(JTA) — The Republican Party of Virginia accused the Democratic nominee for a congressional race of being a “virulent anti-Semite.” Leslie Cockburn received the Democratic nomination for the 5th Congressional District race on Saturday afternoon, during the Democrat’s convention in Farmville, Virginia. She beat out three other candidates and will face incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Garrett…
A conservative activist in suburban Washington, D.C. is recovering from being shot and hit by a car, allegedly by a former Marine he hired to investigate the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Jack Burkman told The Washington Post that he had hired Kevin Doherty to help him build a psychological profile…
A farm well-known in northern Virginia for wearing its politics on its sleeves decided it was time to tone it down. A sign reading “Rise & Resist” had led to an outpouring of vitriol from neighbors and fellow Virginians over a perceived attack on Trump. They thought changing it to “Resist White Supremacy” would make…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Virginia Republicans have called for the ouster of a party official who said only Christians should run for party positions. “Having a preference for Christians over non-Christians as political leaders is not bigoted,” Fredy Burgos said this week in a Facebook post promoting his favored candidate, Tim Hannigan, for the chairmanship of…
Elaine Luria announced her candidacy for Virginia’s 2nd congressional district less than a month ago and has already landed a New York Times profile featuring her and two other female Naval Academy graduates who are now running for office as Democrats. A 20-year Navy veteran who reached the rank of commander and whose last deployment…
Residents of Leesburg, Virginia, discovered fliers purporting to be distributed by the racist terror group the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend. According to local news channel WTOP, the fliers denigrated Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday is celebrated nationwide on Monday. “The timing of it we think was pre-emptively planned by this individual…
(JTA) — Two brothers from the Appalachian Trail town of Damascus, Virginia were arrested after they were captured on video yelling anti-Semitic comments at a man wearing a Star of David. The incident occurred Monday outside of Hey Joe’s, a restaurant owned by the father of the suspects, Joseph Killian, 33, and Henry Killian II,…
Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer pleaded for calm after a car plowed into a crowd of demonstrators protesting a gathering of white supremacists in the Virginia college town, killing at least one person. I am furious & heartsick by the car crash that has injured many. Please all-go home to your families. We can work tomorrow….
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