Events

Voter Registration Deadline For March 17 Primary Election
Voter Registration Deadline
Feb 18, 2020

Early Voting
Early Voting Starts
Event Details  ·  Feb 19, 2020

Executive Committee Meeting
The February Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Fairfield County Democratic Party is Thursday February 20th at 7PM at Headquarters.
Event Details  ·  Feb 20, 2020

Register Voters
Now that you know how to register voters, let's practice regularly around Fairfield County. We have several tables scheduled at various locations and we're always adding more locations, dates, and times. This VR table is at the Pickerington Library! Note that you must sign up for a specific shift at Signup Genius.
Event Details  ·  Feb 22, 2020

Register Voters
Now that you know how to register voters, let's practice regularly around Fairfield County. We have several tables scheduled at various locations and we're always adding more locations, dates, and times. This VR table is at the Pickerington Library, Sycamore Branch! Note that you must sign up for a specific shift at Signup Genius.
Event Details  ·  Feb 23, 2020

News Articles

Facebook changes policy for ads after Bloomberg memes make a buzz on Instagram
The Bloomberg campaign “contracted” (paid) influencers to share (mostly wry, humorous) 2020 hopeful Mike Bloomberg memes on Instagram, as reported by The New York Times. Now, Facebook has changed a notable rule for paid political posts on the sites, as reported by Politico. “After hearing...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Feb 17, 2020  

6-year-old Florida girl committed to mental health facility for 'temper tantrum at school'
A black Florida mother is demanding accountability after her  6-year-old daughter with special needs was committed to a mental health facility for a 48-hour psychiatric evaluation without her consent. Authorities claimed in an incident report CNN obtained that Nadia King was "destroying school...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Feb 16, 2020  

Democrats Come Up With an Election System That Could Hand Victory to Trump
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyI’ve read and heard a lot of comparing Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign to Donald Trump’s 2016 in this respect: In both cases, you’re looking at a party outsider popular enough to get not a majority of votes but a respectable plurality,...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Feb 16, 2020  

American Passenger’s Coronavirus Diagnosis Raises New Fears
Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via GettyOfficials are scrambling to track down passengers who came into contact with an American woman who tested positive for coronavirus after leaving a cruise ship that was supposedly free of the bug.The nightmare scenario linked to the MS Westerdam, which is docked in...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Feb 16, 2020  

More Than 1,000 Former Justice Department Officials Urge Barr to Step Down
More than 1,100 former Justice Department officials signed a public letter Sunday that recommends Attorney General William P. Barr’s resignation from office after he intervened to reduce the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for President Donald Trump’s friend and...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Feb 16, 2020  

Report: Barr Protected Turkish Bank From Prosecution to Appease Erdogan
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to claim he has a “legal right” to interfere in Justice Department cases, but insisted that he has “so far chosen not to.” Anyone following Trump’s social media presence knows that not to be the case. He regularly...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Feb 15, 2020  

Vincent Price, Master of Horror, Meet the Abominable Donald Trump
Just in time for the Oscars, the recent Friday Night Massacre of two of Trump's White House staff and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, along with rumors of further retribution for dissenters in his administration, provide a reminder of a classic 1971 Vincent Price film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Feb 13, 2020  

Meet the Person Who Tweeted “It’s Lis,” a Nigerian Man Who Is Not Lis Smith
He's real, and he says he liked Bernie in 2016.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Feb 16, 2020  

1,100 Former DOJ Lawyers Call on Barr to Resign for Interference in Stone Sentencing
"The damage they have done to the Department of Justice’s reputation for integrity and the rule of law, require Mr. Barr to resign."
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Feb 16, 2020  

Trump Wants You to Ignore His Republican Challenger
John Nichols Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld won a delegate in Iowa and almost 10 percent of the New Hampshire Republican primary vote. The post Trump Wants You to Ignore His Republican Challenger appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Feb 15, 2020  

Republicans Have Made It Clear They Will Let Trump Become a Dictator. Will We?
Sasha Abramsky Freed from all accountability by the Senate, the realtor’s inner autocrat is on full display. The post Republicans Have Made It Clear They Will Let Trump Become a Dictator. Will We? appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Feb 14, 2020  

Sanders interrupted by anti-dairy industry protesters during Nevada rally
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was interrupted by anti-dairy industry protesters at a presidential campaign rally in Nevada on Sunday. "Bernie I'm your biggest supporter and I'm here to ask you to s...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Feb 16, 2020  

Klobuchar, Steyer unable to name Mexico's president in pointed interview
Both Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and billionaire Tom Steyer were unable to identify Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the president of Mexico in an ...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Feb 16, 2020