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-- Republicans Plans To Gut Medicaid and the ACA Would Have Devastating Consequences in Virginia 2022 Poll Greeter Signup Intro to Votebuilder (VAN) Meet your new officers! You Don’t Want to Miss This! 2021 E-Petition Signature Resources Why We Oppose Constitutional Amendment #1 Our nation needs a leader to ‘turn on the lights’ A Conversation with Delegate Mark Levine about Redistricting Trump admin cooking the books on COVID-19 in order to win re-election An open letter from Linda Perriello The 2020 Democratic Party Platform MCDC Endorses Webb for US Congress 2020 Call-to-Caucus RSVP for the 2020 Reorganization and Potluck Social Read the Articles of Impeachment Against Trump The GOP is No Party For Honest Men Democratic PACs endorse Hixon The Art of the Real Take Back the House! Tri-County Democratic Dinner 100 Days of Deconstruction 30th District Call to Convention Rice-a-Baloney When Labor Fought for Civil Rights The Media Have Finally Figured Out How to Cover Trump’s Lies The evidence connecting Trump and Russia Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option Turning Democracy On Its Head Republicans: Men shouldn’t have to pay for prenatal care, but women should have to pay for men’s Viagra prescriptions ACTION ALERT: 5th District Town Hall The Great Correction The Movement Resisting Donald Trump Has A Name: The (Local) Democratic Party DPVA Rural Caucus 3rd Annual Retreat Virginia: a rights battleground General Assembly kills redistricting reform efforts Federal judge in Virginia issues strong rebuke of Trump travel ban Phoenix Rising? How to #StayOutraged Without Losing Your Mind Was last weekend a trial balloon for a coup? 10 Actions for the first 100 Days End Gerrymandering. Support Redistricting Reform. International Holocaust Remembrance Day It starts with the House Mobile Justice – Virginia Alt-facts from the alt-right Trump Goes Nuclear in the War On Women I Can’t Keep Quiet Amazing Grace Stop Asking What The Women’s March Is “About” We the People: public art for the inauguration and beyond 5 Ways to be a Silent Trump Protester Coretta Scott King’s Lost Letter to the US Senate Yes, we did. Yes, we can. Force a Roll-Call Vote on Every Nomination Ethics, Shmethics: The Culture of Republican Politics GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity A Broad Coalition of Non-Partisan Decency The Subpoena That Rocked The Election Is Legal Garbage, Experts Say Trump raises specter of treason The Legacy of Barack Obama Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America Ex-CIA operative: We may need a new vote CIA assessment: Russia tried to help Trump win 2016 election Climate change got you down? Get rid of the scientists! The House GOP Just Revealed Its Plan To Cut Social Security Trump Administration Suspends First Amendment Prove It Faking a Mandate Action Alert: Reject Dangerous Anti-Muslim Rhetoric The House Science Committee’s tweets are an embarrassment to science Sarah Palin Under Consideration for VA Secretary Trump administration building a pretext to roll back voting rights on a national scale? Despotism. It can’t happen here, right? What now, you ask? Work for the ACLU of Virginia! The place where “everything is true and nothing is true.” Here’s What Happens When 45% of Voters Stay Home Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the Chopping Block Time for Healing. And Resistance. #WereWithHer Election Day 2016 The Story of Us Tom Garrett Attempts To Hide His Tea Party Loyalties Breaking: FBI Clears Clinton Vote NO on the Virginia “Right to Work” Amendment, Question 1 (2016) Clinton vs Trump—Seth Myers Asks ‘How Do You Choose?’ Radio WINA Interview with 5th District Candidate Jane Dittmar Who’s funding Tom Garrett’s campaign? Access to quality broadband is a necessity of modern life LTE: Dittmar has strong fiscal record Correction: Obamacare Premiums Are Going Up About 0% For Most People For the Record: Tom Garrett’s Top Ten Most Ridiculous Lies Trump’s greatest service to America may be ending Paul Ryan’s career Breaking: President Obama to Announce Endorsement of Jane Dittmar for Congress Editorial: Bury Trump in a Landslide Captain Humayun Khan, American Hero BREAKING: Federal Judge Extends Virginia Voter Registration New Poll: Dittmar vs Garret Now Just A Six-Point Race Dittmar Campaign Denounces Sleazy Republican Charges Democracy is on the ballot November 8 Vote NO on the ‘Right to Work’ Constitutional Amendment This wasn’t just locker room banter. Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights (for Donald Trump) Donald Trump’s strategy for minority Americans? Don’t let them vote. When Trump promises to “Make America Great Again,” we should ask: Great for whom? Register to vote (or check your status) right here, right now. It takes about 1 minute Dittmar Condemns Trump’s Sexual Assault Remarks Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women Dittmar to Participate in CBS19 Debate at PVCC National security and choosing a Commander-in-Chief For This Republican, Never Trump Means “I’m With Her” Dittmar Dominates 5th District Candidate Forum at Woodberry Forest LCV Action Fund Endorses Jane Dittmar for Congress The 14 facts you definitely need to know about Tim Kaine (plus photos!) “Between his ignorance, racism, sexism, lies — it’s hard to know where to start” Jane Dittmar to participate in Rural Madison’s 5th District candidate forum at Woodberry Forest Got ID Virginia? USA TODAY’s Editorial Board: Trump is ‘unfit for the presidency’ BREAKING: The Castro Connection- Trump’s Company Violated U.S. Embargo Against Cuba Public to Vote on Questions in Next Presidential Debate John Warner, a Republican Voice of Integrity Dittmar’s Veterans & National Security Plan That darn microphone! VOTE NO on Amendment 1 on November 8th #WeTrumpHate Save the Day! “I like people who weren’t captured, okay?” Is Richmond Working For You? Is Washington? Obama: We Will Educate Trump Hasan Minhaj’s Truth Bomb Shoot The Birther First Lady Michelle Obama Brings Down the House at Virginia’s George Mason University VOTE NO ON 1 I, Too, Sing America BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court denies Republican effort to hold McAulffe in contempt 176 Reasons Donald Trump Shouldn’t Be President PhoneBank for Hillary and Tim in Madison Saturday, 9/17 House Republicans Are Trying to Blackball the Climate Investigation into Exxon Felony Disenfranchisement Request Your Virginia Absentee Ballot Application Here! T-minus 56 Days and Counting! For ex-offenders, a roller coaster ride to vote Voter registration is the antidote to voter suppression Trump Claims He Respects HRC supporters. On This 9/11, Recapture The Spirit Of Service Trump’s Loyalty The View from Trump Tower Jane's For Jobs! Aetna’s $1 Billion Ransom Against the ACA The Shocking Racism of the Virginia Republican Party Door Knocking in Madison for Jane and Hillary This Saturday! Volunteer to Protect the Vote! See Jane Run! Mylan's Shell Game Helps No One. Except Mylan. Freedom's Ring: 53 Years On, So Much Work Still To Do The Strange Paradox At The Heart of the Alt-Right The Rise of the #AltRight Is There a Heart in This House? Governor McAuliffe’s Restoration of Rights Policy McAuliffe says he has once again restored voting rights to 13,000 ex-felons Community Meeting Tomorrow The New South Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue Really, Tom Garrett? FBI to GOP: Get it straight—Hillary 'did not originate' any classified emails Op-ed: This lifelong Republican will be voting for Hillary Clinton Debate That Badonkadonk #Trumped Our children are watching This is not rocket science Action Alert: Protect Social Security for Our Seniors and Future Generations The GOP must dump Trump Trumpolyte Tommy Garrett is the last person we need in Congress Republican security experts rail against Trump in open letter Virginia Rights Restoration on Hold The truth about voter ID laws Trump: If we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them? Trump to face Federal fraud and racketeering charges Virginia Together Republicans Promise Smooth Transition of Hate from Obama to Clinton Chump in Chief? "Be the moral defibrillators of our time" – Rev. William Barber II Brings Down the House Tim Kaine: “It’s a civil rights election” Putin's Puppet Joe Montano, Jr., 47, Friend, Activist, Dedicated Public Servant Bernie Sanders' DNC Speech The School-to-Prison Pipeline Starts in Preschool Larry Sabato on Trump's Scorched Earth Campaign VP Debate Watch Party A Lifetime Texas Republican Drops Out Of The Party Of Hate With This Epic Resignation Letter Governor McAuliffe Statement on the Virginia Supreme Court Decision on the Restoration of Civil Rights Clinton/Kaine 2016 Out of many, we are one: The Official 2016 Democratic Party Platform The Republican Worldview Is One of Racist False Binaries The Single Most Radical Line In The Republican Party Platform GOP, RIP? The Most Overrated Intellect In Washington Madison Fireman's Parade 2016 Statement Regarding Recent Tragic Events Do we have a misunderstanding? Ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke rushes to Trump’s defense on Star Of David tweet Mitch McConnell: The NRA Must Approve Any New Supreme Court Justice What is Patriotism? Jesse Williams' Powerful, Inspiring Speech on Race Relations ‘Good trouble’: How John Lewis fuses new and old tactics to teach about civil disobedience Restore the Voting Rights Act All in the name of profit Congratulations, Yasmine Taeb! 2016 Virginia Democratic Convention Sen. Tim Kaine Gives Emotional, Powerful Speech on Gun Violence The (alleged) Oppostion Research on Donald Trump The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy Dittmar has vision for 5th District Dittmar Campaign Celebrates Court Decision on Broadband Oppose the Virginia "Right to Work" Amendment (2016) Just when you thought Trump had brought the ‪#‎Republican party‬ as low as it could possibly go, along comes David Perdue.. Office Opening Party for Jane Dittmar for Congress! Ryan Gets Trumped A Progressive Agenda to Cut Poverty and Expand Opportunity Donald Trump. Endorsed by Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, the KKK, and Paul Ryan. Afternoon of Advocacy 6/12/16 In Line at the Ladies' Room Trump will "open up the water" to end California drought Trump's Environment Coffee and Conversation with Attorney General Mark Herring Elizabeth Warren: Donald Trump can NEVER be the President Supreme Court unanimously rejects GOP challenge to Va. redistricting plan Support