Notebook: Mark Warner on 2025 results, shutdown, congressional maps
Mark Warner brought up something today that I hadn’t realized until he said it: that Abigail Spanberger would have won the governor’s race without Northern Virginia.
Mark Warner brought up something today that I hadn’t realized until he said it: that Abigail Spanberger would have won the governor’s race without Northern Virginia.
Ben Cline apparently hasn’t thought through what Tuesday’s election results in Virginia mean for his job security.
Thousands of children have lost access to Head Start programs due to a lack of federal funding while the federal government is shut down.
We knew that Abigail Spanberger was going to be the first woman to be elected governor in Virginia; we didn’t know she’d win by 15 points.
Virginia replaced its Republican state ticket with a new Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, and flipped 14 Republican House seats to the Democrats’ side.
The president campaigned on making America great, but instead is choosing to defy a court order that would put food on tables of families.
Why don’t Republicans just follow Donald Trump’s advice, use the “nuclear option” putting the kibosh on the stupid U.S. Senate filibuster, and pass their version of the government funding bill that would reopen government?
The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is organizing a Climate Action Celebration and Call to Action at the Massanutten Regional Library on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

The two sides in the 2025 Virginia elections made their closing arguments at dueling rallies on Saturday, the MAGA Republicans in the far reaches of the Northern Virginia exurbs, the Democrats in the heart of Hampton Roads.
That thing Senate Democrats are fighting for on your behalf – affordable healthcare – has an important milestone coming up this weekend.