Arlington County

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Republican incumbent Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears and former Democratic US Representative Abigail Spanberger will face each other in the general election for Governor of Virginia.

The Democratic nominee for Governor, Abigail Spanberger actually fights to expand healthcare and reproductive freedom instead of rolling over when conservatives threaten to restrict abortion rights. She’s committed to investing in clean energy, holding polluters accountable, and reducing energy costs for working families. Her gun-safety agenda goes far beyond “thoughts and prayers,” taking on the NRA head-on instead of cashing their donation checks. Spanberger’s pragmatic progressive vision gives suburban moderates and left-leaners tired of corporate centrism and culture-war theatrics a real reason to show up.

The Opposition

The Republican nominee for Governor, Winsome Earle-Sears is all about slashing taxes for big corporations while telling unemployed workers that losing a job is “no big deal.” She grandstands against critical race theory and “woke” classrooms to score culture-war points instead of tackling real education challenges. By waving her Marine Corps credentials, she sells herself as the ultimate tough-on-crime candidate, conveniently ignoring how lax gun laws endanger communities. Her true believers are MAGA zealots who think banning books, rolling back reproductive freedoms, and erasing civil liberties are more important than looking out for working families.

Recommendation

Due to her advocacy for abortion access, gun violence prevention, and clean energy, Abigail Spanberger is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Democratic Virginia State Senator Ghazala Hashmi and Republican John Reid will face each other in the general election for Lt. Governor of Virginia.

The Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor, Ghazala Hashmi is fighting to pump real money into public schools instead of the right’s perennial budget cuts and culture-war book bans. She defends reproductive freedom and Medicaid expansion for working families while conservatives keep dialing back healthcare access and waving anti-abortion placards. Her clean-energy agenda and environmental-justice bills actually target polluters, not the customary GOP handouts to pipeline lobbyists. Dreamers, suburban progressives fed up with partisan hijinks, and anyone who’d trade culture-war theatrics for equity and opportunity will cheer her unapologetic stand for Virginia’s working families.

The Opposition

The Republican nominee for Lt. Governor, John Reid is a self-styled small-government crusader who’ll happily cut taxes for wealthy donors while pretending he’s doing the same for working Virginians. He rails against “woke” curriculum and critical race theory, because apparently teaching actual American history is more offensive to him than runaway inequality. He touts law-and-order credentials and celebrity as a conservative radio host, hawking gun rights like they’re the ultimate public-safety strategy. He even plans to torpedo constitutional protections for same-sex marriage, proving that an openly gay candidate will stab his own community in the back for party unity, the perfect pick for culture-war diehards who prefer corporate giveaways to real solutions for working families.

Recommendation

Due to her advocacy for public education, abortion access, and environmental justice, Ghazala Hashmi is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares faces a challenge from former Democratic Virginia State Delegate Jay Jones.

The Democratic nominee for Attorney General, Jay Jones has pledged to sue the Trump administration every time it infringes on the rights of Virginians. He’s secured victories for abortion access, expanded Medicaid to cover thousands more Virginians, and even wrote anti-price-gouging measures to keep corporate vultures in check. His public-safety plan pairs smart gun-violence prevention and community-based crime interventions rather than recycling the right’s tired “lock ’em up” mantra for political ads. Grassroots progressives, consumer-rights advocates, and anyone sick of endless culture-war stunts will line up behind a candidate who actually puts families over fear-mongering theatrics.

The Opposition

Incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares cozies up to ICE, shaming local authorities who don’t cooperate with Trump’s policies of mass deportation, because terrorizing immigrant families is apparently his idea of due process. He grandstands on opioid crackdowns but turns a blind eye to corporate-friendly loopholes that keep the drug pipeline flowing. He bills himself as a federalism champion when suing Washington over environmental rules, conveniently ignoring states’ rights whenever big donors flash a check. His true believers are tough-on-crime zealots who think more ICE raids, harsher sentencing, and tax cuts for the wealthy are the pinnacle of compassionate governance.

Recommendation

Due to his advocacy for abortion access, gun violence prevention, and Medicaid coverage, Jay Jones is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Democratic Delegate Patrick Hope faces a challenge from Republican tech entrepreneur Bill Moher in HD-1.

Virginia’s House District 1 lies entirely within high-density Arlington County, covering the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor and adjacent neighborhoods such as Clarendon and Pentagon City. In the 2024 election Democratic presidential and senatorial nominees carried the district by comfortable double-digit margins.

Patrick A. Hope is a veteran Democratic Delegate who has served Northern Virginia since 2010—representing District 1 since 2024 after redistricting. A Texas native and healthcare attorney, he holds law and policy degrees. As Chair of the Courts of Justice Committee, Hope leads on criminal justice and health policy, and carries experience in legal advocacy and academia. He is running for re-election in November 2025.
Committee Assignments: Courts of Justice (Chair), Health and Human Services (Health Subcommittee Chair), Public Safety

Delegate Hope supports the continuous expansion of Medicaid and strengthening protections for pre-existing conditions. He voted in favor of bills to establish gun-free zones in Capitol Square and college campuses and to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or possession of assault-style weapons. He supports criminal justice reform and co-patroned an expungement bill in 2021. Delegate Hope supports curbing greenhouse gas emissions by investing in clean energy solutions, protecting water quality and green spaces, and offering tax credits for energy-efficient appliances and upgrades. He voted in favor of raising the minimum wage, eliminating exemptions from the minimum wage for farmworkers, and paid family and medical leave. He co-patroned and voted for proposed Constitutional Amendments protecting reproductive freedom, marriage equality, and automatically restoring voting rights to people upon release from incarceration.

