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SHORE Dinner Speaker Announced: Attendees Urged to Sign Up NOW!

CONWAY, SC – Horry County Democratic Party (HCDP) is pleased to announce that our 11th Annual SHORE Fundraising Dinner speaker will be journalist Karen Gray Houston, author of Daughter of the Boycott, Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy on October 22nd, 2023. Houston’s book, published in May 2020, recounts her father’s leadership of the…

Maga-Inspired Drive To Ban Books Deemed Objectionable In Horry County Public School Libraries

The MAGA-inspired drive to ban books deemed objectionable in Horry County public school libraries appears to be gaining steam and opponents of such censorship are urged to let school board members know of their concerns. Julinna Oxley, professor of philosophy at Coastal Carolina University, told the Carolina Forest Democratic Club Tuesday, Sept. 12 that the censorship…

GOP Agenda Could Raise SC Health Care Costs

Republicans in Congress, including Senator Tim Scott, are pushing a budget plan that would make trillions of dollars in cuts to essential programs. As the GOP remains “intentionally vague” about where these cuts would come from, evidence from past statements, proposals, and previous budget plans provide a preview: Virtually every Republican budget or fiscal plan over the last decade has included repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…

Abortion legislation moving through South Carolina General Assembly

Fourteen bills related to abortion – from total bans to first-trimester bans with exceptions to a proposed constitutional amendment – are moving through the South Carolina General Assembly in the current session. House Bill 349 calls for a constitutional ballot question that says the state “shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in…

HCDP Gun Show Rally 2022

HCDP’s Gun Sense Action Committee sponsored a rally Sunday, Oct. 30, on Oak Street across from the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, where the Myrtle Beach Gun Show was taking place. In addition to committee members, two representatives of the MOMs organization participated, as demonstrators explained our position that background checks need to be strengthened against…