Fairfax County Democratic Committee

06/25/2026

For Congressional District 8, early voting in the primary election is happening now! Election Day is August 4th. If voters have questions or have difficulty voting, here is a resource for voters to call.

06/23/2026

Congressional District 8 - early voting for the Democratic Primary has begun. Get informed on your candidates and cast your ballot!

06/20/2026

A short history of how the celebration of Juneteenth came to be from Dr. Heather Cox Richardson.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

06/20/2026

06/19/2026

As we celebrate Juneteenth, we honor the power and resilience of Black Americans throughout American history.

Today is an opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made in the fight for freedom and justice, and a reminder that our work is far from over.

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

"Hope is all we have..."
Michele Obama
6-18-26

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06/17/2026

If anyone felt even a tiny bit bad for Bill Cassidy losing his job (not really - after all he gave us RFK, Jr.), his stance on labor unions makes the loss some just desserts. And a big Bronx cheer to the Wall Street Journal for its delusional characterization of labor unions.

While Democrats are fielding candidates who appeal to the working-class voters they long neglected, the new conservative strategy is to re-define labor rights as culture war. https://trib.al/xmWe4vI

As The Wall Street Journal explains, unions only seem like they’re about improving your working conditions; really, they’re just a front for sex-changers and baby-killers.

Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, who introduced the Senate version of the Faster Labor Contracts Act, accepted a culture-war framing but performed a sort of jujitsu, identifying the woke enemy to be not unions, but corporations.

But Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and therefore will decide the fate of Hawley’s bill, sides with the Journal.

In reality, I’d guess Cassidy opposes the bill not because it gives aid and comfort to the trans and abortion lobbies, but more straightforwardly because Cassidy is anti-labor, with a lifetime AFL-CIO score of 13 percent.

But rather than tell the Examiner, “Look, I don’t want to give organized labor more power,” Cassidy said piously: “I’m all for finding solutions to strengthen worker’s rights and make collective bargaining more efficient, but a policy forcing Louisiana workers and small businesses to potentially fund abortions and sex-change operations is not the answer.”

So that’s one Republican legislator willing to embrace the new dogma.