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Who’s Running Against Wittman in CD1?

December 1, 2025
By: Colleen Bohlman

There’s been a lot of churn with candidates for the Democratic nomination in CD1 with several candidates joining the race and others ending their campaigns. Here’s an update on the Democrats hoping to unseat Rob Wittman next November:

2026 Challengers to Congressman Rob Wittman and Senator Mark Warner

September 20, 2025
By: Heather Massey

Two 2026 races are heating up: more candidates entered the VA1 Congressional Democratic Primary, and an underdog candidate launched a bid to challenge Senator Mark Warner.Read More

Who are the Democrats running for Attorney General?

May 5, 2025
By: Colleen Bohlman

Jay Jones and Shannon Taylor are competing for the Democratic nomination for attorney general. The winner of the June 17 primary election will face the Republican incumbent Jason Miyares. Jones, the former delegate for Virginia’s 89th House District, and Taylor, the Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney, share a common goal: they want to use the Attorney General position to fight against President Donald Trump’s administration. To save you time in evaluating the Democrat candidates, we’ve gathered information from a variety of reputable sources. Read More

“I want a better society for my kids. I’m passionate about healthcare. I’m a physician, my wife is in public health and the way healthcare is going right now is very frightening and I just want a candidate who is willing to go against what is happening on the national level. The vaccination piece is definitely scary, I think it’s really important to stay up to date with those things, the pandemic changed so much about how people trust the healthcare system, and while there are a lot of ways the healthcare system needs to improve, leadership from the top down needs to be solid and it’s just not solid right now”.

“I’m mostly concerned about the SNAP funding. Because in my profession, I know some people through Virginia Cooperative Extension who were doing nutrition education for SNAP beneficiaries, all of those programs were cut as kind of a ripple effect from the (Big, Beautiful) bill, but they lost those programs, which is important to me – nutrition information. I’m concerned about out healthcare, I’m concerned about what’s happening with immigration right now and for me personally, I’m soon going on Medicare, and I’m concerned with what’s happening with that. Things are so divisive, you can’t even really talk about issues in a calm way”.

“I am passionate about gun safety regulation. I am passionate about enforcement of the anti-trust laws. Those are two big ones for me. And also intelligent AI regulation and data center/environmental regulations. I have concern about the kind of Wild West style lack of regulation of artificial intelligence. I think we need to take a systematic thoughtful approach so that we targeted AI rather than just an uncontrolled profit for a few big companies”.

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