WHO WE ARE

Paul Miller, Chair
Warren County Democratic Committee
A WORD FROM OUR CHAIR
There are many reasons why I'm proud to be a Democrat, not least of which is our party's record of fighting for fair policies for all. As a member of the LGBTQ community and a valley native, I know all too well that certain attitudes and policies can make a person feel unheard and disrespected. My husband and I have been together for more than twenty-five years, but not until Federal law caught up with the will of the people in 2015 were we allowed to make our commitment official - and legal.
Policy shapes opportunity. When it's inclusive and compassionate, legislation can open doors to more people, offering the full potential of our democracy. When restrictive and based in bigotry, policies can deny people everything from fundamental respect to essential needs. This was the case with policies that allowed localities to decide how to allocate the benefits of the GI Bill after WWII, too often denying Black service members equal access to housing. Also unjust are laws that prevent women from making the health decisions that are best for themselves and their families. In a sense, policies that fail to address climate change or gun safety similarly do a disservice to our children and the generations to come.
Being a Democrat is so important to me because it means standing up for everyone, regardless of what they look like, where they come from, or who they love. It also means demanding sensible approaches to commonplace problems that effect us all - and not being afraid to make bold and ambitious plans for the future. As someone whose family has been here for many generations, I know our valley has a troubling, complex, and storied past, but as a pragmatic optimist, I choose to put my energies and vision on where we can go from here. With open hearts and minds, a little imagination, and a lot of hard work, there is no reason that Front Royal and Warren County cannot be a model of modern, small town life: prosperous, green, and welcoming.
Be a part of shaping this vision by volunteering, becoming a member, or talking with me directly at outreach.warrendems@gmail.com.
OUR MISSION
Our vision for Warren County is to help develop a community centered in traditional values like environmental stewardship and neighborliness and contemporary principles of inclusion and equal opportunities for all. Our vision holds dear the institutions that uplift families, such as labor unions to ensure fair wages and safe working conditions, and public education to provide opportunities for enrichment regardless of income or zip code.
COMMITTEES
STEERING COMMITTEE
Chair
Paul Miller
Vice Chair
Jorge Amselle
Secretary
Meredith Parnes
Treasurer
Fern Vasquez
6th Congressional District Committee
Representative
Kym Crump
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Communications
Christine Riedel
Volunteer Operations
Rea Howarth
Nancy Smith
Finance
Fern Vasquez
Fundraising
Peg Goodyear
Membership and Outreach
Paul Miller
Special Events
Eric Olson
DOCUMENTS
PHOTO GALLERY

Local Democrats celebrated solid mid-term election results in 2022 by gathering at PaveMint in Front Royal for a liesurely lunch.

Local Democrats celebrated solid mid-term election results in 2022 by gathering at PaveMint in Front Royal for a liesurely lunch.

Thanks to everyone who came out to help plant these beautiful trees. We are grateful for the planting help and advice from members of Front Royal Warren County Tree Stewards and from our knowledgable Front Royal Arborist and Environmental Officer Jim Osborn. A special thanks to Public Works and Warren County Parks and Recreation for making this planting possible. Our community is now 𝕤𝕚𝕩 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕠𝕒𝕜

Thanks to everyone who came out to help plant these beautiful trees. We are grateful for the planting help and advice from members of Front Royal Warren County Tree Stewards and from our knowledgable Front Royal Arborist and Environmental Officer Jim Osborn. A special thanks to Public Works and Warren County Parks and Recreation for making this planting possible. Our community is now 𝕤𝕚𝕩 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕠𝕒𝕜

Thanks to everyone who came out to help plant these beautiful trees. We are grateful for the planting help and advice from members of Front Royal Warren County Tree Stewards and from our knowledgable Front Royal Arborist and Environmental Officer Jim Osborn. A special thanks to Public Works and Warren County Parks and Recreation for making this planting possible. Our community is now 𝕤𝕚𝕩 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕠𝕒𝕜

Front Royal Arborist Jim Osborn and members of the Front Royal/Warren County Tree Stewards led a Tree Walk on Saturday, November 6th. Members of the Warren County Democrats joined in on the educational stroll through town.


Front Royal Arborist Jim Osborn and members of the Front Royal/Warren County Tree Stewards led a Tree Walk on Saturday, November 6th. Members of the Warren County Democrats joined in on the educational stroll through town.

