Perriello, Luria get endorsements from Kaine, Warner for congressional bids
Tim Kaine and Mark Warner are putting their weight behind the campaigns of a pair of former Members of Congress in two 2026 Democratic Party congressional primaries.
Tim Kaine and Mark Warner are putting their weight behind the campaigns of a pair of former Members of Congress in two 2026 Democratic Party congressional primaries.
The gambit by U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., to force a U.S. Senate vote on extending Obamacare healthcare premium subsidies failed, as predicted, with the Senate voting 51-48 Thursday in favor of a bill that would extend the subsidies by three years.
Tom Perriello is the latest Democrat in our part of the state to throw his hat into the congressional ring for the 2026 midterm cycle.
One important way Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger can lower utility bills while bringing more energy online is to implement her platform’s proposal to expand Virginians’ access to shared solar.
Sam Rasoul, a Democrat has represented Roanoke in the General Assembly since 2014, is now publicly mulling over a run for a seat in Congress in the 2026 midterm cycle.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wobbled on Tuesday as he tried to launch his TV defense that he shouldn’t, in fact, be brought up on war-crimes charges, mumbling something about “fog of war.”
Mark Warner is leaving nothing to chance, rolling out a list of endorsements from pretty much every elected Democrat in the Commonwealth of Virginia as he launched his 2026 U.S. Senate re-election bid on Tuesday.

A day after the U.S. military killed two survivors of a missile strike on their fishing boat off the coast of Venezuela, Pete Hegseth was on Fox News bragging that he had “watched it live.”
Remember how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got all publicly butthurt a couple of weeks ago about a group of congressional Democrats advising members of the U.S. military that they’re bound by law to not carry out illegal orders?
Fresh off a decisive election win, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is promising a sharp turn in Virginia’s energy policy, vowing energy affordability for regular ratepayers, boosting in-state power generation, and forcing data centers to “pay their fair share.”
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