Apple and Google sit at the center of today’s misinformation crisis, and Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine should focus there if they want real change. Together, they control the app stores that determine which platforms can exist on billions of phones. Access to iOS...
As the first Muslim-American in the Virginia General Assembly -- and the first to sign a pledge against taking public interest donations -- Roanoke Delegate Sam Rasoul wants to eliminate money’s role in politics. According to the Center for Public Integrity, Virginia is one of nine states that do not have an ethics commission to oversee the...
The upcoming midterm elections on November 7 will be huge: HUGE. Nowhere more-so than in the 7th District, where incumbent Dave Brat (darling of the Tea Party) is squaring off against Abigail Spanberger, the scrappy former-CIA agent, for the heart and soul of Central Virginia. According to most independent political analysts, the race is still a...
Virginians: Today is the last day to register to vote for the Nov. 6 elections. You can register online, in-person or by mail. Go to Virginia’s online registration website to register or to update your voter record. To register in-person or by mail, fill out the Voter Registration Form and mail it in, or drop it off at your local voter...
As the potential for a power shift in Congress hangs over the 7th District midterms, candidates Dave Brat and Abigail Spanberger are firing on all cylinders. And despite the Conservative Review having graded Brat as one of the Tea Party’s finest, with a Liberty Score of 100%, polls are all over the place, suggesting a tight contest in November....
*This article was original published on GayRVA. According to a recent Williams Institute study, as many as 78,000 transgender citizens may be prevented from voting in 2018. In eight states including Virginia, voting law requires voters to show a government-issued IDs. And with many transgender and gender-nonconforming people no longer looking...
A Republican PAC released former CIA case-officer and Democratic nominee Abigail Spanberger’s entire federal security clearance application yesterday, including private information such as her Social Security number. The document, a national security questionnaire known as Standard Form 86 or SF86, is the highest level document for security...
RVA Tank, Parkland Shooting, Democratic-nominee Spanberger, families separated at the border, KKK effigies, Governor Northam, punching Nazis, getting punched by Nazis. It’s been a long year. As we approach the one year anniversary of Unite the Right, the alt-right rally held in Charlottesville on Aug. 12 last year that ended with the death of...
Democrats in Virginia are eschewing corporate cash in favor of grassroots fundraising, focusing on the people behind the money. A report by the Virginia Public Access Project shows freshman democrats are taking the charge on giving power to the people. Legislators in 2018 have diversified their campaign funding, especially when it comes to...
Call it trickle-down repulsion. GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart, known for his fondness for Pres. Donald Trump and violent rhetoric, is already an unlikely challenger against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine, but the Democratic Party of Virginia is hoping that his unpopularity will limit Republican turn-out statewide. The state party is...
