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We now know that the minimum wage in Virginia will increase to $15 per hour on Jan. 1, 2028, with Gov. Abigail Spanberger signaling on Monday that she will sign legislation that has passed both houses of the General Assembly.
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The seven-MAGA-member Augusta County Board of Supervisors is against putting an ICE detention center in the county, but the 70 percent Trump-lovin’ populace in the county needn’t worry.
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Donald Trump is determined to steal the midterm election by any means, however menacing or unconstitutional they may be, to deprive the Democrats of their nearly assured victory.
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The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state can proceed with an April 21 referendum that could give us a new congressional map.
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Ken Mitchell, the Democratic Party congressional nominee in the Sixth District in the 2024 cycle, said on Wednesday that he is now in the race for the nomination in the Seventh District.
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Mike Pruitt said today that he is suspending his campaign for a Democratic congressional nomination, and that he is endorsing former congressman Tom Perriello.
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The Trump White House let Karoline Leavitt defend the racist video posted overnight by Donald Trump that depicted Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes, before deciding to delete the video and blame an unnamed staffer as being the racist.
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The campaign of Beth Macy issued a statement on Thursday, following the release of new congressional district maps, telling us Macy “affirms that she is more committed than ever to running for Congress.”
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Today’s politics deep dive is about how I’d been having trouble getting anybody from the Spanberger administration to get back to me, which, given what I was asking about, felt kinda funky to me.
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Bad news for Ben Cline: per Louise Lucas, the 10-1 congressional map is the only one that the State Senate has the votes to pass.
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