Thank you @markwarner.bsky.social for your generous donation to the @charlesgaba.com 27 Value Pack 🎉💙 secure.actblue.com/donate/vaval...

Volunteered at Dem booth at Centerfest in downtown Bedford, VA. Both delegates Sam Soghor (53) and Joy Powers for Virginia (51) were there! Lots of people stopped by and said they had already voted yesterday!!!

First day of early voting in Virginia! I was #264. Voted Abigail Spanberger for Governor, Ghazala Hashmi for Lt. Governor, Jay Jones Attorney General and Joy Powers for Delegate. Let’s flip the state back to blue!!!

Virginia voters know that starting tomorrow, we get to cast our ballots and make clear — it’s time for a Governor who will stand up for Virginians.

Just saw where funds reaching Melody Cartwright HD48 She was able to fund two billboards from the $$ from this fundraiser. Just in time for early voting starting tomorrow.

Folks, if you’re (understandably) feeling antsy, we’ve got elections coming up in Virginia in less than seven weeks and the Progressive Turnout Project is looking for people to write GOTV postcards. There are polisci studies that show personalized notes boost turnout. Always better to do something.

These 27 Va. Dems are punching well above their weight-class by contesting the safest 27 GOP held HDs in the 2025 Va. election cycle. @charlesgaba.com created this ActBlue page because he understood their potential political impact. It’s made almost $78k so far. secure.actblue.com/donate/vaval...

If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.

The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

ATTN: Virginians in HD40!! ✔️ote *Donna Littlepage* @vademocrats.bsky.social starting Sept. 19 or on Election Day, Nov. 4. Bring friends! Bring hope! Your ✔️ote=Your ✔️oice ✔️oting is the beating 💓 of Democracy. #Postcards4VA For more info.: vavoter.net/evlist

JUST IN: Democrat James Walkinshaw won the Sept. 9 Virginia special election to fill late Rep. Gerald Connolly’s seat.

Just completed 50 postcards for Virginia House of Delegates candidate Joy Powers - HD 51 #postcards4va

🚨WOW !! This ActBlue page, created by the amazing @charlesgaba.com, has now raised over $30,000 dollars in less than 13 days. Charles’ support, & support from the many donors who contribute to this page will make a very large Va. Dem house majority much more likely ! ☀️ 🌊 Keep it going !! 🎯

This ActBlue page, created by the amazing @charlesgaba.com, has raised over $22,000 dollars in less than 10 full days. Incredible ! Thank you Charles! And thank you to all the donors who understand how actually competing in all 100 Va. HDs protects our democracy.🌟 secure.actblue.com/donate/vaval...

Another Democratic candidate in VA01 (Tim Cywinski - Communications Director at the Sierra Club's Virginia Chapter)? bluevirginia.us/2025/09/tues...

Sad because libraries are closed two days in a row- Sunday and Monday for labor day.

It’s important to stay abreast of the news, to organize, and to resist what’s happening in all ways possible, but it’s equally important to preserve your sanity. Play with your pets, enjoy your families, work on hobbies. Pace yourselves. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Love to you all.💙

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

The eerie quiet of the transition…was it unity theater, or the Kremlin’s oldest weapon?👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

The exemption allows packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty free. A total of 1.36 billion packages were sent in 2024 under this exemption, for goods worth $64.6 billion, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Agency. It is set to expire on Friday.

Concentrate on YOU!! Take care of you. We all did our part for 10 f**king years. 🖖

get a library card get a library card get a library card get a library card get a LIBRARY CARD

Sounds like an Alexei Navalny move ...

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May)

Costs of living are rising. If you are seeking help to grow/forage your own fruit and vegetables inexpensively, please feel free to tag me with Qs. We are all in this together. 💙 #tariffs #gardening #pinks #CostOfLivingCrisis #groceries

Knowing that food costs would rise once Our Special Boy started deporting the people that grow and pick our food, I suggested to the neighbors we start a backyard community garden. This is just this week’s haul from our yard. The neighbors will be here soon to share theirs…community!

