Events

Central and Executive Committee Meeting
The November meeting of the Central and executive committee of the Fairfield County Democrats is Thursday November 21st, 7PM. Meeting is at Headquarters, 118N. Columbus st. in Lancaster.
Event Details  ·  Nov 21, 2019

Holiday Window Decorating Contest
Holiday Window Decorating Contest. Time is TBD
Event Details  ·  Nov 23, 2019

Democratic Holiday Hour!
Join like-minded Democrats as we wind up 2019 with our last second-Wednesday monthly Happy Hour! In December, we'll meet at our headquarters. 118 N. Columbus Street in Lancaster for a relaxed party with snacks, desserts, and beverages. Family friendly!
Event Details  ·  Dec 11, 2019

News Articles

Republicans claim to be happy with their morning of smearing witnesses and dodging facts
In the morning hearing before the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, both vice presidential adviser Jennifer Williams and NSC official Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman expressed their concerns about the July 25 call that Trump made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Both of them were the...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

Congressman asks Vindman why he told his dad not to worry. 'Because this is America'
Republicans spent the morning and early afternoon trying to obscure the basic facts of what Lt. Col Alexander Vindman and Jennifer Williams were testifying to in the impeachment hearing. Rep. Sean Maloney took his time to clear away the dust he said Republicans had kicked up, saying “Let’s...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

GOP Hits Army Officer Critical of Trump With Dual-Loyalty Smear
REUTERSAs an Army officer who worked on Ukraine policy on the White House told the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry that President Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate domestic adversaries was “inappropriate,” congressional Republicans suggested that he was...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

Indictment Against Jail Guards Reveals News Details From Jeffrey Epstein’s Final Hours
Stephanie Keith/GettyThe two federal jail guards assigned to watch over sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the day he killed himself in his cell failed to check on him for more than eight hours and allegedly told a supervisor, “We messed up.”That’s according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

Elizabeth Warren Has a New Plan to Address White Nationalist Violence
On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren released a plan for combatting white nationalist-inspired violence with a simple basic premise: Make the government take the problem seriously—maybe for the first time. Warren’s plan envisions a federal bureaucracy that makes stopping white nationalist...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

The Trump Administration Keeps Promoting Stephen Miller’s Immigration Hardliner Allies
A Trump official who pushed for one of the administration’s cruelest immigration policies has been promoted to acting deputy director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, just a week after the White House’s most notorious restrictionist, senior adviser Stephen Miller, was at...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

There Were Giants in the United States Senate. That Was Then.
Robert A. Taft was known in his day as "Mr Republican." In a twisted way, Rob Portman may yet wind up becoming the modern-day Mr. Republican, as the term is now synonymous with a political party that is the very manifestation of hypocrisy and amnesia.
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Nov 13, 2019  

Céline Dion’s New Album Finds Her Reborn as a Swearing, Drag-Loving Queer Icon
Courage is the crowning achievement of the Celinaissance.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

It’s Time for Gordon Sondland to Get His Story Straight
Trump's EU ambassador prepares to defend his disputed testimony.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question
Katrina vanden Heuvel Do we have the courage to make health care a right, not a privilege? The post The Furor Over Medicare for All Ignores a Key Question appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

Trump Is an Aggressive Arms Dealer. So Were His Predecessors.
William D. Hartung America has been dealing arms to the Middle East since Nixon, fueling a lucrative and disastrous kind of foreign policy. The post Trump Is an Aggressive Arms Dealer. So Were His Predecessors. appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

Poll: Biden and Warren are neck-and-neck in California
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are neck-and-neck in California's delegate-rich primary, according to a new ...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Nov 19, 2019  

Whistleblower lawyer lashes out at Jordan: 'I AM TIRED OF YOU LYING IN A HOUSE COMMITTEE ROOM'
An attorney representing a whistleblower in the intelligence community who filed an inspector general complaint at the center of the impeachment proceedings lashed out at Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Tuesday, accusing the...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Nov 19, 2019