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Steps taken by Hugo Chavez to turn Venezuela socialist are being repeated in the United States, a Venezuelan immigrant told the Washington County Republican Women at their February meeting at the Springdale Country Club. Now a U.S. citizen, she recently visited her native country. Given the socialist breakdown, making the trip took two days as opposed to the 3-hour direct flight from Miami in pre-Chavez days. She told of long supermarket lines, people walking to...

With Chairman Brian Lester presiding at the October 19 meeting of the Washington County Republican Committee, the committee continues the growth experienced throughout the year. There were 34 visitors at the September meeting and recently 17 individuals were nominated for committee membership. People are coming to committee meetings enthused about becoming involved in grassroots activism. The committee meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month at the Springdale Country Club, 608 West...

A regular feature of meetings of the Washington County Republican Women is a brief presentation by county Election Commissioner Jim Estes on specific aspects of the U.S. Constitution. Estes is a former chairman of the Washington County Republican Committee.  Also pictured are Alicia Deavens (r), the club’s first vice-president, and Anna Ellis, guest speaker representing the anti-human trafficking group Into the Light. The monthly meeting of the Washington County Republican Women is on the fourth...

Ila Campbell spoke on critical race theory and other Marxist ideas in the Fayetteville school district at the September 28 meeting of the Washington County Republican Women. She won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the district allowing her to review documents showing the district using the schools to promote so-called social justice, transgenderism, the historian-debunked 1619 Project on American racism, and Islam (while prohibiting Christmas decorations). Similar concepts are coming to other school...