Susan Swecker stepping down as chair of Virginia Democratic Party
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The news from Richmond on Monday is that Susan Swecker is stepping down as chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
Search Results for Abigail Spanberger
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Republican radio guy doesn’t like the party’s presumptive Black nominee for governor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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.
By the numbers: The top news and sports stories of 2024 from #teamAFP
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From news to sports, here’s a look at what #teamAFP stories racked up the most reads on Augusta Free Press in 2024.
Former President Jimmy Carter, oldest-ever ex-President, dies at 100
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Jimmy Carter, the former President, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Habitat for Humanity volunteer, died on Sunday, at the age of 100.
