paints the GOP as more successfully flooding the zone with its messaging and Democrats as too feeble and limited to fight back as hard.

“At times, it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections,” the report says. “Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage.”

It repeatedly faults Democrats for not being “always on” and messaging harder.

“The difference is right-wing interests take a longer-term approach and amplify polarizing messaging and candidates within the Democratic family with the intention of ‘othering’ all Democrats,” the report says. “Without aggressive pushback and tactics, it works.”