the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act Show Me The Money…Or Not Virginia’s Unemployment Rate Drops Below 4.0% This is how fascism comes to America The Trump Veep Stakes The Donald Has the Best Words Conservatives are ready to put a stop to the spread of progressive values. One more justice will do it. Meet Your New Virginia 5th CD #GOP Nominee, Right-Wing Extremist Tom Garrett 5th District Democratic candidate releases 'Jane for Jobs' plan Trumped Why is Google sponsoring Trump’s hate? 5th District Democrats officially pick Jane Dittmar The Button Jane Dittmar for Congress Morning Digest No one should feel sorry for Ted Cruz Imperial Wizard of Virginia KKK Backs Trump Campaign Our Separate Struggles Are Really One About that photo in the West Wing Restoration of Rights Searchable Database Governor McAuliffe Restores Voting and Civil Rights to Over 200,000 Virginians 2016 Veto Session: Key Takeaways Democratic Party to sue Arizona over voting rights The grotesque injustice of starving 1 million unemployed Americans Were your eyes stitched closed? US soldiers refuse orders to kill ISIS families Save the Date! 10th Annual Founders Dinner May 12th, 2016 Who's It Going to Be? Ted Trump or Donald Cruz? Call it what it is DOJ Opens Investigation Into Arizona's Primary Election Chaos Supreme Court Shoots Down #GOP Vote Rigging Scheme McAuliffe Vetoes Inequitable Immigration Bills Lo, In the Land of Indiana… Think You Can Vote In the Next Election? What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party Virginia Elections Morning Digest North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ should be flushed #DemocracyAwakens Race, Politics, and Redistricting in the South PERSPECTIVE: Judge Garland deserves a hearing If your ideas hurt people, it doesn’t matter what you call them Recipe for a Trump Phenomenon This is how the GOP will steal 2016 BREAKING: CUCCINELLI WITHDRAWS #KeepKenOUT of the Virginia Supreme Court Jane for Congress! Tell CBS News to Stop Boosting Hate for Profit Super Tuesday It’s Official! The utter nastiness of Ted Cruz The mysterious case of rampant voter fraud has been solved Cage Withdraws from 5th District Race Vote Jerry Mandering VA Redistricting If you pass a background check, you can purchase a firearm. Period. Biennial Reorganization and Social 1/17/16 You should go to college! President Obama Addresses the Nation on Keeping the American People Safe Feeling Lucky, Punk? 2015 Reorganization Let’s Talk About Privilege Fox News Posts Anti-Semitic Screed Blaming Jews For Holocaust The Young and the Registered Ethics Complaint Filed Against Rep. Barbara Comstock Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot We’ve lost a champion Block The Vote: A Journalist Discusses Voting Rights And Restrictions The 1 percent’s sinister inequality lie Open letter to progressives: You’re doing it wrong and it’ll cost the Democratic Party Was the Civil War About Slavery? U.S. police kill another unarmed black man every nine days Editorial: Don’t fire Justice Roush Just Playing Politics With the Bench How to be a good ally Democratic Party of Virginia Launches “So You Googled Jim Gilmore” Website Trump’d Jeb! New Report: Virginia Ranks 50 out of 51 in “Health of State Democracies” Virginia #Republicans vow to make Indiana-style discrimination laws the ‘primary focus’ of the next legislative session Jiggery-pokery: Scalia’s Poetry Slam State of the State: An Update from VA Lt Governor Ralph Northam Dick (Transvaginal Ultrasound) Black Is Comparing Women’s Groups To ISIS Not so fast.. Being Black in Charleston Charleston Strong Let us stand with the Charleston families and their congregation The Gospel of Denial The Encyclical Letter On Care For Our Common Home Fox News: #Charleston not a hate crime; it’s an attack on Christians Lather, rinse and repeat Republicans Plan to Gut the Endangered Species Act Chafee to announce presidential bid today ALEC – The Backroom Where Laws Are Born BREAKING: Senate Reaches Bipartisan Deal to Shut Down Ted Cruz The Pentagon’s Response to Ted Cruz Regarding Jade Helm 15 I’m a Democrat Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think Plutocracy or Democracy? Comstock votes to invade women’s privacy and their personal health care decisions Here are the Republican alternatives to Obamacare The Republican strategy to offset demographic change Making Science History Tell Congress: America’s public lands are not for sale Save the Date! Annual Founders Dinner May 14th, 2015 Taking on the man who would be Virginia’s Scott Walker Democrat Ericke Cage to Challenge Robert Hurt for for Virginia’s 5th District Seat Getting Started O’Reilly: “More white than Black Americans are killed by police” Republicans Are Saying Environmentalists Caused California’s Drought. Here’s Why They’re Wrong Weekly Address: Reaching a Comprehensive and Long-Term Deal on Iran’s Nuclear Program Take it from Rand Paul: “I’m not a libertarian.” Any questions? Quote of the Day: Republicans Hate Obamacare Except for the Parts They Don’t Editorial: Keep Up the Push for Redistricting Reform How to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened in Just 10 Quick Questions Ted Cruz’s ironic birther predicament Here is the #Republican Agenda Republicans block Senate bill to