Sam Rasoul thinking over run for congressional seat in 2026 midterm cycle
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.
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.”
Although Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions.
Congressional candidate Beth Macy brought her listening tour to Waynesboro on Monday, the first campaign stop since she entered the Sixth District race one week ago.

Sixth District congressional candidate Beth Macy will travel to Waynesboro Monday night for the first stop on her listening tour.
The Trump DOJ actually followed through with the case of a former Virginia Beach man who threatened to kill Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – which, yeah, shocker.
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