DuPage Democrats Training Sessions #1 – DuPage Dems – PC 101 – TrainingThis is for new PCs, Veteran PCs and those considering being a PC. We will review our PC Calendar through November 2020 and focus on what our PCs should be doing during the 2020 petition season (which starts in September 2019). Feel free...Read More

SHINING A LIGHT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT IN DuPAGE COUNTY By Dianne McGuire, Democratic Women of DuPage County Event: August 25th, 3-5 PM, 500 Oakmont Lane, Westmont, (Illinois Federation of Teachers Office) Nationally, every 107 seconds, someone is sexually assaulted in this country: one in five women and one in 71 men.  Only 5-20% of rapes...Read More

PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER.  MORE UPDATES EXPECTED SOON.  THANK YOU. 2020 Candidate Recruitment Key          Black Text – we have at least one Democratic Candidate running          Blue Text – we’ve heard someone might run, but it has not been confirmed to us          Red Text – we are NOT aware of anyone even considering running State Wide Races (Federal)...Read More

STOP STERIGENICS UPDATE 8/16/2019 By Joanna Chlystek On Thursday August 1st a crowd of about a hundred, according to media reports, came out to protest the issuance of a permit to Sterigenics, an area company long known to have polluted Willowbrook and nearby communities with a Class 1 Carcinogen: ethylene oxide.  The firm currently is...Read More

RIGHTEOUS, CONTROLLED ANGER – A LIFEBLOOD OF CHANGE?  (Commentary from Preet Bharara) Summarized By Joanna Williams Sunday afternoon, August 4, 2019 For me, on that Sunday afternoon, in the wake of two senseless murder scenes, sadness and heartbreak gave way to anger, boiling anger.  Anger at the shooters.  But also anger at a racist president who...Read More

HATERS IN AMERICA By Carla Feinkind Candidate Trump rode that escalator wielding hate to build his base. First, it was against the “rapist” Mexicans, and then he started frenzied calls for a Muslim ban. Each time, there was a soft rebuttal to his rhetoric, but mostly, Americans just looked away.  For a few moments, we...Read More

PETITION SEASON IS HERE By Chris Hotchkin Candidates and their volunteers and precinct committeepersons can start circulating petitions on September 3 to get on the Illinois Primary 2020 ballot. Various offices require candidates to obtain various numbers of signatures of voters from their party in order to qualify to be on the ballot. A Democratic...Read More

TAKE ACTION CORNER – “FIGHT BACK FRIDAYS” IN HINSDALE By Carissa Kapcar and Penny Davey, Hinsdale Concern Leads to ActionOne week after.Consistently for the 130+ weeks since. Three to fifteen, more than thirty-five involved.Too many to remember.Over 5,000. One week after the 2017 inauguration, and consistently for the 130+ Fridays since, three to fifteen concerned...Read More

BLUE NO MATTER WHO – HOW? By Anne Sommerkamp Persuading friends, relatives, and people at doors to “vote blue no matter who” is the challenge we face in the 2020 election. Not long ago the idea of talking about politics or religion in polite company was taboo. To some extent it is still so today....Read More