EVENTS

BiWeekly - Sidewalk Rallies

12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Veterans Park
Greenville, MI 48838

Sidewalk Rallies will be held on Saturdays by Citizens to Save Democracy from May through October (rain or shine). The goal is to encourage our community to resist the regime and to vote!  The next rally is Saturday, August 29.

Aug. 29, 2026 - MDP Fall Convention

Lansing Center
333 E. Michigan Avenue Lansing, MI 48933

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Candidates that were endorsed at the Endorsement Convention will be  formally nominated to the November General Election.

Sept. 7, 2026 - Belding Labor Day Parade

Belding, MI 48809

11 a.m. - Start time

Candidates Frank Lafata and Stan Opal will walk alongside the Ionia County Democratic Party. 

Please reach out to the Ionia County Dems via email if you're interested in walking in the parade:
ioniadems@gmail.com

Sept. 21, 2026 - Monthly Meeting

118 S Franklin St., Greenville, MI 48838

6:30 p.m. Social Time
7 p.m. Meeting begins

Join us in-person or email us for a link to attend the meeting virtually. We will recap the State Fall Convention and discuss efforts to support our candidates.

Roadside Pick Up
The Montcalm Dems pick up trash along a portion of M91 every April, July, and September. Let us know if you would like to join the fun!

Montcalm Community College Scholarships
Beginning in the fall of 2023 we have been awarding student scholarships at Montcalm Community College to a high school senior or current MCC student who has demonstrated community service or involvement in public service. Scholarship applications are available on the Montcalm Community College Foundation Scholarship page.
If you would like to contribute to our scholarship fund, you can do so here. Use drop-down menus under fund designation to choose MCCF Montcalm Democrats for Community Scholarship.

Past Event: No Kings Day 2 rally, October 18, 2025
We supported this 2nd No Kings Day event sponsored by Citizens to Save Democracy. About 400 people attended. A giant Declaration of Independence was displayed; music and speakers were featureed, and a sidewalk rally and march was very visible to the community.

Past Event: No Kings Day rally, June 14, 2025
We participated in this nationwide event with a rally in Veterans Park, Greenville. Organized by Citizens to Save Democracy, the rally was attended by 380 people. Local speakers, music, information tables, and free hot dogs and children's books preceded a sidewalk rally.

Past Event: Citizens' "empty chair" Town Hall and sidewalk demonstrations
A Citizens' Town Hall was held on March 29, 2025, in the Stafford Room of the Flat River Community Library, sponsored by an ad hoc group of citizens (later organized as Citizens to Save Democracy) concerned about the lurch towards autocracy taken by the federal government. It was a standing room only event with participants also interacting from outside the room through open windows. Subsequent sidewalk demonstrations have taken place during the noon hour at Heritage Park in downtown Greenville on April 5th and 19th and on alternate Saturdays in Greenville's Veterans Park. These have served to both solidify the protest group and to encourage passerbys that there is, indeed, an effort to restore democracy in our nation. The Montcalm Dems thoroughly support these citizen-initiated efforts.