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Confederate groups in Virginia lost their tax breaks in a new law signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger this week in a move that has frustrated the organizations, according to The New York Times.

Democrats in Virginia have tried for years to push away from the state's Confederate past, which has been known as the capital of the 11 slaveholding Southern states that seceded.

"The new law’s most significant target is the United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in 1894 for descendants of Confederates," The Times reported. "The organization’s stated purpose is to honor the members’ ancestors. Throughout its history, the group built hundreds of Confederate memorials around the country, which have become flash points for protests over historical memory and racial injustices in the last decade."...

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger had a pointed response to a Republican state lawmaker attacking her in a New York Times report published Monday.

Spanberger, who flipped control of the Virginia governorship from Republican to Democrat in November, argued that attacks on her "are a sign of her success."

"The right wing is on fire," The Times reported. "Suddenly, to partisan critics eager to take down a Democrat whose political future is already discussed in terms of national office, she is a witch, a 'Bond villain' and dangerous."...

A Democratic strategist is laying out a plan for Democrats to weaponize voter frustrations in the 2026 midterm elections — starting with rage.

James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist, wrote Monday in a New York Times opinion essay that it's now the time for Democrats to adopt the "most populist economic platform since the Great Depression."

"It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss," Carville wrote. ...

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden may be old, but former President Donald Trump is a joke — and the butt of one — at the Democratic National Convention.

Many senior Democratic officials gathered here in the Windy City say they aren’t worried that Trump and GOP officials keep trying to paint a host of top Democrats — Vice President Kamala Harris, congressional Democrats and Biden’s staff, along with "the media" — as complicit in the “cover-up” of what they argue is a mentally incapacitated commander-in-chief.

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Members of Congress are on a summer stock shopping spree — and still violating a financial disclosure law — amid a reinvigorated movement to ban congressional stock trading.

Three members of the House of Representatives appear to have violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act this week by filing required reports late — some as much as two years past a federally mandated deadline.

From Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), more than a dozen other members of Congress continue trading stocks and securities, even in the immediate two weeks after the Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act passed out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. ...

A joint fundraising committee for President Joe Biden disgorged a $50,000 donation from Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, according to a Raw Story review of new federal records.

The Biden Victory Fund surrendered the Bankman-Fried donation to the U.S. Marshals Service in January, Federal Election Commission records indicate.

Bankman-Fried, who made his donation to Biden in 2022, was sentenced to 25 years in prison last month for stealing $8 billion from customers, which he used in part to finance contributions to politicians and political interests across the ideological spectrum....