boost veterans’ benefits “Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor” It’s Time to Confirm Loretta Lynch Strategies of the One Percent Revealed Students Fight Back Against Voter ID Law That Allows Gun Licenses But Bans Student IDs #republicansbelike “The American Promise” — LBJ’s Finest Hour The #GOP takes it a letter too far Key Obama Adviser: “There’s Never Been a Time When We’ve Taken Progressive Action and Regretted It” Condemn the gang of #47Traitors Truthdigger of the Week: Rabbi Michael Lerner Because nothing’s funnier than trying to blow up high-stakes multilateral diplomatic talks during crunch time! MOAR WAR! Why the Right Hates American History Scammers are Posing as the Office of Attorney General Mark Herring in Emails Trey “Benghazi” Gowdy’s Partisan Sham Imagine if women ruled the world How to Die of Dumb How The Merchants Of Doubt Push Climate Denial On Your Television In Selma, #GOP Lawmakers Explain Why They Don’t Support John Lewis’ Bill To Restore Voting Rights Act Republicans Promise Smooth Transition of Hate from Obama to Clinton Unemployment at lowest in 7 years Ferguson’s Conspiracy Against Black Citizens Netanyahu Undermines the President, Ignores the US Constitution and Urges US Into War Virginia’s toothless ethics reform Jones to step down as head of state Democratic Party #Ferguson police routinely violate blacks’ rights, federal review finds Hypocrisy in the 17th Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and the movement’s sad “rebellion” Republicans are Taking America Back. To the 19th Century. Senator Snowball Virginia Republicans Continue to Block Free and Fair Elections Breaking: Senate Panel OKs Loretta Lynch Nomination As Attorney General Why the right hates American history Why does Del. Mark Cole hate Democracy? Why Do Women Vote Republican? Stewart Risher for 30th District Delegate Ralph Northam confirms he’s running to become next Va. governor Letter to the Editor: The real ID sham in Virginia #Republicans treat being ignorant as the equivalent of being educated When Dad Was VP, Jeb Bush Lobbied The Administration For A Medicare Fraudster The Very Definition of Greed Meet the new Bush, same as the old Bush Wisconsin Governor Moves To Block Hospital Visitation Rights For Same-Sex Couples The world according to the #GOP Virginia’s powerless voters Shame on #FOX for perpetuating race-baiting lies about food stamps We don’t need no education, says Republican House committee One Perfect Tweet Demonstrates How Utterly Ridiculous the World Is Plan B Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around Get ready, America. If you liked Richard Nixon, you will love Scott Walker Democrats: Build a 50-State Digital Organizers Program BREAKING: NORTHAM CASTS TIE BREAKING VOTE TO END EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION Goodnight, Democracy Science stuff Action Alert: Virginians for Responsible Gun Laws #Republicans Post Doctored Version Of State Of The Union, Censor Facts On Climate Change Tuition-Free Community College for Responsible Students 12 statements by Martin Luther King Jr. you won’t see conservatives post on Facebook today Martin Luther King, Jr.: All Labor Has Dignity First Week of the 2015 Virginia Legislative Session MEDIA ADVISORY: Democratic Legislators Hold Press Conference on Keeping Virginia Communities Safe Obama’s new tax plan would go straight after Mitt Romney’s money #GOP to Give Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Protection Agency the Darrell Issa Treatment The GOP’s Absurd, Hilarious Ploy to Pretend They Care About Poor People GOP launches a direct attack on seniors, disabled Americans and the Social Security trust fund Silencing you in secret New Jersey Firstish Statewide #VAMarch4Justice – ALL LIVES MATTER DREAMers Are Under Attack AGAIN Chris Christie’s Jersey nightmare: Why his state hasn’t touched the economic recovery Remember! Celebrate! Act! Gitmo for Governors Tell Congress: Stop the attack on women’s health! Republicans Expose Obama’s College Plan as Plot to Make People Smarter Virginia bill would legalize discrimination against gay people First Day Of The New Congress Don’t fall for the Republican’s upcoming generational-divide tactics The 18 CEOs who wrecked the economy Overturn Citizens United Rubio Vows to Block Twenty-first Century GOP greets economic news with total silence Dangerous game: Republicans freeze Secret Service budget over immigration 7257 “I still hear my brother crying I can’t Breathe. Now I’m in the struggle saying I can’t leave…” “A Worse Fraud than Tweed’s” Weekly Address: America’s Resurgence is Real Jeb Bush is no Jon Huntsman Gas prices drop below key threshold Governor McAuliffe Announces $28 Million in Funding for New Voting Machines across Virginia “Nothing stops a bullet like a job.” Action Alert: Omnibus Spending Bill John McCain Calls Out the Torture Apologists Two Americas Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty Boehner Drops Obama Lawsuit; Says It Would Mean Doing Something 8329 Texas Public Schools Teaching Kids That Jews Practice ‘Flawed Religion’ and that Blacks Are ‘Descended from Ham’ I can’t breathe Voter Suppression Tactics – Jim Crow Returns Pass it on.. 7151 What if the outcome of the 2016 election has already been decided? An