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Know Before You Vote in Any Primary!

written by Guest Contributor Elizabeth McCauley June 7, 2025

Patriots have the opportunity to take back one of the swampiest, dirtiest strongholds for Democrats – the 11th Congressional District. 

If you are in the 11th Congressional District in Virginia (almost all of Fairfax County), you will have the chance to participate in a GOP Party Canvass to select the most formidable challenger to take on who the Democratic party will select (via party canvass) to win back the 11th Congressional District. 

Here are the GOP Party Canvass date details: 

Saturday, June 28, 2025

9 AM – 4 PM

Fairfax High School

3501 Lion Run, Fairfax, VA 22030

Gerry Connolly sat in this seat for far too many years, voting lock in step with the radical Democratic party agenda. 

However, in the last election, especially, the Democratic stronghold started to crack and on September 9th (special election date set by Governor Glenn Youngkin), we can make sure the blue wall crumbles to the ground. 

In 2024, Mike Van Meter, secured the most Republican votes in the 11th district since 2008 (in almost 20 years), winning 134,802 votes, even more than President Trump secured in the 11th District. The momentum will only continue. 

What does this show us? The voters in VA-11 ARE interested in a change and ARE willing to vote against the grain and select a Republican Member of Congress even if they are not fully on board with the administration. What does this also demonstrate? We need a candidate who knows this race, has met with the voters and will get the job done! 

There is HOPE and all will depend on WHO GOP voters select in the party canvass and just how much blood sweat and tears, you reading this, are willing to put in to get that candidate to the finish line. This will need to be an all hands on deck operation! Money cannot buy this race, clever social media posts cannot win this race, support from MAGA influencers or think tanks cannot win this race, nice resume platitudes or identities and special “one ups” cannot win this race – it will take boots on the ground by the strongest candidate with a team of you, I and all others reading this to TAKE BACK the 11th Congressional District seat in Virginia! 

With the 11th district party canvass around the corner, make a plan to be there and know before you go who you will vote for and WHY you are voting for that candidate. 

Here is what I will call a know before you go, primary voting checklist: 

  1. Does the candidate live in the Congressional District he or she is running in?
  1. Has the candidate been involved locally in the community to connect directly on the ground with constituents and voters from his or her party and also independents and first time voters? 
  1. Has the candidate been in the fight working alongside patriots locally from calling out the nonsense in high taxes, an open border, crime on the rise and all the dirty deeds of the School Board and Board of Supervisors (yes, these are local matters, but two of the top contenders for the Democratic nomination have ties to the Board of Supervisors (Walkinshaw) and School Board (Pekarsky))? 
  1. Has the candidate been involved in the local Fairfax GOP to have the connection to the party base? 
  1. Outside of our party, has the candidate seen and worked first hand in a role in the community or a profession to be able to relate to and connect with new voters who traditionally might not vote for the GOP? Keep in mind that in the 11th District, the cards are stacked against us and we must bring in first time voters, Democrats and Independents to win.
  1. Why is the candidate running for office? Career aspirations or seeking a way to provide solutions to the problems he or she sees in his or her profession and the community?
  1. Is the candidate a patriot in word and deed or will he or she be a RINO when and if elected on September 9th? 
  1. All about the money, but in all honesty, is the candidate showing promise to garner financial support or just buy the seat (that is not a good look in the general election)? 
  1. Is the candidate a champion for life? Remember, LIFE comes before all else and one who shirks around the issue wins no additional vote but loses support from conservatives and people of faith. 
  1. What comes up when you do a simple search about the candidate? His or her background and clear statement on solutions to the problems voters are facing? Some career background? Next to nothing? The reason I state this, is that many voters in a general election will have little to no knowledge of the candidate and will do a search and what comes up might be the deciding factor. 
  1. As conservatives, the time is NOW during a primary process to select not just “someone who can win,” or “someone with financial resources,” but someone who we can trust to best represent us and stand up for Constitutional Principles versus just trying to get in while compromising on policy and principles along the way! 

This checklist can really be applied in any primary process. It is VITAL for you to know each candidate you are considering voting for. You have no excuse to simply gloss over media headlines or get excited about the next shiny object. It is paramount to select the best tried and true candidate who will not just win but then serve with principle if elected. If you are in the 11th Congressional District in Virginia and do not participate in this upcoming party canvass, you really have nothing you can complain about when a candidate is selected! Get informed and get ready to take part and then take this seat back in September! 

Know Before You Vote in Any Primary! was last modified: June 7th, 2025 by Guest Contributor Elizabeth McCauley

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Elizabeth McCauley is a Fairfax County resident, mother of three young children and the Co Founder of the Virginia MAVENS (Mothers for American Values, Education and NOVA Safety).

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S. Prefater June 9, 2025 at 9:51 am

The Republican Party of Virginia is in full melt-down and civil war.

