"Moderate" Governor Hires Anti-Catholic FBI Agent to Reform Prisons

Virginia’s self-styled “moderate” governor, Abigail Spanberger, has made another bold statement about moderation. She has handed the co-chairmanship of her new Community Partnership Council on Corrections to Stanley Meador, the former FBI special agent in charge in Richmond who presided over the now-retracted 2023 memo that treated traditionalist Catholics as a fresh domestic-terrorism opportunity.

The council, Spanberger announced, will advance “safety reforms by hearing directly from [corrections] staff, incarcerated individuals, and communities across Virginia” on reentry, public accountability, and “conditions of confinement.” It will create “a permanent, structured forum for dialogue and action on the issues that matter most” so that the governor’s reforms “take root, and build a foundation for Virginia long after I am no longer in this office.”

Many things, she added, are “systemically wrong” with the state’s prisons. Meador is the man for the job. While he ran the Richmond field office, the FBI produced an internal document titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” The memo proposed keeping an eye on Catholic churches in Virginia and drew its analytical horsepower from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an outfit now facing wire-fraud charges for its long practice of labeling conservative Christians as extremists.

The memo leaked. The FBI yanked it back.

Bishop Barry Knestout of Richmond called it a “threat to religious liberty.” Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee it was “appalling. It’s appalling. I’m in complete agreement with you.” FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee he had been “aghast” and ordered the thing withdrawn the moment he saw it.

The Justice Department inspector general later concluded the memo failed basic analytic standards and lacked sufficient evidence. Meador met with diocesan leaders and expressed regret for the “negative attention.” He did not, however, express regret for the memo itself. When one of his own subordinates apologized for having helped draft the document, Meador replied in an email: “No apology needed. I’m glad you are on the team and thankful for your commitment. Keep that head up, this too shall pass. Will make for a great chapter in your memoirs some day!”

That is the fellow Spanberger has now placed in a position to shape prison policy by listening to “incarcerated individuals.” The same administration that once worried traditional Catholics might radicalize has decided the urgent task is to give convicted criminals a structured forum in which to explain what is “systemically wrong” with their living arrangements.

Spanberger billed herself as a moderate on the campaign trail. Since taking office she has stocked her administration with a former Obama adviser who favored masking two-year-olds and mandatory COVID shots, a trans activist, and an advocate tied to a Soros-funded criminal-justice group. Appointing the man who ran the Richmond office during the Catholic memo was apparently just the next logical step in that program of moderation.Virginia’s prisons have recently featured MS-13 gang members, here illegally and already convicted of violent crimes including murder, stabbing three corrections officers.

At Red Onion State Prison, inmates set themselves on fire; the Department of Corrections said there was “no evidence” this was a protest and that the prisoners were simply trying to get moved.

Spanberger’s council will address these matters through dialogue, visitation-hour extensions, and a one-page code of ethics that instructs staff to “Do the Right Thing” and embrace a “People First” culture.The governor reports that her administration has already “immediately actioned” about 85 percent of the concerns raised by advocacy groups. She also cites a 56 percent drop in serious inmate-on-staff assaults and a 47 percent drop in confirmed overdoses. Other numbers, she notes, reflect how staff handle prisoners rather than any actual reduction in violence.

Meador was placed on leave and removed from the FBI in June 2025. CatholicVote national political director Logan Church observed that Spanberger’s decision to elevate him “tells every Catholic in America that violating our civil liberties isn’t a problem, it’s a pathway to advancement.” In the world of contemporary Democratic moderation, that is apparently high praise.

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Virginia Prosecutor Tells Gun Ban To Pound Sand, Reminds Everyone The Second Amendment Is Still A Thing

Ryan Mehaffey, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Virginia prosecutor, is taking a hard-line stance against what is an "unconstitutional" new gun ban signed by far-left Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger.

Comrade Spanberger, who has been slipping in the polls amid criticisms of her socialist/progressive policy agenda, signed a new bill last week banning the future sale and manufacture of "assault weapons," including many semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns. The law also bans the future sale of magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds, because she thinks people don't carry more than one magazine nor know how to reload.

The move caused immediate backlash from many Virginians and raised new Second Amendment violation concerns. Rather than protest, however, Mehaffey, who serves as the commonwealth attorney for Spotsylvania County, is drawing a line in the sand and flatly refusing to enforce the ban.

