MEETING NOTICE WEDNESDAY, June 14, 2017 7:30 p.m.-9:00p.m. District 99 Administration Building, 6301 Springside in Downers Grove Program: 6thCongressional District Candidates (7:30pm): Suzyn Price Austin Songer Kelly Mazeski Business Agenda (8:30 pm): Introductions -5min Minutes and Treasurer’s Report – 2min Report from DuPage County Democratic Party Executive Committee 2min Chair Report-5min Committee Reports and Allied...Read More

Have you visited our office lately? It continues to serve as a community center for human and canine Democrats! We are staffed with volunteers for a few hours each day from Monday-Saturday. Campaign volunteers and interns will be making calls and staging canvass days throughout the summer. We are grateful for the financial supporters who...Read More

Is your head spinning? Mine is! So many of us are frustrated with the continuing downward spiral of government which seems to have no end. The Senate Intelligence Committee is finally digging into the Trump-Russia connections. New stories break every day regarding conversations and actions perpetrated by various members of the Trump Innercircle, as well...Read More

“Climate change is one of the gravest environmental, economic and national security threats of our time, and we’re already experiencing its devastating effects in Illinois and across the country. Our military leaders have long understood that increased famine and drought caused by climate change is contributing to political instability across the globe – but it...Read More

From Senator Durbin’s office: Below are some of the worst examples of cuts in President Trump’s budget that will significantly impact Illinois: Mandatory Spending Cuts to Social Safety Net Medicaid. Slashes more than $600 billion in Medicaid funding over the next decade.  In Illinois, three million people depend on Medicaid for health insurance.  Illinois schools...Read More

Help DGTDO show off our Democratic strength in local parades this summer! On the 4th of July, we will be marching along with our float that features our DGTDO banner honoring Red Brownson in two parades. In the morning we will be in the Hinsdale parade. As we have not been in the Hinsdale parade...Read More

Senator Dick Durbin In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, chastised President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget request to Congress. “For all the talk on the campaign trail of standing up for the forgotten Americans in this country, the President’s budget...Read More

We have placed an order for some nice-looking light blue t-shirts with the DGTDO logo prominent on the front. We hope to have them available for purchase at our organization meeting on June 14. The price will be $15 each. We hope to have many July 4th parade marchers in our new t-shirts!Read More

By Chris Hotchkin We have held two successful Campaign 101 sessions at our office at 906 Curtiss in Downers Grove. In Campaign 101 we provide a basic overview of what is involved in a political campaign, how political organizations relate to campaigns, and the many ways volunteers can get involved. We will be scheduling additional...Read More

By Maryann Vazquez Marches, Protests, and Rallies are all becoming a part of what is known as The Resistance. Every day out of Washington, is something that assaults, angers and more than that frightens us. It is so overwhelming that we may start to feel ineffective or hopeless, yet we aren’t. We might not look...Read More