Virginia Progressives
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Featured
We have a General Assembly bill, 25102956 (low impact landscaping), looking for a sponsor!
2025 General Assembly
TODO Indoor Air Quality for Public Schools
- DONE HB2618
YEAS-- Cherry (flipped to no) Cordoza, Coyner, Fowler, Freitas (flipped to no) Leftwich, Taylor YEAS-- Bloxom, Cordoza, Coyner, Ennis, Fowler, Green, Leftwich, Lovejoy, Taylor YEAS-- Bloxom, Cordoza, Coyner, Ennis, Knight Leftwich, Lovejoy, Marshall Philips Taylor Office 711 706 719 710 817 1108 716 816 809 1008 918 807 1004 1005 Richmond phone (804) 698-1000 (804) 698-1074 (804) 698-1086 (804) 698-1075 (804) 698-1089 (804) 698-1059 (804) 698-1062 (804) 698-1069 (804) 698-1098 (804) 698-1090 (804) 698-1022 (804) 698-1049 (804) 698-1048 (804) 698-1082 District phone (757) 824-3456 (804) 946-1221 (757) 751-0929 (804) 698-1075 (757) 354-3751 (804) 227-3177 (540) 222-7706 (757) 219-2081 (757) 426-6387 (757) 382-4145 (571) 774-4322 434-797-5861 (434) 326-5878 Email DelRBloxom@house.virginia.gov DelMCherry@house.virginia.gov DelACCordoza@house.virginia.gov DelCCoyner@house.virginia.gov DelBEnnis@house.virginia.gov DelBFowler@house.virginia.gov DelNFreitas@house.virginiab.gov DelCGreen@house.virginia.gov DelBKnight@house.virginia.gov DelJLeftwich@house.virginia.gov DelILovejoy@house.virginia.gov DelDMarshall@house.virginia.gov DelEPhillips@house.virginia.gov DelKTaylor@house.virginia.gov - DONE SB1413
YEAS-- Peake (flipped to no) YEAS-- Stanley (flipped from no) Office 605 514 Richmond phone (804) 698-7508 (804) 698-7507 District phone (434) 455-3392 (540) 821-3066 Email senatorpeake@senate.virginia.gov senatorstanley@senate.virginia.gov - TODO Governor's Signature
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Past Featured
Equity March
- DONE distribute support material highlighting the place of MMT and a Job Guarantee in the fight for freedom, justice, and equality.
2024 General Assembly Legislative Agenda.
- DONE Statements on VA 2024 HB528, conservation landscaping and HOAs.
- DONE Bi-partisan win on HB985, state-wide coal tar sealant ban
YEAS-- Diggs Stanley (not present) Stuart Suetterlein YEAS-- Bloxom Cherry Cordoza Coyner Davis Earley Ennis Fowler (no, but supportive) Green Higgins Kent Leftwich Lovejoy Milde O'Quinn Orrock Owen Phillips Runion Sickles Tata Taylor Ware Wilt (coalition leader) Wyatt - DONE HB 936 Public school buildings; indoor air quality standards
finished in 2025 as HB2618 and SB1314
- TODO Reinstate Emily Yen, lobbyist pulled from this bill mid-session who is making the VEA a stronger, more equitable and democratic union with every win on her way to reinstatement.
- TODO Reinstate Emily Yen, lobbyist pulled from this bill mid-session who is making the VEA a stronger, more equitable and democratic union with every win on her way to reinstatement.
American Climate Corps
Advocate for a Job Guarantee directed to community-led community development, not directed through local government and entrenched elites, not substituting for regular government functions, not tailored as free training bound for specific employers. See session II transcript and draft comment.
DEQ EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant
See how our legislative agenda dovetails with examples from the guiding documents that it enables and with the ACC that provides an on-going funding stream.
Biden on cancel all student debt:
- Response to Biden Announcement. [Update June 30, 2023: still applies post-SCOTUS decision.]
- Biden on the bipartisan consensus "government doesn't have the money."
- Biden on education and preparedness
- Biden on education and social control .
- Biden on MMT, recovery, and student debt.
- Resolutions anda path not taken.
Congratulate Delegate Destiny Levere Bolling and Senator Lashrecse Aird and CD 07 Congressional candidate Elizabeth Guzman
for having the courage to denounce the New Right motive force behind "Right to Work," Reed Eugene Larson.
Who We Are
By progressive, we mean that we believe that we live in a complex and ever changing world of uncertainty, but are optimistic that people can learn from mistakes.
- Points of Unity
- Bylaws
- Modern Money Theory
- L. Randall Wray's Money for Beginners provides a succinct introduction to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), enough to take on most policy arguments.
- Award winning documentary on the origins of MMT: Finding The Money
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