Van Wert County Progressives

07/19/2025

The next Van Wert Pride meeting will be Saturday August 2nd at 1:30pm at the Brumback Library.

07/17/2025

Reminder: The first meeting to plan the Van Wert Pride event will be tonight at Double A's restaurant at 7pm.

07/10/2025

🏳️‍🌈 This Saturday! Allen County Ohio Democratic Party is hosting a Pride Picnic.

07/08/2025

I'm excited to share that we're looking to form a committee to organize a Pride event 🎉 in Van Wert next year! We want to make this event amazing, celebrating love and diversity in our community ❤️. We would love for you to be a part of this incredible journey and help us create something special for everyone. If you're interested in helping to plan this event, we will be meeting at Double A's restaurant on Thursday July 17th at 7pm. Please feel free to IM Larissa Anderson if you have any questions. Let's make this Pride the best Van Wert has ever seen 🏳️‍🌈!

11/13/2024

We can NEVER give up the fight because THIS is the kinda of sexism we are up against.

Joining the movement now has never been more important.

Trump loyalist Pete Hegseth, who co-hosts Fox and Friends, recently dismissed the role of women in combat roles

07/15/2024

"Blue Maga may not be violent or authoritarian like Red Maga, but the consequences of a second major political party in the United States succumbing to a weird online cult of personality could be disastrous for our democracy.

Democrats who have spent the past decade (rightly) attacking Republicans for their blind and zealous devotion to Trump would do well to heed the advice of Friedrich Nietzche: “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.”

The calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal. This is bad for the entire country

07/15/2024

04/13/2024

An anti-gerrymandering petition will be at Fountain Park at the gazebo today from 10-11AM. Get out there and sign it to stop gerrymandering.

12/12/2023

It’s completely mind-blowing that men are making these choices for women. Maybe if Ken’s life was at risk, he’d take it a bit more seriously.

A Texas woman who was pleading the courts for an emergency abortion—and who was personally and repeatedly targeted by Attorney General Ken Paxton—has been forced out-of-state in order to receive critical care.Kate Cox has been the center of a contentious post-Roe ruling, riding out a legal chall...