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“They could be thinking: 'This is perhaps the second time in a month that people associated with the Tea Party have really hurt us and we need to rethink things'. At some point, the national Republican party needs to decide: 'Are we going to be a majority party or go to the right, stake out that ground and maybe never hold national office again.”
— Craig Brians, as quoted in BBC News, "Five reasons why the Virginia governor's race matters" (4 November 2013), BBC
“In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks, even freemen, could not own guns.”
— Ann Coulter, "Negroes With Guns" (18 April 2012), Ann Coulter
“On the whole, I find nothing anywhere else... which Virginia need envy.”
— Thomas Jefferson, as quoted by Lynn Seldon in Country Roads of Virginia: Drives, Day Trips, and Weekend Excursions (1999), p. xi
“There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him.”
— John Mosby, letter to Samuel "Sam" Chapman (9 May 1907), Washington, D.C.
“I think Stone Mountain is amusing, but then again I find most representations of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outside of Virginia, and, in Jackson's case, West Virginia, to be amusing.”
— Brooks D. Simpson, "The Future of Stone Mountain" (22 July 2015), Crossroads
“Today, I offer the Commonwealth's sincere apology for Virginia's participation in eugenics. We must remember the Commonwealth's past mistakes in order to prevent them from recurring.”
— Mark Warner, as quoted in "Virginia apologises for eugenics policy" (3 May 2002), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation

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Measles cases top 2025 total, surge nationwide

Measles cases in 2026 have surged to 2,318 across about 44–45 jurisdictions, the highest annual total since 1991 and well above 2025, driven largely by numerous outbreaks including multi-state clusters and a large Utah–Arizona spillover. Health officials warn that declining kindergarten vaccination rates and gaps in immunization are fueling the spread, with ongoing debates over leadership and vaccine misinformation complicating efforts to curb the outbreak and restore elimination status.

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Inception: June 25, 1788
Website: https://www.virginia.gov/

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