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Pancakes and Politics
Save the date for Pancakes and Politics. We'll have Pancakes and other goodies for a donation.
Event Details  ·  Jan 26, 2019

Sub Committee Meetings
Committee Launch Meeting
Event Details  ·  Jan 30, 2019

Community Service
Save the Date for a community service project
Event Details  ·  Feb 2, 2019

Partisan Primary Filing deadline
Filing deadline for partisan candidates in primary election
Feb 6, 2019

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour
Save the date for our February Happy/Social hour
Event Details  ·  Feb 13, 2019

News Articles

From State Line to Cheerwine to Krystal vs. White Castle, what are the regional brands you love?
For the most part you can walk into any grocery store in the United States and count on finding the same brands you’d find in any other part of the country: Frito-Lay chips, Coke and Pepsi, Jif and Skippy peanut butter, and more. Similarly, when you pull off the highway you can probably count...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Jan 22, 2019  

Cartoon: The Tribal Elder
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News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Jan 22, 2019  

Seth Meyers Mocks Trump’s ‘Subservience’ to Ann Coulter: Does She Have a ‘Pee Tape’?
NBC“We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” Ann Coulter tweeted over the weekend, attacking the president for supposedly offering “amnesty” to DREAMers. Seth Meyers knows how much that must hurt Trump.“Wow! She compared him to Jeb Bush, his nemesis from the primaries!” the Late Night host...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Jan 22, 2019  

Covington Catholic Students Claim Death Threats After D.C. Encounter
Youtube/Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastTwo Covington Catholic High School students released a video statement Monday evening describing various alleged threats against them and the school after a video went viral of classmate Nicholas Sandmann appearing to have a stand-off with a Native...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Jan 22, 2019  

Los Angeles Teachers Explain Why They’re on Strike for Their Students
Tens of thousands of teachers in Los Angeles have been on strike for the past week. Negotiators for the school district and the teachers’ union have been locked in marathon negotiation sessions throughout the weekend to settle the ongoing dispute over large class sizes, money for...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Jan 21, 2019  

Kamala Harris’ Presidential Run Will Force Democrats to Decide Where They Really Stand on Criminal Justice
It’s finally official: Kamala Harris is running for president. She made the announcement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, meaning that the biracial junior senator from California is only the third black woman (after Shirley Chisholm and Carol Moseley-Braun) and second Indian-American (after...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Jan 21, 2019  

This Week Celebrate Public Education
Public Education Partners (PEP) is hosting the second annual Public Education Celebration in the Statehouse on January 24. This notable event is open to the public. Public school personnel are encouraged to attend. You are invited to CELEBRATE PUBLIC EDUCATION! In honor of Public Education Week...
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Jan 19, 2019  

Student at Center of Face-Off With Native American Elder Defends Himself
The Kentucky high school student who went viral over the weekend due to video that showed him standing in front of a Native American tribal elder said he wanted to “correct misinformation and outright lies” about what happened near the Lincoln Memorial on Friday. Nick Sandmann, a junior at...
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Jan 21, 2019  

One in Ten TSA Employees Called Out Sick Over Holiday Weekend Amid Shutdown
Some people who traveled over the holiday weekend likely experienced longer wait times at security checkpoints across the country as Transportation Security Administration employees took days off, many citing “financial limitations.” Unscheduled absences from work by airport security officers...
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Jan 21, 2019  

Rock the Cradle
Angela Huang Growing up in America under the shadow of guns. The post Rock the Cradle appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Jan 21, 2019  

How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate’
Greg Kaufmann A conversation with Reverend Liz Theoharis on the campaign’s broad agenda for 2019. The post How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate’ appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Jan 21, 2019  

Trump claims media 'smeared' students involved in encounter with Native American man
President Trump on Monday accused the media of smearing the high school students involved in a widely publicized encounter over the weekend with a Native American man."Looking like Nick Sandman & Covington Cath...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Jan 22, 2019  

2020 Dems seize on MLK Day for campaign messaging
Democratic presidential hopefuls on Monday seized Martin Luther King Jr. Day to promote their respective campaign messages even as the 2020 field continues to broaden.Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) kicked off the ho...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Jan 22, 2019