Defense of Democracy Warren Co. VA

10/05/2023

Nonprofit, Grassroots, and Nonpartisan. Strengthening communities is our mission.

10/04/2023

We are tired of the politics. We are tired of the bureaucracy, and we are tired of the lack of solutions.

We will continue to fight to strengthen communities and stop hate groups, and find common ground for solutions to our community and school issues. This is defense. We hope to be an ally to all parents, community members, teachers, and librarians who’d like to see solutions. We will be publishing an action plan soon on what we hope can be done to improve Skyline Middle School and support educators, and parents at that school.

10/02/2023

Defense of Democracy advocates for legislators, educators, and administrators who will work to strengthen communities. We also advocate for a public education system that supports and enhances our shared experiences—regardless of religious beliefs, cultural background, or sexual orientation.

10/02/2023

URGENT 🚨: we need your help!!! Tomorrow at Skyline High School there will be an emergency school board meeting starting at 5:30PM! This is a public forum which means anyone and everyone can speak for up to 3 minutes each. We are nervous that this meeting will be an opportunity for extremist in our county to speak in a way that will disparage and cause mass fear among parents and well meaning people!!! We all need to show up and share our truths and speak to the diversity of experiences our school systems offer! We hope to see you there!

10/02/2023

URGENT 🚨: we need your help!!! Tomorrow at Skyline High School there will be an emergency school board meeting starting at 5:30PM! This is a public forum which means anyone and everyone can speak for up to 3 minutes each. We are nervous that this meeting will be an opportunity for extremist in our county to speak in a way that will disparage and cause mass fear among parents and well meaning people!!! We all need to show up and share our truths and speak to the diversity of experiences our school systems offer! We hope to see you there!

09/28/2023

Hello ALL! We are so excited to annouce we are hosting a READOUT event for October 6th at 8PM via zoom!!!! We are team and we wanted our event to feel like a community conversation. Therefore, we invite you to bring your favorite banned book and a friend!! PLEASE RSVP here to receive all the information you need on how you can attend! This is also a fundraiser event! So if you can not make it but want to help with the cause check out our fundraiser link in the comments and in our bio! We can not wait to see everyone there!!!

Readout is an event celebrating free thought and speech by bringing together friends in book discussions across the country during Banned Books Week. This event will be a roundtable discussion on YOUR favorite banned book! We wanted to spark a conversation with this event. It will be held on October...

09/28/2023

Tomorrow is going to be a great day!!! Can't wait to share what we have been planning! See the link in our bio for a hint!!

09/21/2023

Thank you to the Royal Examiner for your great coverage of our involvement in the past board of supervisors meetings!

On Tuesday, September 19, at 7 p.m. at the Warren County Government Center, the Warren County Board of Supervisors gathered to address several agenda items, one of them being a fully packed community participation hour in which twenty-two speakers spoke concerning the ongoing question of whether Sam...