In just five short months, millions of Virginians will head to the polls for an election that will decide a whole lot more than which party controls the governor’s mansion in 2026. Democratic state lawmakers need to retain control of the legislature in order to advance a trio of ballot measures protecting abortion rights, codifying same-sex marriage, and restoring voting rights to ex-felons.

Republicans have framed those three ballot measures and this year’s election as a do-or-die moment for the commonwealth. Turnout will be critical, as Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is barred by law from seeking a second term and his chosen successor, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, lacks his name recognition.

A united Virginia Republican Party could, Youngkin hopes, give Earle-Seares a decisive turnout advantage in a hotly competitive race. There’s just one problem: Virginia’s Republican leaders absolutely hate each other, and they don’t care who knows it. The party’s MAGA civil war has left Youngkin with a political migraine—and given Democrats a golden opportunity to flip a swing seat governorship.

The trouble began, as these things often do, with a MAGA-themed gay porn sex scandal. This one involved the Virginia GOP’s candidate for lieutenant governor, John Reid, the first openly gay man to earn the role. Internal Republican research linked the Trump-aligned Reid to multiple salacious gay porn sites. That’s the kind of thing that puts you in the doghouse with the Christian conservative Republicans who elected Youngkin and Earle-Sears.

Youngkin told Reid it was time to drop out. Reid not only refused, he released a series of videos denying the allegations and accusing Youngkin’s team of extortion. The governor’s failed effort to bully Reid out of the race enraged the state’s MAGA movement, who saw the move as a backdoor effort to push their champion off the ticket.

Eventually the measured Youngkin lost his cool. He dispatched his top strategist, Matt Moran, to threaten Reid with serious consequences if he stayed in the race. Then, when Reid went public with those threats in a sworn affidavit, Moran and Youngkin issued a forceful public denial. But to paraphrase former FBI Director James Comey, oh lordy, there were tapes. Just a few days after Reid published extensive audio recordings proving his claims, Moran announced his resignation from Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia PAC.

The entire embarrassing incident poisoned what were already pretty nasty relations between Virginia’s MAGA and Christian conservative sects. It also put Earle-Sears in an impossible position, because her largely Christian voter base now expected her to do something about the gay man scandalizing the state party.

Instead, Earle-Sears decided to anger everybody.

In a statement in which she quoted heavily from the Bible, Earle-Sears nevertheless failed to express any opinion on her controversial running mate. When pressed by reporters to offer her opinion on Reid’s behavior, Earle-Sears said only that “It’s his race” and “his decision alone” to stay in the race. The state’s Christian conservatives read Earle-Seats’ vagueness as weakness. To the party’s MAGA wing, it sounded like carefully worded treachery.

Virginia Republicans’ frustrations are written across every poll conducted since Reid’s scandal surfaced, with Democratic nominee Abigail Spangerger notching small but consistent gains while Earle-Sears’ popularity plateaus. In January, Spanberger led the race by only 2 points. By late May, her lead had widened to 9 points. What once looked like a nail-biter of a race increasingly looks like a rout.
Earle-Sears’ struggles are also derailing her biggest obsession: controlling other women’s reproductive rights. Earlier this year, Virginia’s Democratic legislature narrowly passed a constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights in law, a process they will need to repeat next year before the measure goes to voters in November 2026.

Earle-Sears has repeatedly said she’s “morally opposed” to the amendment. Keeping her out of the governor’s office is the best way to ensure Virginian women preserve their freedom of choice.

But what does that have to do with Virginia Republicans’ bubbling civil war? A lot, actually. The party’s deep rifts led to a spate of costly primary challenges as MAGA Republicans clashed with Christian conservatives. Meanwhile, a well-organized state Democratic Party is fielding legislative candidates in all 100 of Virginia’s House districts, forcing Republicans to spend even more on races that once went uncontested.

Hating takes a lot of time and energy, and Virginia’s GOP is discovering it doesn’t really have time for much else—including stopping their own slide into total dysfunction and reality TV ghoulishness. Democrats like Spanberger don’t just look like the adults in the room, with the current state of Virginia’s Republican Party, they are the only adults in the room.

Virginia’s political turmoil is another powerful reminder that the MAGA movement is incapable of existing alongside any other competing ideology. Its authoritarian roots make any kind of political coexistence impossible, even among other sects of Republicanism. Even when it means breaking a once-competitive party in two.

Youngkin and Virginia’s Christian conservatives now find themselves losing an existential battle for their party’s future. It’s a battle we’ve seen play out dozens of times in state parties and in the consciences of individual lawmakers like Youngkin, who probably regrets his own devil’s bargain with the MAGA movement right about now.

The Virginia GOP’s total collapse positions Democrats to make historic gains across the state. More importantly, it may be the key to securing a wave of long overdue reforms that make Virginia more just and more fair for everyone. It isn’t often that political parties flame out as spectacularly as Virginia’s Republicans but that’s what happens when you tie yourself first to the old Confederacy, then to the Tea Parties, and finally to Trump.

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