REPORT: Financial Aid Offerings Don’t Keep Up With True Higher Ed Costs

Virginia students who graduated from public four-year schools in the 2020-2021 academic year had on average $30,000 in debt, for a total of $357 million in the commonwealth, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission found in a review of financial aid. “We found that financial aid has not kept pace with rising costs and […]

Kiggans Among Vets Who Flipped Key U.S. House Seats

The number of veterans serving in the United States Congress has steadily been declining for several decades since the Greatest Generation entered retirement age. There have been a number of groups across the political spectrum that have worked to remedy this issue in the past several electoral cycles. One such group is With Honor, which […]

Trump Goes Nuclear on Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Ron DeSantis

Former President Donald Trump unleashed a fiery monologue against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Thursday evening after winning re-election with higher-than-expected margins in the Sunshine State. In a statement sent by Trump’s Save America PAC to his supporters, the former president called DeSantis an “average” Republican governor with “great Public Relations.” The former president also took […]

Delegate Tim Anderson: Trump Presidential Campaign Would Be ‘Absolute Worst’ for Virginia Republicans

Delegate Tim Anderson (R-Virginia Beach) is calling for his fellow Virginia Republicans to break with Donald Trump after Republicans only flipped one of three competitive Democrat-held congressional districts in Virginia. “While it appears likely Trump will announce he is running for President — I will not be supporting him,” Anderson said in a Facebook post on Wednesday […]

Winners and Losers: 2022 Mid-Terms Edition

“The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the Gdansk shipyards.” — Lech Walesa on the […]

First Virginia Bellwether Swings Toward GOP

A key Virginia Congressional seat has swung back into the Republican column. Incumbent Democrat Elaine Luria (D, VA-02) has been unseated after serving two terms in Congress by her Republican challenger, Virginia State Senator Jen Kiggans. FLIP ALERT: Jennifer Kiggans (R) defeats Elaine Luria (D-inc) in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District – @CNN projects ⦿ This […]

Youngkin, Gingrich, McCarthy and More – Big Names Boost Kiggans On Election Eve

Several big names in Republican politics from across Virginia, as well as outside the Commonwealth took the stage in Virginia Beach last night to boost VA-02’s GOP congressional nominee, State Senator Jen Kiggans. The all-star lineup of speakers at 2022’s final “Rally For Virginia” included the following people: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Virginia Lieutenant Governor […]