Staunton | Speaker series resumes with personal account of Vietnam conflict
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Charles Trueheart of Staunton lived in Vietnam in the early 1960s as conflict arose between the Asian nation and the United States.
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John Whitehead | Tyranny becomes entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s power grabs
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Nearly a quarter-century after 9/11, we are still living with the consequences of fear-driven government power grabs.
Election 2025 | Youngkin, again, trying to suppress the vote: Repeat of 2024 voter purge on the horizon
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MAGA Gov. Glenn Youngkin is pulling election shenanigans again, on the eve of early voting starting in the 2025 statewide election cycle.
Here we go again | Dems in suits telling us about our local bad news, as if we didn’t already know
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I have been on an “unsubscribe from this list” spree of late, telling the Richmond and DC Democrats what they can do with their press releases about stuff going on in my backyard.
Staunton | Are police, ICE using Flock license plate cameras to spy on you?
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A vocal group of citizens is pushing back on the Staunton Police Department’s use of Flock license-plate reader technology, known as ALPR.
Election 2026: Shannon Taylor launches campaign for First District seat
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Shannon Taylor, on the heels of a narrow loss in the 2025 Democratic attorney general primary, announced on Monday that she is running for the First District seat in Congress in Virginia.
The Dems can’t fit us into their schedule | AFP isn’t just ‘fringe’ to the sports folks
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People who read AFP for our sports coverage know that I got the label “fringe media” from a mainstream sportswriter last year, and decided to adopt what was meant as an insult as a badge of honor.
Gene Zitver | Ben Cline, not surprisingly, cops out on the Epstein files
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Why are Ben Cline and other congressional Republicans, as well as Donald Trump (who refers to the Epstein matter as a “hoax”), so desperate to prevent a vote to release the full records?
Election 2025 | Virginia Farm Bureau sides with MAGA: AgPAC announces tone-deaf endorsements
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Farmers are losing markets to the Trump tariffs, and losing workers to the Trump ICE raids, but don’t tell that to the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation AgPAC, Farm Bureau’s political action committee.
Getting to know: John McAuliff | Democrat looking to flip HD 30
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The 30th House District, covering a territory located between Winchester and the inner DC suburbs, seems ripe for the picking for Democrats in the 2025 cycle.
