Over the past few months State Fair has been busy planning our 2026 State Selection Convention to determine where we will be placing our support, as we head toward the midterms. Much like in 2024 our leadership team each took on one of The States Project's targeted states to pitch (some had to pitch more than one due to the large and increasing pool of targeted states!), agonizing over deciding whether to take on one, two, or three states, then opening up the vote to our membership. We held...

We went into 2025 with a great deal of uncertainty and concern, with understandable feelings of hopelessness and an urge to give up. Inevitably though, those in the political sphere weren't going to remain downbeaten for long and come January, the state level set the stage for the continuing fight for democracy. In Virginia, 2 out of 3 special elections were won by Democrat candidates for VA House District 26 and Senate District 32. In our support of Virginia for the November elections, we...

Two years ago State Fair supported the Virginia elections with incredible results, defending the Senate and earning a new majority in the House. Now, we are back to the work as once again those off year elections loom! Virginia remains a bellwether state for what lies ahead, particularly for the 2026 mid terms. This year, all 100 House seats are up for election with the current make up in the chambers at 51 Democrat to 49 Republican. Virginia also has a Governor race, with Democrat Abigail...