A political smash and grab.
Ever since the liberal Democrats took control of the Virginia State Senate, the House of Delegates and the Governor's Mansion in 2026, they have been committing a political jewelry store smash and grab. They have broken the glass top and stolen all of Virginia's precious stones: freedom, liberty, and a way of life that used to let Virginians be in control of their own destiny, and not the government. They are wielding enormous power with their control of the legislative and executive branches of Virginia government.
And with that enormous and unchecked power comes an insatiable desire to fundamentally change Virginia — to prevent opposing views from having a voice, to strip basic constitutional rights from its citizens, and to prevent local law enforcement from doing their job protecting the people they serve. They seek to dismantle the three equal branches of government by promising the removal of any judge who does not go along with their way of thinking. They have imposed their Northern Virginia values upon the Rest of Virginia. They would rather free the criminal than protect the freedom of the law-abiding citizen. They do not care about the citizens and their values in the rural areas of the state, and they seek to impose their will on all of Virginia, with higher taxes to pay for it.
And they know that when they pass these laws while they control all three branches of state government, it can never be undone. They want to fundamentally transform your life. But this power grab must come to an end — and you are the only way to stop it.
Just this year
- Passed emergency legislation that would have let liberals control the congressional seats in Southside and Southwest Virginia by dictating that their representation come from Northern Virginia — stopped when Republican legislators including Senator Bill Stanley took them to court, and the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled on May 8, 2026 that the amendment had violated the Constitution of Virginia. Coverage
- Passed a bill, signed by the Governor on May 14, 2026, making it a Class 1 misdemeanor to buy, sell or transfer a wide range of semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns, along with any magazine holding more than fifteen rounds — until gun rights groups won injunctions from multiple Virginia judges blocking the ban before it took effect. The law remains on the books and the Attorney General is defending it on appeal. Coverage
- Moved against the Justice who ruled against them. Days after Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote the majority opinion voiding the redistricting amendment, Delegate Dan Helmer said Democrats would make sure Kelsey “does not serve anymore come this January,” and floated adding justices to the Court. Kelsey’s term expires in January 2027, and the General Assembly decides whether he is reappointed. Coverage
- Elected an Attorney General, Jay Jones, who wrote in 2022 text messages — made public last October — that then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert deserved “two bullets to the head,” and placed him alongside Hitler and Pol Pot. Jones apologized. Virginia elected him anyway. Coverage
- Passed a law barring state and local officers from assisting federal immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant, and rewriting the terms of every existing cooperation agreement. In August the Attorney General opened a civil rights investigation into a Virginia sheriff over his office’s work with federal authorities. In early September a federal judge blocked much of the law, and the Attorney General moved immediately to appeal. Coverage
What comes next
They are not hiding it. Every item below is on the record — a signed bill, a scheduled study, or a promise made out loud by the people who run Richmond.
- Three amendments to the Constitution of Virginia, on your ballot November 3. Abortion, marriage, and automatic restoration of voting rights for convicted felons. They cleared the General Assembly twice. There is no third vote, no committee, no court to slow them down. The only thing standing between these amendments and the Constitution is turnout. The ballot questions
- A new tax on the power grid — and they have already said it is not enough. The budget signed June 30 created the nation’s first tax on data center electricity: $0.011 per kilowatt-hour, up to $600 million a year. Then they ordered a subcommittee to find more. Senator Louise Lucas, at its first meeting: “I don’t intend to back down on this issue.” Recommendations are due December 15 — three weeks before the next session opens. Coverage
- Your power bill goes up in March. Appalachian Power has two requests pending before the State Corporation Commission. One would raise the average residential bill by $9.10 a month. The other — case PUR-2026-00065, filed to recover the cost of complying with Virginia’s renewable energy mandate — adds $3.99 more. That is thirteen dollars a month on a bill already averaging about $168, taking effect no earlier than March 1. APCo also wants its guaranteed profit rate raised from 9.75 percent to 10.5 percent — while the Commission’s own staff have recommended the company’s revenue fall by $5.5 million rather than rise by $61.4 million. Delegates Will Morefield of Tazewell and Mitchell Cornett of Grayson wrote the Commission calling the increase an “unbearable burden.” The public hearing in case PUR-2026-00044 is 10 a.m. on October 19, held by telephone — the Commission calls each registered speaker and gives them five minutes. Register to speak by October 6. Coverage · Register with the SCC
- Richmond protected Northern Virginia’s ratepayers. Not ours. Data center demand has driven the regional grid market from $28.92 per megawatt-day to $333.44, and the grid operator’s own independent monitor put 63 percent of one year’s increase — $9.3 billion — on data centers. The General Assembly passed bills to shift those costs onto the data centers themselves; the SCC estimated it would cut residential bills by $5.52 a month. The Governor amended the mechanism out before signing. What survived is a Dominion rate class covering customers over 25 megawatts. Appalachian Power’s version does not apply until 100 megawatts at a single site. The protection went where the servers are. Coverage
- A $207 billion budget, and a wage mandate that keeps climbing on autopilot. Minimum wage to $13.75 in January, $15.00 in 2028 — and starting in 2029 it rises every year automatically, indexed to inflation, with no vote required ever again. Small employers in Southside and Southwest do not get a Northern Virginia salary to pay it with. The Governor’s announcement
- They voted to nearly triple their own pay. Legislative salaries have not changed since 1988 — $17,640 for a delegate, $18,000 for a senator. The budget passed in June raises both to $50,000, roughly a $32,000 raise each, and the Speaker’s from $36,321 to $72,000. Teachers in the same budget received four percent. The raise takes effect in January 2028, immediately after all 140 seats are on the ballot in 2027. Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle and Senator Mark Obenshain both voted against it. Coverage
- Government-union bargaining, back in 2027. They passed it. The Governor vetoed it in May after the legislature refused her amendments. The unions did not go home — they went to work on next session. It will be back, and next time there may not be a veto. Session coverage
- More of the same on guns and immigration. The gun ban is enjoined but still on the books, and the Attorney General is appealing to bring it back. The law restricting sheriffs from working with federal authorities is partly blocked, and he is appealing that too. Losing in court has not changed the agenda. It has only changed the timeline. Coverage
Every one of these runs through the same door: who shows up to vote. They know it. That is why they are counting ballots in September while we are still deciding whether to knock on doors.
The only way to stop it
You cannot out-sprint a program that started a year earlier. Democrats bank votes for months before Election Day. For too long Republicans ran the same play we always ran — a hard push in the final seventy-two hours, when the votes were already in.
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