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ESR | Virginia, sic semper tyrannis? ARCHIVE SITE MAP SUBMISSIONS E-MAIL COLOPHON home > this article Search 🌙 Dark Mode Virginia, sic semper tyrannis? By Mark Alexander web posted May 18, 2026 What the heck happened to some of Virginia's once-patriotic citizens? Five years ago, in " Virginia Voters Restore Their State Motto ," I wrote about the election of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin . He defeated one-time Bill and Hillary Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe , the retread heir to the throne that was being vacated by fellow Demo Ralph "Blackface" Northam . McAuliffe had served as VA's governor from 2014 to 2018 and was succeeded by Northam. (Virginia governors are prohibited from serving more than one consecutive term.) Despite the fact that the nation had just elected the clown combo of Jo

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ESR | Virginia, sic semper tyrannis? ARCHIVE SITE MAP SUBMISSIONS E-MAIL COLOPHON home > this article Search 🌙 Dark Mode Virginia, sic semper tyrannis? By Mark Alexander web posted May 18, 2026 What the heck happened to some of Virginia's once-patriotic citizens? Five years ago, in " Virginia Voters Restore Their State Motto ," I wrote about the election of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin . He defeated one-time Bill and Hillary Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe , the retread heir to the throne that was being vacated by fellow Demo Ralph "Blackface" Northam . McAuliffe had served as VA's governor from 2014 to 2018 and was succeeded by Northam. (Virginia governors are prohibited from serving more than one consecutive term.) Despite the fact that the nation had just elected the clown combo of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris , with a little help from the Demos' bulk-mail ballot fraud strategy , and despite the fact that Virginia's two senators were Demos Mark Warner (2008) and Tim Kaine (2012), and its 11 House districts were split seven Ds and four Rs, the election of Youngkin signaled a potential shift in Virginia politics. And that was an important shift. Historically, Virginia has been the bedrock of American Liberty . It was the home of our Declaration of Independence's principal author, Thomas Jefferson; our Constitution's principal author, James Madison; and the leader of the Continental Army and the American Revolution, our first president and our nation's Indispensable Man, George Washington , among many other noted Founders. Those Founders gave rise to 250 years of Liberty . Notably, on 5 July 1776, the Virginia Convention — which had adopted the state's first constitution, affirmed its delegate signatures on the Declaration of Independence, and elected Founder Patrick Henry the first governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia — authorized fellow Founder George Wythe to design the state's seal. On the front of that seal is the now-familiar Roman figure Virtus (Virtue), resting on a spear with sword in hand, treading on defeated Tyranny — a prostrate figure whose crown has fallen. In the margin of the seal below Tyranny is what would become the motto of the Commonwealth: Sic Semper Tyrannis — meaning "thus always to tyrants." It seemed that, with the election of Youngkin after a succession of statist Democrats, Virginians were on their way to restoring the spirit of their state motto. Unfortunately, in recent decades, the state has increasingly been under the oppressive thumb of millions of Democrat federal employees and contractors who have spilled outside the Beltway into the Northern Virginia suburbs of Falls Church and the counties of Fairfax, Prince William, and Loudoun. While many Virginia counties are populated by Republican majorities, those four areas, and of course the urban centers of Richmond, Charlottesville, and Norfolk, with their legions of wealthy white-privileged suburbanites , have shoved the state left toward the socialist Democra

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