With the bill set to take effect this July ahead of America’s 250th anniversary of independence, Mehaffey sent a letter to Spotsylvania Sheriff Roger Harris, instructing him that the ban is "unconstitutional and cannot be lawfully enforced."

Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger is drawing Republicans' ire and a potential Justice Department lawsuit on her latest moves against the Second Amendment. I would say that she needs to be removed from office, but I won't.

A statement released by Spanberger’s office called the assault weapons ban a "critical step toward protecting families, communities, and the law enforcement officers who serve them." It also puts miscreants who would terrorize or otherwise commit crimes with firearms at a distinct advantage over those of us who want self-defense protection of our homes and businesses. But worse, it goes against the U.S, Constitution and is totally illegal.

Spanberger remarked she signed the bill into law "because firearms designed to inflict maximum casualties do not belong on our streets." She forgot to mention how firearms can prevent or minimize casualties by the time law enforcement arrives. 

These are the same dolts who talk about 'gun violence' as if the gun operates on its own.

The leftist governor added that "while the General Assembly chose not to adopt my amendment that specifically carves out certain firearms frequently used for hunting, I will work with the patrons to clarify this language."

In response, Mehaffey said in an interview with Fox News Digital that the law "is striking at the core of the militia system that existed in Virginia."

According to Mehaffey, the Second Amendment is not just an assurance of personal freedoms, but also a safeguard for a community’s ability to defend itself through a 'well-regulated militia.'

"Our founders were careful to make sure when they drafted our founding document, that the ultimate right of the people was preserved to defend themselves and to defend their community," he explained. "So, the linchpin of the constitutional analysis is going to be does this instrument have some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a regulated militia."

Mehaffey argues that Virginia historical tradition and legal precedent requires citizens own firearms for the public defense, saying, "The second amendment may not mean that you are allowed to have a nuclear weapon, but what it does allow you to have is a basic infantry weapon."

Mehaffey argues that in Virginia, historical tradition and case law precedent not only allow citizens to own firearms but even require them to arm themselves with the weapons of a basic infantryman for common defense. In the Founding Fathers’ time, Mehaffey said the standard issue was a musket and 20 rounds. Today, the basic infantry weapon in the U.S. military is the M4A1 carbine equipped with a 30-round magazine. And let's not leave out the idea that extra magazines are provided to our war fighters.

Comrade Abigail Spanberger

"The second amendment may not mean that you are allowed to have a nuclear weapon," he laughed. "But what it does allow you to have is a basic infantry weapon."

"That sort of weapon is the core of what's protected by the Second Amendment. Not necessarily a nuclear warhead, but a rifle that you can take out and form either a fire team or a company to defend yourself and to defend your community."

Spoken like a true 'grunt'.

Mehaffey is not alone in his stance. In addition to what he characterized as the "overwhelmingly positive" response from his community, Smyth County Commonwealth’s Attorney Phillip Blevins, an Air Force veteran, has also refused to enforce the bill, arguing it is unconstitutional. The ban is also facing lawsuits from gun-rights groups, including the NRA, Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation.

Blevins told Fox News Digital that "ultimately, courts will continue to address these issues, and I respect the role of the judiciary. But as the elected Commonwealth’s Attorney for Smyth County, I will continue to stand for what I believe the Constitution requires, without apology or hesitation.""My position is not based on politics. It is based on constitutional fidelity," he continued, adding, "The Bill of Rights either means something, or it does not."

"As Commonwealth’s Attorney, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Virginia. That oath is not situational, and it does not change based on politics, headlines, or pressure from either side of an issue."

Mehaffey believes he and those standing beside him on this issue will ultimately prevail."The Second Amendment is the supreme law of the land, both in the U.S. Constitution and the analog in the Virginia Constitution," he explained. "So, whatever law is passed by the General Assembly is not going to have the ability to supersede the Constitution."

While he has gotten a lot of personal attention for his stance, Mehaffey emphasized that, "I want nothing more than to fulfill my office with honor and to be a good servant to the people that elected me to represent them and to stick up for their rights."

"That's what I'm trying to do," he continued, adding, "I would expect any government official to remain faithful to the Constitution and to discharge their duties as servants of the people in the same way that I have."

In other news, Spanberger's office is reportedly working on a follow-up bill that would ban pointy sticks, stones, and angry words, just to be safe.

