Events

Executive Committee Meeting
The April meeting of the executive committee of the Fairfield County Democrats is Thursday April 25th, 7PM. Meeting is at Headquarters, 118N. Columbus st. in Lancaster.
Event Details  ·  Apr 25, 2019

Pancake Breakfast
Pancake Breakfast, Pancakes and the fixings available for a Donation
Event Details  ·  Apr 27, 2019

Primary Election
Primary/Special Election Day. Polls open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Event Details  ·  May 7, 2019

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour
May Happy/Social hour El Pedregal Mexican Restaurant Lithopolis
Event Details  ·  May 8, 2019

Executive Committee Meeting
The May meeting of the executive committee of the Fairfield County Democrats is Thursday May 16th, 7PM. Meeting is at Headquarters, 118N. Columbus st. in Lancaster.
Event Details  ·  May 16, 2019

News Articles

The Mueller report is in ... but Trump is still piling up potential impeachment charges
The investigation conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller produced more than 400 pages that could easily serve as a guide for Donald Trump’s impeachment—even without seeing what’s under all those redactions. However, that doesn’t mean that what’s in the pages of the report is the...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

Cartoon: Our Lady is in danger
Our Lady is in danger of being consumed by the criminality and treason of Republicans in Washington DC. We must save her and serve justice to those who think they’re above the law.
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

Rhode Island Man Threatened to ‘Eradicate’ All Democrats, Eat Pro-Choice Professor: Feds
REUTERSA Trump supporter from Rhode Island allegedly threatened to kill and eat a college professor and “eradicate” Democrats, according to federal officials. Matthew Haviland, a 30-year-old resident of North Kingstown, threatened to murder and eat the professor in a series of March 10...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

Border Militias Use Facebook Live to Turn Immigrant Confrontations Into ‘Reality TV’
Kevin Lamarque/ReutersThis story originally appeared in Right Richter, a newsletter by Will Sommer. Subscribe now to see what's happening in right-wing media from the safety of your inbox.Militias and other vigilante groups chasing immigrants on the southern border are able to broadcast their...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

Facebook Admits it Is Expecting a Multibillion-Dollar Fine
Facebook is expecting to be hit with an unprecedented $3-$5 billion federal fine. The revelation that the company anticipates such a massive fine, the result of a Federal Trade Commission investigation of the company’s privacy practices, came in an investor report released Wednesday. The fine...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

Kirstjen Nielsen Was Instructed Not to Talk to Trump About Russia Targeting the 2020 Elections
When former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen began to prepare a plan to address potential Russian interference in the 2020 election, she was told by President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to refrain from discussing the issue in front of the president,...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

A Nation at Risk: Thoughts About Train Wrecks and Black Holes
Darkow, Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune For those who are in their fifties and beyond, you might be familiar with this statement from another era, when names like Andropov, Brezhnev and Reagan were in the news: If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre...
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Apr 17, 2019  

Stephen Moore Might Be a Slimebag, but Let’s Not Forget That His Economic Ideas Are Terrible Too
“You could say it has advantages over the gold standard, but it has the same sort of nuttiness.”
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

Trump’s DHS Pardon Promise Is As Serious As Anything in the Mueller Report
The president has no authority to induce underlings to break the law with the promise of a preemptive pardon.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

#BlockSidewalk’s War Against Google In Canada
Lara Zarum The tech company wants to rebuild a Toronto neighborhood—but residents aren’t having it. The post #BlockSidewalk’s War Against Google In Canada appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

The Trump Administration Is Launching a New Round of Aggression Against Cuba
Peter Kornbluh And this time, they’re celebrating the Bay of Pigs invasion as they do it. The post The Trump Administration Is Launching a New Round of Aggression Against Cuba appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

Delaney slams 2020 rival Sanders for calling Israeli government 'racist'
Former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), who is currently running a longshot White House bid, slammed fellow candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over comments he made Monday calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Apr 24, 2019  

O'Rourke says he supports voting rights for nonviolent felons
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke said Wednesday he supports granting voting rights to people currently behind bars for nonviolent offenses, saying doing so would help mend racial disparities in voter turnout....
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Apr 24, 2019