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Virginia Governor Signs 11 Executive Orders During First Day in Office

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Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got straight to work Saturday, issuing 11 executive orders within hours of his inauguration.

Several of the orders were aimed at the issues within Virginia schools that gave him the edge over Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe in the waning days of the election.

“It’s Day One, and we are going to work just like we promised,” said Youngkin in a press release, directing an end to “the use of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public education” with his first executive order. He further made good on his promise to parents with his second order by “empowering [them] in their children’s education and upbringing by allowing them to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school.”

“In Virginia, it is clear under law that parents have a fundamental right to make decisions for their children’s upbringing, their education and their care … we’re providing them the ability to make the right decision for their child with regards to their child’s well-being,” Youngkin told Fox News’ John Roberts on Sunday in his first official interview as Governor.

Youngkin continued to make good on his campaign promises by vowing, with his fourth order, to investigate the recent sexual assault case in Loudoun County. (Read more from “Virginia Governor Signs 11 Executive Orders During First Day in Office” HERE)

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School Board Reinstates Teacher Who Won’t Use Kids’ Preferred Pronouns

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A Virginia school district has agreed to permanently reinstate a physical education teacher who had been suspended for refusing to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns.

“Just today, the court issued a final order permanently prohibiting the Loudoun County Public School Board from punishing me for freely expressing my views,” Byron “Tanner” Cross told reporters after the settlement Monday, Fox News reported.

“I can now confidently continue teaching at Leesburg Elementary School without fear of punishment for expressing my views,” he added.

In June, the district said it would appeal a judge’s decision to reinstate Cross and take the fight to the state’s Supreme Court after federal Judge James Plowman ruled that the Leesburg Elementary School gym teacher could go back to work.

Cross, an outspoken Christian, had sparked outrage at a school meeting on May 25, when he spoke out against proposed Policy 8040 and wouldn’t affirm that a “biological boy can be a girl and vice versa” and was later suspended from the job. (Read more from “School Board Reinstates Teacher Who Won’t Use Kids’ Preferred Pronouns” HERE)

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Celebs Lose Their Minds After VA GOP Win

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Cher, Rosie O’Donnell, Stephen Colbert, Chelsea Handler, and other mediaites didn’t hold back in their criticism of Youngkin. . .

[Warning: tweets contain explicit language.]

(Read more from “Celebs Lose Their Minds After VA GOP Win” HERE)

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Republicans Sweep Virginia Election: ‘It’s a Bloodbath’; Donald Trump: MAGA Movement ‘Bigger and Stronger Than Ever Before’ (VIDEO)

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By Townhall. Republicans are running the table in Virginia. They’ve swept the executive offices and are flipping legislature seats. “It’s a Bloodbath.”

Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin has defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the race to become Virginia’s next governor.

(Read more from “Republicans Sweep Virginia Election: ‘It’s a Bloodbath'” HERE)

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Donald Trump: Glenn Youngkin Win Proves MAGA Movement ‘Bigger and Stronger Than Ever Before’

By Breitbart. President Donald Trump celebrated the victory of Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor’s race on Tuesday.

“The MAGA movement is bigger and stronger than ever before,” Trump wrote in a statement. “Glenn will be a great governor.”

Trump endorsed Youngkin in the race and encouraged voters to support him, but he did not host a campaign rally for the candidate in a state where President Joe Biden won by a ten point margin over the former president in 2020.

With 79 percent of precincts reporting, Youngkin is leading his Democrat challenger, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, by nearly ten points.

Trump attributed Youngkin’s win to the same Make America Great Again coalition that supported him for president. (Read more from “Donald Trump: Glenn Youngkin Win Proves MAGA Movement ‘Bigger and Stronger Than Ever Before’” HERE)

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Democrats Are Using the Same 2020 Election Shenanigans to Overtake Virginia This Year

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By The Federalist. Virginia’s hotly contested gubernatorial race is just days away, and with Republican Glenn Youngkin and former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe tied in the polls, the professional left isn’t leaving anything to chance. A McAuliffe defeat is largely considered a bellwether for congressional Democrats in the 2022 midterms.

So how do Democrats plan to ensure a McAuliffe win and a subsequent retention of power in the state and U.S. Senate? By using the same tactic they used in the 2020 national contest: profligate mail-in voting and fake grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts funding by philanthropies and wealthy leftists, a strategy revealed through Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s gift to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL).

And it’s a smart strategy. Joe Biden voters were twice as likely as Donald Trump voters to vote by mail in 2020, for example; and we know the effect of Zuckerberg’s millions on the 2020 election. The Capital Research Center specializes in exposing the activists behind these efforts. Here’s what we’ve discovered about the funding and activists behind them. . .

In September, I reported on a new wave of 2 million applications for Virginians to register for absentee ballots in 2021. These applications weren’t sent out by state or local elections officials, but by politically active nonprofits: the Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information (collectively “the center”). An internal memo details the spots they planned to cover most aggressively, many of which parallel Biden’s performance in 2020.

The center explicitly targeted the “New American Majority,” another code for likely Democratic voters that they define as “young people, people of color and unmarried women.” That bloc contains 73 percent of all unregistered voters nationwide, which is why the left-wing strategists at the Democracy Alliance consider their turnout “central to progressive long-term success.” (Read more from “Democrats Are Using the Same 2020 Election Shenanigans to Overtake Virginia This Year” HERE)

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Lawsuits Filed as 300,000 Ballots Allegedly Impacted as Virginia Governor’s Race Takes Off

By Western Journal. The Democratic Party of Virginia has filed a lawsuit contending that hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots could be caught up in the glacially-paced USPS mail delivery system, threatening to disenfranchise masses of voters and impact the commonwealth’s tight gubernatorial race.

