News & Commentary

Check out how YOU helped us fight back against the Trump administration this year – and what’s ahead for 2027.

When two students at King George County Middle School wanted to start an LGBTQ+ club, the school board created roadblocks to keep the club from forming. Students fought back with the support of their parents and the ACLU of Virginia – and won. Here’s their story.

Virginians deserve answers. We won’t stop fighting for Virginians’ First Amendment rights.

Up and down the ballot, every vote counts.

Spotsylvania County announced its plan to ban 23 books from its school libraries.

Edited education is a handicap. I trust our teachers and librarians. You should, too.

These obscenity proceedings are in line with a history of attacks on our First Amendment rights to read, learn, and think for ourselves.

Today in Sines v Kessler, the civil case against the organizers of the Unite the Right event in August, 2017 in Charlottesville, a jury reached a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, finding that white nationalists conspired to travel to Charlottesville, Virginia with the express purpose of inciting violence.

Even in a public health emergency, we must keep a watchful eye on the government to ensure that any COVID-19 response is grounded in science and accepted public health policy, and does not  infringe on our civil rights, including the right to privacy.