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BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court denies Republican effort to hold McAulffe in contempt
UPDATE: RICHMOND (September 15, 2016) -- Attorney General Herring issued the following statement after the Supreme Court of Virginia rejected legislators' motion to hold Governor McAuliffe in contempt for his efforts to restore Virginians' voting rights: "This...
176 Reasons Donald Trump Shouldn’t Be President
Keith Olbermann’s Premiere Episode Absolutely Eviscerates ‘Demonic Messiah’ Donald Trump “Every few generations we Americans are called upon to defend our country,” Olbermann begins. “To defend it not so much from foreign dictators or war or terrorism, but from those...
PhoneBank for Hillary and Tim in Madison Saturday, 9/17
SAT, SEP 17, 2016 11:00AM – 2:00PM EDT Madison County Library 402 N Main St. Madison, Virginia 22727 Please RSVP (and bring a friend)! Hillary Clinton has served as secretary of state, U.S. senator from New York, first lady of the United States, first lady of...
House Republicans Are Trying to Blackball the Climate Investigation into Exxon
ONCE UPON A time, climate science and politics were separate things. Then came several decades of scientific denial, distortion, and gaslighting. One of the companies responsible for politicizing climate change is ExxonMobil, which for years funded climate change...
Felony Disenfranchisement
More than one in five African-Americans in Virginia are disenfranchised, according to The Sentencing Project, a Washington-based nonprofit that focuses on criminal justice. McAuliffe has said the reinstatement of felons’ voting rights would distance Virginia from Jim...
Request Your Virginia Absentee Ballot Application Here!
Deadline to register to vote, or update an existing registration, for the November 8, 2016 General Election is Monday, October 17, 2016 Deadline to request an absentee ballot to be mailed to you is 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Your request must be received by...
T-minus 56 Days and Counting!
For ex-offenders, a roller coaster ride to vote
“I don’t care what their politics are,” McAuliffe said in an interview Thursday while visiting the Dan River Region for an economic announcement. “I want them to vote.” McAuliffe also countered the notion that his executive order was to earn Democratic voters or score...
Voter registration is the antidote to voter suppression
The conventional wisdom in the South is that despite gains on the local level, candidates who represent the views of people of color cannot win statewide office. But this conventional wisdom ignores the numbers. In 2012 there were 3.7 million unregistered black...
Trump Claims He Respects HRC supporters.
Yeah, right. Every HRC supporter with a twitter account — please weigh in on the twitter thread and beat back the trumpers....
