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Pub Quiz with Brainstormer Trivia coming TONIGHT!
As the temperature drops, the foliage turns reddish brown and the days get shorter, one thing remains the same: The National Press Club’s Pub Quiz. Warm up with your friends at the National Press Club TONIGHT, in the Truman Lounge for Pub Quiz with Brainstormer Trivia. Game starts at 6:30 p.m. Yes, the Club is open for business which means the kitchen is serving the Club’s delicious food and the bar is well stocked! Gather your fellow Club members – and bring along your non-member friends – for a convivial evening of food, drinks, and fun-filled trivia. Form a team, play for prizes, and prove…
Type: News
NPC Communicators Legends Dinner with Frank Sesno
Frank Sesno, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, author and education leader will be the featured guest for a National Press Club Communicators Legends Dinner on Tuesday, October 25. Sesno directed the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs for 11 years and now serves as director of strategic initiatives. At GW, he founded Planet Forward in 2009 to launch the next generation of environmental storytellers and highlight transformative ideas for sustainability issues. He also focuses on disinformation campaigns and how news organizations need to understand and respond to…
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Books & Brunch to discuss satirical Russian novel "Monumental Propaganda," Saturday
Books & Brunch will meet via Zoom at noon on Saturday, Sept. 17, to discuss "Monumental Propaganda" by Vladimir Voinovich. Russian writer and former Soviet dissident Voinovich's satirical novel, published in 2000, explores the Neo-Stalinist legacy residing in the subconscious of Russian citizens. The book centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, who is nostalgic about purges and gulags and longs for ideological purity. When the people in her village tear down the statue of Stalin, she rescues it from the scrap heap and installs it in her apartment. Voinovich's writings forced him into exile…
Type: News
Books & Brunch to discuss Dana Milbank's "The Destructionists," Oct. 15
Books & Brunch will meet via Zoom at noon on Saturday, Oct. 15, to discuss "The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party" by Dana Milbank. The New York Times bestseller by the popular Washinton Post columnist gives a blistering history of 25 years of the Republican Party's attempts to hold onto political power, stretching from Congressman Newt Gingrich's Contract to America to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected] by Thursday, Oct. 13.…
Type: News
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Major Garrett is CBS News’ Chief Washington Correspondent reporting for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms and is a substitute anchor of "The CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell." Garrett is also the host and creator of “The Takeout,” a weekly multi-platform interview show on politics, policy and pop culture available on CBS News Streaming, top radio stations, SiriusXM, and all podcast platforms. From 2012 until 2018, Garrett served as CBS News’ Chief White House Correspondent, traveling the world and covering all day-to-day developments of the Obama administration. From 2015 to 2016…
David Becker is the Executive Director and Founder of the nonpartisan, non-profit Center for Election Innovation & Research, working with election officials of both parties, all around the country, to ensure accessible, secure elections for all eligible voters. A key element of David’s work with CEIR is managing the Election Official Legal Defense Network, providing pro bono legal assistance to election officials who are threatened with frivolous criminal prosecution, harassment, or physical violence. Prior to founding CEIR, David was Director of the elections program at The Pew…
NPC Headliners Book Event: Major Garrett and David Becker, "The Big Truth"
Less than a month before the midterm elections, CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and David Becker, one of the nation's leading elections experts, will discuss their new book, "The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of THE BIG LIE," at a National Press Club headliners book event on Tuesday, October 11 at 6:30 PM. Garrett and Becker's new book examines the potentially dire consequences for the 2022 midterms and beyond. Filled with interviews with key players — election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md), Georgia…
Type: Event