A Peter Thiel-backed dark money group created a PAC four days before sending Virginia voters mailers with Obama's face telling them he opposes redistricting.
He recorded an ad urging a yes vote.
Virginia votes April 21st. The full story:
Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs erased the medical debt of nearly 500,000 Arizonans.
Republicans cut Medicaid.
But please, keep telling me both parties are the same.
anyone do this yet?
Tomorrow SCOTUS hears arguments on birthright citizenship.
This week I handed the reigns to my friend Camila, who came to the US from Venezuela at 11 and became a naturalized citizen at 25. She wrote about what's now at stake.
It's worth your time.
Young men didn’t suddenly become reactionary.
They were recruited.
Podcasts. Influencers. Culture wars. Politics.
The manosphere pipeline turns insecurity about masculinity and status into political resentment.
New By the Ballot piece 👇
www.bytheballot.com/p/copy-revis...
A powerful faction of the Christian Right believes wars in the Middle East are not tragedies to avoid.
They’re signs that Armageddon is approaching.
Their theology shapes how they view foreign policy.
New piece: The Regressive Evangelism of America Part 5: www.bytheballot.com/p/the-regres...
Being anti-Trump is not a political ideology and it shouldn’t be a fast pass to Dem leadership.
This week on By the Ballot, I break down how GOP converts keep getting elevated while longtime organizers get ignored.
Novelty ≠ loyalty.
Opposition ≠ values.
www.bytheballot.com/p/democratic...
Age verification is being framed as “protecting kids.”
But it also means:
→ Platforms collecting government IDs
→ Bigger breach risks
→ Easier attribution of online speech
When anonymity disappears, behavior changes.
www.bytheballot.com/p/united-sur...
Gambling is no longer just in casinos.
It’s in sports.
It’s in politics.
It’s in your neighborhood convenience store.
From prediction markets to illegal skill machines, an entire economy is being built on extracting money from people who can least afford it.
www.bytheballot.com/p/rigged-the...
Virginia Democrats finally dropped the 10–1 congressional map.
Politically smart? Maybe.
Electorally risky? Absolutely.
We break down the infighting, the optics problem, and why districts drawn for people are a bad precedent. 👇
www.bytheballot.com/p/on-redistr...
So in keeping with the same trend of Youth Engagement within Progressive and Democratic politics, we have made yet another Gen Z oriented organization that needs funding to work parallel to all of the other orgs that already exist and pull from the same funders?
Be serious.
Virginia is the world’s data center capital — and your electric bill is paying for it.
AI facilities are draining billions of gallons of water, driving up power costs, and getting billions in tax breaks while families foot the bill.⚡💧www.bytheballot.com/p/what-the-hell-is-a-gig...
Clearly the lesson of only being anti-Trump as a qualification for Congress has not been learned.
From his website, Conway’s only hard stance seems to be against Trump with loose references to trending buzzwords like “affordability,” not a singular policy issue.
From the perspective of 2026, we can all agree that January 6, 2021 was successful in its payoff. They may not have been able to overturn the 2020 election, but they instilled resentment in a large part of the country over the following four years, undermining the government.
The Prosperity Gospel didn’t just warp Christianity — it rewired American politics.
From televangelists to MLMs to Project 2025, this is how faith became a sales pitch for greed and power. www.bytheballot.com/p/the-regres...?
Skill games. Casinos. Digital betting.
Virginia’s gambling industry is expanding faster than our laws can keep up.
On this week’s By the Ballot, I break down what’s happening, who’s pushing it, and why vulnerable communities are paying the price.
🚨 NEW: Guest Takeover on By the Ballot 🚨
Andrew Payton—Democratic nominee for HD-34—breaks down how his campaign came within 257 votes of flipping a Trump +7 district that hasn’t sent a Democrat to Richmond since 1985.
Read his powerful reflection 👇
🔗
A Virginia candidate just “debated” an AI version of his opponent.
Deepfakes are already shaping campaigns, fooling voters, and eroding trust — and we have zero guardrails.
I wrote about how AI is breaking our politics in real time, and why states must act.
www.bytheballot.com/p/a-fake-deb...
We’re fighting for eyeballs in a world of short attention spans.
But persuasion now happens in earbuds, not on TV screens.
Why digital audio is the most overlooked weapon in modern campaigning → www.bytheballot.com/p/your-ears-...
JD Vance is the glossy PR version of a Silicon Valley–built Christian Nationalist ideology and that’s exactly why it’s dangerous.
Check out our conversation feat Chuck Corra from Appodlachia: www.bytheballot.com/p/the-regres...
Chuck Corra from Appodlachia joined us to talk about a distrubing new movement in Appalachia: Silicon Valley bros are building crypto-based Christian Nationalist towns in Tennessee… with their own “charters” and zero oversight.
This is the new far-right project. www.bytheballot.com/p/the-regres...
Just wrote a guest article for Dogwood News on why Dems swept Virginia in 2025 and why governing boldly on affordability is the next step.
Dems stayed focused on economic issues and affordability. Voters backed that vision.
Now it’s time to deliver. Full piece here ⬇️ vadogwood.com/2025/11/18/c...
We’re trying something new this week: teaming up with Dogwood News.
Michael O'Connor breaks down how unions helped Virginia’s 2025 blue wave — and what Dems might actually deliver now that they control Richmond
Virginia’s labor future is on the line. Read: www.bytheballot.com/p/workers-tu...
The next Democratic majority won’t come from consultants in D.C.—it’ll come from dirt roads and town halls in Rural America.
New By the Ballot episode: Rural Megaphones.
🎙️ Listen now on By the Ballot: www.bytheballot.com/p/rural-mega...
The man did not lie.
#VAElection #VAHouse #DonScott #Democrats #BlueWave
The enthusiasm gap is....palpable.
