David Hogg rose to prominence during the 2018 United States gun violence protests as a student survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, helping lead several high-profile protests, marches, and boycotts, including the boycott of The Ingraham Angle.
29 Facts About David Hogg
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David Hogg has been a target and scapegoat of several conspiracy theories.
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David Hogg was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018.
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David Hogg is the co-founder of Good Pillow, a pillow manufacturing company.
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David Hogg is the son of Kevin Hogg, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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David Hogg's mother is Rebecca Boldrick, born in San Diego County, California and a teacher for Broward County Public Schools in Broward County, Florida.
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David Hogg chose to attend Stoneman Douglas because it offered television production classes.
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David Hogg was a Teenlink reporter for the Sun Sentinel.
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David Hogg has dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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David Hogg had been accepted to several universities, but decided to take a year off before starting college to work on the 2018 mid-term elections.
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On February 14,2018, David Hogg was a senior at Stoneman Douglas and on campus when a 19-year-old former student of the school entered Building 12 and started shooting with a semi-automatic rifle.
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David Hogg, who was in his AP environmental science class, told the teacher that the repeated "pop" sounds the class heard sounded like gunshots.
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David Hogg checked social media and discovered that the shooting was occurring at his high school.
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David Hogg used his cell phone to record the scene in real time, to interview the other students hiding in the closet, and to leave a record in the event that they did not survive the shooting.
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David Hogg's sister, Lauren David Hogg, who was a freshman student at the time, corresponded with her brother via text message while the shooting was taking place.
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David Hogg reunited with his sister and father later that day.
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David Hogg called on elected officials to pass gun control measures and has been a vocal critic of officials who take donations from the NRA, and he has been urging them to compromise on legislation to save lives.
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David Hogg joined the social media movement and student-led gun control advocacy group Never Again MSD shortly after its formation.
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David Hogg flew to Los Angeles on February 21,2018, to be on The Dr Phil Show, along with his sister, to discuss the shooting.
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David Hogg was featured on the cover of an April 2018 edition of Time, along with fellow activists Alex Wind, Jaclyn Corin, Gonzalez, and Kasky.
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David Hogg worked to develop an anti-NRA advocacy group to encourage young people to register and vote in the 2018 midterm elections and elect candidates who promise better gun control legislation.
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On July 20,2022, David Hogg interrupted a House Judiciary Committee hearing to mark up the 2021 Assault Weapons Ban and the Equal Access for Victims of Gun Violence Act.
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David Hogg called for students to boycott spring break in Florida and instead travel to Puerto Rico if gun control legislation was not passed by the Florida state government.
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David Hogg initiated a boycott of companies who advertise during The Ingraham Angle.
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David Hogg called for the boycott after television host Laura Ingraham attacked him in a tweet about his lack of college acceptances, which David Hogg characterized as cyberbullying.
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David Hogg called him a "coward" and then, on video, accused him of being paid by George Soros and others.
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In February 2021, David Hogg announced that he and progressive tech entrepreneur William LeGate would start a company to compete with MyPillow, whose CEO Mike Lindell has spread unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud as a staunch supporter of former President Trump.
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David Hogg announced the new venture in a series of tweets.
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In early April 2021, David Hogg announced in another series of tweets that he had resigned, released all his interest in the company to LeGate, and was leaving the venture.