Virginia, once a model for independent redistricting, is asking voters to temporarily hand the Democratic-controlled Legislature power to redraw congressional lines having a 10-1 partisan edge.

The Old Dominion State has 11 U.S. House districts. Five are considered strongly Democratic, two lean Democratic, one is a toss-up, two lean Republican, and one is strongly Republican.

Under the current district map, the Virginia delegation to the U.S. House consists of six Democrats and five Republicans.

But a new map proposed by Democrat state lawmakers in October would radically alter the political landscape: Five districts would be strongly Democratic, five would lean Democratic, and one would be strongly Republican.

The proposed change comes six years after Virginia decided to reform its redistricting process in an effort to draw fair maps.

In 2020, voters approved a state constitutional amendment that established the bipartisan Virginia Redistricting Commission (VRC), taking redistricting power away from the General Assembly.

Last fall, however, Virginia Democrats started a process to implement a new map through a new constitutional amendment.

Amending the State Constitution

To amend Virginia’s Constitution, the General Assembly must first pass a bill. After the next general election takes place, the newly seated Assembly must pass the same bill again, and the governor must sign it. The resulting referendum is then put before the voters.

If voters approve, the constitution is amended.

In October, the prior General Assembly passed a redistricting bill and proposed maps. Following the 2025 general election, a newly elected Assembly in January passed the same bill again, through a party-line vote. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the bill.

The resulting referendum, to be voted on Tuesday, will let voters have a say on those maps.

Democrats argue their highly partisan redistricting referendum is intended to counter Republican redistricting in other states. Republicans say the referendum violates constitutional timing rules and overrides the independent commission.

Multiple GOP-led lawsuits have ensued, with the majority being filed in the Circuit Court of Tazewell County. Despite those lawsuits, the Virginia Supreme Court has allowed the April 21 vote to proceed. A legal review of the entire process will occur after the election.

Follow the Money

Republicans and Democrats have spent over $83 million campaigning for their preferred outcome in Tuesday’s election.

Virginians for Fair Elections has spent over $62 million urging voters to vote “Yes,” which would produce new maps. Virginians for Fair Maps has spent about $21 million urging voters to vote “No,” which would maintain the status quo.

Each organization has placed ad buys, sent emails, distributed yard signs, knocked on doors, and brought well-known former politicians back into the spotlight to persuade voters to their cause. 

Local partisan committees also have weighed in with their own efforts, creating signage, recording radio ads, and sending out postcards in an effort to reach voters. 

A poll by State Navigate found that 50.7% of Virginians plan to vote “Yes,” while 45.4% of Virginians plan to vote “No.” The poll had a 3.7% margin of error.

The ultimate fate of the referendum is uncertain, however, as voters could vote down the change, or the Virginia Supreme Court could rule against it and declare the election void.

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President Donald Trump dispelled the notion on Monday that Israel talked him into a war with Iran. He wrote in a Truth Social post, “Israel never talked me into the […]

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President Donald Trump says it is "highly unlikely" he will extend the current ceasefire with Iran beyond its looming deadline, increasing pressure on negotiators to secure a broader agreement within days.Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview that the two-week truce he...

President Donald Trump says it is "highly unlikely" he will extend the current ceasefire with Iran beyond its looming deadline, increasing pressure on negotiators to secure a broader agreement within days.Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview that the two-week truce he...

A woman facing voter fraud charges in California said her first reaction when investigators contacted her last August was, “Thank God, finally, someone’s looking into this.”

The state is probing why Laura Yourex registered her dog Maya, a Boxer, to vote in the 2020 election. In an interview with the New York Post, she said she was testing the system to expose what she believed were vulnerabilities.

Yourex said she notified the Orange County registrar of voters and the Huntington Beach City Attorney’s Office of the dog’s registration, and did so repeatedly.

“I’ve given my picture of Maya and her ballot, and given my phone number, and would never hear from anybody,” Yourex told the newspaper.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were broad concerns about how California’s mail-in ballots were distributed.

“I think that’s really what kind of set me off. We have two people living in this house—my husband and I—and we got six cards to register to vote,” she told the Post. “I was like, well, that’s ridiculous.”

She added, “If you look at the actual form that I sent in, it’s literally a made-up name, made-up birthday, no Social Security number at all. The only thing that was real on it was my address.”

A Republican-backed ballot initiative is advocating for voter ID in California.

The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database shows that since 2020—when Maya was registered—there have been 25 adjudicated cases of voter fraud in the state. Of those, 23 ended in a criminal conviction.

The case also comes amid the debate over the SAVE Act, as the Senate considers a House-passed measure to require proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo identification to vote nationwide.

On another front in California, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco launched an election fraud investigation of the 2025 special election after a group of citizens raised concerns of irregularities.

After Bianco, a Republican candidate for governor, seized 650,000 ballots, the California state Supreme Court last week ordered him to pause his probe. A group of media outlets asked a court to unseal the warrant that led to the ballot seizures.

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Almost 60 percent of GOP voters want fewer or no legalized migrants, according to a new poll for The Economist magazine.

