Top 50 Blue Virginia Posts of 2025

As another year comes to a close in a few days, thanks to everyone who read Blue Virginia in 2025 – a very eventful year (for good and for ill) both in national and Virginia politics. For 2026, if you want to stay updated on the latest Breaking News from Virginia politics, you can sign up for our Substack list here (or if you want to get an email once a week, click here). So what were people reading in 2025? See below for the top 50 posts, per Google Analytics, according to which Blue Virginia traffic (“views”) in 2025 approached 1.2 million. Thanks again!

1. Live Blog: Virginia Election Results 2025 [UPDATE – Democratic Wins Up and Down the Ballot!]
2. “All Virginia House Republicans Vote YES to Rip Away Healthcare for Virginians to Give Handout to the Rich”
3. Governor-Elect Spanberger Announces Transition Policy Committees & Co-Chairs
4. Video: On the Rachel Maddow Show, VA Speaker Don Scott Says “not one Republican – not one in Virginia! – will step up and say what the President of the United States is doing is wrong!”
5. Virginia Election Day 2025: Open Thread
6. Virginia Primary Night June 17, 2025 Results: Live Blog
7. [UPDATE: Walkinshaw Wins with Nearly 60% of the Vote] VA11 Dems Firehouse Primary Results Thread; Votes Being Counted, but Stella Pekarsky Campaign Already Has Congratulated James Walkinshaw “for his victory tonight”
8. Political Winners and Losers: Virginia Elections November 2025
9. Abigail Spanberger Announces She’s Turned in 40,000+ Petition Signatures (4x What’s Needed) to Get on the Ballot for Governor of Virginia
10. DPVA Press Release: “NEW: Social Media Account Linked to John Reid Engaged with Slave Fetish And Nazi Porn Accounts”
11. Video: Youngkin Loudly Booed at “No Kings in America” Protest “after leaving St. John’s Church [in Richmond] for the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech”
12. Governor-Elect Spanberger Gets to Work, Announces Transition Team Leadership
13. Video: At Rally in Purcellville, Glenn Youngkin and John Reid Cut Loose with Repulsive Xenophobia, Islamophobia, etc.; Claim “radical Islamists…are on the march”; Declare, “I don’t want [Hashmi] anywhere. I don’t even want her in the state!”
14. [UPDATED with Jim Ryan’s Letter] In Response to Youngkin’s “Sad, Whiny” Letter to Spanberger About UVA, VA Senate Majority Leader Surovell Says He’s “truly embarrassed for Gov Youngkin…After 4 yrs he has no understanding of basic VA govt structure”
15. Attorney General-Elect Jay Jones Announces Senior Staff for Office of the Attorney General (Including Tillman Breckenridge, the First African-American Solicitor General in Virginia’s History)
16. Sen. Tim Kaine on Hegseth Confirmation: “Trump wanted to see if any [GOP Senators] a gag reflex. He has his answer.”
17. WaPo/Schar Poll: Spanberger 55%-Earle-Sears 43%; Hashmi 49%-Reid 45%; Jones 51%-Miyares 45%
18. “Major Shakeup” for VA GOP’s 2025 Ticket as Gov. Youngkin Calls on Presumptive LG Nominee John Reid to Withdraw “after GOP researchers found sexually explicit posts online that they believe are connected to Reid”
19. With the “Firehouse Primary” Coming Up Soon (6/28), Here Are the VA11 Democratic Candidates’ Positions on Some Major Issues
20. Senators Mark Warner, Tim Kaine Blast Trump’s “Reckless and Illegal” Order to Stop All Federal Grants and Loans
21. UVA Prof. Larry Sabato on Qatar “Gifting” Trump a Luxury Jet: “The Trump Administration is drowning in corruption–and few Americans seem to care. It’s another sign of a dying Republic.”
