Virginia Politics & News
Virginia news from The Daily Signal, covering state politics, education policy, election integrity, and the political shift between Northern Virginia and the Commonwealth’s conservative regions.
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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-Gov. Glenn Youngkin was blamed for several “skinny budget” periods during… -
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Fairfax School District Prioritizes ‘Green Initiatives’ Over Academic Proficiency
As Virginia’s largest public school district continues to decline academically, Fairfax County Public Schools’ environmental and sustainability program has exploded in scale since 2020, transforming from a small initiative into a heavily staffed central operation. Meanwhile, despite a $197 million increase from the fiscal year 2026 budget, Fairfax County’s school board members voted last month… -
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For Spanberger, It’s ‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’
It’s only been a few months into Abigail Spanberger’s administration, and already I’m growing weary of this. Here we are again in a scenario too similar to issues that dogged Gov. Glenn Youngkin during the previous four years. On several occasions, as is his right and responsibility as governor, Youngkin appointed people to empty seats… -
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Spanberger Vetoes Women-Owned and Minority-Owned Businesses Bill—Says Didn’t Go Far Enough
As Democrats continue to hemorrhage support among white voters, legislation passed by Virginia’s Democrat-controlled Legislature offers a revealing glimpse into the party’s increasingly comfortable embrace of anti-white policymaking. HB 61, known as the Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (SWaM) certification program, sought to expand preferential treatment for women- or minority-owned small businesses in state contracting and would have… -
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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… -
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Virginia Bishop Urges Catholics to Vote ‘No’ on State Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage Referendums
During a recent episode of his “Walk Humbly” podcast, the Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, Michael Francis Burbidge, spoke out against two proposed constitutional amendments likely appearing before Virginia voters this November, describing them as measures “from the evil one.” Among the constitutional amendments likely slated for Virginia’s November 2026 general election is a proposal concerning reproductive issues like abortion, contraception, and… -
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‘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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RGGI Will Cost Virginia Billions—Just Like It Cost Pennsylvania
Virginians were promised affordability. Instead, they’re getting an energy agenda that risks making electricity more expensive and less reliable. Gov. Abigail Spanberger has consistently sided with the climate-policy wing of her party even when its proposals threaten higher energy costs for consumers. One such proposal is rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In 2023, Virginia… -
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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… -
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Spanberger’s Gun Control Laws Won’t Save Lives
Late last week, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a slew of controversial gun control measures into law, blocking the sale and proliferation of so-called assault weapons in the Commonwealth and enacting a ban on magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds. Spanberger claimed the legislation would make Virginians safer. “Firearms designed to inflict maximum… -
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THOMAS: A ‘Pawn’ in Louise Lucas’ Game of Life
“I know nothing” was what Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas told The Virginian-Pilot over the weekend regarding the raid of her businesses. However, a man facing federal indictment for allegedly collecting $100,000 in COVID-19 relief money fraudulently tells a different story. Carlton Upton Jr., a man who reportedly has business ties to Lucas,… -
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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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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… -
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Fairfax County’s Political Ecosystem Protects Illegal Immigrants at the Expense of All Others
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a federal civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano over allegations that his office gave preferential treatment to illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes. This Thursday, mere days after that announcement, Descano—who has received more than $650,000 from George Soros-backed PACs and affiliated groups—is… -
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Fairfax Schools’ Response to Financial Scandal: Denial, Deflection, and Spin
Fairfax County Public Schools’ superintendent, Michelle Reid, refuses to let facts get in the way of her finely tuned narrative. Last Friday afternoon, as the public was growing increasingly aware that district leaders are shuffling resources from classrooms to administrative bloat, she sent an email to the district’s employees, assuring them that FCPS remains a… -
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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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Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?
In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed… -
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Virginia May Enact Disastrous Public Sector Collective Bargaining Legislation
A pair of bills sits on Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s desk that, if enacted, would expand public sector union power at the expense of taxpayers. Late last month, the Virginia House and Senate sent HB1263 and SB378 to the governor for her signature. Both bills would remove longstanding prohibitions on collective bargaining for public sector…