#abigail-spanberger — Public Fediverse posts

The Federalist Is Super Mad Virginia Will No Longer Subsidize Racists

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/24/the-federalist-is-super-mad-virginia-will-no-longer-subsidize-racists/

Last night, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and Senator Alex Padilla gave the Democratic SOTU rebuttals to counter the president’s lies and complete failure to deliver on affordability, safety, or basic humanity to the American people.

#democratsabroad #votefromabroad #stateoftheunion #SOTU #abigailspanberger #alexpadilla #USpolitics #USpol

13 minutes > 2 hours #GovernorSpanberger #abigailspanberger #virginiaisforpatriots #uspol #virginia

It’s rare, but it has happened in Virginia.

When Irony Turns Historic Symbols On Their Head
#Politics #Virginia #AbigailSpanberger
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/01/17/when-irony-turns-historic-symbols-on-their-head/

This transfer of power in Virginia matters more than others I’ve seen

For the first time in my life, I watched a new Virginia governor take the oath of office–not only because my schedule was mercifully free and allowed me to camp out on the couch at noon Saturday, but because the stakes for my state’s leadership are much higher now.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) begins her term as Virginia’s 75th governor at a much different time for the commonwealth and the nation than the last time a Democrat was sworn in as governor in front of the Capitol designed by Virginia’s second governor, Thomas Jefferson.

Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had to deal with the lies, cruelty, bigotry, and incompetence of Trump 1.0, but Spanberger faces even more of that–compounded by Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for trying to punish particular states he deems disloyal.

At its lightest, this takes the form of clumsy, oafish attempts to yank federal funding, threaten federal investigations or undo federal approvals of projects. In Virginia, we’ve seen such examples as the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate George Mason University president Gregory Washington out of office and the groundless bid to stop construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that a federal judge turned aside Friday.

At its worst, the entire country has witnessed the murderous thuggishness of ICE agents in Minneapolis who seem to take tactical inspiration from the secret police of Third World dictatorships.

And over the last year, the two elected officials in Virginia best positioned to contest these abuses of power, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), either did nothing or cheered them along. Youngkin in particular appeared to think that his heel turn from maintaining a measured distance from Trump to embracing so much of a MAGA agenda would set him up well in future elections; the choices of Virginia voters in November suggest that is a delusional hope.

Hours into her term, Spanberger put some distance between herself and Youngkin’s smiling mediocrity: One of the first 10 executive orders she signed rescinds the EO of her predecessor that had directed state law-enforcement agencies to divert their time and resources to assist ICE operations.

That is a good start, and I expect more from the first Democratic governor I’ve seen take office with a Democratic majority in both houses of the General Assembly. These elected representatives have a great deal of work ahead, starting with unfinished business from the last four years in Richmond and now including finding ways to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our state.

#AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #GovernorSpanberger #ice #OldDominion #Richmond #Trump20 #Virginia #VirginiaDems #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaPolitics

—> #TheLateShow ⦁ Intvw Pt2 ⦁ #StephenColbert <— Members Of #Congress Should Not Be Allowed To Trade Stocks While In Office Gov.-elect #AbigailSpanberger #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Colbert #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/Y2IqA16SUHQ

Members Of Congress Should Not...

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ICE's Tactics Degrade The Publ...

—>> #TheLateShow ⦁ Interview Pt.1 ⦁ #StephenColbert <<—

#ICE Tactics Degrade The Public's Trust In Law Enforcement
- Gov.-elect #AbigailSpanberger

#Comedy #Humour #Humor #Colbert
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/ffUNK3DBDvY

Virginia LGBTQ+ groups ‘thrilled’ to march in inaugural parade celebrating the state's new Dem governor

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/abigail-spanberger-inaugural-parade

Newly elected Virginia lieutenant governor appoints LGBTQ+ advocate to transition team

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/ghazala-hashmi-narissa-rahaman-appointed

Virginia is not for Trump lovers

Smashing a 249-year-old glass ceiling was the least remarkable thing that Virginia voters did Tuesday. Once the Democratic and Republican parties had other candidates drop out and leave former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and current lieutenant governor Winsome Earle-Sears as unchallenged candidates, it was assured that the Old Dominion would get its first female governor.

