Virginia
Danica Roem: Shoe leather and local issues key to progressive wins
December 8, 2017Her message, which she carried with her reporter’s notebooks from house to house, including on the rainy Saturday night before the election, was relentlessly local and focused.
Read moreVirginia elections: Bad night for Trump, great night for the people
November 8, 2017The big lesson from Virginia last night is that grassroots organizing is key.
Read moreElection Day 2017: Progressives rack up wins from coast to coast
November 8, 2017The wave of activism that has produced mass marches and protests against Trump-GOP schemes led to a massive influx of new progressive Democratic candidates, mostly female.
Read more2017 down-ticket races approach finish line in Virginia
October 18, 2017This election is being closely watched from coast-to-coast as a possible harbinger of things to come in the national midterm elections of 2018.
Read moreBattle lines drawn over Confederate-named highway in northern Virginia
October 6, 2017The fight to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway is heating up.
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