Richmond, VA—Progress Virginia, the commonwealth’s leading voice for progressive values, today responded to the call for a special session of the General Assembly to address gun violence prevention in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia Beach. Progress Virginia issued the following statement from executive director Anna Scholl: “Year after year, we have watched […]
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One Year Ago We Expanded Medicaid–Now Go Vote!
It seems like yesterday we achieved a major victory here in Virginia. After years of debate and roadblocks, the Virginia state Senate voted on May 30, 2018 to expand access to affordable healthcare to 400,000 Virginians. It took six years of tireless advocacy from activists, community members, unions, and grassroots organizations, but on that day […]
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Conservatives In Virginia Are Coming For Abortion Access
In order for our communities to thrive, one of the most basic things we need is the ability to decide for ourselves whether, how, and when to start a family. Everyone needs the basic autonomy to decide what happens with their bodies and the right to choose how many children they do or do not […]
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House GOP Misleads Virginians On Student Debt and Higher Ed
Student debt & college tuition have skyrocketed under House GOP’s watch Richmond, VA—Blocking protections for student loan borrowers. Deriding popular proposals to allow student loan borrowers to refinance their loans just like you can a mortgage. Systematically underfunding higher education. Skyrocketing college tuition. Somehow those low points failed to make in into a House GOP […]
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Things I’m Over: Stigma Around Abortion
Spoiler Alert: This blog contains spoilers from season 3 of “The Bold Type”. On last Tuesday’s episode of “The Bold Type”, a show on Freeform profiling millennial women in the workplace, one of the main characters considered running for office. She was excited about her possible campaign, but became hesitant at the prospect of people […]
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New Trump Immigration Czar Compared Immigrants to Rats
Washington, DC—Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, widely reported as Donald Trump’s pick as immigration czar, compared immigrants to rats in 2012 and appeared to endorse family separation policies. Speaking on a D.C. radio program, Cuccinelli said “It is worse than our immigration policy. You can’t break up rat families…and you can’t even kill ‘em.” “It is […]
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It’s Time for a A New Earth Day
by Taneasha White and LaTwyla Mathias The recent occasion of Earth Day got us thinking about the environment, the movement to save the environment, and the state of our country in 2019. We need a new approach to environmental issues, including Earth Day, and here’s why. Growing up, we were taught in school to love […]
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Federal Court Issues Landmark Abortion Rights Victory in Virginia
Advanced practice clinicians will now be able to provide first-trimester abortion care in Virginia Regarding today’s court ruling, Progress Virginia executive director Anna Scholl issued the following statement: “Today’s decision is a huge victory for people in Virginia who deserve to be able to make their own decisions about whether and when to start a […]
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Who Counts in the 2020 Census? | How an Undercount Could Impact Virginia Communities
This blog post is the final installation of a three-part series “Who Counts in the 2020 Census?” where we interviewed local leaders spearheading the fight in their communities to obtain a fair and accurate count of everyone who lives in Virginia. The Census is a pretty big deal. The data collected from the Census is […]
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“Us” and the Marginalization of People of Color in Virginia
⚠️Caution⚠️ Several “Us” spoilers ahead! Seeing Us on opening weekend, I was surprised by the themes throughout the movie that relate directly to the socio-political climate in Virginia. Here’s a brief overview of Jordan Peele’s new box-office hit Us: a family goes on vacation, and during their stay the mother seems to be haunted by […]