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Nice Work If You Can Get It
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (VA-7) just announced that House Republicans plan to work a grand total of 113 days next year. In other words, less than half as many as everyone else with a job..
America’s New Hunger Crisis
New York’s River Fund Food Pantry's new clients are diverse—working people, seniors, single mothers—but many of them share something in common: they represent the millions of Americans who fell victim to food insecurity when the Great Recession hit in 2009, but didn’t...
Immigration Reform?
Mark Obenshain’s Record of Opposing Women’s Access to Health Care
Mark Obenshain has spent his campaign for Attorney General running from his career long record on restricting a woman's access to health care. Today, the Democratic Party of Virginia released a robocall from Republican Katherine Waddell informing Virginia women about...
Today in E.W. Jackson news: We need more guns in our schools
By Hunter Today in E.W. Jackson news, the actual Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia says that we need more guns in schools. No, not just armed guards, but people to protect us from the armed guards, and then other people to protect us from those...
Republicans take food off the table for 47 million Americans
(CNN) -- In the last few weeks, the media has been ablaze with news of the government shutdown, the debt limit and health care reform. Missing from most public debate, however, is the cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits that will...
Desperate Cuccinelli Doubles Down on Offensive and Dangerous Rhetoric
In case you missed it, Ken Cuccinelli appeared on Bret Baier's show on Fox News last night and stood resolutely by his statements expressing surprise that the United States has not yet experienced "God's judgment" over a woman's constitutional right to make her own...
Obenshain is Just Plain “Wrong” for Virginia!
If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. At least, that’s what would have happened if a bill introduced by Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain (R) had...
It All Comes Down to This
Show Your Commitment In 2005, Democratic Senator R. Creigh Deeds lost his race for Virginia Attorney General to Republican Bob McDonnell by just 0.01% (325 votes of the total 1,941,449 votes cast). In Madison County, less than half of the registered voters cast a...
What Ted Cruz REALLY Doesn’t Want You to Know
by Timothy Karr | Free Press By now it seems pretty clear that Senator Ted Cruz has a plan to occupy the White House. But he doesn’t want people to know too much about it. And he definitely doesn’t want you to know about the special interests that have already begun...
