Events

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour
June Happy/Social hour at Pivot Sports Bar in Pickerington
Event Details  ·  Jun 12, 2019

Executive Committee Meeting
The June meeting of the executive committee of the Fairfield County Democrats is Thursday June 20th, 7PM. Meeting is at Headquarters, 118N. Columbus st. in Lancaster.
Event Details  ·  Jun 20, 2019

4th of July Parades
Looking for walkers for the 4th of July Parades in Lancaster and Pickerington.
Event Details  ·  Jul 4, 2019

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour
July Happy/Social hour at O'Huids Pub in Lancaster
Event Details  ·  Jul 10, 2019

Lancaster Art Walk
Enjoy an evening in Lancaster for the Art Walk. HQ will be open for visitors
Event Details  ·  Jul 19, 2019

News Articles

Morehouse commencement speaker promises to pay off student loans for entire graduating class
The best graduation present? Given the economy, it’s probably someone offering to pay off your student debt. And for students graduating from Morehouse College, a historically black college (HBCU) located in Atlanta, their commencement speaker has promised to do just that. Robert F....
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  May 20, 2019  

Senate has under four days to pass long overdue disaster aid
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to hold a vote on disaster relief this week, before Congress leaves Thursday mid-day on a 10-day break for Memorial Day. The House has passed two versions McConnell could choose from, one that includes $14 billion passed in January and another with...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  May 20, 2019  

‘Fox & Friends’ Bashes Pete Buttigieg’s Fox News Town Hall: He Showed ‘No Courage’ by Attacking Us
The morning after Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg took aim at stars Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham during a Fox News town hall event, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade blasted the South Bend mayor as cowardly, suggesting Democrats shouldn’t come on Fox if they’re going...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  May 20, 2019  

Nigel Farage Becomes Latest Right-Wing British Politician to Be ‘Milkshaked’
REUTERSYou might think it’s a good time to be Nigel Farage. His lifelong obsession with Britain leaving the European Union is within striking distance, and his newly established Brexit Party has defied the odds by surging to first place in polls ahead of the U.K.’s European Parliament...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  May 20, 2019  

Trump Denies Report That Deutsche Bank Ignored Suspicious Transactions: “I Don’t Need Banks”
The morning after the New York Times reported that Deutsche Bank repeatedly dismissed concerns of suspicious activity, including potential money-laundering attempts by President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner in 2016 and 2017, Trump did his best to reject the latest investigation...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  May 20, 2019  

A Dutch Doctor Has Been Mailing Abortion Pills to Women in the US. Now the FDA Is Going After Her.
Rebecca Gomperts has for decades helped women in parts of the world with abortion bans, like Poland and Portugal, terminate their pregnancies. A medical doctor from the Netherlands, she began in the 1990s by using a Dutch ship, anchored in international waters, to give abortions to women on...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  May 20, 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  

President Who Employed Undocumented Workers Now Says Undocumented Labor Might Be OK Sometimes
A remarkable change of heart from one of the country's staunchest critics of "illegal immigration."
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  May 20, 2019  

Border Patrol Agent Charged With Hitting Guatemalan Man With Truck Had Called Migrants “Subhuman” and “Savages”
“PLEASE let us take the gloves off trump!” Border Patrol Agent Matthew Bowen texted to a friend.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  May 20, 2019  

Republican Congressman Justin Amash Breaks Party Ranks to Call Trump’s Conduct Impeachable
John Nichols Trump is furious that a Republican read the Mueller report and responded with an embrace of the Constitution rather than party loyalty. The post Republican Congressman Justin Amash Breaks Party Ranks to Call Trump’s Conduct Impeachable appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  May 20, 2019  

John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels
Laila Lalami His speculative new novel, ‘The Wall,’ imagines a dystopian future but offers us a warning about our present.  The post John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  May 20, 2019  

Chicago police looking for man suspected of leaving 'Molotov cocktail' at synagogue
Chicago police are reportedly seeking a man in connection with an alleged arson attempt at a synagogue in the Lake View East neighborhood.The man, whose name was not released, apparently left a Molotov cocktail at...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  May 20, 2019  

Graham says Bolton briefed him on Iran, tells Trump to 'stand firm'
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday that national security adviser John Bolton had briefed him on escalating tensions with Iran, and urged President Trump to "stand firm.""Just received a briefing from Nationa...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  May 20, 2019