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MAGA House Republicans are targeting the ability of DC residents to govern themselves, inadvertently helping make the case long championed by Democrats that we just need to make the District of Columbia the 51st state already.
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Donald Trump wants fewer people – he’d prefer zero – voting in elections. Virginia wants as many folks to vote as possible.
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Trump’s ICE goons are in Virginia now, as evidenced by the video of the beatdown of a Guatemalan immigrant outside a hospital in Suffolk that has gone viral.
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There was a place in Democratic Party politics for the likes of James Carville, the architect behind Bill Clinton’s two successful campaigns for president in the 1990s, but that day has long since passed.
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Donald Trump is now holding up putting his signature to affordable housing legislation because he wants to use it as leverage to be able to rig U.S. elections.
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Ben Cline, back in 2023, was against settlement slush funds, to the point that he was an out-of-the-box co-sponsor of a bill called the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act.
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I’m here to sheepishly admit that I hadn’t fully thought through the racially-charged meaning of the turn of phrase “cotton-picking” until this recent controversy involving Congresswoman Jen Kiggans.
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The four MAGAs on the Supreme Court of Virginia negated the votes of 1,604,276 Virginians who wanted new congressional maps on Friday, which means, we’re back to square one with the 2026 midterms in Virginia.
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It’s not weird at all that Fox News had a D.C.-based reporter and camera crew on the scene Wednesday morning to capture live shots of the FBI raid of State Sen. Louise Lucas’ office and cannabis dispensary in Portsmouth.
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Louisiana is using a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing it to gerrymander Black-majority districts out of existence, putting the Supreme Court of Virginia on notice.
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