From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   Here's what they've been up to in just the last few weeks:   
      
   Ban future attempts to clean up voter rolls (HB111)   
      
   Prohibit state agencies distributing federal dollars to NGOs to investigate   
   whether they're engaged in fraud (HB1369)   
      
   Prohibits the hand-counting of ballots (HB968)   
      
   Allow mail-in ballots to be counted one week after election day (HB773)   
      
   Allow for absentee ballots to be received and counted for three days after   
   election day (HB82)   
      
   Gerrymanders the state with a 10-1 or 9-2 Democrat Congressional map (HJ4)   
      
   Creates a state-level equivalent of the VRA (HB967)   
      
   Eliminates the requirement that large last-minute campaign contributions have   
   to be publicly reported at least 24 hours before election day (HB1348)   
      
   Removes the State Board of Elections' ability to dispatch law enforcement   
   officers to collect vote tallies from a locality that refuses to publish them   
   (HB1321)   
      
   Joins the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact for allocating Virginia's   
   electoral college votes in presidential elections (HB965)   
      
   Automatic restoration of voting rights for the mentally handicapped and felons   
   after they're released from prison (HB964, HB963, & HB1014)   
      
   Allows for votes to be cast "electronically through the internet" (HB493)   
      
   Public funding of political campaigns at the local level (HB162)   
      
   Abolishes all mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting   
   a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography,   
   and all repeat violent felonies (HB863)   
      
   Makes it harder for judges to deny bail, even in the case of things like   
   aggravated assault, armed robbery, and drug trafficking (HB357)   
      
   Gives convicted murderers, rapists, and terrorists a chance to get out of   
   prison early (HB853)   
      
   Drastically reduces the criminal penalty for robbery (HB244)   
      
   Bars prosecutors from mentioning a criminal's prior convictions during the   
   guilt phase of a trial, even if it's for the same crime (HB1070)   
      
   Reduces the amount of time that the Commonwealth can compel a convicted   
   criminal to pay court fees from 60 years to 10 (SB180)   
      
   Taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries (HB1245)   
      
   Legalizes racial discrimination against white people by banning most   
   discretionary state contracting under $100K from going to businesses owned by   
   white men and allows state agencies to award contracts to female- or   
   minority-owned firms that are 5% more expensive than a bid from a business   
   owned by a white man (HB61)   
      
   Punishes the Virginia Military Institute for adopting an anti-DEI stance   
   (HB1374 & HB22)   
      
   Abolishes all Confederate-themed license plates, including those already   
   issued (HB1344)   
      
   Eliminates the tax-exempt status for all Confederate history groups (HB167)   
      
   Renames Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples Day" (HB858)   
      
   Makes it illegal to approach within 8 feet of anyone while within 40 feet of   
   an abortion clinic (SB137)   
      
   Enshrines a leftist narrative about January 6 and requires it to be taught in   
   public schools (HB333)   
      
   Allows localities to adopt rent control measures (HB1177)   
      
   Increases the sales tax in Northern Virginia, adds an additional sales tax for   
   home deliveries, raises the car tax for electric vehicles, and imposes new   
   sales taxes for streaming services, concerts, gym memberships, nail salons,   
   barber shops, tanning beds, tatoo parlors, dry cleaners, shoe repairs,   
   carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, and housekeeping   
   work for homes, swimming pool maintenance, travel agencies, and shipping   
   services (SB730, HB1179, HB900 & HB978)   
      
   Creates a new tourism tax on event entrance fees (HB550)   
      
   Raises the hotel tax in Arlington (HB524)   
      
   Imposes a new 7.75% tax on incomes over $1 Million (HB1074)   
      
   Creates two new tax brackets, one over $600K at 8% and another over $1 Million   
   at 10% (HB979)   
      
   Imposes a 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes (HB378)   
      
   Allows every locality to raise the state sales tax by 1% (HB334 & SB66)   
      
   Raises the sales tax for Stafford County (HB1000)   
      
   Rounds up all state and local taxes by the nearest 5-cent increment (HB954)   
      
   Allows localities to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers (HB881)   
      
   Imposes a new personal property tax on electric-powered lawn equipment   
   (HB557)   
      
   Limits the ability to use self-driving or autonomous vehicles (HB1124)   
      
   Allows state and local government to implement traffic and speed cameras   
   (HB1330 & HB994)   
      
   Puts speed cameras on state highways (HB1220)   
      
   Requires a license to buy a firearm (HB1359)   
      
   "Assault weapons" ban (HB217)   
      
   Strips gun rights from anyone convicted of a misdemeanor "hate crime"   
   (HB1015)   
      
   Makes it illegal to shoot a firearm on lot sizes less than 5 acres (HB926)   
      
   Expands "gun-free zones" (HB626)   
      
   Shrinks concealed-carry reciprocity with other states (HB24)   
      
   Holds firearm manufacturers liable for gun deaths (HB21 & SB27)   
      
   Imposes an 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition (HB1094)   
      
   Imposes a $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors (HB207)   
      
   Drastically raises the physical requirements to operate a firearms store   
   (HB907)   
      
   Makes it harder to obtain a concealed carry permit (HB916)   
      
   Creates a new taxpayer-funded state propaganda center for the sole purpose of   
   promoting gun control (HB969)   
      
   Targets ICE by banning the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers   
   even though states have no jurisdiction or authority to mandate dress codes   
   for federal employees (HB7)   
      
   Makes ICE agents liable for civil lawsuits filed by illegal aliens (HB1314)   
      
   Prohibits ICE from arresting illegal aliens outside of courthouses even though   
   states have no jurisdiction or authority to dictate where federal agents may   
   and may not enforce federal law (HB1265)   
      
   Establishes a state propaganda commission to publicize the supposed negative   
   impacts of ICE raids in Virginia (HB1264)   
      
   Creates a state-mandated playbook for how schools must respond to ICE showing   
   up on their campus and bans school employees from assisting ICE (HB1260)   
      
   Unionizes government employees and gives them collective bargaining rights   
   (HB1263)   
      
   Unlimited taxpayer-funded home purchases for government employees (HB164)   
      
   Preferential hiring in State government for federal employees laid off by DOGE   
   (HB494)   
      
   Defers property taxes for federal employees during shutdowns (HB915)   
      
   Hikes Minimum Wage to $15/Hour (HB1)   
      
   Mandates "mental health screenings" for all public school students between 6th   
   and 12th grade (HB355)   
      
   Drastically curtails home school and private school independence from the   
   Virginia Department of Education (HB359)   
      
   Raises the salaries of school board chairs and vice-chairs (HB382)   
      
   Free public school education for illegal aliens (HB912)   
      
      
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