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- January 22, 2025
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Tim Kaine Fumes At Trump Appointee In Tense Hearing Exchange

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) threw down on Wednesday with Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, over his past comments Vought, a key contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda, made the comments in private speeches, which were made public by ProPublica in October 2024. Trump nominated Vought, who has advocated for replacing the […]

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- September 20, 2024
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Virginia’s Nail-Biting Showdown: In-Person Voting Kicks Off As Poll Shows Razor-Thin Race

In-person voting officially began in Virginia on Friday, and early reports suggest that MAGA activists are highly organized and enthusiastic in blue-leaning Fairfax County. The latest polling also indicates a tight race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, with both candidates nearly tied. Early voting is officially underway in the great Commonwealth of Virginia. Check out […]

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- August 20, 2024
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Virginia Poll Shows Trump And Harris In Dead Heat

Virginia has long been considered a tough nut for Republicans to crack, but hold your horses – Donald Trump is far from out of the race. A fresh poll from Roanoke College on Tuesday has the political world buzzing. Despite the Democrats’ successful attempt to crown Kamala Harris as their savior, and more intelligible nominee, the Commonwealth remains very much […]

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The Republican Standard
- March 15, 2023
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California Climate Regulations Negatively Impact Virginians

Virginia is responsible for 3.7 million more tons of carbon dioxide to provide electricity to its citizens than when it first joined a multi-state climate initiative in 2021, according to a recent analysis by a former Trump administration official. Virginia formally joined the 12-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI ) in 2021, imposing a carbon cap on […]

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- January 31, 2023
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Constitutional Litigator Jonathan Emord Announces U.S. Senate Run

Former Clinton running-mate and Virginia’s incumbent U.S. Senator Tim Kaine officially has another Republican challenger. Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Emord of Clifton, VA formally announced his campaign for U.S. Senate today, after first forming an exploratory committee back in September of 2022. A media release issued by Emord’s campaign listed his stances on several of the […]

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- August 17, 2022
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Miyares Warns Congressional Funding Package Will Negatively Impact THIS Law Enforcement Agency

Attorney General Jason Miyares is warning that the latest congressional budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2023 will cut funding for the Virginia Army National Guard (VANG) Counter Drug unit program by about 10 percent, eliminating several positions. “The current proposed budget reductions would result in the loss of five VNG Counter Drug Unit analysts across the […]

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- July 17, 2022
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Rep. Beyer, Sen. Kaine Move to Rename Arlington House Lee Memorial; GOP Opponent Lipsman Says Beyer Is Focusing on the Wrong Issues

Representative Don Beyer (D-VA-08) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) have introduced legislation to rename the “Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial” to “Arlington House National Historic Site.” “As our country and our Commonwealth grapple with the history of racism and slavery and engage in a long-overdue reexamination of public symbols, we have an opportunity […]

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The Republican Standard
- March 4, 2022
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Sen. Kaine Introduces Bill to Research Long COVID After Revealing His Diagnosis

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a bill in the United States Senate this week after revealing his continued struggle with mild COVID symptoms. Two years after contracting COVID-19. As The Washington Post reports: “I tell people it feels like all my nerves have had like five cups of coffee,” Kaine said Wednesday of his “24/7” […]

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- January 12, 2022
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Northam Declares He’s ‘99% Sure’ Who Wore Blackface in Yearbook Photo

Although outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam profusely apologized for being identified as the man in blackface in a now infamous picture, he soon insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. Now, with hours left in his term, Northam says he’s “99% sure” who wore blackface in the photograph on his page of the 1984 Eastern […]

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- January 4, 2022
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Monstrous Blizzard Leaves Hundreds – Including US Senator – in Scary Conditions

A monstrous blizzard has left Northern Virginia covered in as much as 18 inches of snow. Drivers on I-95 near Fredericksburg got the worst of it. Among the hundreds trapped for more than one day on the interstate in miserable and potentially dangerous conditions was U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.). Kaine ran as Hillary Clinton’s […]

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