22. “Covid tyranny,” “Social Justice’ is about modern racial revenge”; “mental insanity of trans ideology”; “guns save lives”; virulently anti-abortion; etc: Meet the Latest VA GOP Lt. Gov. Candidate
23. Video, Photos: In Waynesboro, Staffers of Far-Right Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA06) – Who Refuses to Hold a Town Hall – “left without answering any questions. Booed as they left”
24. Political Analyst Sam Shirazi’s 2025 Virginia Primary Predictions for Lt. Governor, Attorney General, House of Delegates
25. After VA02 Citizens Hold Peaceful “Where’s Rep. Jen Kiggans? Town Hall,” Kiggans Attacks Organizers (Planned Parenthood, Freedom VA, Affordable VA) as “Extreme Left” “Radical Groups” Supported by “Soros Foundation” and Not “Real Virginians”
26. Abigail Spanberger: “The president just pardoned [former Culpeper Sheriff Scott Jenkins] in an affront to the oath he swore, the community he betrayed, the laws he broke, and the law enforcement officers who investigated this case”
27. [UPDATE: Day #3] Virginia General Assembly Meets for Possible New Redistricting Amendment
28. Governor-Elect Spanberger Announces Stanley Meador as Her Pick for VA Secretary of Public Safety & Homeland Security
29. VA Police Benevolent Association, a Strongly GOP-Leaning Group Which Previously Endorsed Glenn Youngkin, Ed Gillespie, Ken Cuccinelli and Bob McDonnell, This Time Surprisingly Goes with Abigail Spanberger Over Winsome Earle-Sears
30. Ghazala Hashmi Campaign “Internal” Poll of the 2025 VA Democratic Lt. Governor Primary Has 46% Undecided; Prior to Bios, It’s Aaron Rouse (15%)-Levar Stoney (15%)-Ghazala Hashmi (13%)
31. BREAKING: Del. Dan Helmer Files Lawsuit Seeking $15 Million in Compensatory Damages for What He Argues Was Defamation Leading Up to the June 2024 VA10 Democratic Primary
32. 12 Major Reasons Why Abigail Spanberger (and VA Democrats) Won Huge on Tuesday
33. NY Times: “Virginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push”
34. Live Blog: Abigail Spanberger and Winsome Earle-Sears Face Off in the Sole 2025 VA Governor’s Debate, with Just 26 Days Until the Election
35. [UPDATE: Walkinshaw Wins by 3:1 Margin] VA11 Special Election Results (Democrat James Walkinshaw vs. Republican Stewart Whitson): Live Blog
36. Video: On MSNBC, 2025 VA Governor Candidate Abigail Spanberger Says the “implications of this chaos coming out of the White House…[are] absolutely dire” for Virginia and the Entire County
37. VA11 Democratic “Firehouse Primary” Winners (Walkinshaw’s Campaign, the VA11 Dems, Turnout, etc.) and Losers (the WaPo, VA11 GOP, etc.)
38. Amanda Chase Says “Don’t shoot the messenger,” But If She Doesn’t Make the Ballot, Winsome Earle-Sears Will Lose to Abigail Spanberger and “Many have said they are going to move out of Virginia”
39. Sen. Tim Kaine Announces He Will Support Deal to Reopen Government; Sen. Mark Warner Says “We owe the American people more than a short-term fix that leaves working families staring down a health care crisis”
40. New Virginia Polls: Atlas Intel (Spanberger +8.7, Hashmi +6.1, Miyares +1.5); Echelon (Spanberger +12, Hashmi +3, Miyares +3); etc.
41. New State Navigate Forecast for 2025 Virginia Elections: “Democrats are heavily favored to win every level of the state government in Virginia this year.”
42. Governor-Elect Spanberger Announces Nick M. Donohue as Her VA Secretary of Transportation Appointment
43. Spanberger Inaugural Committee Announces Inauguration Weekend (Friday 1/16-Sunday 1/18) Schedule of Events
44. Governor-Elect Spanberger Announces Her First Cabinet Secretary Appointment, Marvin Figueroa as the New VA Secretary of Health & Human Resources
45. VA Dems: “It’s Truly Pathetic” That “Glenn Youngkin Doesn’t Have the Spine to Save His Own ‘Signature’ Program”
46. Video of Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10)’s “PACKED” Warrenton Town Hall in a “conservative part of northern Virginia”
47. Democrat John McAuliff Announces Candidacy for Virginia’s 30th District; Taking On a Right-Wing Republican with a Pathetic 14% Legislative “Batting Average”
48. VA Dems: “Glenn Youngkin told Virginians that the news of Medicaid portals being shut down was ‘misinformation’…Blatant lying and gross negligence to thousands of Virginians who rely on these benefits”
49. VA Speaker Don Scott: “Virginians should be disgusted that their governor won’t stand up to the president of the United States and say you’re wrong.”
50. Video: Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04) Declares, Bluntly “Yeah this is a coup. And it is not a coup by Donald Trump, it is a coup by Russ Vought and Elon Musk.”