
Why Nov. 3 is anything but the sure thing people think it to be
Mail-in ballots are one 2020 election concern, highlighted by President Trump’s recent comments. A bigger one that is under the radar: how do you organize in a pandemic?

Mail-in ballots are one 2020 election concern, highlighted by President Trump’s recent comments. A bigger one that is under the radar: how do you organize in a pandemic?

Trump has polarized the country beyond recognition and made it nearly impossible to reach a consensus on any issue regardless of how detrimental it may have been to the national interests.

Three things are happening, have been happening, relative to COVID-19, international politics, and the 2020 presidential election.

The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley (CAAV), a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley, produces “The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News” to inform legislators and the public.

Trump is unlike any of his predecessors; he is corrupt to the core and his self-interest comes before the nation.

The Virginia approach to gun violence is going national with a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate by Mark Warner and Tim Kaine.

Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL) are leading led a 41-member, bipartisan effort calling on the FCC to provide greater certainty and support to healthcare providers standing up telehealth services.

The drumbeat to “defund the police” is troubling to me, and it’s worth musing aloud if the push from the fringes of the Democratic Party might not have an impact that most of us don’t want to see on Nov. 3.

For those old enough to have lived through the McCarthy era, there is a whiff of something in the air that reeks of the heightened paranoia, finger-pointing, fear-mongering, totalitarian tactics that were hallmarks of the 1950s.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., co-led a bipartisan coalition of her colleagues in introducing legislation to establish limits on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).
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