Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (5/10/26)

Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (5/10/26)

VA Supreme Court Kills Redistricting Amendment - Political Winners/Losers, Furious Dems Search for Options to Respond; Trump/Patel FBI Raids the Portsmouth Office of VA State Sen. Louise Lucas

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• NY Times Reports on the “fury and desperation that has gripped [Dems] after Friday’s ruling” - and Some Radical (Unlikely?) Options Being Considered

• If You’re Winning, Why Do You Sound So Scared?

• Political Winners and Losers: Virginia Supreme Court Kills Redistricting Amendment

• Give Me a Break – Vote Yes Won, They Know It and Now We Will Define What Winning Looks Like

• Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says Republicans Will “Come to Regret” Their “grab based on race and power” - “We can have a West Coast where there’s not a single Republican district”

• [UPDATED 5/8] Based on What We Know Now, Who’s Running in the NEW Virginia U.S. House Districts

• Tom Perriello Set for Showdown with Rep. John McGuire (R-VA05) over Skyrocketing Costs and Corruption

• BREAKING: VA Supreme Court, on a 4-3 Vote (Along Partisan Lines), Strikes Down Redistricting Amendment

• Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. Mark Warner Detail How $1 Billion Could Help Virginians Instead of Funding Trump’s Ballroom

• Video: At Arlington Dems Meeting, Three Candidates Announce for the New* VA07 (Joe Schiarizzi, Dorothy McAuliffe, Elizabeth Guzman), One for VA08 (Jason Knapp)

• Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says Howard Lutnick’s “flat-out lying to the American people” About His Epstein Ties

• After 10D-1R Map Is Passed by Voters, Trump/Patel FBI Raids the Portsmouth Office of VA Sen. Louise Lucas

• Video: Rahm Emanuel Demolishes Glenn Youngkin, Corrects His B.S. and Lies, Shuts Him Up…VERY Entertaining

• New Poll* of Virginia: Warner +25 pts; Dems Lead Generic House Ballot by 14 pts; Spanberger 52%-41% Approval; Newsom Beats Vance 46%-38%

• Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says Republicans Won’t Challenge Trump on Iran War Because “they don’t want to cross him,” are “terrified” of the “blowback”

• Virginia Inches Forward to a Clean Energy Future, Even as We Need to Be Accelerating from 0 to 60 mph

• Video: Fmr. Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) Says She Believes History “will tell the truth about this time…will not elevate January 6th rioters to heroes”

• Arts, Aging, and Community in Mason District

• Far-Right-Extremist/Bigot Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA09) Brags, “I am a member of the Sharia-Free America Caucus in Congress to fight back against Islamic fanaticism infiltrating our communities”