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Virginia Is About to Shock the Country!
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Virginia Is About to Shock the Country!

Wake Up Virginia!

Virginia Is About to Shock the Country

It’s going to be an upset—a Democratic victory in rural areas like we’ve never seen before.

Why?
Because voters have seen the light.
They’re tired of being led by the nose by Republicans who have shown time and again that they don’t care about working people, veterans, caregivers, students, or seniors.

People are waking up. They want what they’ve earned:

Their Social Security—not as a handout, but as a right.
When my father died and left me at 14, Social Security helped get me through high school and college. It wasn’t easy, but it gave me the chance to choose my future. That’s what it’s meant to do.

Medicaid—because it’s not just for poor people.
Put someone in your family in a nursing home, watch your savings vanish, and see how fast you understand the safety net.

Veterans’ benefits—because those who risked their lives deserve dignity, not political games.

Let’s be real: You may be on the fence about restoring voting rights to felons who’ve served their time, but you elected a 34-count convicted felon, so let’s just call it even.

Give me some dap on that one.👊🏽

And I’m betting you’re sick of the tax cuts for billionaires and corporations riding on your back.
Me too.
We can agree there. 👊🏽

Meanwhile, the very Republicans you voted for are supporting $billion in cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. And before you start throwing stones, let me remind you:
The highest percentage of SNAP recipients? White people.
We all like to eat.
That shouldn’t be partisan—it’s just human.

OK, a lot of these voting patterns are about race, whether folks admit it or not. But cancer doesn’t care what color you are.
Dumb kids come in every shade. 😊
So we need all the books, not book bans. 📚
We need more knowledge, not less. 🎓
And we need to stop dragging our colleges through the mud like they’re the enemy.

And yes, Governor Youngkin, we see you. That "history isn't important" nonsense? We remember what your party is trying to erase. ✏️


A Word for White Women

Don’t worry—I didn’t forget you.

Here’s a fact your husband may not have told you:
8 out of 10 women change their name when they get married.

The so-called “Save Act H.R.22” (let’s call it what it is: the Slave Act) would strip millions of women of their right to vote simply because their ID doesn’t match a database.
Sound outrageous? It is.

Republican men love this bill. You do remember it took more than 100 years for women to be guaranteed the right to vote.
Ask yourself why?
Ask why Jen Kiggans voted for this bill—even though a military ID wouldn't be enough to let her vote under this law.
She’s got a passport. Do you?

She doesn’t speak for me—and she sure as hell shouldn’t speak for you.

And one more thing while we’re here:
55% of white women voted in a way to give away control of their coochies—and will take it away from millions of other women too.

How does that make sense?

Virginia is the last state in the South where reproductive care is still legal.
Want to get pregnant now?
Oh, you don’t?
Well, no birth control. No sex for you. Youngkin vetoed the Right to contraception Act (HB176)

They want to control your body—but couldn’t care less about the millions of children already here going without food, education, or healthcare.

So again—make it make sense.


Virginia’s Had Enough

The cruelty of the Trump era has been hard to watch. We have had enough of this nonsense.
I imagine it’s been hard for you to watch, too.

A man who said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single voter?
What kind of leader is that?
Why would anyone want that?

And now, Project 2025—Trump’s roadmap to dismantle democracy—marches on, while he pretended he never heard of it.
Please.

We see what’s happening.
We feel what’s at stake.

And that’s why we are going to win big in Virginia. Bigger than ever.
Because we’re voting out every Republican who can’t show a single bill they came up with that helped working people. Winsome Sears is MAGA through and through and we have had enough!

This is the moment when Democrats, Independents, Republicans, and the folks who stayed on the couch in 2024 all rise together to restore sanity, decency, and a future worth believing in.

Virginia is for Lovers! Let’s get back to being lovers of people and defenders of the Constitution and Democracy
Let’s do it together.

Here’s to sanity.
Here’s to Virginia.
Here’s to all of us.

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