The motto of Virginia, the Mother of Presidents, one of our founding colonies, and the birthplace of American Republicanism, is Sic Semper Tyrannis: Thus Always to Tyrants, with Lady Liberty standing over one of them in the state coat of arms.
The Commonwealth initially resisted the genius of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The republican gentry were not keen on swapping a tyrannical king for a tyrannical federal government. Virginia became the main battleground for the American Civil War. Virginia served as a major heartbeat for the United States of America, since many of the politicians serving in Congress have their second homes in the Old Dominion.
The last time the state went Republican during a Presidential election, Bush won the state 54-46. It’s a Southern State, and one would think that Republicans would dominate, but the problems were already breaking out. Bush expanded the surveillance state, then increased the federal bureaucracy with No Child Left Behind, the Department of Homeland Security, and massive spending. Northern Virginia took in more swamp creatures, shifting the state blue in 2008 with no turning back.
Democrats kept chipping away at the once-Republican stronghold: two Democrat US Senators, then the executive branches, electing Democratic governors in 2013 and 2017. Virginia was the only state in the South with a Democratic trifecta in 2019, despite Governor Ralph Northam’s abortion depredations and blackface scandal, as well as scandals from the lieutenant governor and the attorney general.
In 2021, Glenn Youngkin turned things around. He, with his Republican executive colleagues, reversed Democratic tyranny with some order back to the Commonwealth, cutting the taxes, revoking the DEI madness, and ending the violation of parental rights.
Last year, those four years became a blip on a blue radar. Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears lost bigly as a candidate for governor, throwing away President Trump while uselessly bashing Abigail Spanberger repeatedly over the hateful texts from her attorney general candidate Jay Jones.
Spanberger refused to distance herself from that thug, knowing full well that she could play the long game in an anti-Trump election year. She campaigned on removing ICE from cooperative agreements with state and local law enforcement, but otherwise, she talked a moderate game compared to the craziness of the Biden-Harris administration.
The VAGOP’s weakened re-election efforts failed. Sears could complain all she wanted, but she lost touch with the parent revolution momentum that had powered her Republican colleagues into power in 2021. Combined with the anti-Trump backlash from the government employees on furlough or fired from Trump’s major clean-up of Washington DC, Virginia Democrats cleaned up big in 2025, winning a record 64 seats in the House of Delegates while still holding a one-seat majority in the state senate.
Today, the commonwealth of Virginia is sickly simp for tyrants, with Democrats dominating all three constitutional offices and the general assembly. Virginia has been Colorado-ed, or Californicated, since the national Democratic machinations and investments have flipped the state in their column, perhaps for good. Democrats have absolute power, and they are using it absolutely, a perverse template for what national Democrats want to do once they get power in Washington.
Governor Spanberger has repealed the previous governor's order requiring state law enforcement to work with ICE.
Democrats are raising taxes on everything.
Democrats are gutting gun rights left and right.
Democrats are putting the “rights” of criminals ahead of law-abiding citizens.
The legislature just voted to turn over its electoral votes to the popular vote winner in the next Presidential election!
Elections have consequences, and the Democratic DC Swamp has swamped Virginia with the Left-Wing onslaught for the foreseeable future. With the trends in other states over the last decade, it looks as though the Virginia Republican Party has lost its chance for power in a generation, a similar fate to that of the Democrats in Florida.
There is a special sorrow to this horrific anti-GOP blowout. The Democratic Party has all but embraced communism and anti-Americanism as its credo, and now they hold all the cards.
What’s going to happen to the Jamestown settlements? Monticello? Mount Vernon? I fear for the history of our country. Liberal elements already took down and melted the statue of Robert E. Lee. What’s next?
And the Virginia Democratic tyranny just pushed their latest power grab: Gerrymandering.
The legislature pushed through this reform, ignoring all constitutional restraints, and put it to a vote to the people on whether they wanted to transform the current Congressional delegation of six Democrats and five Republicans into a 10-to-one map favoring Democrats.
This brazen gerrymandering push passed by a bare one percent. Virginia voted 52-47 for Kamala Harris, a pretty close vote, and the Democratic presidential nominee has never gotten 55 percent of the vote. How is it fair, just, and democratic to disenfranchise 50 percent of the population in the Congressional delegation?
This is not democracy at all. The Democratic Party is in full tyrant mode, and they want to ensure that Republicans never forget it.
There is hope, though. A Tazewell County trial judge just struck down the new maps and enjoined their use permanently. He cited four fundamental constitutional problems with the maps:
- The Virginia General Assembly passed the initiative during a special session, when the legislature can only pass legislation explicitly ordered by the governor. The legislature did not have the authority to pass the gerrymandering initiative.
- The legislature cannot initiate a voter-approved change to the state constitution without passing the reform in two sessions, and the second passage must take place after an election has intervened.
- The referendum vote took place too soon. Those elections must wait 90 days after passage in the General Assembly.
- The ballot question itself was misleading, violating the state’s “plain English rule.” Here’s the question: “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”
There is no restoring fairness when nearly half the electorate gets disenfranchised! There is no need to restore fairness to the redistricting process, strictly speaking, since Virginia voters empowered a bipartisan commission to prepare the Congressional maps in 2020! They were already fair!
Will the lawsuit stand? Murderous AG Jay Jones has filed an appeal, and the legal challenges are sound. The Virginia Supreme Court initially declined to halt the initiative because it wanted the voters to decide on the matter. The state supreme court should have stopped it since the whole process was flawed from the outset.
There are concerns that the state Supreme Court Justices will not step up and stop this naked, anti-constitutional power grab. The state legislature appoints the justices, and four of them were appointed by Republican legislators, but that does not guarantee that they will rule correctly once the challenge comes to their court.
The Old Dominion is dominated by Democrats, and Republicans’ last hope of keeping some order in the state depends on the whims of the state supreme court. County sheriffs are standing with President Trump and pledge to work with ICE, but will that be enough to turn back the Democratic tyranny?
Is this the end of Virginia?