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Left of Left Spanberger signs law to render Virginia's votes 'null and void'

Bringing the United States perilously close to dismantling its constitutional foundation, leftist Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed HB965 into law, officially entering the Commonwealth into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The decision has sparked immediate outrage across the state, as critics realize the measure effectively renders the individual votes of Virginians “null and void.”

By signing this compact, Spanberger has agreed to hand Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the national popular vote, regardless of how the people of Virginia actually cast their ballots. [Unsurprisingly, the popular vote tends to side with the Democrats a majority of the time, but President Trump won it for the first time since 2004 when George W. Bush won it.]

With Virginia’s entry, the movement is now a terrifying 48 electoral votes away from taking effect. The current total stands at 222 votes, or 82 percent of the way to the 270-vote threshold required to fundamentally upend American elections.

It is no coincidence that the states rushing to bypass the Constitution represent a monolithic partisan bloc. To date, every single state that has joined the compact is a blue state, moving the country toward a system where a few deep-blue urban centers could dictate the presidency for the entire Union. The list of members includes Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Vermont, California, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, and now Virginia.This partisan rush to ignore state boundaries flies in the face of Alexander Hamilton’s warnings in Federalist No. 68. Hamilton cautioned that the Electoral College was not a mere suggestion, but an “excellent” system designed to protect the Republic from the very “tumult and disorder” that a direct popular vote invites.

The Founders were explicitly wary of a direct popular vote, fearing it would allow a “demagogue” with “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity” to manipulate the masses. Hamilton argued that the presidency should not be a prize for the most famous or the most populist, but should be determined by an intermediate body of electors, men “most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.”

By moving toward a national popular vote, Spanberger and the NPVIC proponents are discarding what Hamilton called a “judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements” proper for selecting a leader. Instead of a deliberative process, the nation is being pushed toward a system where candidates will focus exclusively on high-population urban centers like New York City or Los Angeles, leaving rural and small-state voters entirely ignored. This would mean an end to a republic form of governor. 

Hamilton was particularly concerned with the potential for national chaos during an election. He argued that by having electors meet in their respective states, their “detached and divided situation” would protect the process from “heats and ferments” that might otherwise “convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements.”

A national popular vote does the exact opposite. It removes the firewall provided by state lines. In a popular vote system, a dispute in a single precinct could trigger a 50-state national recount, creating the very “tumult” Hamilton sought to avoid. The Electoral College, by contrast, provides “effectual security against this mischief” by containing election disputes within individual states. 

A simple analogy regarding this kind of 'democracy' is: if there are 3 lions and one sheep voting on 'what's for dinner' grass or meat, guess who would win.

Perhaps most frightening is how this move weakens the nation’s defenses against foreign influence. Hamilton noted that the Electoral College was designed to oppose “cabal, intrigue, and corruption,” which he called the “most deadly adversaries of republican government.” He believed that a national popular vote would make it easier for “foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils” by raising a “creature of their own” to the presidency. The Founders’ system ensured that the Executive was “independent for his continuance in office on all but the people themselves.” With Virginia becoming the latest blue state to join this compact, the “moral certainty” Hamilton promised, that the office would fall only to those “endowed with the requisite qualifications,” is under direct threat.

If 48 more electoral votes are secured, the system that has guided the nation for over two centuries will be sacrificed at the altar of political expediency.

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ICE blames Dem. VA Gov. for another brutal murder by illegal alien

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, 38, who allegedly repeatedly stabbed a man to death in Fairfax County Sunday, as a "criminal illegal alien from Guatemala," according to ABC7.

Authorities found the victim inside a home with multiple stab wounds in his upper body Sunday, ABC7 reported. He later died at the hospital.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer with the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office, which has notoriously flouted the federal immigration agency’s demands to hand over illegal immigrant criminals.

Meanwhile, DHS has placed the blame on Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger for the tragic killing, calling her out for another recent murder by an illegal immigrant.

Sierra Leone national Abdul Jalloh, 32, who had 30 prior arrests, allegedly murdered 41-year-old mother Stephanie Minter at a Fairfax County bus stop last month. Jalloh’s rap sheet included arrests for rape, malicious wounding, assault, drug possession, identity theft, trespassing,
larceny, firing a weapon, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and pickpocketing, according to DHS.

