Virginia Del. Barry Knight said he agreed with ‘heightened awareness on ladies and pregnancy and all this’ but claimed language citing racial disparities in health issues was hurtful.

Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment the same week New Jersey’s governor signed legislation to protect health care and three states saw voting rights victories.

Gov. Ralph Northam banned guns from state Capitol grounds to try and prevent the kind of violence seen at the Charlottesville protests in 2017.

ERA advocates say with the state’s vote the amendment will have surpassed the three-quarters of states needed to be added to the Constitution.

Virginia welcomes its first woman speaker of the House of Delegates the same week New York legislators pass a bill making it easier to vote, and Kansas worked to expand health care to 150,000 more residents.

Virginia state legislator John McGuire accidentally filed the ‘[NAME OF STATE] Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act’ earlier this week.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy endorsed former Rep. Scott Taylor, who was accused of voter fraud, in order to put Congress ‘back on the right course.’

New Jersey took positive steps to restore voting rights, and Virginia is poised to make progress on the same issue in the new year.

Republican Reps. Ben Cline, Denver Riggleman, and Rob Wittman don’t think Virginia localities should have to enforce any new gun safety laws that are passed.

Republican Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins is facing backlash after he said he would grant thousands of citizens law enforcement authority.

Former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) had been seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, but will apparently now run for his old House seat.

Kansas joins states like Colorado and Utah in embracing refugees in their states, while citizens in Alabama saw a new statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Montgomery.

Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam has put on Virginia’s attempt to impose a work requirement on Medicaid expansion beneficiaries on hold.

From victories on protecting immigrants to the first step in legalizing marijuana on the federal level, progressives saw a slew of victories this week.

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The Virginia Citizens Defense League hopes localities will simply ignore new gun violence laws that may be passed by the new Democratic majority in Richmond.

The gun group spent big trying to keep the Republican legislative majorities in its home state.

Virginia Del. Kathy Tran (D) and every one of her pro-choice colleagues were reelected on Tuesday after being demonized for wanting to protect reproductive freedom.

Democrats in the state also took back the majority in both legislative chambers.

Democrats won unified control of Virginia’s state government, picked up a governorship in deep red Kentucky, and flipped state and local elections in historically GOP areas.

Democrats will now have full control of Virginia’s government.

Virginia state Sen. Tommy Norment told his constituents Tuesday’s election was over before it started.

Kentucky has a high-profile governor race, while every state legislator in Virginia is on the ballot on Tuesday.

It’s unclear why Trump decided to jump into the race for Virginia’s 13th Senate District a day before the election.

Virginians could see new movement on gun background checks and voting rights if Democrats win big on Tuesday.

GOP state Sen. Bryce Reeves criticized Democratic opponent Amy Laufer, saying ‘she’s lucky enough to have her husband that provides all that stuff.’

The state Republican Party is using the same hate-filled playbook that failed in 2017 and 2018.

Bill Drennan, a GOP candidate for Virginia House of Delegates, made a bizarre argument against gun control.

Del. Tim Hugo is linked to Intuit and H&R Block, two companies that allegedly steered low-income Virginians away from free tax-filing options to increase their profits.