Brandon Jarvis

Del. Mike Jones, D-Richmond, won the firehouse primary to replace Lt. Gov.-elect Ghazala Hashmi in SD-15 by a large margin according to party officials. This is a strong Democratic district according to VPAP, making the special election next month more of a formality compared to this primary race, which took a dark turn last week.

The Democratic nomination battle for the Senate District 15 special election has turned two “friends” against each other. SD-15 is a strong Democratic district, making this nomination battle highly consequential.

Virginia Democrats are responding after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled Thursday that the gerrymandered Texas legislative maps can be used, overruling a lower-court judge who previously said the Lone Star State cannot use the new maps.

Democrats have begun filing legislation ahead of the 2026 legislative session that convenes in January. Of the bills they have announced — Democrats, who have control of both chambers in the General Assembly and the Executive Mansion for the first time since 2021 — appear to be prioritizing increasing the minimum wage and providing paid leave for workers across the commonwealth.

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger asked the University of Virginia Board of Visitors to hold off on hiring a new president until she takes office and appoints new members. UVA’s Board currently has five vacancies due to Senate Democrats' refusal to approve several appointments by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Virginia’s two U.S. senators often agree on most issues and release joint statements to show it — but on the alleged new deal to open the federal government that has enough Democratic support in the Senate to pass — they are at odds.

Del. Mike Cherry, R-Colonial Heights, is running to be the leader of the House Republican Caucus after Democrats flipped 13 seats Tuesday night. Democrats, however, are targeting Cherry and several other Republicans in 2027 who they believe are now vulnerable.

Matt Strickler, a former Natural and Historic Resources secretary under Gov. Ralph Northam, has entered the race for the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District.

State Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, and Charles Stimson, the rector of the George Mason Board of Visitors, disagree on whether the board’s executive committee can meet and take actions this week.

Del. Carrie Coyner, R-Chesterfield, sat down with Virginia Scope on Monday morning to discuss the controversy surrounding text messages sent to her in 2022 by Virginia’s Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones. In the conversation with Virginia Scope, Coyner talked about what actions she took when she received the texts and why it took years for them to become public. She also discussed previous conversations with Jones in which she said that he told her in 2020 that if a few police officers died, then maybe they would stop killing people. Jones denies he said this.