Virginia Democrats pushing abortion, gay marriage, voting rights measures
Share
Virginia Democrats have pushed through bills on abortion, gay marriage and voting rights that will be centerpiece issues in the 2025 state elections.
Search Results for Abigail Spanberger
Share
Lamont Bagby seems like sure bet to be new Virginia Democratic Party chair
Share
Looks like we have our next chair of the Virginia Democratic Party: State Sen. Lamont Bagby has announced his interest in the post, and he has just about everybody on his side
Susan Swecker stepping down as chair of Virginia Democratic Party
Share
The news from Richmond on Monday is that Susan Swecker is stepping down as chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
Republican radio guy doesn’t like the party’s presumptive Black nominee for governor
Share
John Fredericks, a loyal MAGA Trumper, did everything but label the presumptive Republican Party frontrunner for governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, a “DEI hire.”
You want America back? It’s about time to start kicking some MAGA ass
Share
Friends and AFP readers are in shock and awe over the pace of the efforts to dismantle American democracy coming from the Trump/Musk/MAGA team, and all I can say is, buckle in.
Earle-Sears cast vote to block right to contraception bill, which later passes State Senate
Share
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears just voted herself into a political corner on the right to contraception issue.
Mentor, confidant, friend: Richmond’s first Black mayor, Henry Marsh III, dies
Share
Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School was dedicated in Richmond in August 2020.
Trump makes second stab at reworking Schedule F, reviving political spoils system
Share
Donald Trump is, for a second time, trying to revive the political spoils system, this time with a new Schedule F executive order in which he is attempting to reclassify tens of thousands of federal employees as political hires.
Democrats putting reproductive rights front and center with elections on the horizon
Share
You can expect that reproductive rights will be a ballot issue in the 2025 Virginia elections, and to that end, we have House Democrats pushing forward two pieces of legislation that will put the issue front and center with voters.
Donald Trump, on Jan. 6, complains about Biden making transition ‘difficult’
Share
Donald Trump, complaining about Joe Biden making the transition “as difficult as possible,” four years to the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection that he had hoped would overturn the 2020 election, is officially the stupidest man on the face of the earth.
