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Donate to Hanover Democratic Committee (VA) Show your support with a contribution.

It's time for the 2026 BlueWaveBash! Join us at 6pm on Apr 23 at Hanover Tavern for our 17th annual fundraiser dinner.

With attacks on our democracy, our institutions, our rights, and our elections, your support is needed more than ever to elect Dems in Virginia this year. Get your tickets today!

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Leavitt Admits SAVE Act Will Make It Harder for Married Women to Vote Karoline Leavitt accidentally admitted what opponents of the act have long warned against.

Trump's mouthpiece ADMITS that the SAVE Act makes voting harder for married women!

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OP-ED: The SAVE America Act Isn’t About Voting — It’s About Your Data...and Supercharging Voter Suppression - Blue Virginia By Karen Kinard, Bridge2Blue Hope for the best, plan for the worst. That’s the only sensible way to look at the SAVE America Act, the supercharged voter suppression bill the House just passed. It may ...

Indeed. Tell your U.S. Senators VOTE NO to the SAVE Act.

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Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

This is EXACTLY who the Republicans are.

This is what they teach their young people and what they promote--to be racists and bigots.

"A leaked group chat with numerous racist, antisemitic and misogynistic text messages among young conservatives engulfed the Miami-Dade County Republican Party..."

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Virginia joins multistate lawsuit challenging Trump administration over new global tariffs • Virginia Mercury Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones joined more than 20 Democratic-led states Thursday in suing President Donald Trump’s administration over a new round of sweeping tariffs, arguing the president is a...

Finally, we have an Attorney General who is protecting us instead of Trump.

Elections matter.

Democrats care about protecting Virginians pocketbook and rights.

Republicans want to fleece us.

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Voting YES this April stops Trump and MAGA Republicans’ power grab and levels the playing field for the 2026 midterms.

Visit IWillVote.com to make your plan to vote.

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Yesterday was the 1st day of Early Voting in the VOTE YES campaign to fight back against MAGA rigging of our elections.

Thank you to everyone who got out to vote & to our poll greeters!

VOTE EARLY at the Hanover County Complex until Apr 18th! Election Day is Apr 21st at your regular polling place.

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Early Voting in this special election starts Friday, March 6th, and goes through Saturday, April 18th, with “Election Day” on Tuesday, April 21st.

Fight back! Vote YES!

Details here 👇

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B0fWGjQeMQj9HzZD YouTube video by lowkell

Fight back against MAGA rigging of our elections.

VOTE YES!

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A PSA from Thomas Massie:

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Military families deserve answers. What is the President’s plan in the Middle East?

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The Next HDC General Meeting is in just one week, on Sunday, March 8 at 4pm at The Gathering Place at RVA Around the Table at 155 Junction Drive in Ashland.

With special guest speakers Hanover Director of Elections and General Registrar Teri Smithson and Deputy Director of Elections Amee Wilson.

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Early Voting to VOTE YES for the Constitutional Amendment for Fair Elections starts Friday, March 6th!

See info for voting in Hanover here:
www.hanovercounty.gov/365/Voting

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Boom.

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Richmond-area faith leaders speak out on federal immigration enforcement “We are grieved by rhetoric that dehumanizes those made in the image of God.”

Thank you to all who are participating in this.

"A coalition of local faith leaders came together Friday on the steps of Richmond’s historic First Baptist Church to speak out as immigration enforcement continues to affect local communities."

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Info about upcoming elections below.

We must VOTE Democratic and democratic in them to save our rights, freedoms, and our country.

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The Hanover Democratic Committee and the Hanover NAACP are hosting a Town Hall Meeting on March 4th at 6pm at the Mechanicsville Library.

A rep from @fairelectionsva.bsky.social will be our special guest to explain and answer questions pertaining to the temporary redistricting amendment.

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NEW HuffPost Report: Trump Political Team Running Virginia’s ‘No’ Campaign Check out the following press release from Virginians for Fair Elections, the group advocating for "a temporary, emergency exception designed to level the playing field for Virginia’s congressional el...

Eric Cantor & Jason Miyares are working with Trump to try to defeat our redistricting amendment.

We'll work to make sure they don't steal our elections.

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Planning commission defers data center proposal near former Tyson plant Vote delayed on 434-acre data center campus planned near Hanover’s former Tyson plant.

"A vote to recommend the developer's Mountain Road Technology Park was deferred until its March 19 meeting. It would then have to get final approval from the Board of Supervisors."

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Comment sums up response to Rob Wittman's latest photo ops:

"You stole billions to trickle back millions."

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Last Sunday, we had a PACKED house, even on Super Bowl Sunday!

We heard from our Chair and other EC members, from Jackson Miller of @fairelectionsva.bsky.social and in honor of Black History Month, from Hanover NAACP President Pat Hunter-Jordan.

See you Sunday March 8th at 4pm, same time & place!

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DHS wants to quickly deport 5-year-old boy and dad days after release DHS wants to dismiss asylum claims from Adrian Conejo Arias after his release from ICE custody with son Liam Conejo Ramos

Oh, you thought the vindictive jackals might leave the 5 YO boy in the bunny hat alone?

Guess again.

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"A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy." - Sen. Ted Cruz
"You all started it and we fucking finished it." - VA Sen. Louise Lucas

Very well said by @SenLouiseLucas in response to the odious Ted Cruz! bluevirginia.us/2026/02/8-wi...

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"so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years." - Jamelle Bouie

Republicans obviously have no problem with gerrymandering when they have the power to do so. The thing they hate is when Dems fight back. That's what they're all actually ranting and raving about. bluevirginia.us/2026/02/8-wi... h/t @jamellebouie.net

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Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes “No, I didn’t make a mistake,” the president said.

Trump and his MAGA Republican supporters & allies have always been un-apologetically racist.

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The US lost $35B in clean energy projects last year A new report indicates that Trump administration policy led to billions of dollars in canceled investment and tens of thousands of lost jobs.

It's outrageous how much money and jobs Trump & the Republicans have lost our country in clean energy projects alone.

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"America" YouTube video by Virginians for Fair Elections
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Virginia county opposes sale, conversion of Pattison-owned warehouse to ICE facility | CBC News A gigantic warehouse across the street from an outdoor equipment store has become a flashpoint in Virginia as the U.S. grapples with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown — and a British Co...

"The local board said beyond the letter from Homeland Security, it received no communication from the federal government about its plans. Davis said the location — which had been developed for businesses, hotels and homes — is not appropriate for an ICE facility."

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Gov. Abigail Spanberger: “Virginia law enforcement does not engage in fear-based policing,” Is “No Longer Under Federal ICE Control” Very interesting (and important, necessary, etc.) from Gov. Abigail Spanberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fERQJSu10 Governor Spanberger Establishes Principles for Virginia Law Enforcement, Sig...

Yes!!!!

Thank you, Governor Abigail Spanberger!

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