inescapable network of mutuality Becoming a White Ally to Black People in the Aftermath of the Michael Brown Murder Consider the Source GOP: We don’t need no stinkin’ science It’s time to fix our broken immigration system G.O.P. Unveils Immigration Plan: “We Must Make America Somewhere No One Wants to Live” This is what a successful Presidency looks like “Fair and Balanced” 7079 U.S. House passes Keystone bill The People Have Spoken! Say You’re Still In! When We Don’t Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem 7057 Kochs Approve Plan to Fire Cash from Cannon at Voters This is what it’s like to try to get a Voter ID when you’re disabled, poor or don’t drive Millions of Minority Voters Threatened by Electoral Purge Bad politicians are elected by good citizens who don’t vote If GOP Takes Senate, Climate Change Deniers Will Control Key Committees Find Your Local Ballot Information Become a Citizen Sponsor of the Bipartisan American Anti-Corruption Act McConnell Reeling After 2 Biggest Newspapers In Kentucky Endorse Alison Lundergan Grimes Get Out The Vote Rally with Senator Warner and Mark Herring These Republicans have simply got to go 6960 Saturday Absentee Voting Open October 24th and November 1st Supercalifragilisticexpialibullsh*t Voter Fraud Vigilantes Republican Cuts Kill Protect Your Vote! Gaughan Campaign Signs Available What Would Happen Under a Republican Senate? Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire 6896 Your Tobacco Settlement Dollars at Work The Art of the Gerrymander Fact-Checking Perry’s Spin Machine Gaughan for Congress Meetup in C’Ville Tomorrow Voting rights trampled in Virginia Voter Fraud Farce Democrats push for details on Medicaid session Eleven questions that expose Libertarians contradictions and faulty logic 6837 Just Thought You Should Know Watch Mark Warner, Ed Gillespie meet for first Virginia Senate debate The 2014 Midterms May Hinge on “The War on Women” At a huge free medical clinic in Southwest Virginia, misery that shouldn’t exist We think Ed Gillespie owes hard working Virginians an apology. Republican turns on party, blows up its crock of nonsense Was GOP control of the state Senate in Virginia ‘purchased’ with a quid pro quo? Meet Jack Trammell Official Notice: Photo ID for Voting Some expired photo IDs OK’d for voting FBI looking into Virginia resignation scandal The Most Venal Man in Virginia New Photo ID Requirements Beginning July 1, 2014 Republicans Propose Limiting Food Aid to Rural Children Don’t Be So Selfish Demand a Plan Reid Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Citizens United and McCutcheon Eric Cantor Paid $80,800 to Lobby Against Net Neutrality Give America a Raise Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class Virginia Republicans on Cruz Control CANCELLED: Call to Caucus—Regular Meeting to Proceed Thomas Jefferson On Religious Freedom #Bring Back Our Girls Federal Court Strikes GOP’s Voter ID Sham Call to Caucus Teapublican Mouthpiece Says ‘Negros’ Were Better Off Under Slavery Home On Derange(d) America’s Mad Dash Toward Oligarchy Scientific Study Says We Are an Oligarchy SCOTUS Righteously Defends Free Speech Delegate Scott and the Republican “No” Chorus Save The Date! Blue State Bluegrass Brunch! The Dog Whistle Politics of Paul Ryan (R-WI) This Modern World Disheartening stall on Deeds report Virginia Republicans’ stand against Medicaid funding defies the facts Virginia: Healthcare for All of Us Today! Every Day is Veterans Day Six In Ten Small Business Owners Want A $10.10 Minimum Wage Virginia #GOP legislators oppose Medicaid expansion despite benefits to their districts Koch Addicts Are Destroying America The War on the Poor and Working Families Augustine Carter The First Annual Umoja Self-Love Symposium A Law Firm for Real Americans US Trade Rep can’t figure out if Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect the environment American Promise CNN commentator to Ken Cuccinelli: You are a homophobe The Fierce Urgency of Now Richmond’s hell-no Republicans Rally For Our Youth Myths Not to Live By America’s First President Was The Tea Party’s Worst Nightmare Virginia House Republicans Continue to Push for Extreme Gun Legislation The NH Rebellion Walk Watch a Republican: Obamacare Shouldn’t Cover Pregnancies Because My Wife is ‘fixed’ Federal Judge Strikes Down Virginia Gay Marriage Ban Yet Another Republican Flees The #GOP Citing Blatant Misogyny, Bigotry And Racism United For Marriage Equality In Virginia BREAKING: Virginia Ultrasound Repeal Stop protecting polluters GOP steps in Obamacare trap: Watch their false claims blow up in their face! LTE Contra Robert Hurt LTE Contra Robert Hurt “Inequality for All” Watch Party Virginia’s Gay Marriage Ban Is Toast Represent Us: A Movement For The People Join us for breakfast Saturday Virginians will suffer without expanded coverage for the working uninsured Behold: A Republican Health Care Plan Equal Pay for Equal Work Expose Keystone XL LIVE: 2014 State of the Union Address 6 Ways Extreme Income Inequality Is Making Your Life Worse Democrats Retake Control of Virginia State Senate Stop The #TPP GOP’s 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans’ misfortune, drum up fake outrage The News Just Keeps Getting Worse For West Virginia Part Three: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy Let’s try emotional correctness No, Corporations Are Not People The Voting App Victory By Jennifer Wexton Completes #GOP Collapse in Virginia A Better DPVA Attorney General Herring Changes Virginia’s Legal Position In Marriage Equality Case 10 Groups That Are Building a Movement for Economic Justice From the Grassroots Up ACTION ALERT: HB207 Would Muzzle Science Teachers in Virginia This New World Order Conspiracy Theorist Is Advising Republicans on Environmental Policy McDonnell Indicted by Federal Grand Jury Action Alert: Google is funding ALEC. Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Solution to Poverty McAuliffe: Settle Medicaid or let me decide TONIGHT: Greene Dems Movie & Potluck Stop the Trans Pacific Partnership Fast Track Beyond Vietnam – Break The Silence The only thing that should be taught in science class is science John Whitbeck’s HOA Was Sued for Anti-Arab/Muslim Discrimination All Virginia Lawmakers Have a Stake in Expanding Medicaid Uninsured Need Medicaid Expansion President Obama’s Remarks on Changes to the NSA’s Surveillance Programs Black Female Voices Members of Congress Introduce a New Fix for the Voting Rights Act If You Thought NAFTA Was Bad, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet Kochs flood airwaves with anti-Obamacare ads “Forward together, not one step back!” The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress The $17 Trillion Delusion Deeds set to introduce mental health bills Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped Jennifer Wexton for State Senate A Place at the Table House Memo: How To Simulate Caring About The Unemployed Racism, Sexism, And The 50-Year Campaign To Undermine The War On Poverty DLCC Statement on Virginia Special Election Victories The Assault on The Pursuit of Happiness GOP’s 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans’ misfortune, drum up fake outrage “Rich people don’t create jobs” How the New Hampshire Rebellion will make corruption the #1 issue of 2016 WHY Are American Health Care Costs So High? 15 Wins for the Progressive Movement in 2013 How ALEC Tramples Democracy Saint Ayn Rand Visits the Day After Christmas! Conservative Donors Pump $1 Billion A Year Into Climate Denying Groups Obenshain to Concede AG Race to Herring The End Game for Democracy Tea Party Tim and Plutocrat Pete Economic equality is indeed the struggle of our age Domino’s workers fired for protesting wage theft get their jobs back Mr. Potter and the Commies of Bedford Falls Why the Third Way hates Sen. Elizabeth Warren When Outsourcing Public Services to Private Companies Goes Wrong Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway That’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise? Lynwood Lewis for Senate Join the MCDC on Facebook How ALEC Serves As A ‘Dating Service’ For Politicians And Corporations Everything they say about SNAP is wrong ALEC Stands Its Ground How much is that congressman in the window? The World According to ALEC Coordinated Assault The Right-Wing’s Koch-Funded ATM Corporate ‘Dems’: cutting Social Security is path to electoral victory GOP: healthcare.gov too fast now Pope blasts unfettered capitalism Talking down the result in Va.’s attorney general race Virginia Speaker William Howell Named “Turkey of the Year” “I Am Alive For A Reason” Herring Wins Virginia Attorney General Race A message from the Health Insurers of America Labor Board Sides With Workers: Wal-Mart Can’t Silence Employees Any Longer The Biggest Problem With The Obamacare Rollout Deeds’ Family Tragedy Highlights Virginia’s Warped Budget Priorities How Twitter changed the Virginia AG election Sixth Senate District Democratic Nominating Caucus Medicare For All Ethics, Schmethics Something Stinks in Virginia Obama to push administrative fix for insurance cancellations CBS: Journalistic Malpractice Cartograms Reveal the Demographics Behind Democratic Sweep Clean Sweep Another Health Insurer Caught Falsely Cancelling Thousands of Health Plans Coalfields Expressway: Rally to Stop the Hijack Every Vote Counts (Some Restrictions Apply) Virginia Republicans Change Vote-Counting Rules While Counting Votes A Senator Said Voter Registration Was ‘Confusing.’ Watch A 12-Year-Old Clear That Up For Him Virginia Attorney General Race Upended Madison County Local Contests (Unofficial Results) Cuccinelli “Perfectly Happy With” Government Shutdown Nice Work If You Can Get It America’s New Hunger Crisis Immigration Reform? Mark Obenshain’s Record of Opposing Women’s Access to Health Care Today in E.W. Jackson news: We need more guns in our schools Republicans take food off the table for 47 million Americans Desperate Cuccinelli Doubles Down on Offensive and Dangerous Rhetoric Obenshain is Just Plain “Wrong” for Virginia! It All Comes Down to This What Ted Cruz REALLY Doesn’t Want You to Know President Bill Clinton & Virginians for McAuliffe Absentee voters can cast votes in person this Saturday and next Virginia’s Longest-serving Republican Endorses McAuliffe for Governor Your Vote Counts! Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans Residents Sue Over 2011 House Redistricting Join us for an event in support of Mark Herring for Attorney General GOPosaur Down Religious Leaders and Workers Sing and Pray For Moderate Republicans Eric Cantor Blamed By Virginia Colleagues For Prolonging Government Shutdown A lobbyist and a Senator walk into a restaurant… You Are Cordially Invited Quid Pro D’oh! “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” 2013 Orange County Candidates Forum Elizabeth Warren Explains the Debt Limit Carpe Hypocrita Day 10 Day 9 False Equivalence Compromise The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government Day 8 The More Things Change.. Democratic Party of Virginia v. VA SBE Day 1 Birth Control to be Illegal in Virginia? Six of One Federal Judge OKs Natural Gas Class Actions in Va. Suits The Height Of Irresponsibility Lemmings with Suicide Vests Cuccinelli’s Office: “We’re not discussing this further” Inside Scoop – Traci Dippert Why Republicans won’t be calling it Obamacare for much longer Dorothy McAuliffe Meets Madison Supporters Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Endorses Democratic Ticket From Red to Blue Voter Protection Training And The Winner Is.. Cuccinelli Blocking FOIA Request. Again. McDonnell’s Approval Rating Drops to New Low Dorothy McAuliffe at the Madison Inn Thursday, September 26th Talk About a Conflict of Interest! Tax Breaks for the Rich. Sound Familiar? Dear Eric Cantor, Meet the Extremist Coal Baron Bankrolling Cuccinelli’s Campaign U.S. Military Crippled By GOP Budget Showdown Food Stamp Cuts: What Eric Cantor Isn’t Telling You Under Republican Plan, 3.8 Million Would Lose Food Stamps In 2014 The Homicide Pact Cuccinelli Campaign Caught Lying About Ties to Right-Wing Hate Radio Host There will be no “defunding of Obamacare.” The Scandal Cuccinelli Can’t Dodge: His Extremist Positions Hey, Ken! It’s OB-GYN, Not OB-GOP See Ken Run Food Stamps to be Cut by Average $30 a Month in Madison County Cuccinelli Down 18 Points Among Women Voters The Koch Brothers’ Secret Bank On The Record: Obenshain’s Anti-Women Agenda United We Serve Draw the Line on Keystone XL The Attorney General of The Tea Party LIVE: President Obama Addresses the Nation on Syria at 9:00 PM EDT Herring for Attorney General “Mark Obenshain Votes Like E.W. Jackson Talks” “Bringing Down TransCanada’s House of Cards: The Keystone Chronicles.” Climate Scientist Can Proceed with Libel Suit Against Right Wing Blogs, Judge Rules EXTREME Sellout. EXTREME Priorities. EXTREME Neglect. Laid-Off Workers: Cuccinelli’s Campaign Tricked Us Into Appearing in GOP Attack Ad Ken Cuccinelli: Helping Himself, Not Us More Than Just Lip Service McDonnell Throws Wife of 37 Years Under The Bus Cuccinelli Tax Cut Would De-Fund Schools Cuccinelli’s Explanation Unravels Love for Labor Lost Congress is now the “dog that caught the car” McAuliffe Holds 10 Point Lead Over Cuccinelli in Virginia Governor Race Ken Cuccinelli: Another Day, Another Scandal Madison Free Clinic’s 1st Annual Fundraiser, September 28th On Conservative Attempts to Co-opt MLK Virginia: Easier to Purchase an AR-15 Assault Rifle Than to Vote Lax Laws Lead to Cloudy View of Lobbyists’ Spending Cuccinelli’s Dubious Stance on Family Law Seriously, Republicans?! The Misremembering of ‘I Have a Dream’ “Human Beings Will Adjust” Cuccinelli’s Anti-Birth Control Personhood Agenda Moral Authority Lost “Poor Americans Have It Too Good” Understanding Unemployment—How To Read The Jobs Report Stand Up To “Stand Your Ground” Colin Powell Blasts GOP’s Vote Suppression Scheme Stand Up, Virginia! March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Raising the Minimum Wage Could Be a Winning Issue for Democrats. Here’s Why. My Grandfather Would Roll Over In His Grave Madison Candidates’ Night Forums In Perspective – Senator Ralph Northam You Don’t Need a Law Degree to Know Right from Wrong GOP Considering Intentional Debt-Ceiling Breach Virginia Republican Kills Immigration Reform. For Everyone. You Won’t Believe This McAuliffe Takes 6-Point Lead in Quinnipiac Poll Conservative Virginia Radio Host Calls for Governor to Resign Sequestration Cuts 57,000 Kids From Head Start Va. First Lady Used Loan to Buy $30,000 in Star Scientific Stock Gov. Mcdonnell’s Unsavory Company The Cash Committee A New Danger to Campaign Law August 24th Fundraiser for MESA and Rapidan Charge Nice Work If You Can Get It Cuccinelli Sidesteps Questions On State Inquiry The Real Reason For The GOP’s All-Out War On Obamacare The Sound of the Other Shoe Dropping.. Virginia Launches Online Voter Registration Voting Rights Act: Down But Not Dead 2935 Consider the Source You Mean, Just Write a Check? Another Look at Minimum Wage Women’s Strike Force Endorses Traci Dippert Cuccinelli’s Crusade Women’s Equality Day Celebration Gerrymandering: The Legal Way to Rig an Election Tell Textbook Publishers To Stand Up To The Texas Taliban Rep. Robert Hurt to Receive Climate Denier Award The Bus Fix the Broken Immigration System Help Us Combat Citizens United Attack Ad Undercover Footage Reveals More Crazy “Crisis Pregnancy Center” Lies Meet Mark Herring in Luray Tuesday, August 13th Slapping Women Is Not a Joke Stakes High in 2014 Governor Battles Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s Involvement With Star Scientific Inspector General To Investigate Keystone Xl House of Cards Jose Antonio Vargas Documents Himself Imagine There’s No Mitch McConnell