Spanberger earlier said ICE’s detainer for Jalloh’s arrest wouldn’t be enough for local law enforcement to hand him over to immigration authorities for deportation.

"ICE is calling on Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and Virginia’s sanctuary politicians to not release this murderer back into our communities," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Lauren Bis told ABC7. "This incident comes just one month after an innocent woman was murdered by another criminal illegal alien at a bus stop in Democrat Spanberger’s state. Open-border policies yet again have caused another preventable tragedy."

When Spanberger entered office, she ended a cooperation agreement between state and local law enforcement and ICE. The day after Minter’s murder, the governor characterized ICE as "unaccountable agents" who "terrorize our communities" in the Democratic response to the State of the Union.

In almost every one of Jalloh’s previous cases, Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano’s office dropped the charges, ABC7 previously reported.

Authorities also previously warned about the dangers he posed to the community.

An officer with the Fairfax County Police Department notified Descano’s office in November, cautioning that he could continue to commit crimes if he’s released, according to emails obtained by 7News.

Muy was charged with second-degree murder and is being held without bond, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

DHS said he snuck into the country as a "gotaway," which means he made it past border authorities without detection, according to ABC7.

Muy also had an assault and battery charge from November 2024, when he was accused of punching a woman and attempting to strangle her, the outlet reported. A judge later dismissed the charge.

The Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney said the charge "was dismissed at the request of the victim pursuant to 19.2-151, an accord and satisfaction," in a statement to ABC7.

"Under that statute, the courts have discretion to dismiss a misdemeanor assault case (which this was charged as) when a defendant pays restitution to a victim. Here, the victim had expressed that the most important issue to them was restitution, which was paid. We try to honor the wishes of a victim, even though I do not favor resolution of cases by accord and satisfaction where violence is involved," the attorney said.

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Republican beats Democrat in deep blue state after his social media history gets uncovered

A Republican pulled off a genuine shocker in deep-blue Northern Virginia on Tuesday, snagging a county-level seat that nobody saw coming after the Democrat nominee's ancient social media skeletons came tumbling out of the closet.

Jeannie LaCroix, 64, won the special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat, beating Democrat Muhammed Sufiyan Casim, 36, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant. The turning point? Revelations that Casim, back in his 20s in the 2010s, had posted a bunch of racist, misogynist, and antisemitic stuff online, as Potomac Local News laid out.

Casim tried to clean it up in an interview with the Prince William Times. "I wasn’t realizing the cultural weight and the context, so I used that word foolishly, but not in a derogatory or prejudicial way," he said, explaining that he had used the N-word to refer to his black friend. "Back in those days, a lot of kids would use that word both with kids of African American origin and people of any brown ethnicity." He also suggested he had just been copying the behavior of "kids" of "brown ethnicity" at the time.

In a March 2 X post where he confirmed he wasn't dropping out, Casim went the victim route, blaming the rhetoric of the former Republican chairman of the Board (who left office seven years ago) for emboldening neo-Nazis, then adding, "As a Muslim-American who has experienced what it’s like to live in America after 9/11, discussions around cultural sensitivity are very important to me."

LaCroix took 43.7% of the vote to Casim's 37%, with write-ins grabbing 19.2%, per the Prince William County Office of Elections via Potomac Local News. The Republican rode the wave of a fractured Democratic side. Pamela Montgomery, who lost the primary to Casim, jumped in as a write-in just a week before Election Day because of those decade-old posts. She even led in fundraising despite the late start.

"For Democrats, confronting racism is not optional. It is foundational," Montgomery, who is Black, wrote in a letter published by the Prince William Times on Election Day. "When racist language surfaces, especially from someone seeking public office, the response should be clear: acknowledge it, condemn it, and demand accountability."

This race filled the vacancy left by Democrat Margaret Franklin, who resigned after winning a Virginia House of Delegates seat in January. Franklin had crushed Casim in the Dem primary for that state House spot by more than 2-to-1.

Prince William County is the kind of affluent, diverse D.C. suburb that Democrats usually own. Kamala Harris carried it by 18 points in 2024, and Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger won it by 34 points in November 2025. The northeastern precincts around Woodbridge are some of the bluest in the whole county, per 2024 VoteHub data.

LaCroix's win stands out as one of the rare flips from blue to red in a special election during President Donald Trump's second term. Meanwhile, over the past year, Democrats have been flipping multiple state legislative seats in areas Trump carried by double digits in 2024.

