{"id":589772,"date":"2026-04-21T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589772"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:55:12","slug":"redistricting-battle-in-virginia-has-soros-affiliated-dark-money-flowing-through-the-state-like-poison-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589772","title":{"rendered":"Redistricting battle in Virginia has Soros-affiliated dark money flowing through the state like poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SGGeorgeSoros-1200x630.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-facebook size-facebook wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A pivotal redistricting battle in Virginia has Soros-affiliated dark money flowing through the state like poison in the state\u2019s political bloodstream.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the state\u2019s 11 House seats are held by six Democrats and five Republicans, but state Democrats want to redraw the state\u2019s maps so that they gain an advantage in 10 of the 11 districts.<\/p>\n<p>For them to redraw the map, however, state residents must approve a proposed redistricting referendum that\u2019s up for a vote on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans strongly oppose the referendum and have been urging state residents to vote no:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you know anyone in Virginia, would you please kindly encourage them to vote <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f449.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc49\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/>NO<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f448.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc48\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to the redistricting referendum that would gerrymander the congressional map from 6<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f7e6.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udfe6\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> \u2013 5<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f7e5.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udfe5\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> to 10<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f7e6.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udfe6\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> \u2013 1<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f7e5.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udfe5\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/>?<\/p>\n<p>You can literally vote RIGHT NOW \u2014 early voting is underway. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LJKbwY0AYB\">pic.twitter.com\/LJKbwY0AYB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottPresler\/status\/2031739116677656933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem is that there\u2019s a LOT of money flowing in the opposite direction thanks to deranged leftist billionaire George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirginians for Fair Elections, a main group fighting to get Virginia voters to approve a ballot referendum that will allow the state to redraw its congressional maps, has been pumped with millions in cash from a web of George Soros-backed dark money groups,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/soros-linked-dark-money-network-fuels-virginia-redistricting-push-backed-national-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group is no joke.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/16\/virginia-redistricting-election-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that it\u2019s \u201cspent $16 million on television ads, outspending anti-redistricting groups 10 to 1 on the airwaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has alleged that it\u2019s Republicans who \u201chave spent tens of millions of dollars to lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJeffries<\/a> thinks Virginians are morons and can\u2019t read.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the House Majority PAC\u2019s dark money arm (House Majority Forward) that flooded the state with almost $40M alone in a few months. That doesn\u2019t include all the other groups funded by Dem billionaires like Soros. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mqr5NEQ0pl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mqr5NEQ0pl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cam_Cawthorne\/status\/2046373767438311848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Virginians for Fair Elections has likewise raised a whopping $64 million, so much of it from dark money that the Post says that \u201cfiguring out where [its] money came from is like unpacking a Russian nesting doll, with layers of other interest groups contributing cash without any requirement that they disclose where their money originated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Fox News is evidently good at unpacking Russian nesting dolls. The network notes that the largest donor this year to Virginians for Fair Elections has been the House Majority Forward, \u201cthe nonprofit counterpart of House Democrats\u2019 House Majority PAC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, entities directly tied to Soros, or that obtained significant funding which can be traced back to the billionaire Democrat megadonor, come in second and third in terms of total giving to the group,\u201d the network\u2019s reporting continues.<\/p>\n<p>One of these groups, the Fund for Policy Reform Inc., was directly founded by Soros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other, titled The Fairness Project, has been funded by groups like the Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, and the Tides Foundation, which Soros has given significant funding to,\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Virginia Dems are just brazen. Look at their Google ads.<\/p>\n<p>If you search \u201cearly voting Virginia\u201d your first result is \u201cVOTE YES \u2013 It\u2019s not gerrymandering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s TEXTBOOK gerrymandering \u2013 but all they do is lie.<\/p>\n<p>An ad from \u201cVirginians for Fair Elections\u201d \u2013 the Soros funded op. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ub2wSgd2P\">pic.twitter.com\/6ub2wSgd2P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWhitlock\/status\/2036780394083664251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conversely, the primary group fighting against the referendum, Virginians for Fair Maps, has only raised around $20 million, though its money is also dark money.<\/p>\n<p>The Post notes that it boasts \u201can extra layer of masking that obscures the source of its funding\u201d and that \u201cits top donor is listed in state records as Virginians for Fair Maps, a separate group that shares its name with the referendum committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the referendum passes and the districts are redrawn to favor Democrats, it could have a huge outcome in the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoupled with the new maps that voters in California approved in November, the new Virginia seats would cancel out most, if not all, of the Republican redistricting gains made last year in states including North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri, and Texas, where President Trump and state Republicans kicked off the mid-decade gerrymandering scramble,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/25\/us\/politics\/virginia-redistricting-referendum-house-seats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> notes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/americanwirenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/SGGeorgeSoros-1200x630.jpeg\" title=\"Redistricting battle in Virginia has Soros-affiliated dark money flowing through the state like poison\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pivotal redistricting battle in Virginia has Soros-affiliated dark money flowing through the state like poison in the state\u2019s political bloodstream. Right now, the state\u2019s 11 House seats are held by six Democrats and five Republicans, but state Democrats want to redraw the state\u2019s maps so that they gain an advantage in 10 of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=589772\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Redistricting battle in Virginia has Soros-affiliated dark money flowing through the state like poison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/589753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}