The winner of the #DNC chair race will help shape the message and priorities of the Democratic party,
giving them a crucial role in the party’s efforts to win back the House of Representatives in 2026.

The race has attracted a large field of candidates

Two state party chairs
– #Ken #Martin of Minnesota
and #Ben #Wikler of Wisconsin
– have emerged as "frontrunners"

The chair candidates have grown punchier as the race draws to a close,
-- and the late entry of #Faiz #Shakir,
who ran #Bernie #Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign,
has injected new energy into the race.

All of the candidates seem to agree that the Democratic party needs to move in a new direction after their 2024 losses, expanding its outreach to the working-class Americans who have lurched to the right in recent years and finding more effective means of communicating their values to voters.

But the candidates have squabbled over the best strategies and prioritization of those goals,
in a display that Shakir said showed a
“lack of ambition and a sense of powerlessness about what the DNC could potentially do”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/dnc-chair-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Former Bernie Sanders campaign chair
#Faiz #Shakir is running an insurgent campaign for chair of the Democratic National Committee,
focused on bringing the working class back into the party’s fold.

Jacobin spoke to him about it.
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/dnc-leadership-shakir-working-class

''Israeli authorities on May 7, 2018, revoked the work permit for Omar #Shakir, the Human Rights Watch #Israel and #Palestine director, and ordered him to leave Israel within 14 days.''

...it’s only the latest among many recent examples of Israel’s growing intolerance of those who criticize its human rights record.”
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/08/israel-orders-human-rights-watch-official-deported
#hrw