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Informing Democracy, a nonprofit research organization, has released a guide to understanding the election process in Virginia to include timelines and charts explaining the process and key individuals involved. The report also included an overview of vulnerabilities — namely the partisanship and turnover that has presented itself in some electoral boards and election offices over the past year.

For Dr. Lee Merritt, the world is in a spiritual war – but it's being waged on the physical plane. This, she said, was engineered by the globalist "Satan worshipers," who do not [...]

This story is an updated and expanded version of our General Assembly Tracker. RICHMOND — In Virginia’s never-sleepy political calendar, April 6 was a red…

On Tuesday, Democrat Jennifer McClellan was elected to fill an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

And a mix of everything else. but in a lot of ways its a microcosm of the commonwealth. it is urban, rural, and suburban. and everything from agriculture to state employees, million dollar mansions and housing projects, and i think that voters are looking for someone who is going to speak to them and not leave any community behind, and thats what ive done for the past 18 years in the legislature and thats what ive done in this campaign. >> yeah, i think in many ways they are interlinked, demogra...

Just demographic -- this changing state, and another party is very much isolationist, nativist, wants to bring us back to before that demographic change. speaking of the other side of the aisle, you defeated leon benjamin, your opponent, an election denier, by almost 50 points. now don the kitchen, the congressman who preceded you in the seat the seat defeated him in 2022 before his untimely death by 30 points, and benjamin would not concede, even when he lost by 30 points. i think you have done...

In the seat defeated him in 2022 before his untimely death by 30 points. benjamin would not concede even when he lost by 30 points. so i think youve done us all a favor and established the threshold in which you need to beat an election denier to actually have him concede. is 50% what everyone needs to run up in order to get election deniers to admit the truth? >> well, i would like to think that election deniers would just see reality. but if we have to run it up to 50%, then thats what well do...

On Tuesday, Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan won a special election for the state’s 4th Congressional district, becoming the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress. She beat conservative pastor Leon Benjamin to fill a seat left vacant by Donald McEachin, who died of colorectal cancer in November of 2022. A part-time legislator

Democrat Jennifer McClellan has defeated her Republican opponent to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she will be the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress.

When McClellan is officially sworn in, she will become the 28th Black woman elected to Congress this election cycle, the most in the history of the United States.