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1. The Initial Promise

When Ken Martin took over as DNC Chair in early 2025, he publicly committed to a transparent, deep-dive review of what went wrong in the 2024 cycle. The goal was to interview hundreds of staffers, volunteers, and voters across all 50 states to understand why the party lost ground with key demographics—specifically Latino voters, young people, and the working class.

2. The Reversal

In December 2025, Martin announced that the DNC would not be releasing the completed report to the public or the party’s rank-and-file. This move was a direct reversal of his earlier pledge of transparency. The DNC’s official rationale for the “mothballing” of the report was summed up in a now-widely quoted statement from Martin:

“Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”

3. The Controversy

The decision sparked significant backlash from grassroots organizers and party activists for several reasons: * Lack of Accountability: Critics argue that without a public accounting of errors, the party is destined to repeat them in the 2026 midterms. * The “Gaza Factor": Reports and leaks suggested the autopsy found that the administration’s policy toward the conflict in Gaza and the high cost of living were major factors in voter alienation. Some believe the report was suppressed to avoid public “finger-pointing” on these sensitive issues. * Elitism vs. Grassroots: Many donors and volunteers felt that withholding the data they helped provide (through interviews and feedback) suggested the party leadership viewed the base on a “need-to-know” basis.

4. Current Status

As of early 2026, the report remains under seal. While Martin maintains that the party is “putting the learnings into motion” privately, the lack of a public document has left a vacuum that is currently being filled by third-party autopsies (such as those from RootsAction) and internal leaks, keeping the debate over the 2024 loss alive despite the DNC’s attempts to move on.

You forgot that if they did a real investigation of the 2024 election, they would have to admit that it wasn’t “Fair & Square,” like they declared as soon as the election was over, without any investigation at all.

Now they’ve done the autopsy, and they don’t want to talk about the MILLIONS of ballots that had straight Democrat tickets, but with Trump at the top, and they were almost all concentrated in the seven swing states.

Who votes that way? Do you know anyone who votes like that? Have you ever seen one on TV? Did any media outlet get a panel of Democrats for Trump to ask them about their vote? Who are these people? Show me ONE.

Obviously, MAGA figured out that all they had to do was flip one race in seven states, and that’s exactly what they did. Winning ALL the swing states was pretty much statistically impossible, so they should have tossed a couple of states Harris’ way, just to make it seem plausible, but Trump had to do the classic dictator thing, and have an overwhelming landslide victory.

Any autopsy of the 2024 election would uncover that immediately, it’s not like it’s a secret. But they can’t go back now, and say, “yeah, they rigged the election, and we should have recognized it immediately, but we were scared of MAGA so we covered it up for them. Now we have proof, but if we disclose how we helped MAGA fuck over the American people, and destroy America and the World, they will punish us just as hard as they will punish MAGA.”

They fear that disclosure could be the catalyst for an extremely violent reset of the government by killing nearly every elected member of BOTH parties, and starting over.