Which is still noteworthy, considering that the line of Virginia governors starts with Patrick Henry and then Thomas Jefferson, and yet also a tad regrettable considering that we took this long and that this happened 32 years after the commonwealth’s only other election with a woman running for governor.

But Spanberger didn’t just win but ran away with the election by more than 14 points, including support from a non-trivial fraction of 2024 Trump voters who found something to vote for her in her message of reducing the cost of living and standing up for the state against Trump’s chaos. Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones won by smaller margins that still outpaced many forecasts.

Yes, even AG nominee Jones, who had to grovel for forgiveness after the revelation of grotesque text messages from 2022 in which he imagined the execution of Todd Gilbert, then Republican majority leader of the House of Delegates, and the deaths by shooting of his kids.

(At least Jones apologized profusely, which is not something President Trump has ever done for any of his own deranged statements, much less the unforgiveable offense against democracy of trying to overturn the 2020 election.)

The ninth election that I’ve served as an Arlington County election officer, also the first I’d worked with the state’s top three offices on the ballot, saw equally sweeping victories for Virginia Dems in the House of Delegates.

With all 100 seats up for election, voters chose Democratic candidates in 13 previously Republican districts, turning a thin 51-seat majority into a 64-seat lock in the oldest continuous legislative assembly in the Americas–which has a great deal of unfinished business from previous sessions.

Being in the party of Trump, whose chaotic and cruel firings of government workers have left more of a dent in Virginia than in other states, seems to be political poison in far more of the commonwealth than many people expected. Especially if you try to pass off those layoffs as no big deal, as both Earle-Sears and current Republican governor Glenn Youngkin did.

These results–along with the Democratic demolition of Republican hopes in my birth state of New Jersey–should now have a lot of GOP officeholders elsewhere in the commonwealth and the country feeling nervous about their own job security. And that seems more than fair when so many voters already feel the same anxiety.

#2025Election #AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #HouseOfDelegates #OldDominion #Virginia #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaGovernor #VirginiaPolitics #WinsomeEarleSears

So I was going to say that the one thing I agree with Speaker #MikeJohnson about was that what happened wasn't unexpected, that #Democrats won in "blue" States last night, but I just looked something up...

#Virginia isn't a blue state. It's #Governor #elections seem to follow a trend for the past couple cycles of them voting for the party that will win the next Presidential election.

And #AbigailSpanberger didn't just win, she won by a double digit margin.

So I'm going to say what I said before, that we shouldn't assume this is going to be the norm, and we still need to get out and fight, especially since we are going to need Democrats to get well over 50% in some of these elections in order to overcome anti-democracy efforts...

But that double-digit margin? That's Hope right there. That's telling us that we are definitely capable of doing this: our work will pay dividends.

And that #Mamdani win? That's telling us we can beat the corrupt #Democrat establishment that got us into this mess.

#USPol

Virginia saw a huge shift towards the Democrats in last night's U.S. general election. Philip Bump breaks down the numbers.

https://flip.it/paehpN

#USPolitics #USElection #Virginia #AbigailSpanberger #USNews

#AbigailSpanberger is now trending across Mastodon

What a day yesterday.

Congratulations to:
- Zohran Mamdani, newly elected Mayor of NYC
- Mikie Sherrill, newly elected Governor of NJ
- Abigail Spanberger, newly elected Governor of VA
- And all the other Democratic victories across the country

And to my state, CA, for voting overwhelmingly Yes on Prop 50 and to Governor Gavin Newsom for his effort to bring this measure to the voters and help get this passed.

#Politics #DemocraticParty #VoteBlue #ZohranMamdani #MikieSherrill #AbigailSpanberger #GavinNewsom #Trump #GOP

The Morning: Democrats’ big night – The New York Times

Good morning. Last night was a big one for Democrats.

