SMITH: Leslie Cockburn for the Fifth District

Fifth Congressional District candidate, Democrat Leslie Cockburn, speaks during a debate with Republican challenger Denver Riggleman Oct. 8 at Piedmont Virginia Community College. With the midterms approaching in less than a month, Charlottesvillians have the opportunity to send a powerful message by flipping the Fifth District and electing Leslie Cockburn as their congressional representative.

This Major Republican Donor Just Renounced the GOP

Ohio's wealthiest Republican donor, Leslie H. Wexner, has left the party, saying he is fed up with its antics, the Columbus Dispatch reported . "I'm an independent," Wexner said at an event for Ohio business leaders Thursday night, noting that he had been a Republican since his college days.

Woodward book: Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell privately praised CEOs…

In the wake of President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, many CEOs resigned from positions on the White House's manufacturing and business councils. According to Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," GOP leaders Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell contacted some of the departing CEOs and "privately praised them for standing up."

Judge: Social media user isn’t entitled to anonymity

A social media platform can be compelled to divulge account information belonging to a woman who anonymously chatted online about plans for last summer's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a federal magistrate judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero's 28-page order says the woman's First Amendment rights to anonymous speech don't outweigh the importance of disclosing her identity to plaintiffs' attorneys suing over the rally's violence.

D.C. Metro Scraps Plan For Private Train Cars For White Supremacist Rally

Washington, D.C.'s Metro system has scrapped any plan to give participants in next week's white supremacist rally private train cars. As I noted yesterday, Washington D.C.'s Metro system was considering the idea of using private train cars to transport participants in next Sunday's "Unite The Right" rally, which is taking place on the first anniversary of a similar march in Charlottesville, Virginia a year ago that resulted in the death of a counter-protester at the hands of a white supremacist.

This is why you should be worried about Saturday’s far-right rally in Portland

A far-right rally in Portland, Oregon this Saturday has the potential to turn extremely violent, as members of right-wing groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer face off with antifa counter-protesters. It's been nearly one year since the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one counter-protester dead and dozens wounded.

Corey Stewart and his race-baiting friends

Registration will allow you to post comments on StamfordAdvocate.com and create a StamfordAdvocate.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia, is mortified - simply aghast - that anyone could imagine he shares the racist, white-supremacist views of a lengthy and growing list of his political allies, backers and advisers.

Suspect in Charlottesville attack charged with hate crimes

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows James Alex Fields Jr., accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist r... CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A reputed Hitler admirer accused of plowing a car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, killing a young woman, was charged Wednesday with federal hate crimes in a case that stirred accusations last summer that President Donald Trump was giving a free pass to racists.

Virginia school drops Confederate general’s name in favor of Obama’s

When students at J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School in Richmond, Va., return from their summer break, they will no longer be studying at a school named after a Confederate general who fought for the rights of slave owners in the Civil War. Instead, members of the 400-strong student body, about 90 percent of whom are black, will be attending Barack Obama Elementary School.

Small plane crashes in Virginia, killing 1

The Daily Progress reports that just before 9 p.m. on Sunday multiple rescue crews from Charlottesville and Albemarle County responded to a crash and a large fire in Crozet, 12 miles west of Charlottesville. Police say the small, private aircraft was located in a field and that the remains of the body will be taken to the medical examiner's office for autopsy and identification.

House approves bill that would forbid Virginia from joining regional environmental coalition

David Toscano was the only local member of the House of Delegates that opposed a bill forbidding the Governor or the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board to particate in an existing regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The House of Delegates approved a bill Wednesday that would not let the Governor nor the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board The measure cleared the House 51-47.

Vanity Fair slammed for suggesting Hillary Clinton take up knitting, new hobbies for 2018

A Vanity Fair video suggesting former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton "take up a new hobby in 2018" is garnering online criticism, with some Twitter users calling for the public to cancel their subscriptions to the popular magazine. The video, posted on Vanity Fair's Twitter account Saturday, is part of a series in which staffers on the magazine's politics and business publications, with a glass of wine in hand, give politicians six New Year's resolutions.