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opinion
Virginia Democrats Play Hide-and-Seek With Local Tax Hike
How do you pass a bill into law that either you cannot pass or that the governor vetoed? Easy. Turn it into a part of the budget that must be passed (at some point). In 2025 alone, several examples of this chicanery took place. Then-Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was blamed for several “skinny budget” periods… -
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DC Area Police Investigate Swatting Incident Targeting a Supreme Court Justice
The Fairfax County Police Department in Northern Virginia is investigating a swatting call at the residence of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Wednesday night. “Yesterday evening at approximately 9:02 p.m., officers responded to a swatting call at the residence of U.S. Supreme Court Justice in Fairfax County,” the department’s public information officer told the… -
opinion
‘Who Are These Masked Men?’
Mark Twain is credited with saying, “History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.” Such is the case with several semi-related incidents in Virginia Beach. First, as I have testified to in earlier columns, not only was I there for what are called the “Unite the Right” riots in Charlottesville, but for the years leading up to… -
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Fairfax GOP Stands Up to State Party on Abortion and Gender
Last week, Big-Tentism slithered into the Fairfax County GOP meeting and tempted us to silence in the face of Democrat attempts to enshrine abortion, gay marriage, and transgender ideology in the Virginia state constitution. Here is what happened. Among the many slimy things Virginia Democrats did when they assumed power was to pass a slate… -
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Data Centers and the Sale of Dominion Energy
My inclination when learning about the proposed mega-utility company that would be created when NextEra Energy acquires Dominion Energy—and yes, that is what is proposed—was that this is the predictable growing distance from the consumer of companies that expand and merge and acquire in order to keep up with a federal regulating body that is… -
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Virginia Gov. Sends Legalized Weed Dreams Up in Smoke
If you have any friends in Virginia who still have their “Vote YES” yard signs on display, be kind to them; it’s been a tough couple of weeks. The hardest hit may have been delivered on Tuesday when Gov. Abigail Spanberger vetoed the Marijuana Marketplace bills (House Bill 642 and Senate Bill 542). Most figured… -
news
Virginia Redistricting Relief Doesn’t Guarantee Victory for GOP
The Virginia GOP secured a win for voter representation last week when the state Supreme Court ruled against a Democrat effort to push out Republican representation. Although the maps remain as before, Virginia is still a purple state, and the fight is far from over. Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., faces the most contentious race in… -
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Did Loudoun County Public Schools Try to Cover Up Another Transgender Bathroom Scandal? America First Legal Demands Answers
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Legal is demanding information amid claims that Loudoun County Public Schools hid from parents key safety concerns about a student, who identifies as transgender, filming boys without their pants and underwear in high school bathrooms. “By all reports, there are over forty victims over the course of three years…. -
opinion
Virginia’s AG Could Really Use a Spell-Check
Social media is having a grand time with the misspellings in Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones’ filing to the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight over the Commonwealth’s redistricting referendum. Do you really need to know how to spell Virginia to enforce the will of the people? I say that because, much in the same… -
opinion
SHAMELESS: Democrats Suggest Nuking a State Supreme Court in Mad Pursuit of Redistricting Power
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Democrats are scheming to pack a court after justices clearly upheld the law in opposition to their agenda. No, it isn’t the U.S. Supreme Court, for once. Instead, it’s Virginia’s highest court—and Democrats’ lawless scheme is positively Machiavellian. When the Virginia Supreme Court rightly struck down Old… -
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Virginia Dems Make Glaring Errors in Rushed Court Motion to Save Gerrymandering Scheme
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Virginia Democrats’ motion urging the state supreme court to temporarily halt its order against the 2026 gerrymandering referendum appears to include two major typos. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, alongside Virginia House Speaker Don Scott and State Sen. Louise Lucas, petitioned the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay its order which struck down the gerrymandering referendum,… -
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Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Dem Redistricting Measure
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled against the Democrats’ effort to redraw the state’s maps. In April, Virginians voted to pass a new map that would have likely taken away four seats from Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives. Now the state Supreme Court has ruled 4-3 that the Democrat-backed referendum is “null and… -
opinion
Don’t Cross ‘the Big Guy’: Reflecting on Sen. Lucas and ‘The Sopranos’
I always liked the premise of the TV show “The Sopranos,” a guy stuck between “the Family” and his family. I never watched much because I didn’t have the spare change to pay for HBO, but I catch up on episodes here and there. One of the returning themes I enjoyed was the tension between… -
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Virginia Dem Gets Away With Racial Slur at ‘No Kings’ Protest
A local Democrat Virginia official was caught in a video using vulgar language, including the N-word, at a “No Kings” protest in Loudoun County, and it has gone completely under the radar. Juli Briskman serves on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, where she’s in charge of determining school funding and the budget for Loudoun… -
opinion
Fairfax Schools Fund PhDs for Highly Paid Administrators as Teacher Positions Cut, Class Sizes Raised
After cutting 275 teaching positions and increasing class sizes this academic year, Fairfax County Public Schools has launched a program to fund Ph.D.s for some of its highest-paid district administrators. On Aug. 5, 2025, FCPS Chief of Schools Geovanny Ponce, who earns an annual salary of $289,565, emailed hundreds of district administrators to announce the program. “FCPS… -
opinion
Former State AG Explains Why Virginia’s Redistricting Plot Won’t Survive the Courts
Editor’s Note: The Supreme Court of Virginia is now weighing the recently passed redistricting referendum that was designed by the Democrat-led state government to swipe four of the five U.S. congressional seats held by Republicans in the purple state. If allowed to stand, congressional representation could go from a 6–5 split to 10–1. The Daily… -
opinion
‘Restore Fairness’: Virginia’s Rigged Redistricting Referendum
Virginia Democrats got what they wanted Tuesday, or did they? Voters narrowly approved a referendum (passing 51%) that hands the Democrat-controlled General Assembly the power to redraw congressional districts mid-decade, potentially flipping as many as four Republican House seats ahead of the fall midterms. The ballot language put before Virginians read as follows: “Should the… -
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Virginia Redistricting Fight Shifts to High Court After Vote
After voters in Virginia approved a mid-decade redistricting plan Tuesday that will give Democrats a big edge for U.S. House races, the battle has now shifted to the state’s highest court. Yesterday, voters approved a constitutional amendment to redraw Virginia’s state congressional map, granting a likely 10-1 advantage for Democrats in future elections. On Wednesday,… -
opinion
Blowing the Lid Off of the Left’s Charlottesville Narrative
President Donald Trump never defended white nationalists in the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, but a leftist group in league with Trump’s 2020 opponent, President Joe Biden, was funding the white nationalists under the table. According to the Justice Department’s new indictment, the Southern Poverty Law Center—which raises money by presenting… -
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Virginia GOP on the Front Lines to ‘Keep Fairness’ in House District Maps
Today, Virginians are flocking to the polls to vote on whether to amend the Virginia Constitution and let the state Legislature redraw the state’s congressional maps. The map state Democrats have proposed would give their party a 10-1 seat advantage, likely leaving just one Republican to represent the historically purple state. The Republican majority in…
