The final week of October in Richmond saw Virginia Democrats push to begin the process of amending the state constitution ahead of the 2025 election. Changing the Virginia Constitution requires lawmakers to pass resolutions in two consecutive legislative sessions,...
2017 has been a pinnacle year for politics in Virginia. Not only has the Commonwealth entered into the national conversation because of this year's gubernatorial election, but also because of the tragic events in Charlottesville. How this comes to define the future remains to be seen. Yet one thing is for certain, Virginia is changing and...
When I was sixteen years old I attended a liberal school in a liberal town in New York. Across the street from the side entrance, two older men sat every day - rain, sleet, twelve feet of snow, whatever - with a bloody fetus doll stapled to thick poster board and the words “American Holocaust!” and “Will you kill your baby?” As I walked to my car...
Tony Harris, one of the co-founders of RVA Mag, recently sat down with The Cheats Movement Podcast to talk about the events of Unite the Right in Charlottesville, the ongoing debate over Confederate monuments, and what this means for the city of Richmond. RVA Mag was on the ground covering the events in Charlottesville. Our team of journalists,...
National politics are local in Henrico, a new battleground for the Democratic party in Virginia. For the first time in living memory, every district went blue in the 2016 presidential election. However, it's not a sure bet for Democrats, particularly in District 72, where Hillary Clinton edged out then-candidate Trump by only four points....
In 2017, we all live a political lifestyle. One where politics dominates most aspects of our public and private lives; who we chose to interact with, be friends with, and associate with. The news cycle governs the direction of our conversations, while the intellectual contest between party affiliations has become a modern gladiatorial sport. The...
*This article was originally ran in the Fair Observer on August 14. Charlottesville On August 12, 2017, a small student town of Charlottesville, Virginia, voted previously as America’s happiest place, became a scene of what the Southern Poverty Law Center previously described as the “largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United...
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally in Charlottesville last month was a properly audacious event. The terrorist organization, once confined to the shadows of clandestine gatherings, felt emboldened to reveal themselves publicly. This should come as no real surprise. We live in a political age where creeping white nationalism, supremacy, xenophobia, and...
The American left has roared back to life, and millennials are leading the way. "Socialism" was the most looked-up word on Merriam-Webster’s website in 2015, and a YouGov poll out last year found 43 percent of respondents under 30 had a favorable view of “socialism”, while just 32 percent of the same age bracket had a favorable view of...
I have heard that Virginia needs “business-minded leaders” in the General Assembly. We see the General Assembly routinely pass legislation benefitting businesses like Dominion Energy. Virginia has consistently ranked as one of the Best States for Business since George Allen’s term as Governor. Let’s not forget that Virginia’s campaign finance...