A rebuke

Zohran Mamdani, 34, will be the next mayor of New York City, the youngest in more than a century. The democratic socialist will also be the city’s first Muslim mayor. Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia’s first female governor. In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill cruised to victory in a governor’s race that polls had projected would be neck and neck.

And in California, voters passed a ballot measure to redraw the state’s maps in Democrats’ favor, which is likely to yield as many as five House seats for the party next year.

Turnout was extraordinary: The New York mayor’s race drew more than two million voters, almost double the 1.1 million people who voted for mayor four years ago. The New Jersey governor’s race topped three million votes for the first time.

As my colleague Lisa Lerer wrote, the results showed that Democrats — beaten soundly in all seven presidential battleground states just a year ago, losing control of the Senate and failing to win the House — can still accomplish the most important goal in politics: “They can win. And win big.”

The results amounted to a loud rebuke of President Trump’s first year back in office. A year ago, he won the White House on promises to fix the economy. Yesterday, his party’s losses showed the high political price that a party in power can pay when voters are still feeling squeezed.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Morning: Democrats’ big night

#AbigailSpanberger #democracy #DemocraticParty #MikieSherrill #November2025 #Rebuke #RebukeOfTrump #StopTrump #TheNewYorkTimes #Turnout #Voters

Democrats won a trio of races in the first major elections since Donald Trump regained the U.S. presidency, giving the beleaguered party a shot of momentum as it looks to next year's congressional midterm elections. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/05/world/politics/democrats-sweep-elections-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #zohranmamdani #abigailspanberger #mikiesherrill #democrats #republicans #newyork #newjersey #virginia #us #donaldtrump

Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins governorship in Virginia replacing Republican Glenn Youngkin

"Virginia is home to around 320,000 federal workers and hundreds of thousands of federal contractors."

Guess bouncing paychecks isn't a winning strategy

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5589144/election-results-virginia-governor-spanberger

Dems also won governorship in NJ

#USpol #VApol #NPR #USElection2025 #AbigailSpanberger

#GovtShutdown aka #BlameMikeJohnson

Voters in races across the United States backed Democratic candidates. Here's @Vox's breakdown of what happened, and what it might all mean. "One part of the story is that the Democratic base turned out. But another part is that swing voters, well, swung," writes Andrew Prokop. [Gift Link] Find @AssociatedPress's liveblog at the second link.

https://flip.it/EIkvcg
https://flip.it/TMrtRw

#USPolitics #USNews #California #Prop50 #NYC #ZohranMamdani #AbigailSpanberger #MikieSherrill

So UK Labour, if you're listening...

#Virginia #AbigailSpanberger #NJ #Sherrill #NYC #ZohranMamdani #PA #Prop50 #California

Gay Republican John Reid loses Virginia lieutenant governor race after scandal-marred campaign

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/gay-republican-john-reid-loses

For the first time in Virginia's 237-year history, a woman has been elected governor. And she just flipped the state blue. 💙 Abigail Spanberger. Former CIA operations officer, postal inspector, teacher, and U.S. Representative from Virginia's 7th District. #AbigailSpanberger #Virginia #Governor

I'm calling her 'Spamburger'

I guess Federal employees don't appreciate being dicked around by the gangster paedophile in what remains of the White House

#USPOL #USPOLITICS #Spanberger #AbigailSpanberger #Trump #GovernmentShutdown

LGBTQ+ ally Abigail Spanberger trounces anti-trans Republican to win Virginia governor’s race

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/abigail-spanberger-wins-virginia-governor

#Virginia #Governor :

#Democrat #AbigailSpanberger wins

https://election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11-04/states/Virginia

#elections

#AbigailSpanberger is Virginia's new Governor . It is already called. First flip from red to blue. YESSSS.
#virginia2025races #VirginiaGovernor

#ExitPolls2025 #AbigailSpanberger up 9. Let's gooo!