Virginia

If anyone ever tells you their vote doesn't matter...Republicans won control of the Virginia House of Delegates in 2000 and have held it since-- until this week. Before the Nov. 7 election, the GOP held 66 seats and the Democrats occupied just 34.

A Virginia cop has been arrested for downloading private sex videos from the cellphone of a suspect he arrested.
Then sending the videos to his own phone.
Colonial Heights cop Bryan Glinn Drake, 30,transferred short videos from the phones of a suspect and his girlfriend he arrested on drug charges in March.
A lawyer for the arrested suspect stated that during the arrest Drake searched through the phone and found the videos, which were “short but of an explicit nature.”
The videos were taken by the girlfriend of the suspect Drake arrested.

This week on the New World Next Week: the Russians are building their own internet directory; horrific Herpes vaccine experiment has billionaire Bilderberg backer; and DARPA works on the Venus spy trap.

This week on the New World Next Week: the Russians are building their own internet directory; horrific Herpes vaccine experiment has billionaire Bilderberg backer; and DARPA works on the Venus spy trap.

This was originally written as part of today's first post, so if you haven't already done so, you might want to read that for context.Catherine Vaughan is the CEO of Flippable, a Democratic organization founded right after last year's election by a gaggle of Hillary Clinton staffers who want to flip red districts blue.

A real scumbag and crook  is leaving CongressThere were several Republican members of Congress who unexpectedly announced their retirements just before the results from Virginia and New Jersey confirmed what Republicans have been fearing, namely that an anti-Trump/anti-GOP is building and by 2018 will be strong enough to sweep dozens and dozens of Republicans out of Congress.

Virginia election officials were still tabulating votes, though it was obvious Trump's candidate, Ed Gillespie was losing badly, when Trump reacted with the tweet above, hoping people wouldn'tt see his unblemished record as a kiss-of-death endorser in GOP primaries and in general elections.

Progressives had an opportunity to deliver a “massive repudiation of Donald Trump“—and of Trumpism more broadly—Tuesday night with gubernatorial and state legislature races taking place across the country Tuesday night, and they delivered in a big way.

Monday, Bill Clinton spoke at Georgetown University to mark the 25th anniversary of his election. He brought up his wife's failed election by noting that "in the counties that Hillary carried, you find 64 percent of America's GDP. In the more numerous, rural counties carried by President Trump, you find 36 percent of the GDP, even though the median income of a Trump voter was higher. What does that tell you?