Q: Do you live in Virginia? Or do you live in the United States of America?
A: Yes.
This is at the center of whether to vote YES or NO on the referendum to temporarily redistrict the voting map for U.S. congressional elections.
If you think strictly in local terms, you may favor voting “No.” If you realize that you, your neighbors, your town, and our state are part of a larger nation, you will vote “Yes.”
President Trump urged states like Texas, Missouri and North Carolina to change their voting maps in order to tilt the November 2026 national elections in favor of Republicans. Those state legislatures obeyed his order to “nationalize” the elections, even without putting the matter to voters through a referendum. This is highly unusual; to the extent maps are redrawn, that’s typically only every 10 years, after the national decennial census.
So now, because of the tactic of the President of the United States and several states, we in Virginia face the question: whether to think solely in local terms or in national terms. And in this state, the General Assembly has put the question to us voters, rather than imposing it from on high.
The power of the federal government is unmatched and overwhelming; no single state so dominates our daily lives. The power to declare and wage war, enacting and enforcing (or deciding not to enforce) laws that protect our food, air, and water; managing international relations, deciding which medicines and vaccines are available to us; funding and operating federal programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; funding and operating agencies that govern our taxes, our civil rights, airplane travel and security, border control, immigration, deportation.
You are a Virginian, but if you are an American First, you may realize that voting YES on the referendum means voting to maintain the integrity of national elections and our national government.
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Expiration of ACA subsidies hitting many of our neighbors hard in Page County
‘Thoughtful approach to a very complicated problem’ in short-term rentals
Recent reassessment revives popular Page sport…blaming ‘outsiders’
Impairing local careers and local healthcare
Virginia must stand up to platforms breaking state’s sports betting laws
Concerns about FirstEnergy’s transmission tower rebuild between Luray and Sperryville
Local teachers strive to protect students from federal funding cuts
How federal cuts to healthcare affect you, your family, and your friends
Call for public involvement in deciding how to use the county’s Goodrich Road property
This letter is a steaming cow pie of buzzwords and inaccuracies. The writer of the letter and the people behind the “Vote Yes” movement believe that the people of Page County are too stupid to know what is best for them, so others should be given the power to do so. I know the people of Page County are better and smarter than that. This is a power grab. Only the majority party in Richmond will determine what is “fair” and what is “temporary.” Meanwhile, Page County affairs will be filtered through a NOVA lens. Keep Page County Page County. Vote “No.”