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CARDELLO: It is Past Time to Retire Jim Crow

May 12, 2026 Ray Cardello

The Supreme Court delivered a ruling a few weeks ago that the entire country should have celebrated, finding that it is unconstitutional for states to realign Congressional districts based on race. This ruling, though not unanimous, is further proof of how far this country has come since the days of slavery and the treatment of … Read more

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OPINION: President Trump to consider putting Arlington County back under DC

April 29, 2026 Ryan Benentt

The Virginia Special election to amend the state constitution to allow gerrymandering represents a historic crossroads not only for American history, but for both political parties and the voters as an electoral body. For VA state democrats, it is the beginning of an unforgivable direct assault on the sovereignty and security of Virginia’s electoral system. … Read more

MACDONALD: What Dems Mean by ‘Affordability’ Part 2…Million?

January 29, 2026 Steve MacDonald

GraniteGrok has consistently called out the mafeasance and misfeasance of government at every level for two decades. Without deference to any political party. But without looking, I’m going to guess that among the 60,000 or so pieces of content we’ve published in that time, there are none that show Democrats advancing any idea you could … Read more

CARDELLO: Spanberger Makes Quick Work of Destroying Youngkin Progress

January 29, 2026 Ray Cardello

Glen Youngkin had a tremendous four-year run as Virginia’s governor. He got the finances in order, leaving a $2.7 billion general fund surplus and $4.7 billion in the rainy day fund. He got the schools back in line after they were hijacked by the progressives, who did everything in their power to take parents out … Read more

MACDONALD: What Dems Mean By ‘Affordability’ – I Give You Virginia!

January 24, 2026January 24, 2026 Steve MacDonald

The Virginia state elections were sold as proof of Republican mid-term doom. The psycho lefties ran on affordability, and voters swept them into power at all levels of state government. Threatening children couldn’t stop them. States like New York, California, and other Blue states, where nothing is affordable, were not a sufficient warning. So they … Read more

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OPINION: The Leftist Death Cult

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025 Uncle Sams Inkwell

Virginia Democratic candidate for state Attorney General and Piece of Shit Extraordinaire, Jay Jones, gets his rocks off fantasizing about children being murdered in front of their mother. He fantasizes about murdering his political opponent. He said so himself in private remarks that have since become public. Far from being an outlier, Jay Jones is the … Read more

MACDONALD: A Sex Offender Named Dick Cox

September 28, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Before we get into the lurid details, I’m a bit surprised registered Sex Offender Dick Cox (who identifies as female for the purpose of exposing himself in girls’/women’s locker rooms and showers) isn’t from New Hampshire. We had a congressman named Dick Swett and an investigator in the AG’s office named Dick Head. Dick Cox … Read more

Another Second Amendment Happy Ending

January 18, 2025 Skip

And Some Lessons In FAFO Nowadays, with over half of the US States (29, in fact) having Constitutional Carry with just shy of 500 MILLION firearms in their private possession, you’d think that even someone with a less-than-stellar belief that stealing is wrong would start to understand that the odds aren’t in their favor. That … Read more

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These Are The Early Results That Will Tell Us The Winner On Election Night

October 29, 2024 Mary Rooke

Former President Donald Trump is making a play for a state President Joe Biden won by ten points in 2024. All eyes should be on Virginia on Nov. 5. In 2023, political pundits told voters to look to Virginia as a bellwether for what would come in the 2024 election. One year after Biden won the state, … Read more

Bruen: We May be Going About This Wrong

February 9, 2024 Ian Underwood

The Virginia state senate just passed a bill essentially outlawing the AR-15 and similar firearms.

Now, anyone who’s familiar with the Bruen ruling and its two-part test knows that this bill simply ignores that ruling.

Fired School Teacher’s Day In Court: School Can’t Compel Him to Use Preferred Pronouns

December 17, 2023December 17, 2023 Steve MacDonald

If you’ve forgotten who Peter Vlaming is, he’s a French Teacher in Virginia who (in 2018) was removed for refusing to address a Transgender student by their preferred gender/pronoun. Vlaming was accused of bullying and discrimination and let go. He sued on religious and free speech grounds.

A Win for The Little People – A Warning to the Bureaucracy

September 5, 2023September 3, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The state of Virginia used to threaten residents with revocation of their driver’s license if they failed or refused to pay court fines or fees. Any fee or fine, regardless of the offense. The law has been changed, but not before a lawsuit was filed, and the plaintiffs were left holding the bag full of legal fees.

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Democrat Indicted on 82 Felony Counts Including Illegal Absentee Vote Harvesting Scheme

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Steve MacDonald

A grand jury has indicted Democrat County Supervisor Trey Adkins on 82 felony counts of election fraud, including having “relied on an illegal absentee vote harvesting scheme since he was first elected to public office in 2011, repeating the process in his 2015 and 2019 bids for re-election.”

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Youngkin Puts Black Conservative Female in Charge of Virginia’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

January 21, 2022 Auntie Vaquser

Angela Sailor is Virginia Governor Glenn Younkkin’s new cabinet-level director of the state’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. She is black and a woman, which puts some Democrats in an uncomfortable position to complain too loudly.

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Loudon County Virginia Parents File for Removal of School Board Chair

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Loudon County Virginia Schools are about as #woke as they come, and that School board could care less how parents feel about that. But the School Board Chair’s time may be up. Parents have filed to have her removed.

Sununu vs. Youngkin on CRT

November 7, 2021 Ed Mosca

To help you understand why the NHGOP is failing so miserably, I give you Virginia Governor-Elect Youngkin’s take on CRT and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu’s.

“It’s a historic night, yes it is, but I didn’t run to make history, I just wanted to leave it better than I found it.”

December 17, 2024November 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Virginia Dems had a rough night. They lost the Governors’ office, Lt Governor, the AG’s office, and the lower chamber of the legislature. And while all the chatter has been about Glenn Youngkin, the new Lt Governor is something to behold.

RSB Network Projects Glen Youngkin elected as Virginia Governor

November 3, 2021 Skip

Right Side Broadcasting has called the Virginia Governor race for Glen Youngkin with 63 percent of the vote while Youngkin maintained a 9-10 point (percentage) lead. This early projection did not include the counting of Fairfax County votes. [Editor’s note: Youngkin has been declared the winner at the time of publication]

[Update] Republican Glenn Youngkin Wins Virginia Governor’s Race

November 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

[Update] Glenn Youngkin has won the governor’s race in Virginia 51 – 49. The races for Lt Governor and State AG still show the Republican leading but have not officially been called.

Lincoln Project Takes Credit For Hate Crime Hoax In Virginia (To Protect Democrats?)

October 30, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Terry McAuliffe is in trouble. His race for governor has hit a few bumps in the road. All of them were put there by Terry McAuliffe. His Republican challenger, Glenn Youngkin, has been making strides, so what does the left do?