About 163 years ago this June, the people of what is now West Virginia had had enough of the Old Dominion and the wealthy planters who thought the rules of the land did not apply to them. As a result, Republican voters in West Virginia today have a powerful voice in Congress, while those in the parent state just had theirs taken away.
Let’s be perfectly clear. After Tuesday’s narrow election victory for anti-American redistricting designed to give Virginia, a 45% Republican state, a 10-1 lead in the House delegation, Democrats are capable of anything, no matter how immoral or duplicitous.
And this time it’s not just the politicians. It was Democratic voters, especially in the wealthy, elite northern counties, who cynically chose to disenfranchise their poorer neighbors to the south.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Feb. 24, 2026, in Williamsburg, Virginia. (Mike Kropf/Getty Images)
Just as elite Virginians from places like Fairfax and Richmond went to war in 1860 to defy Republicans and uphold what they saw as the moral imperative of slavery, their heirs, those same Virginia Democrats, dropped their own nuclear weapon on democracy this week.
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Today the issue is not slavery, although, let’s face it, illegal immigrant nannies in Loudoun County are offered at a discounted price. But Democrats would rather have us believe that President Donald Trump is such a threat to America that rules must be broken to stop him.
Funny, they said the exact same thing about Abraham Lincoln.
The Democrats in the Mother of the States knew damn well how scandalous this new redistribution is. That’s why they never showed the new card in an ad, or ever mentioned the new 10-1 D/R ratio, insisting that this radical act of so-called fairness is only temporary.
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The temporary argument was particularly disgusting, as if stealing people’s votes every now and then is okay. Perhaps Virginia should change its motto from “Sic Semper Tyrannis” (ever against tyrants) to “Tyrannidem Aliquando” (sometimes tyranny).
Democrats have argued that they are simply trying to keep up with redistricting in Texas, but Texas has not given the GOP 90% of the seats in the House of Representatives. It has not led to a situation where a wealthy city like Fairfax has an Octopus hold on poorer rural voters.
In short, the people in Virginia who get dirt under their fingernails at work were told by screaming rich white ladies with Prada bags that they no longer have a say in Congress. In old-fashioned Virginia fashion, the elites will rule and the farmers will serve.
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Professional Republicans, and the politicians who pay them, need this as a wake-up call. As I reported from Southern Virginia last week, the state and national Republican Party were not only overspent and overworked, they hardly seemed to be trying.
GOP insiders tell me that a handful of political consulting firms handle almost all GOP campaigns, including this lame-duck effort to stop gerrymandering. But these lovable losers, the same ones who warned us about Trump actually winning, get paid regardless of the outcome.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who thinks he’s a preacher and not a politician, insists that we still can’t blow up the filibuster to pass the Save America Act and protect our elections, because if he does, Democrats could eventually do it too.
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With all due respect to Thune, Democrats just disenfranchised almost every Republican in Virginia. They will not respect the filibuster. To continue to suggest that this will be the case is simple madness at this point.
It’s time for Republicans to think bigger, to realize the enormity of the battle they find themselves in. Proposals to add left-wing Arlington and Alexandria to Washington DC should absolutely be on the table.
Furthermore, Republican West Virginia Secretary of State Chris Rose’s plans to offer approximately 30 Virginia border counties the opportunity to join the Mountain State should be vigorously pursued.
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People like to joke about my adopted home state of West Virginia, and yes, we may be poorer and less educated than other states, but we damn well don’t let wealthy elites steal the rights that gave our home its bloody birth.
Those men made a wise choice in 1863 when they created West “By God” Virginia, and it is because of them that I woke up Wednesday morning with my voting rights intact. That’s more than I can say for my neighbors in the Old Dominion, who have returned to rule by the rich and powerful.
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