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Activate Virginia now serves as an all-volunteer network of researchers and activists who focus on uncovering corruption in Virginia and taking on undemocratic features of Virginia government.

"Why should we residents be stuck with 30 years of paying for a honking-big, fracked-gas-burning, climate-change-driving...
06/02/2026

"Why should we residents be stuck with 30 years of paying for a honking-big, fracked-gas-burning, climate-change-driving monstrosity whose sole purpose is to feed the tech companies’ competitive drive for the most advanced chatbots?

Indeed, there are all kinds of reasons why the SCC should say no, including the unfairness, high cost, illegality and – to use a technical term – stupidity of building another plant to burn fossil fuels."

The General Assembly meant for the Virginia Clean Economy Act and our participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to future-proof our power supply and deter Dominion from sinking its customers’ money into ill-conceived fossil fuel plants, columnist Ivy Main writes.

"The people who will live with the consequences are not shareholders. They are Virginia families who have no other optio...
06/01/2026

"The people who will live with the consequences are not shareholders. They are Virginia families who have no other option."

NextEra is touting $2.25 billion in one-time bill credits for Dominion customers spread across millions of customers over three states during a two-year period. This is a temporary payment, not a s…

"Flock cameras are already on Roanoke roads. Council members shouldn’t add microphones to our communities. Roanoke can’t...
05/31/2026

"Flock cameras are already on Roanoke roads. Council members shouldn’t add microphones to our communities. Roanoke can’t sign off on Flock’s vision of a sprawling, for-profit surveillance state that lets it profit off our data — data it should never have had access to in the first place. Roanoke City Council has an opportunity now to hit the brakes on more surveillance expansion, and it should take that opportunity, because where we drive and what we say is no one’s business but our own."

Just like cameras that track residents’ cars, microphones that constantly record sound are ripe for abuse.

"Now, NextEra’s proposed $67 billion merger with Virginia-based Dominion Energy stands to test those competing strategie...
05/31/2026

"Now, NextEra’s proposed $67 billion merger with Virginia-based Dominion Energy stands to test those competing strategies on the front lines of artificial intelligence."

The nation’s largest builder of wind and solar projects is moving into the heart of the data center boom with its plans to acquire Virginia’s Dominion

"Gov. Abigail Spanberger within just 24 hours vetoed two legislative packages aimed at limiting federal Immigration and ...
05/30/2026

"Gov. Abigail Spanberger within just 24 hours vetoed two legislative packages aimed at limiting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Virginia while simultaneously signing other measures targeting masked federal agents and issuing a sweeping executive order governing how ICE officers may operate on state property."

Gov. Abigail Spanberger within just 24 hours vetoed two legislative packages aimed at limiting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Virginia while simultaneously signing other measures targeting masked federal agents and issuing a sweeping executive order governing how ICE officer...

"This is a three-part story of how the VRA transformed Virginia by nullifying state voting laws designed to disenfranchi...
05/30/2026

"This is a three-part story of how the VRA transformed Virginia by nullifying state voting laws designed to disenfranchise Black voters and silence their voices in the halls of power."

Part 1 of 3 (1965-1985)

"Virginia families quite literally cannot afford to keep shelling out billions for corporate profits, volatile fuel pric...
05/29/2026

"Virginia families quite literally cannot afford to keep shelling out billions for corporate profits, volatile fuel prices and endless new data center demand. We must ask that these policies and campaign commitments to people over corporate profit hold fast."

Dominion’s plan to build one of the nation’s largest gas plants — a costly, volatile, data‑center‑driven project that would leave Virginians footing the bill despite far cheaper, steadier clean‑energy alternatives

“A mega-monopoly of this size, with the kind of money to buy political influence that NextEra will have, will be nearly ...
05/29/2026

“A mega-monopoly of this size, with the kind of money to buy political influence that NextEra will have, will be nearly impossible to regulate,” he said.

The combined company would serve 10 million customers and have dual headquarters in Florida and Richmond.

"Ten historic preservation and environmental groups are cautioning against the potential impacts of the proposed high-po...
05/29/2026

"Ten historic preservation and environmental groups are cautioning against the potential impacts of the proposed high-powered Valley Link transmission line that will span 115-miles across Virginia, casting it as a danger to the state’s natural resources.

The high-voltage line that will stretch from just outside Lynchburg to Culpeper County would be the largest transmission project in Dominion Energy’s territory.

“We have more ties to our land. It’s not replaceable for us. You can’t sell it and then get something else,” Irene Leech, a board member for Friends of Buckingham, said at a press conference Tuesday in Locust Grove. “This (transmission line) that they’re wanting to put in will bring things that we don’t think fit with the direction that our county and our land is going.”"

Ten historic preservation and environmental groups are cautioning against the potential impacts of the proposed high-powered Valley Link transmission line .

“What the Trump administration has done is to really expand a particular kind of arrest in the interior,” he said. “Thes...
05/29/2026

“What the Trump administration has done is to really expand a particular kind of arrest in the interior,” he said. “These are raids at Home Depots, in neighborhoods and at people's businesses.”

About three-quarters of those detained in the region last year had no prior criminal convictions.

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