2026 PREDICTIONS
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Chairman Dennis Melby: Republicans win at least two seats on the Montgomery County Council, maybe more.
First Vice Chair Reardon Sullivan:
- The ballot initiative to limit spending in MoCo to the prior year rate of inflation will get on the ballot and pass with 55% of the vote
- There will be at least one (1) legal action to a current Council member that will affect the Democrat primary.
- Republicans will win an election in County government for the first time in 15 years.
- The RNC will sue Maryland regarding voter integrity.
Second Vice Chair Monte Gingery: Republicans also win 1-2 school board seats and 1 congressional seat
Finance Chair Laura Benson: There will be growing pressure from MoCo residents this year to reverse both the plastic bag ban and gas leaf blower ban.
Secretary Lori Jaffe: Montgomery County will wake up and vote for common sense.
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Crime Reports
Crime Reports
Damascus Man Arrested After Hours-Long Standoff
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Nearly 200 Traffic Stops Lead to 23 DUI Arrests During MCPD Holiday Enforcement | The MoCo Show | MCS Staff | December 16, 2025 at 10:42AM
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2 rescued from 9th-floor ledge after armed intruder breaks into their Maryland hotel room | ABC 7 News | Katie Bourque & Christian Flores | January 1, 2026, 1:45 pm, Updated January 2, 2026, 4:04 am
News & Opinions
News & Opinions
04 Aug 2025 Torrey Snow: Why Wes Moore Must Opt in to Federal School Choice Program | National Center for Public Policy Research | Torrey Snow | Project 21 Commentary
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MoCo state delegation proposes pay raise for school board members, more local food in school lunches | Bethesda Today | Ceoli Jacoby | December 24, 2025, 3:20 pm
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Bipartisan Revolt Against Ranked-Choice Voting | Capital Hill News | December 28, 2025
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Delegate Matt Morgan discusses Maryland Matters Article about Maryland's budget deficit | Facebook | Matt Morgan | December 29, 2025
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Let’s make 2026 about ‘We the People’ | The Washington Times | Randolph May | December 31, 2025
SAVE THE DATE - 2025 MCGOP CONVENTION
Thursday, February 26, 2026
GOP Lunar New Year Dinner
Welcome Aboard
By Dennis Brent Melby
I've just heard that the top contender for DC Mayor is a Socialist Democrat. She has the most money, the most support and is the front runner in the polls.
Do you think she'll join New York Mayor Mamdani and MoCo Executive Marc Elrich and MoCo Congressman Jamie Raskin as the Socialist Democrat faces of the Democrat Party? It sure looks like it. Meantime the Republicans are experiencing a surge, and who it is is surprising a lot of folks.
Former Democrats Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump
Seems folks are flocking to the Republican Party. Former Democrats, folks 30 and younger, young men, black men, folks with newfound religious convictions, legal immigrants who've become American citizens, Hispanic and Asian American - all the folks who the press uses hyphens to describe are reregistering as Republicans. Yes, even here in Montgomery County, long thought to be the Left of the Left. And we welcome them.
Please help us make Montgomery County politics more rational, less doctrinaire and more normal. Here's how you can change your Party registration, just go HERE.
And there's more...
Read moreNew Central Committee Officers - 2026
New Officers Elected to Montgomery County Republican Central Committee
(L to R) First Vice Chair Reardon Sullivan, Secretary Lori Jaffe, Treasurer Brigitta Mullican, Chairman Dennis Melby. Second Vice Chair Monte Gingery is not pictured.
Take Action!
Great news! Because of the efforts of parents like you who took action and used your voice to ask MSDE to remove the topics of gender identity and sexual orientation from the MD Family Life framework, we have made headway!
I am happy to say that the new recommended Family Life framework for Maryland removes references to gender in grades Pre-K through 4.
They have recommended teaching those concepts in grades 5-12.
If you agree that introducing these concepts should be up to the parents, and that the concepts of "sex assigned at birth" or "gender identity" are not based in science, please click the link below to comment. The state board will be reviewing the comments to make a decision on the final draft of this framework. Please be specific and ask that lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation be removed from all grades, Pre-K through 12.
Here is the link to comment: MSDE Health Education Public Comment Survey
If you prefer to send an email: [email protected]
Link to proposed framework: Maryland’s Comprehensive Health Education Framework
Please spread the word! We want hundreds of comments in favor of returning our schools to places that educate based on facts, and where parents control values based conversations with their children.
Thank you for being involved!
Shannon Hinkhaus
Happy Hanukkah
Now more than ever we need the light of Hanukkah.
