Postcard Party & Banner Building March 6 to Protect Our Local Democracy

Seeking postcard writers and crafters! GPAD is holding a Working Meeting on Thursday, March 6 for volunteers to write postcards to help reach voters for the April 1 local election and to help make banners for GPAD's entry in the Palatine St. Pat's Parade on Saturday, March 15. The Mental Health Referendum campaign is asking for volunteers to write help write postcards to more than 2,000 voters. (The campaign would appreciate donations of postcard stamps.)

AND we'll be constructing new banners for GPAD to carry in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Palatine. We'll have food, fun, chocolate and music while you meet other Democratic and Progressive neighbors in Palatine Township.

Come out and join us in our work to keep the Republican chaos and destruction of the federal government out of local government, and have fun doing it!

Please sign up so we know you are coming by signing up here: https://www.gpadems.org/gpad_monthly_meeting_20250306


Some of the 2,600 Federal Programs the Republicans Want to Defund

One week after Inauguration Day, the Republicans who control our federal government announced they were stopping ("pausing") federal funding for 2,600 federal programs that help help children, seniors, the needy, veterans, medical research, mental health, the disabled, and basically everything that is paid for with our tax money. Our taxes belong to The People, but the Republicans who control our federal government appear to be making a major money grab. The New York Times (I know, I know) has an interactive listing of every program Republicans are targeting so you can learn more about each program. Here are some --some!-- of the programs Republicans want to cut:

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They WANT Us To Be Overwhelmed--Let's Unite to Fight Back

 The Republican onslaught on all aspects of federal government makes it hard to decide what to fight first, doesn't it? That's their plan--they WANT us to be overwhelmed so we don't know what to do. Join us Thursday, Feb. 6, as we look at what Saturday's election of DNC leadership means for us, and what we CAN DO here in Palatine Township. For one, we have Local Elections here on April 1!! Many of our supporters have been working hard since the November election to prepare for these local, municipal elections. We can't let the Republican chaos and destruction in Washington infect our schools, libraries, villages or townships.  Local candidates are welcome to attend and talk about what they will do to help our community thrive in the next four years. Please sign up here: https://www.gpadems.org/gpad_monthly_meeting_20250206


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