Cortland County Democratic Committee

06/23/2026

Today is Election Day! 🇺🇸 All polls will be open from 6am to 9 pm.
Below you will see the contest list.

06/15/2026

THIS WEEK! Friday, Courthouse Park, 12-3 p.m.

06/13/2026

Early Voting starts today! Poll is open till 5pm today! All Democrats in Cortland County have a primary race to vote on!
The poll site is on 112 River St in Cortland.

06/11/2026

“Ballots for the June Primary are now hitting mailboxes. Don’t wait to return yours! USPS recently clarified that a postmark is based on when mail is processed; not when it’s dropped off. In New York, a ballot must be postmarked by Election Day in order to count. Watch this video to ensure your ballot is returned in a timely manner.” - From the NYS Board of Elections.

06/10/2026

RED ALERT: The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report confirms that Donald Trump's policies are weakening Social Security’s finances. Now Republicans are eyeing benefit cuts.

This is the first Social Security trustees report that begins to take Donald Trump’s second term policies into account: A tax bill that largely benefited the wealthy, economy-wrecking tariffs, a needless war with Iran, and hostility to immigrants. All of these have reduced the amount of money going into Social Security, weakening the system’s finances.

Despite Trump’s damaging policies, Social Security remains fully affordable if the wealthy are required to contribute their fair share. Congress has only two options to address the projected shortfall: Bring more money into Social Security, or cut benefits. Any politician who refuses to raise revenue, including by making the wealthy pay their fair share into Social Security, is telling us that they support benefit cuts.

The American people, including Republicans, are overwhelming in their opposition to even a penny of benefit cuts. Support for means-testing and other benefit cuts (even if paired with revenue increases) is a betrayal of the American people.

Social Security’s future is on the ballot. Any of the U.S. Senators elected this November could become the deciding vote. Accordingly, all of them should tell the public how they would vote.

This is particularly important for Republican candidates, given that Speaker Mike Johnson just announced plans to ‘adjust and fix’ Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid next year. That’s DC-insider speak for ‘cut benefits.’ Outrageously, Johnson claims this is necessary to reduce the federal deficit — even though Social Security is an earned benefit that doesn’t add a single penny to the deficit!

As the Trustees Report plainly states, if there is insufficient revenue, Social Security benefits will be automatically cut. Johnson’s ‘solution’ is to cut them sooner (and likely by a larger amount) instead of making his billionaire donors pay their fair share. Sen. Ted Cruz and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are more specific than Johnson, saying that the Republican plan for Social Security is privatization, handing Social Security over to Wall Street. Do Republican House and Senate candidates agree with Johnson, Cruz, and Bessent?

Ultimately, the Social Security shortfall is cause for action but not for undue alarm. Congress has acted to avert such shortfalls before and will again. When members of Congress act, they should listen to their voters who overwhelmingly value Social Security, not their ultra-wealthy donors who want to steal their voters’ hard-earned benefits out from under them.

06/09/2026

Early voting starts this Saturday! Have you made your plan to vote? For further information about candidates and poll sites, visit cortlandcountyny.gov/182/elections

VOTE! 🗳️

06/05/2026

06/04/2026

“There is no way to implement Medicaid work requirements without disabled and chronically ill people losing their access to the program, despite the claims of Republican politicians like House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.).”
“There are going to be so many disabled people and chronically ill people who lose access to their health care and other kinds of supports that Medicaid provides,” said Maria Town, the President and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities.

"It's hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point."

06/02/2026

I grew up in a union household. Every labor endorsement represents thousands of families like my own, earning an honest living as costs rise across the country thanks to Donald Trump.

Their support means the world to me. I’ll always have their back, and they’ll always have mine.