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It turns out that the Iranian officials that the U.S. has been negotiating with do not actually have the power to make a peace deal. So this may help to explain why there has been so much confusion. The truth is that the U.S. has been negotiating with the wrong people in Iran this entire time, and the Trump administration is finally starting to realize this. Unfortunately, as you will see below, those that are now in charge in Iran are extreme hardliners. They are not inclined to compromise at all, and that is really bad news for the entire planet, because President Trump is warning that it is “highly unlikely” that the ceasefire will be extended if Iran does not agree to a peace deal by tomorrow night…

Speaking Monday to Bloomberg, President Trump reiterated that the U.S. blockade would not be dropped until a final peace deal with Iran is reached, and he told the news outlet it was “highly unlikely” that he would extend the current ceasefire beyond its expiration on Tuesday night U.S. time if no agreement is nailed down.

As I discussed yesterday, Trump has publicly stated that “the whole country is getting blown up” if Iran does not accept the deal that he has put on the table.

Trump is certainly willing to do more fighting if that is what it takes to reach an acceptable conclusion to this crisis, and he is pledging that he will not make enormous compromises just to get some sort of a deal done…

Only a day after threatening that Iran would be “getting blown up” unless the regime signed a U.S.-backed deal, the president on Monday said he’s in no rush to reach an agreement with Tehran.

“The Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, noting that Democrats “like to say that I promised 6 weeks to defeat Iran.”

The president insisted that from a military standpoint, it was “far faster” than six weeks to defeat Iran. Still, he said, “I’m not going to let them rush the United States into making a deal that is not as good as it could have been.”

Of course the Iranians are in no mood to do much compromising either, and they have made that abundantly clear.

And it turns out that the people that we have been negotiating with do not actually have the power to agree to a deal.

According to Axios, one U.S. official is admitting that the Trump administration “thought they were negotiating with the right people”, but now they have figured out that wasn’t actually true…

A US official said Washington is uncertain who is in charge in Iran as efforts continue to secure a deal and extend the ceasefire, Axios reported on Monday.

“We aren’t sure who’s in charge and neither do they. That’s going to have work itself out,” it quoted the official as saying.

“We thought they were negotiating with the right people, they had reached the cocktail of what they had agreed to, what could be announced. But what happened is the Iranian team went back and the IRGC and those kinds of people said ‘oh, no, no. You don’t speak for us,’” a second senior administration official said.

“Now they have a real divide over there between these factions and we’re not sure who’s going to win it. We hope the team we negotiated with will.”

Weeks ago, I told my readers that the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ahmad Vahidi, is running the show in Iran.

Now the mainstream media is finally starting to catch up. The following comes from Fox News…

As President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to decide whether to extend a two-week ceasefire between the countries approaches, attention is increasingly turning not to Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, but to a shadowy Revolutionary Guard commander with a long record of terror, repression and hardline ideology.

Ahmad Vahidi, recently elevated to the top of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the elite paramilitary force within Iran’s military, is emerging as one of the most powerful men in Iran and, according to analysts, one of the key figures likely deciding whether Tehran resumes fighting or continues talks.

There isn’t going to be any deal unless Vahidi approves.

Unfortunately, Vahidi is “considered a radical even within the regime’s hardline elite”…

“By any standard, Vahidi is considered a radical even within the regime’s hardline elite, and his rise is a warning that Tehran’s war machine now calls the shots,” Lisa Daftari, foreign policy analyst and journalist, told Fox News Digital.

“Putting someone with such a bloody and murderous record at the top of the Revolutionary Guard Corps confirms that the regime is not moderating under pressure. On the contrary,” Daftari added, “it is doubling down on men whose careers are built on hostage‑taking, assassinations, and domestic repression. By any standard, Vahidi is considered a radical even within the regime’s hardline elite, and his rise is a warning that Tehran’s war machine now calls the shots.”

Vahidi isn’t going to give Trump what he wants.

I suppose the U.S. and Israel could try to take Vahidi out, but the upper ranks of the IRGC are filled with other extremists that are just like Vahidi.

Theoretically, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is supposed to have final decision making power, but it appears that he is either dead or incapacitated.

So the IRGC is in control now, and that is not likely to change any time soon.

I know that a lot of people out there are desperately hoping for a peace deal with Iran.

But it doesn’t appear that one is in the cards.

And if a deal is not made before the deadline, Trump is warning that it will mean “lots of bombs start going off”…

President Donald Trump told PBS News on Monday morning that if the ceasefire with Iran expires Tuesday, “then lots of bombs start going off.”

The statement came during a phone call with White House correspondent Liz Landers focused on the Iran war, as a U.S. delegation is preparing for more peace talks.

The Iranians have been preparing for the next phase of the war too.

They still have thousands upon thousands of missiles and drones at their disposal, and oil and gas infrastructure throughout the Middle East is extremely vulnerable.

Beyond that, I am entirely convinced that the IRGC still has quite a few other ways that they could dramatically escalate the conflict.

So let us hope that some sort of a diplomatic miracle happens, because we are rapidly approaching a point of no return.

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