Attorney General Jay Jones News releases from the office of the Attorney General of Virginia

Black Virginia Voters: The disinformation meant to confuse and discourage you from voting tells you exactly how powerful your vote is. Use it & use it wisely.

Read VA Attorney General Jay Jones’ statement on Misleading Mailers Targeting Black Voters

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BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned.

Republicans stare down a growing, neverending FISA crisis Continued disagreements over the extension of a key government spy authority are threatening other facets of the GOP agenda.

“What I learned tonight was that Republicans don’t talk to each other… They sure as hell don’t talk to us — but they don’t even talk to each other.” - @jahimes.bsky.social

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150,000 Illinois households may lose federal food assistance beginning May 1 Article Summary Due to changes from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, some immigrants are no longer eligible

“Not feeding people is a choice.… This is not about waste. This is not about fraud, and this is not about responsibility. This is about cruelty. This is about power.” - @senatorguzman.bsky.social

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LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

“Unless you are in the commission of a crime or under criminal investigation for the commission of a crime,” assures the website, “the officers utilizing the drone are not interested in recording you.”
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A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE says 81% arrested in Operation Midway Blitz had no convictions, falsely asserts no citizens arrested Todd Lyons, who on Thursday resigned from his position as acting director of ICE, also claimed in the letter to the Illinois congressional delegation that no U.S. citizens were arrested by federal imm...

About 81% of those arrested in Chicago’s “Operation Midway Blitz” had no criminal convictions, despite the feds repeatedly claiming the aggressive operation was intended to target “the worst of the worst.”

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

This is amazing reporting and shocking behavior by the Chief Justice. This is not the action of an impartial jurist. This is an unchecked expression of power. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Clarence Thomas Just Gave a Speech Blaming Progressivism for Hitler. It Was Mostly Just Sad. The justice gave a rare public address on Wednesday that started as a benign celebration of the Declaration of Independence.

“Thomas blamed progressives for the worst crimes of the 20th century, insisting that ‘Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao’ were all ‘intertwined with the rise of progressivism,’ as was ‘racial segregation,’ ‘eugenics,’ and other evils.”

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Barbara Flynn Currie, 40-year veteran of Illinois House, trailblazer for women in Springfield, dies Article Summary Former Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, who served 40 years in the General Assembly, died Thursday

Oh no. RIP.

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Mass surveillance, data privacy, and all of the ways that our government is weaponizing American data against Americans present some of the most critical threats to our democratic freedoms.

We need FISA reform NOW.

Drop Site on Instagram: "Ahead of the Wednesday vote on whether to reauthorize FISA without any reforms, Drop Site’s Julian Andreone caught up with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to address... 128 likes, 4 comments - dropsitenews on April 15, 2026: "Ahead of the Wednesday vote on whether to reauthorize FISA without any reforms, Drop Site’s Julian Andreone caught up with members of the Congr...

While it doesn't make me happy to see Black folks put on blast, this is brilliant work by the coalition and part of the reason for our win today. I want to see more aggressive lobbying like this on data privacy.

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This is lunacy.

Justice Department moves to dismiss Proud Boys and Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy convictions | CNN Politics The Justice Department moved to dismiss the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members Tuesday, undoing one of the Biden administration’s most celebrated victories against...

“This is a slap in the face to the American people and American democracy,”
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Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

TAX DAY PRO TIP if you're filing by mail: Do not rely on a mailbox or a letter carrier today for filing your return on time.

Go inside a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter.

Otherwise, your tax return may not get an April 15 postmark date and the IRS may apply penalties

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

"According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking."
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Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means.

"According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Americans say they would prefer the winner of the presidential election to be determined by popular vote, not the Electoral College"
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LDF and NAACP File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reject Trump Administration’s Attempt to Deport Haitian Families Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold a lower co...

BREAKING: LDF and NAACP File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reject Trump Administration’s Attempt to Deport Haitian Families Based on Anti-Black Racist and Xenophobic Rhetoric Echoing Hitler - www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

"57% of all voters disapprove of Donald Trump’s job performance as president, including 68% of voters aged 18-22 and 72% of voters aged 23-29. Compared to the fall 2025 poll, Trump has lost the most ground with women under 35 and men under 30."
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Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.

"Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6 billion data center, struck back at the polls last week, ousting all four incumbent council members running for reelection."
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

“Nearly every program and capability to stop bad actors and support election administrators has been dismantled,”
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As a supreme court ruling looms, the US is dismantling Black voting power | Carol Anderson Louisiana v Callais could be the latest brick in a wall under construction for more than a decade, as Jim Crow is rebuilt in modern form

"They are rebuilding Jim Crow in modern form.

With statutes. With court opinions. With procedural barriers that fall hardest on Black communities."
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Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

"A Reuters/Ipsos poll in February found that 61 percent of Americans think Mr. Trump has become more erratic with age and just 45 percent say he is 'mentally sharp and able to deal with challenges,' down from 54 percent in 2023."
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Trump administration agrees to keep flying Pride flag at Stonewall monument US government reverses course on removing LGBTQ+ Pride flag from New York monument after efforts from advocates

"According to court papers, the interior department and National Park Service 'have confirmed their intention to maintain a Pride flag at Stonewall'. It won’t be removed, except for 'maintenance or other practical purposes'."
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NOTICE OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ACTION Date 04/10/2026 Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census FOR CERTIFYING OFFICIAL: Oliver Wise FOR CLEARANCE OFFICER: Sheleen Dumas In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, OMB has taken action on your request received 02/04/2026 ACTION REQUESTED: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection TYPE OF REVIEW REQUESTED: Regular TITLE: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census LIST OF INFORMATION COLLECTIONS: See next page OMB ACTION: Approved with change OMB CONTROL NUMBER: 0607-0936 EXPIRATION DATE: 06/30/2028 The agency is required to display the OMB Control Number and inform respondents of its legal significance in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.5(b).

On April 10, the White House's Office of Management and Budget formally approved the Census Bureau's scaled-back 2026 Census Test, this year’s #2030Census field test in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C.
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