Hi, everyone. Well, before we start this week's amazing episode with Louisa Darling,

we just wanted to take a couple of minutes and talk about the state of Virginia.

Who would want to talk about the state of Virginia?

Exactly. As you all know, it is 2025 and it's getting weird out here to, you know, to use a euphemism.

Sarah's going with a dramatic understatement.

Fine. I appreciate it.

It's getting weird out here.

And we still have another year before we can really tackle the midterm elections.

But Virginia is very special.

And the reason why Virginia is special

is because they have an off-year election cycle where right now all the state legislative seats

in the state of Virginia are up for grabs. And the gubernatorial election is happening as well in

Virginia. Now listen, Virginia is a blue state, but we need to keep it blue. And the gubernatorial election is happening as well in Virginia. Now listen, Virginia is a blue state,

but we need to keep it blue. And the way that we are thinking about doing that is working with the

state's project, which many of you know we've been working with for a couple of election cycles.

The way the state's project works is they raise money for down-ticket state-level races.

They support Democratic candidates across the board in states where we believe we can either flip a chamber of state legislative, a state legislative chamber, flip a gubernatorial seat, or hold those chambers for Democratic

candidates. Listen, the truth is that this is the first big statewide referendum available to us,

for us to speak up, speak out, and honestly crush the opposition in terms

of making a strong referendum against the administration, the current administration,

the devastating rules and just abuse of power that's taken over across the country.

Virginia is our first line of defense, and we're working with the state's project to raise

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