Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (2/15/26)

Cross-posted from the Blue Virginia weekly news roundup Substack. We’ve also got a Blue Virginia Breaking News list; sign up here if you’re interested in getting emails, potentially up to several per day, about breaking news in Virginia.

• Video: House Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Says That VA Redistricting Referendum Lets Voters Decide, Shows “When they go low, we strike back”

• Video: On the Epstein Files, Peter Mandelson, etc., Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) Says “you’re seeing accountability everywhere else but the Trump administration - and it’s infuriating!”

• Video: Ivy Main Says “the hostility to offshore wind is really just [Trump]; nobody else feels this way…he will be gone and then we will get back on track”

• BREAKING: “Big win” as VA Supreme Court Says Redistricting Referendum CAN Be Held on 4/21

• Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA04) Endorses Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor for Congress

• Video: Fmr. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA10) to Federal Employees – “I’d just like to take the opportunity…to apologize to you as a Republican for what has happened, which has been so egregious”

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says He’s “concerned that [the Trump administration] may try out some of their [voter suppression] tactics” in the VA Redistricting Referendum in April

• Video of New Ad: “It’s Happening” — GOP Politicians Redrawing Maps to Rig the Midterm Elections

• Video: Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) Announces Re-Election Campaign in Virginia’s (New) First Congressional District

• Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says Trump Using His DoJ to Go After Sen. Mark Kelly, etc. “is tyranny, pure and simple…what dictatorships do”

• VA05 Democratic Candidate Mike Pruitt Ends Campaign, Endorses Tom Perriello

• Video: VA House Education Committee Adopts VMI Substitute Bill; Del. Michael Feggans Says “we’ve received commitments from VMI’s leadership that progress will continue”

• Former Delegate Wendy Gooditis Suspends Congressional Campaign and Endorses Rep. Suhas Subramanyan (D-VA10) for Reelection

• Senators Mark Warner, Alex Padilla Demand Tulsi Gabbard, Intel Officials Brief Senate on Election Security After Fulton County Raid

• DCCC Adds VA-05 To Districts In Play As Democrats Further Expand Battlefield for 2026 Midterms

• Video: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10), Who Was in the Room for Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition, Says She Was “robotic,” “unrepentant,” a “monster [who] should be behind bars forever”

• Time to Pass the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund “to move Virginia from planning to actually build wildlife crossings”

• NEW: More Than Half of Governor Spanberger’s “Affordable Virginia Agenda” Passes Virginia House of Delegates or Senate

• Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Says Trump’s Unhinged Response to Bad Bunny “demonstrated his loser energy, it got under his skin because it was so quintessentially American”