Election 2025: Makayla Venable represents youth in run for Virginia House
Makayla Venable, 30, is one of 100 Democratic candidates vying for elected offices at the state level, and along the way learning.
Makayla Venable, 30, is one of 100 Democratic candidates vying for elected offices at the state level, and along the way learning.

You’ve maybe heard about the new poll from Christopher Newport University that has the Democrats with big leads across the board in the statewide races.
Late-night comedian questions the official story on the Charlie Kirk murder, gets canceled. Two MAGA White dudes release a song romanticizing the lynching of “n****z,” and … crickets.
An activist is fighting back against VDOT and State Police for violating the First Amendment rights of protestors in Shenandoah County.
The next nationwide No Kings Day is Saturday, Oct. 18, with local events in Staunton and Charlottesville, among the more than 1,000, and counting, scheduled across the United States.
The Trump administration is literally beside itself over where kids in five Northern Virginia school districts go to the bathroom.
I’m not going to take Mr. Schoolcraft up on his apparent challenge to travel to Indiana to engage him in a duel, in case you were wondering.
MAGA provocateur Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a speaking engagement at an outdoor event on the campus of Utah Valley University, in the heart of deep-red, proto-MAGA Utah, on Wednesday.
Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host and UVA Law alum, who, at 62, has never married, did a segment on her show Monday raising issue with “women not wanting to prioritize family.”
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.
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