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Republicans will decide 11th Congressional District nominee at lone canvass event
Local Republicans will determine their nominee for the 11th Congressional District special election on the same day as their Democratic counterparts. A singular canvass event will be held on June 28 at Fairfax High School, gathering all voters in one location to select a nominee, Virginia’s 11th Congressional District Republican Committee announced last week. Planned directly by the party, the canvass precedes the Sept. 9 special election set by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin earlier this month. The winner of that election will serve the remaining time in the two-year term of Rep. Gerry Connolly, who died last month.
Manouchehri: A smarter, more efficient defense budget starts in Virginia
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Parties set to pick candidates for Connolly seat on June 28
Democrats and Republicans will choose their candidates for a vacant Northern Virginia seat in Congress by party-run processes on June 28 for a special election in the 11th Congressional District on Sept. 9. Democrats will choose from a growing field that now includes nine candidates in a firehouse primary at multiple locations. Republicans plan a daylong canvass at a single site to pick from four announced candidates. A 14th candidate for the seat — opened by the death of Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-11th, on May 21 — has announced his candidacy as an independent.
Ejecting international students will diminish Va. schools
In its haste to drive out international students it deems hostile to the United States, the Trump administration is needlessly disrupting the lives of more than 21,000 students enrolled at Virginia colleges and universities and undermining academic freedom in a way that could do lasting damage to medical research, technology development, job growth, tuition costs and more.
Wallace: Trump’s DEI mandate is a surrogate for white social grievances
On April 3, President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring elementary through higher education institutions to certify they have no “illegal DEI practices,” defined as whites being subjected to discrimination while non-whites and marginalized groups benefit. Non-compliant institutions have lost federal non-related research contract funding and private universities may lose tax-free status. Sixty colleges have opposed this interference with higher education legal entitlements. Additionally, Trump utilized various retaliatory schemes against law firms, publishing and broadcast companies, major corporations and tech companies which ignored his expectations.
Virginia Beach cleared 100 homeless encampments in the past year
Since spring of last year, a team of city departments have cleared 100 encampments where homeless people had set up makeshift shelters. Twenty individuals living in the encampments were connected to shelter and as many as 10 were placed in housing. Not all of the cleared camps were occupied, Ruth Hill, director of Virginia Beach Housing & Neighborhood Preservation, told the City Council last week.
Environmental groups slam federal plan to ship wetlands mitigation out of Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads environmental groups are alarmed over a proposed federal decision that they say could undermine decades of local tidal wetlands restoration and protection. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality are moving toward approval of a new wetland mitigation bank in Prince George County — 50 miles upstream from Hampton Roads — that would allow developers to purchase mitigation credits from outside the region. Wetland mitigation banks are designed to compensate for environmental damage caused by permitted development projects. Developers buy credits from these banks to offset the impacts, typically by funding the creation or restoration of similar wetlands nearby.
Virginia Democrats beat early primary voting record
Virginia Democrats beat their previous record for early primary voting over the weekend. According to the Virginia Department of Elections, nearly 134,000 Virginians voted early in statewide Democratic Party primaries for Attorney General and Lt. Governor since early voting opened in early May. The previous record, set in the summer of 2023, saw 129,000 early Democratic primary votes cast, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
VPAP Visual Statewide Candidate Fundraising: June 2025
See a ranked list of the amount raised by candidates and their cash reserves for Virginia's statewide offices through June 5.
From VPAP Now Live: Candidates’ Pre-Primary Campaign Finance Reports
VPAP has posted all pre-primary campaign finance disclosures filed by candidates whose office is on the November 2025 ballot. Use our overview page to find what interests you — including candidates for statewide office, the House of Delegates, and local offices on the ballot in November. We rank each group of committees by amount raised and cash on hand. If you are interested in a specific committee, you can drill down for a sortable list of donors and expenditures reported through June 5 for candidates.