Sometimes the past really does refuse to stay buried, especially when it's dumb stuff someone posted online in their 20s. And sometimes voters decide that "I was young and foolish" doesn't quite cut it when you're running for office. Who knew accountability could swing both ways?

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Gov. unelect Stacey Abrams says "Identity politics" future of left: "Exactly who we are"

Georgia Governor in her own mind, Stacey "I floss with rope" Abrams (D) declared Wednesday that "identity politics" is the future of the policy anemic Democratic Party. 

If they had any useful ideas on how to best run a profitable economy, they wouldn't need to go to immutable human characteristics to pit against people who don't fit into one of their victim categories.

According to the gubernatorial sore loser, gender, racial and sexuality politics of the Far and Hard Left are "exactly" who the Democratic Party is and how, she believes, they "won" in 2020, if you don't count the 100 legislative losses they suffered, the loss of House seats to the GOP, and the probability the Senate will remain a Republican majority with a turtle-like human at the helm.

“The notion of identity politics has been peddled for the past 10 years and it’s been used as a dog whistle to say we shouldn’t pay too much attention to the voices coming into progress,” Abrams claimed at the Center for American Progress’ Ideas Conference. She went on to add, “I would argue that identity politics is exactly who we are and it’s exactly how we won.”

See, for Abrams, it isn't the number of votes that determine who won an election, be they electoral or popular on the local level, it's about whether you identify as the election winner that counts. 

C'mon man, follow the science.

Abrams hallucinated that identity politics has “brought new folks to the process” for the Democrats, even though President Trump made record gains with minority communities in this election.

A “failure to focus on racial differences would give minority voters the impression ‘they have no reason to engage and no reason to show up,'” she asserted, according to The Hill. But that's almost all they focus on because they've got little else that works for them--hard working, successful people aren't excited about socialism.

“When I hear Democratic candidates, progressive candidates, American candidates [as opposed to Trump voters whom she doesn't include in the term 'American'] decrying the identity of their voters, I’m deeply worried for our democracy,” the fake governor added, obviously only worried about personal gain as she plans to run for governor of Georgia again.

The Abrams blathering comes after the inner turmoil of her party bubbled to the surface in a leaked conference call following the 2020 presidential election. Freshman Congress-cis-woman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) had some harsh words to say to the hard Left of her party. She blasted those who echoed the chants to "defund the police" and idiots [like AOC and Bernie Sanders] for advocating socialism. 

According to the Politico, Spanberger said, “No one should say ‘defund the police’ ever again. Nobody should be talking about socialism.”

Other Democrats on the call also spoke out about the effects of the “defund the police” rhetoric and how it screwed up their congressional races, according to the Comedy News Network (CNN).

“Spanberger, who represents a historically Republican district in Virginia, reportedly warned others on the phone call about the effects open radicalism would have in the 2022 congressional midterm elections,” The Daily Wire noted. “She said that Democrats would ‘get f***ing torn apart’ should the party continue in that direction and called the 2020 House election results a ‘failure’ for them.”

The covert plan is for the Left to get into office in great numbers, then go full-metal socialism on the nation.

Repulsive Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) pushed back against the calls to moderate in an interview with Politico on Tuesday. Moderates in the party have blamed crappy results in a number of close races, some of which they lost, on the extreme stances of many prominent Democrats such as Tlaib, Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Representative "The Honorable" Alexandria Obviously-Commie (D-NY/Instagram) who the legacy media see as the darling of the hard Left, who, while not at all intelligent, has an annoyingly nasal voice. Her entire plans for the U.S. economy is 5 double-spaced pages long. Let that sink in.

L to R: "Some people did something" 
"Farting Cows"
"We're going to impeach the motherf***er"

Tlaib said that the moderate Democrats’ complaints are an attempt to shift blame and avoid responsibility. Tlaib also accused the moderate members of the party of attempting to sideline or minimize the party’s progressive wing all while an organically impaired Joe Biden is trying to win the presidency and may do so in spite of the fraud perpetrated in this election.

Keep talking Rashida and AOC. Please, just keep talking.

Let's see what 2022 brings in the midterm elections. If the Left keeps veering in that direction, I suspect good things to happen. But hey, you never know.

Fun Quote: "Should we call a doctor for an election lasting this long?" -Source unknown

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