Events

Events Committee
Events Committee meets prior to the Exec Committee meeting
Event Details  ·  Oct 17, 2019

Executive Committee Meeting
The October meeting of the executive committee of the Fairfield County Democrats is Thursday October 17th, 7PM. Meeting is at Headquarters, 118N. Columbus st. in Lancaster.
Event Details  ·  Oct 17, 2019

Adopt a highway
Join fellow Dems in community service cleaning the roadside on Rt 33.
Event Details  ·  Oct 26, 2019

Pancake Breakfast
Pancake breakfast to kick off the Winter Season!
Event Details  ·  Nov 2, 2019

Election Day
Election Day, get out and vote
Event Details  ·  Nov 5, 2019

News Articles

Trump failing to convince non-Republican voters that he gives a damn about their health care
Donald Trump continues to push the ridiculous fiction that he'll have a fabulous health plan that takes care of all the people with pre-existing conditions and that he'll get it done if he's just reelected in 2020. And it's not convincing anyone. Well, except the shrunken base of shrunken-head...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Oct 15, 2019  

Why there's no room for a Shepard Smith in today's right-wing, Trump-boosting media
Shepard Smith’s sudden departure from Fox News signaled that the drawbridge has effectively been raised, and all Trump nonbelievers belong on the other side of Rupert Murdoch's cable castle. No longer a place where any serious dissension—or Trump fact-checking—is allowed, Fox News has...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Oct 15, 2019  

Ronan Farrow: AMI’s Dylan Howard Ordered ‘Dirt on That Bitch,’ Rose McGowan, and Shielded Trump and Weinstein
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyIt’s no wonder that former National Enquirer editor in chief Dylan Howard has hired a multinational team of lawyers on three continents in an attempt to suppress New Yorker writer Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill.The picture that emerges of the...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Oct 15, 2019  

Kathy Griffin on Being in ‘Trump’ Massacre Video: ‘Oh, Fuck’
Monday night, I’d gone to dinner with my friend, the comedian and frequent Trump target Kathy Griffin.  She was in New York promoting the documentary A Hell of a Story, about what happened after that infamous picture.  While I went to the bathroom, she looked at her phone and saw an article...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Oct 14, 2019  

Trump Is Going Ballistic Because the Walls Are Closing In
From the day Donald Trump assumed the presidency, it’s been clear that he planned to burn it down. Not the office itself, but the system on which it is built: the credibility of the electoral system by which that formidable power is attained. The norms, customs, and processes that constrain it....
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Oct 14, 2019  

Congress Prepares to Unload on Trump’s Disastrous Syria Policy
When President Donald Trump announced his decision to permit a Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria last week, outraged lawmakers were on recess and left with little recourse to register their concerns about the fate of the Kurds outside of Twitter and the Sunday news shows. Now they are...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Oct 14, 2019  

Larry Householder Chooses Fundraiser Over Shooting Survivors
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, already an obstacle to passage of gun safety legislation, yesterday chose to attend a political fundraiser at a horse race instead of meeting with survivors of one Ohio mass shooting and the Mayor and police chief still leading the response to another.
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Sep 20, 2019  

The 36 Bits of Software That Changed Our Lives
Apollo 11, the JPEG, and yes, even the Roomba.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Oct 15, 2019  

Trump Unveils New Tariffs on Turkey, Threatens Sanctions Amid Syria Incursion
The president unveiled the move after Pelosi and Graham agreed to work together on sanctions and supporting Kurdish allies in the region.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Oct 14, 2019  

Welcome to the Early Stages of America’s Brexit
Tom Engelhardt It’s not just Britain headed for the subbasement of imperial history. The post Welcome to the Early Stages of America’s Brexit appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Oct 14, 2019  

Can Extinction Rebellion Put Climate Change ‘Beyond Politics’?
Daniel Judt Right now their approach is making politicians come to them. The post Can Extinction Rebellion Put Climate Change ‘Beyond Politics’? appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Oct 14, 2019  

Former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder in shooting of woman in her home
The former Fort Worth, Texas, police officer who authorities said shot and killed a woman in her own home last weekend has been charged with murder.Aaron Dean was arrested and booked into the Tarrant County Jail Monday afternoon, hours...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Oct 15, 2019  

Graham throws support behind Trump's Turkey sanctions
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday night that he backs President Trump's decision to slap new financial penalties on Turkey and that the administration deserved "reasonable time and space" to implement its strate...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Oct 15, 2019