Everything he does is an abuse of power…

"As Sears fails to disclose private flights and continues pushing lies about using the rainy day fund to cover Medicaid cuts, this week is more proof that Virginians can’t trust Sears and with her, it’s Virginians who stand to lose the most."- @vademocrats.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/08/vide...

What can you do? Rent a room. Grow food. Boycott corporations. Boycott plastics. Stock up. Be kind. Learn first-aid. Keep a journal and/or library. Help a neighbor. Make Art. Thrift. Upcycle. Be a good Listener. Join or start a club. Set boundaries. Conserve. Stop buying sh*t you don't need.

Got back out canvassing again. Yes there are Democrats in SW Virginia. Lots of super nice people. Favorite garden flag at a house. 17 doors. Early voting starts Sept. 19. Gov, Lt. gov, atty General.delegate. These people have rarely been contacted.

Winsome Sears won't debate Abigail Spanberger. Because she knows she'll lose and she won't face the voters.

Grocery Economics- bought two local green cabbage on sale for .47 / pound. Cored, then cut into 8 pieces. Sliced each wedge. Added 1.5 T Celtic sea salt. Massaged 10 min. Added 1.5 t. Caraway seed. Packed into wide mouth qt. mason jar. Covered with cheesecloth. Wait 7-10 days for fermentation.

I *think* this is based on a Danish manifesto from WWII that was repurposed for 1968. per this article that underscores effective resistance methods. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Virginia special election in 11th Congressional District on 9/9/25. Eligible voters will vote for a member of United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy created by the passing of the Honorable Gerald E. Connolly. Our Dem is James Walkinshaw. Check registration, make a voting plan.

BREAKING: DC is in chaos tonight as massive protests flood the streets. Trump has called in the National Guard over some bullshit “violent crime emergency” he just made up. This isn’t law & order—this is fascism in broad daylight.

Sadly, this is exactly how the problem started. Relying on others to think for us has led to the population being unable to do any kind of critical reasoning and decision making. That is the true epidemic in the US and many other countries are only slightly better.

> As President I'm talking about plans for the situation we're in now. CONTINGENCY plans. Plans for what actions they would take as a party if they lost. To like, you know, make sure the current administration didn't roll back science and civil rights to the 1800s.

I think those who are OK then have a responsibility to do what we can for others.

Agree!

Work to become the ancestor that you respect today. Don't be an embarrassment or disappointment to those who come after you.

This is way too fracking true. I've worked in multiple industries, and everwhere men's constant screw-ups are excused while women are expected to be perfect, no matter the conditions.

NEW from me: The CFPB's consumer complaint system is more popular than ever, fielding over 2.7M complaints last year. But Republican lawmakers still voted to slash the CFPB's budget, even after referring thousands of their own constituents' issues to the agency. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

Tell your U.S. representative: Don’t sell off the USPS’s electric fleet #USPS #EV #ClimateChange https://environmentamerica.org/take-action/tell-your-u-s-representative-dont-sell-off-the-uspss-electric-fleet-2/

NEW: Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, loans and other products to the agency. By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/cfpb... Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, loans and other products to the agency.

Here in AZ, a Mining Company planning to build a huge Copper Mine on Public Land that is also a sacred Native American site. The project will decimate the Environment. But, it will make the Mining Company more rich. That is where we are at now.

I volunteered for each of her campaigns for Congress and helped get signatures for her run for Governor. She had real town halls as a Rep, and does her research and is a great listener.

25% of Virginians have to choose between buying groceries & paying their ⚡ bills. Fortunately, there are programs to help people w/ their bills, as detailed in this op-ed by Appalachian Voices' Matt Allenbaugh & Virginia Organizing's Connie Wright-Zink in Cardinal News. https://loom.ly/ih83rjE