Author: James A. Bacon
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Did Anti-Hate Group Infiltrate the Unite the Right Rally?
Between 2014 and 2023, the Department of Justice alleged in indictments filed yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals associated with violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America. SPLC, which tracks “hate” groups nationally, allegedly paid…
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Virginia Surrenders to the National Popular Vote Movement
The Electoral College provides a brilliant safeguard for the republic and must be guarded. by Jacob Grandstaff On April 14, Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), which brings the total electoral votes in the compact to 222. Only 48 electoral votes remain to trigger the scheme that would award…
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Storm the Polls Today
by Kerry Dougherty Democrats from California to New York to Washington, D.C., have poured between $70 and $100 million into Virginia to convince you that gerrymandering the state from a 6-5 Democrat advantage to 10-1 one is “fair.” It’s not fair. It’s rigging elections to give Democrats control of Congress. No matter how earnestly Abigail…
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Gerrymander Day: the Closing Arguments
Virginia Democrats have a massive spending advantage and a terrible argument. by Shaun Kenney Most of the yelling and spending is over. The good news is that the “no” campaign will be the bipartisan conscience of Virginia against a hyper partisan progressive monolith who according to the Washington Post has polarized Richmond in a way…
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A Rise and Fall — and Then a Tragedy
by Chap Petersen Two things can be true at once. Last week, my former Senate colleague Justin Fairfax shot his wife Cerina, an accomplished dentist and loving mother, and then killed himself. It was a malicious and cowardly act, which goes against every principle of his professed identity as a husband, father and Christian. Nothing…
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Virginia’s SOL Assessment Challenges – Lack of Transparency
by Matt Hurt Virginia’s Board of Education has significantly raised the stakes for student performance. A new accountability system has set a higher bar for school success, bolstered by rigorous “cut scores” approved last year. Data from 2025 suggests these scores could nearly halve the number of students deemed proficient in reading and math. However,…
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Vote NO
by Kerry Dougherty I didn’t vote early on the redistricting referendum. But I’m definitely voting in person on Tuesday. And I’m voting NO. My unopened mail-in ballot is on my desk. I’ll turn it in to poll workers on Tuesday so I can vote without casting a provisional ballot. That’s what I did in the…
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We All Failed Justin Fairfax
The murder of Cerina Fairfax is inexcusable, but the calculated political destruction of Justin Fairfax deserves both scrutiny and culpability. by Shaun Kenney The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history…
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A Checkbook Proposal That Needs to Be Bounced
by Jon Baliles At a media event last Friday to talk about transparency, Richmond Mayor Danny Avula admitted that fixing the city’s check register — the one that is supposed to publish all city payments monthly but was turned off by the Stoney administration in 2019 and never restarted despite being required by city code — had…
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Virginia Lawmakers Exempt Themselves from Their Own Gun Law
Two Virginians. Two handguns. One law. by Jeff Bayard Imagine this scenario: The Walmart parking lot on Midlothian Turnpike is half-empty at 9:47 p.m. A man named David walks out with two bags of groceries, his boots scuffing across wet asphalt. He’s a deacon at his church, a grandfather. His Glock 19 is in the…
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Justin Fairfax Never Had a Chance to Clear His Name
John Reid’s post from The Reid Revolution on X: Of course this headline is just horrible… and there’s no excusing murder and the devastation I’m sure these children will feel for the rest of their lives- but this blaring fleeting headline is NOT the whole story. When I heard about this crime and tragedy this…
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Will Arlington Protect Alleged Rapist?
Nothing in today’s VA News clips about this story, so I’m publishing the Department of Homeland Security press release here. — JAB WASHINGTON ––U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requested Governor Abigail Spanberger and Arlington sanctuary politicians not release Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, a 28-year-old criminal illegal alien from Guatemala. He is facing charges that include abduction of a person with intent to defile, sodomy…