Cuccinelli Urges Special Session on Ethics Laws Cuccinelli’s Backward Vision Get Involved March & Rally Virginia is for Lovers. Some Restrictions Apply. E.W. Jackson—You can’t be a Democrat and a Christian at the same time MCDC—Special Meeting Saturday, August 10th, 2013 America’s Dangerous Pipelines Cuccinelli Versus Southwest Virginia Landowners? President Obama Is Talking About Rejecting Keystone XL The Guardian of Gridlock Tim Kaine on Safe Communities, Safe Schools Senator Ralph Northam—What’s At Stake For Virginians Ralph Northam Accepts Series of Debates In Campaign For Lt. Governor Cuccinelli’s Taxpayer-Funded Witch Hunt Sleazy Politicians Like Weiner, Filner and Mcdonnell Are Ruining U.S. Public Service Election Notice – November 5th, 2013 Cuccinelli vs The Pope Follow the Money | Farm Bill Vote Switchers Meet and Support Ralph Northam for Lieutenant Governor Tell Your Senator: The EPA Should Regulate Coal Ash This Is Who We Are E.W. Jackson: Fire Teachers, Cut $100 Million From Virginia’s Public Schools The Cost of Cuccinelli’s Extreme Agenda Report: Virginia Flying Blind on Uranium Exploration Anarchists of the House Chasing Ice The Truth About Ken Cuccinelli Where Does Rep. Robert Hurt Really Stand? Remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin ‘The Voting Rights Act is Needed Now Like Never Before’ 1st Mcauliffe-Cuccinelli Debate to be Streamed Online Tomorrow Senate Confirms Gina Mccarthy as New EPA Head Republicans Show They Are Willing to Compromise on The Farm Bill Senate Confirms Richard Cordray as Consumer Watchdog Mapping the Sequester’s Impact on Low-Income Housing BREAKING: El Burro Sabe Más Que Tú Crossing the Ethical Plane Jackson Again Fails To Properly Disclose Donations Mayors Against Illegal Guns Applauds Increase in Funding Filibuster Fight About Core Values — And It’s Not Over An Impertinent Question Trust Cuccinelli’s Cowardly Inaction Gov. McDonnell’s Financial Disclosure Statements, 2008-2012 Followup: Report on U.S. Rep. Hurt’s Visit to Madison Beyond the Pale MCDC Speaker Meeting July 13th “We Don’t Have Time for a Meeting of the Flat Earth Society” An Open Letter to E.W. Jackson Kluge Subpoenaed by Federal Grand Jury Virginians Paying the Price The Youth Vote: Key to Winning Elections Howard Dean Endorses Culpeper Candidate Cuts to Nutrition Assistance for Struggling Families Are Unacceptable Every Child Matters in Virginia Virginia’s 2013 Tea Party Ticket Cuccinelli’s Dubious Defense On Oil And Gas Case Virginia Democratic Primary Results Report on U.S. Rep. Hurt’s Visit to Madison Above the Law A Blight on the Isle of Wight Twin Sons of Different Mothers We Have The Cure Remembering Our Heroes E.W. Jackson’s Message to “Inspire and Unite Virginia” Cuccinelli’s  FOIA Turkey Google Trends for 2013 Virginia Democratic Candidates 1144 There Will Be Another Newtown “Son of Santorum” A Poison Pill For Health Care Reform Ken Cuccinelli’s airbrushed policies Cuccinelli’s Magic Math Cuccinelli Backs Fracking In National Forest Coo Coo, Coo-Cooch-a-nelli Prosecutor Appointed in Va. Embezzelment Case Safety Last? FBI Probes Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe in Charlottesville Monday, May 6 FBI Looks Into Va. Gov’s Link To Donor An Evening With Joe Szakos Immigration Reform? Not If Virginia Republicans Can Help It.. Don’t let Dominion Power Fool You Coalfields Expressway Cuccinelli Blows off Virginia Teachers.. Governor Signs Photo ID Bill “Breaking the law is not a trade secret.” Call to Caucus Is Exxon Impeding Spill Coverage in Arkansas? Daily Kos: Tom Farrell’s nuclear fantasy What Do Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Women and Families? A Lot. Voter Suppression, Virginia-Style Why Did Cuccinelli Purchase Company’s Stock After They Sued the Commonwealth? Beyond Deficit Scare-Mongering As Earth Day Approaches, a Message of Hope DPVA Certifies Statewide Nomination Petitions Virginia’s War on Voters The Dangers of Surveillance All Politics Is Local Defense Should Give it a Rest Tell Secretary Kerry to be an Arctic ambassador Stop Keystone XL How Much Would You Lose? It’s Not Over Yet! AARP The True Costs of Industrialized Food Statewide Primaries in 3 Months | Albemarle County Democratic Party Congressman Boasts on Twitter About the Money He Got to Support CISPA Not letting up – The Maddow Blog Stupidest Budget Cuts Ever – or, Why Cutting Contraception Is Not Conservative Corporations Are Not People, People! Mitch McConnell actually said this: We Petition the Obama Administration to: EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. Hid Contractor’s Ties to Keystone XL Pipeline Company New Hampshire State House Votes To Tell Congress To Overturn Citizens United Action Alert: Stop Sneaky Biotech Rider from Passing in House! The Town That Fought Fracking (And Is Winning…) – Earthjustice Flies, Maggots, Rats, and Lots of Poop: What Big Ag Doesn’t Want You To See Judge Scalia, in “Legislative Soul Search!” Quote of the Day Community Safety & Mental Health Conference 3/20/13 Protecting Virginia from Bad Federal Budget Choices Elizabeth Warren Smacks Down Wall Street Bankers Republican state legislators endorse Democrat McAuliffe Weekly address: End the sequester to keep growing the economy Medicaid expansion moves forward for most states