Virginia Climate Bills – Sister District Candidates Make a Difference
Read more about Virginia’s climate bills including the Virginia Clean Economy Act of 2020, supported by Sister District Alumni.
Why Are States So Important? Virginia’s Blue Trifecta Miracle
Let’s take a closer look at what life under a blue trifecta looks like. Herewith, a non-exhaustive list of notable legislation passed by the Virginia legislature since 2020 — humane, life-saving measures that would’ve been unthinkable before the blue wave.
Virginia Progressive Legislation that Took Effect 1/1/21
In 2019, Democrats won control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time in nearly 25 years, delivering a Democratic trifecta in the Southern state. Some of the bills passed in the 2020 legislative session went into effect on January 1st 2021. Here are some highlights.
Conducting Fair and Safe Elections this November
Democracy works best when all eligible voters participate. Yet election rules vary widely from state to state, making it much harder to vote in some states than others. These differences are more significant now than ever, as we prepare to conduct the most important election of our lifetimes during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Virginia Shows Why States Are Key to Transforming Justice
The criminal justice system has to be changed state by state. Learn about Virginia’s progressive 2020 bills to reform the justice system.
Virginia’s Progressive Policy Successes Light the Way For the Nation
In 2019, after years of hard and strategic organizing work, Democrats finally won control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. Read on to see what they’ve done in 2020.
Trump was acquitted, but we have work to do right now.
I find it incredibly challenging to accept what is happening in Washington right now. The Democrats have laid out a clear, fact-driven account of the president’s obstruction. Experts have testified that his actions unequivocally constitute impeachable offenses. Facts continue to come out by the day implicating that Donald Trump knowingly and deliberately put the national […]
2019 Post-Election Analysis
We Flipped Virginia and Celebrate our First Win in Mississippi Election night 2019 was one for the books! Sister District returned to Virginia, where we got our start three years ago working on 13 races in the House of Delegates. This year, we helped seven new candidates to victory, and all of our 2017 alumni […]
Election Day is One Week Away
It’s Our Last Chance to Flip Virginia Virginia has a special place in my heart. I have family in Northern Virginia, Virginia Beach, Roanoke, and Williamsburg. I’ve spent many happy hours racing boats on the Chesapeake Bay (in my spare time, I’m a competitive sailor). I have criss-crossed the entire state, from the pony swim […]
Why Are States So Important? Focus On: Virginia, November 5, 2019
Last we checked in on the nation’s twelfth-most populous state, it was December 2018, and Virginia state GOP legislators, having controlled both House and Senate for much of the past decade, were working tirelessly to maintain illegal, racially gerrymandered district lines in defiance of numerous court orders.
