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https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Virginia voters approved the Right to Reproductive Freedom amendment with more than 62% of the vote on November 3. Now the Founding Freedoms Law Center is asking a Tazewell County judge to block certification of the results. In this episode, Executive Director and Chief Counsel Josh Hetzler explains the two main claims in the lawsuit. The first is a pr...

Join Virginia Insider as a member for exclusive content and early access: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join It has begun. Days after Republicans suffered sweeping midterm losses, outgoing Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie read an impeachment resolution from the House floor targeting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The move, reported by the Associated Press, forces a procedural vot...

Join the Virginia Insider community for exclusive content and member discussions: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Local television news in Virginia is facing the same pressures that hollowed out newspapers more than a decade ago. Cheryl Miller, the longtime noon anchor at Richmond’s WTVR CBS 6, anchored her final newscast after 42 years at the station. Miller has been a familiar pres...

Join as a Virginia Insider member for exclusive content and early access: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join On the eve of the 2026 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency request from the Trump administration to temporarily block California from counting mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters that federal officials allege are likely non-U.S. cit...

Join the Virginia Insider membership: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Billionaire Elon Musk accused Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger of being "racist and sexist" after she posted a group photo of her cabinet on X, calling it the "most talented, hardworking cabinet in Virginia's history" and "the most diverse Virginia has ever seen." Spanberger wrote that every cabinet secretary w...

Join Virginia Insider for exclusive member content: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join With one day left before Election Day, the Daily Signal’s Joe Thomas examines Sabato’s Crystal Ball moving Virginia’s 5th District to toss-up despite an R+12 lean, the child-marriage ad claim against incumbent John McGuire, Cambridge and Marquette research on attack ads and turnout, and the Wedgewood...

Join Virginia Insider for membership and support independent Virginia news: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Uriah Kiser reacts to a Virginia Mercury commentary and the news organization’s first unscientific online survey of more than 350 readers ahead of the November 3, 2026 midterms. Readers told the Mercury they are distressed about their wallets and “our democracy.” Top concerns o...

Join the Virginia Insider membership: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Governor Abigail Spanberger’s administration issued an official voting rights restoration certificate to Biscuit Rigsby, a beagle-hound mix from Goochland County that died about five years ago. Delegate Tom Garrett (R-Buckingham) received the document from the dog’s owner and is calling for an investigation into ho...

Join the Virginia Insider membership: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 19 on August 18, 2026, establishing the Commonwealth of Virginia Unified Readiness Framework. The order modernizes emergency preparedness, homeland security, and resilience by integrating planning across state agencies, local governments, first responders, private-...

Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, of Stafford faces federal charges after Circuit Court Chief Judge Petula Metzler granted him $2,500 bond with GPS monitoring in the Quantico Iwo Jima monument attack case. Arrested Oct. 21 near the prototype Felix de Weldon limestone statue at Quantico / Triangle while striking it with a sledgehammer — one Marine head removed, rifle barrels damaged, hundreds of...

A new Politico poll finds half of Americans now oppose data centers being built within three miles of their home — the highest opposition since Politico began tracking, and nearly double January. With midterms near, the backlash is rising for candidates who support the facilities. Virginia already has more data centers than anywhere else on the planet. Support Virginia Insider Become a member: htt...

Support Virginia Insider — Become a Member → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join A Prince William General District Court judge who previously practiced criminal defense granted cashless bail to the man accused of attacking the Iwo Jima monument near Quantico with a sledgehammer. The order was stayed after the Commonwealth objected, and a circuit court judge has continued...

Regular unleaded at $4.32. Diesel at a Bedford truck plaza posted at $5.99. On Tuesday, Virginia Republicans stood at Owens Market Deli and Truck Plaza and asked Gov. Abigail Spanberger to call lawmakers back to Richmond for one thing: a 90-day suspension of the state gas and diesel tax. House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, a Republican from Scott County, called it a bipartisan affordability issue...

Join Virginia Insider as a member for exclusive videos and early access: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Gov. Abigail Spanberger is the first Virginia governor ever to intervene as a party in a case at the State Corporation Commission, and she is touting a six-year freeze on residential base electricity rates as a condition of the proposed Dominion Energy–NextEra Energy merger. Steve...

Join Virginia Insider as a member for exclusive videos and early access: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join On the night of October 21, 2026, Prince William County police responded to the Iwo Jima statue near Richmond Highway and Fuller Road outside Marine Corps Base Quantico. Officers found 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano of Stafford actively striking the monument with a sl...

Join Virginia Insider as a member for exclusive videos and early access: https://www.youtube.com/@VirginiaInsider/join Powerful Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas, president pro tempore of the Senate and one of the state's most influential Democrats, was charged Thursday in connection with what federal authorities allege was a role leading a criminal enterprise that acquired and distributed la...

Support Virginia Insider — Become a Member → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join We’re live as sources report members of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas’s family have already been arrested. She was given until 9 a.m. today to turn herself in. A press conference with the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI Director is set for 10 a.m. This follows the May 6...

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Support Virginia Insider — Become a Member → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join A new Christopher Newport University Wason Center poll shows Democrat Elaine Luria leading Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans by three points in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. The 46%–43% result sits inside the ±4 margin of error, with 10% still undecided. Cost of living tops the issue list....

Support Virginia Insider — Become a Member → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join Where do you stand on Flock cameras? Across Virginia and the country, communities are pushing back against fixed automatic license plate readers that photograph every vehicle that passes, log the plate, make, color, and location, and let police search the data for days. Traditional mobile lic...

Support Virginia Insider Become a Member → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join Every Catholic parish in the Diocese of Arlington, all 70 of them, heard the same letter read from the pulpit last month. Bishop Michael Burbidge asked every priest to urge a "no" vote on two proposed amendments to the Virginia Constitution that voters will decide on Nov. 3. Uriah Kiser walks t...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join Norfolk’s for-profit housing-authority subsidiary continues to direct New Markets Tax Credits out of the city while local leaders say the money should be working at home. Hampton Roads Ventures, created by the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority in 2003, has not backed a project inside Norfolk since 2008. In the past year it hel...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join Data centers and the AI boom they power have become one of the rare issues cutting across party lines in Virginia’s 2026 midterms. A statewide poll of 1,101 registered voters conducted at the end of March by the Schar School of Policy and Government and the Washington Post found that only 35 percent of respondents were comfortable with...

Support Virginia Insider: become a member → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join Federal agents fanned out across California early Monday in what the Justice Department calls "Operation Protect the Vote," charging 28 foreign nationals with lying about their citizenship to register to vote. At least 11 were in custody by Monday morning, and prosecutors say many of those cha...

Support Virginia Insider Become a Member → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRsz0wQzFOpQG6_HUwLMRA/join Rep. Rob Wittman isn't known for picking fights. Now he's getting into the political fray. On Newsmax Saturday night, the 1st District Republican called Gov. Abigail Spanberger's record "the ultimate bait and switch" and said his race comes down to turnout. Uriah Kiser breaks down the case Wi...