Linden precinct volunteers raise a glass in celebration as news of the Biden-Harris victory arrives Saturday morning, November 7th.
MY HOPE IS...
During the 2020 election we asked voters of Warren County to share their hopes for our country under Democratic leadership. We'd love to hear about your vision for this community and the country after the election, so if you'd like to participate, let us know!
WARREN COUNTY DEMOCRATS IN THE NEWS
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4/19/22 Another Earth Day by Steve Foreman, published in the Royal Examiner
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3/12/22 Soft Power – Biden’s international tactics at odds with much of GOP by Steve Foreman, published in the Royal Examiner
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2/26/22 Warren County Democratic Committee Chair eager to tackle local community issues, by Paul Miller, published in the Royal Examiner
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8/11/21 Governor Northam and Transitions by Rea Howarth, published in the Royal Examiner
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3/11/21 Lies and Accountability by Steve Foreman, published in the Northern Virginia Daily
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3/10/21 Hypocrisy? by PJ Payne, published in the Northern Virginia Daily
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2/13/2021 Governed by choice is not ‘liberty’ but a threat to Constitutional order by Tom Howarth, published in the Royal Examiner
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1/9/2021 Stacy Abrams was instrumental in saving America. WCDC Co-Chair Steve Foreman recently wrote this letter of thanks to Ms. Abrams.
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12/11/20 In a woman’s hands by Steve Foreman, published in the Northern Virginia Daily
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7/16/20 Nation's morality on the ballot, by Eric Olson, published in the Northern Virginia Daily
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5/15/20 Steve Foreman lays out the striking differences between the parties, published in Winchester Progressive News
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4/27/20 Chairman Eric Olson points out the real-world consequences of elections in A Change is Needed, in the Northern Virginia Daily
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4/27/20 Read member Carol Olson's editorial, Postal Service in Danger in the Northern Virginia Daily
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4/26/20 Read Vice-Chair Steve Foreman's editorial, Reason not division in the Northern Virginia Daily
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1/22/20 Vice-Chair Steve Foreman's commentary on common-sense gun law reform was published in the Northern Virginia Daily
Read more by Warren County Democrats in our Archive
BOOK AND FILM RECOMMENDATIONS

We hope you enjoy the WCDC Book Club's archived list of recommended books and films. Although we retired the Selection of the Month feature in 2021, we believe you will find that these selections provide great insight into Democratic causes and the people who carry on the work of making this a better America for us all.
2020 Book Selections
2020 December: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
2020 November: What Were We Thinking by Carlos Lozada
2020 October: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
2020 September: Hoax by Brian Stelter
2020 August: Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
2020 July: The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
2020 June: The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell
2020 May: Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
2020 April: A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump by David Plouffe
2020 March: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
2020 February: A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig
2020 January: I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi
2019 Book Selections
2019 December: A Warning by Anonymous
2019 November: No selection
2018 October: The Immoral Majority by Ben Howe
2019 September: A Lot of People are Saying by Rosenblum & Muirhead
2019 August: American Carnage by Tim Alberta
2019 July: It's Time to Fight Dirty by David Faris
2019 June: Moneyland by Oliver Bullough
2019 May: The Apprentice by Greg Miller
2019 April: Moral Politics by George Lakoff
2019 March: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen
2019 February: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
2019 January: Factfulness by Hans Rosling
2018 Book Selections
2018 Dec/Jan: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
2018 Jan/Feb: Collusion by Luke Harding
2018 Feb/Mar: Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
2018 Mar/Apr: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership by James Comey
2018 Apr/May: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies by Susan Jacoby
2018 May/Jun: Facts and Fears: Hard Truths froma Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper
2018 Jun/Jul: Democracy in Chains by Nancy McLean
2018 Jul/Aug: Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken
2018 Aug/Sep: Fear by Bob Woodward
2018 Sep/Oct: Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
2018 Oct/Nov: Mr. Trump's Wild Ride by Major Garrett:
2017 Book Selections
2017 January: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer
2017 February: Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, by Matt Taibbi
2017 March: Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, by Joe Bageant
2017 April: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
2017 May: Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis, by Nicholas Eberstadt
2017 June: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
2017 July: This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class, by Elizabeth Warren
2017 August: We Do Our Part: Toward a Fairer and More Equal America, by Charles Peters
2017 September: Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
2017 October: Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken
2017 November: What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
2017 December: Democracy in Chains: A Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean
2020 Film Selections
2019 December : What the Constitution Means to Me
2019 November: Knock Down the House
2019 October: Unfit
2019 September: Boy's State
2019 August: John Lewis: Good Trouble
2019 July: The Other Side
2019 June: Becoming
2019 May: Crip Camp
2019 April: After Truth
2019 March: I Voted?
2019 February: Reversing Roe
2019 January: Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019 Film Selections
2019 December : The Report
2019 November: No selection
2019 October: The Biggest Little Farm
2019 September: American Factory
2019 August: Dark Money
2019 July: The Devil We Know
2019 June: Dirty Money
2019 May: Our Planet
2019 April: Feminists
2019 March: Minding the Gap
2019 February: RBG
2019 January: The Sentence
2018 Film Selections
2018 Dec/Jan : A Plastic Ocean
2018 Jan/Feb: An Inconvenient Sequel
2018 Feb/Mar: Dolores
2018 Mar/Apr: Steel Town Down, by Vice
2018 Apr/May: Beasts of No Nation
2018 May/Jun: Dream: An American Story
2018 Jun/Jul: Dr. Feelgood
2018 Jul/Aug: BlacKKKlansman
2018 Aug/Sep: The Age of Consequences
2018 Sep/Oct: The Power of Nightmares
2018 Oct/Nov: The Staircase
2017 Film Selections
2017 Jan/Feb: The Boys of Baraka, by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
2017 Feb/Mar: The Brainwashing of my Dad, by Jen Senko
2017 Mar/Apr: Sicko, by Michael Moore
2017 Apr/May: Before the Flood, National Geographic
2017 May/Jun: Get Me Roger Stone, by Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme
2017 Jun/Jul: Born into Brothels, by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
2017 Jul/Aug - Encore: Born into Brothels, by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
2017 Aug/Sep: Citizen Koch, by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
2017 Sep/Oct: 13th, by Ava DuVernay
2017 Oct/Nov: Accidental Courtesy, by Laurie Harris and Roberto AlCantara
2017 Nov/Dec: First Daughter and the Blacksnake by Keri Pickett