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Extreme Risk Protection Orders Save Lives

Starting on July 1, Virginia will join 15 other states that have extreme risk protection orders. This means that a judge can remove firearms from people who are determined to be at risk of harming themselves or others. This law will help prevent gun violence by ensuring that people who are going through a crisis […]

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Rich Anderson Represents the NRA. Not Me. And Not You. [Election Update]

This is part of a series of posts on Delegate Rich Anderson, who is up for re-election in District 51. Read the other posts in this series: Rich Anderson’s Dog Whistle Racism 7 Years of Votes Against Raising the Wage Rich Anderson: Another Old White Dude With Opinions About Your Body Rich Anderson has been […]

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Hey Virginia: We Live in the NRA’s Backyard

On Monday morning the people of Virginia awakened to breaking news from Las Vegas, Nevada. The headlines read “50 dead, 200 injured.” The toll from the mass shooting would eventually rise to 58 dead and 489 injured. Five days later, we know more about the terrible shooting Sunday night: We know that, of the 23 […]

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18 Miles for Gun Control

18 miles. That’s the distance protesters, marchers, and gun control advocates will walk from the National Rifle Association (NRA) headquarters in Fairfax to the Department of Justice in Washington DC. Virginia gun control activists have organized a monthly protest on the 14th of every month at the NRA headquarters. The protests began in January 2013, […]

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Alex Jones Doesn’t Deserve to be Heard.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequence. This Sunday, reporter Megyn Kelly will sit down with extreme conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for an interview on NBC. She shouldn’t. If you’re one of the few lucky people who hasn’t heard of Alex Jones, he’s an extreme right-wing radio personality who pedals dangerous, made-up, conspiracy theories […]

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A Parent’s Nightmare

The following is a guest blog by Lori Haas. It was a beautiful spring morning ten years ago when I got the phone call from my daughter, Emily. “Hi Mom, I’ve been shot,” she said. I immediately dropped what I had been doing and raced towards Blacksburg with my husband, breaking every traffic law as […]