Last week, the party filed a lawsuit claiming that as many as 300,000 Virginians intend to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s critical election by mail, but local USPS branches have failed to deliver ballots in time for voters to fill them out and return them by the deadline.

“Thousands of absentee ballots currently sit at postal facilities throughout the Commonwealth, unprocessed for weeks on end,” the suit alleges, according to The Washington Times. (Read more from “Lawsuits Filed as 300,000 Ballots Allegedly Impacted as Virginia Governor’s Race Takes Off” HERE)

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County Where Critical Race Theory Debate Erupted in Violence Gave Staff ‘Coaching’

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Newly unveiled documents from Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools show the district paid more than $34,000 for 55 hours of critical race theory coaching last year and slides contrasting “White Individualism” with “Color Group Collectivism.”

The documents, obtained through a freedom of information request from a Loudoun parent, show a framework for “culturally responsive” teaching from the Equity Collaborative, an equity consulting firm that offers courses on critical race theory.

Ian Prior, a former Justice Department official with children in the district and executive director of Fight For Schools, said a parent volunteering for the group had filed the public record request. . .

One slide focuses heavily on Black and Latino issues, but the presentation as a whole makes no mention of other minority groups, including Asian Americans, who have the largest minority presence in Loudoun.

“Under ‘Establishing Inclusion’ and ‘Developing a Positive Attitude,’ every culture is excluded except for Black Americans and Latino Americans,” Shawntel Cooper told Fox News Thursday evening. “We shouldn’t be excluding anyone.” (Read more from “County Where Critical Race Theory Debate Erupted in Violence Gave Staff ‘Coaching'” HERE)

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Court Orders School Board To Reinstate Teacher Suspended for Christian Speech on LGBT

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The Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Virginia is ordering the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia to immediately reinstate a gym teacher who was placed on leave after opposing transgender polices at a school board meeting last month.

The court issued a temporary injunction on Tuesday, ordering the board to immediately reinstate gym teacher Bryon “Tanner” Cross, who was suspended after he cited science and Christianity when opposing a draft policy that requires teachers to agree with children’s claim that they are members of the opposite sex.

“I love all my students, but I will never lie to them regardless of the consequences,” Cross said, in part, at a Loudoun school board meeting on May.

A court opinion by Judge James Plowman states that the Plaintiff (Cross) “contends that his suspension was an act of retaliation following his exercise of his rights to free speech in that, 1) his speech was constitutionally protected, 2) the Defendants’ retaliatory action adversely affected the Plaintiff’s constitutionally protected speech, and 3) there was a casual relationship between the speech and the action.” . . .

Judge Plowman went on to say, “The Court finds that the Plaintiff’s speech and religious content are central to the determination made by the Defendants to suspend Plaintiff’s employment.” (Read more from “Court Orders School Board To Reinstate Teacher Suspended for Christian Speech on LGBT” HERE)

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School Sued After Suspending Teacher for Opposing Transgender Activism

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A school district in Virginia that suspended a teacher after he objected to orders to call boys by feminine pronouns, and vice versa, has been sued because its politically correct agenda appears to violate the law.

The lawsuit against the Loudoun County Public Schools was announced Tuesday by the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Teacher Byron Tanner Cross has taught at Leesburg Elementary School for several years, but was suspended after he exercised his First Amendment rights to comment on the proposed school policies at a school board meeting.

The policies at issue “would force teachers to violate their conscience as educators and their deeply held beliefs by requiring them to address students with their chosen pronouns rather than the ones consistent with their biological sex,” the legal team argues.

“Public schools have no business compelling teachers to express ideological beliefs that they don’t hold, nor do they have the right to suspend someone simply for respectfully providing their opinion at a public meeting,” said Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer. (Read more from “School Sued After Suspending Teacher for Opposing Transgender Activism” HERE)

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Report: Public School Holds ‘Antiracist’ Event for White People Only

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A Virginia public school held an event intended for white people as part of its “antiracist” initiative, WRIC reported Monday. . .

Thomas Dale High School, which is part of Chesterfield County Public Schools, apparently hosted a virtual “Racial Affinity Group” on May 4 that was meant for white staff to attend, according to WRIC.

“We will offer Racial Affinity Groups at Thomas Dale as part of our journey to create and maintain…. Antiracist school,” a newsletter to staff, shared with WRIC, showed. Parts of the newsletter were cut off in the image.

“This particular group will be for white people as we look at the Structure needed… critically and authentically examine our role and responsibility in this work,” the newsletter continues. (Read more from “Report: Public School Holds ‘Antiracist’ Event for White People Only” HERE)

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College Soccer Player Kicked Off Team for Refusing to Kneel

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Kiersten Hening, a former Virginia Tech women’s soccer player, is suing her former coach after she was allegedly benched and forced off the team because she didn’t want to kneel during a pregame demonstration last September.

Hening, 21, was a midfielder/defender for the Hokies from 2018 to 2020. In a federal lawsuit filed last month, Hening said that her former coach, Charles Adair, wasn’t a fan of her political views. According to the documents obtained by TMZ Sports, Hening said during the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement last summer, she often had a difference of opinion from her teammates on social justice topics.

In the lawsuit, Hening said that she “supports social justice and believes that black lives matter” but she said that she “does not support BLM the organization.” Hening added that she disagrees with Black Lives Matter’s “tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.”

Hening said during the pregame reading of a “unity statement” on Sept. 12, 2020, many of her teammates knelt before their game against Virginia, but she remained standing and she was “verbally attacked” by Adair at halftime. (Read more from “College Soccer Player Kicked Off Team for Refusing to Kneel” HERE)

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