The Opposition

Bill Moher, an Arlington-native tech entrepreneur and repeat GOP contender, is campaigning almost exclusively on repealing Virginia’s modest annual car tax, a regressive proposal that would disproportionately benefit wealthier commuters. He has little to say about urgent priorities like healthcare access, public education funding, and environmental concerns. His narrow focus on top-down tax cuts under the guise of “fiscal accountability” underscores a party out of touch with Arlington’s diverse electorate and unwilling to propose real solutions for working Virginia families.

Recommendation

Based on his impressive track record in office and strong values, Patrick Hope is the progressive candidate in this race.

Virginia’s new House of Delegates 2nd District encompasses parts of Arlington County. With over 65,000 registered voters, this district leans strongly Democratic.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Democratic Delegate Adele McClure faces a challenge from Republican Wendy Sigley in HD-2.

Virginia’s House District 2 covers northern Arlington County, taking in Ballston, Virginia Square, East Falls Church and adjacent neighborhoods in a dense, transit-oriented urban corridor. In the 2024 election Democratic presidential and senatorial nominees carried the district by comfortable double-digit margins.

Incumbent Democratic Delegate Adele McClure has represented the 2nd District in the Virginia House of Delegates since January 2024. She is the first Black person since Reconstruction and the first Asian American to serve Arlington County in the General Assembly. Before taking office, she served as Executive Director of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus. She was included on the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 List for Law & Policy and received the National Black Legislative Staff Leadership Council Top 22 of 2022 Award. Growing up the daughter of an early childhood educator and a Filipino immigrant veteran, she experienced poverty and periodic homelessness before becoming the first in her household to attend college. She holds a B.S. in economics from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she served as Student Body President. Grounded in her lived experience, she works with advocates and community leaders to break down barriers, expand human rights, and improve access to critical services across Virginia.
Committee Assignments: General Laws, Public Safety, Transportation

Delegate McClure supports expanding access to stable, safe, and affordable housing by capping late fees, strengthening tenant protections, preventing evictions, eliminating housing discrimination, and creating homeownership funds for historically excluded communities.
She advocates for fully funding public education mandates, raising teacher salaries above the national average, and providing wraparound services for students and families.
She pledges to protect and build on Medicaid expansion to ensure easy access to primary and specialty care, expand community-based mental health and disability services, and stand up to the insurance lobby.

She champions guaranteeing a living wage with benefits, expanding collective bargaining by repealing Virginia’s so-called right-to-work law, raising minimum wages (including for farm workers), and securing paid sick leave and paid family and medical leave.

She co-patroned and voted for the proposed Constitutional Amendments protecting reproductive freedom and marriage equality, automatically restoring voting rights to people upon release from incarceration.

The Opposition

Wendy Sigley is running for the first time on a generic “accountability” platform, and her background as a military spouse. However, she offers little beyond vague promises of more healthy food access, broader health-care options, and “fiscal responsibility.” In a district craving bold solutions like affordable housing, climate action, and universal health care, her campaign relies on repackaging GOP talking points without articulating any real policy details. Sigley’s hope to break through in deep-blue Arlington hinges more on empty slogans than on substantive plans to tackle the issues her constituents actually face.

Recommendation

Based on her impressive track record in office and strong community values, Adele McClure is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Democratic Delegate Alfonso Lopez is running for reelection unopposed in HD-3.

Virginia’s House District 3 stretches across much of the City of Alexandria and Arlington County. In the 2024 election Democratic presidential and senatorial nominees carried the district by comfortable double-digit margins.

Alfonso Lopez has represented Arlington in the House of Delegates since 2012 and served as Democratic Whip from 2016 to 2022. Outside elected office, he served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration and as Director of the Virginia Liaison Office in Washington, D.C., where he directed and supervised all Congressional and Federal Relations for the Commonwealth under Governor Tim Kaine. He graduated from Vassar College and holds a law degree from Tulane University Law School. He and his wife, live in Arlington along the Columbia Pike corridor with their sons.

Committee Assignments: Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (Chair), Communications, Technology and Innovation, Labor and Commerce (Subcommittee #2 Chair), Public Safety

Delegate Lopez created the Virginia Affordable Housing Trust Fund to prevent evictions and bolster rental assistance and has sponsored bills to strengthen tenant rights.

He considers his signature issue expanding educational opportunities for undocumented and mixed-status families in Virginia like his own. In 2020, he passed the Virginia Dream Act to grant in-state tuition to all Virginia students, regardless of immigration status.

He has also successfully passed legislation protecting undocumented survivors and witnesses of crimes from having to reveal their immigration statuses to the police, repealing mandatory immigration reporting provisions for law enforcement, and ensuring that Emergency Medicaid covers undocumented Virginians for COVID treatment, testing, and vaccinations.

He served as one of the chief negotiators of the Virginia Clean Economy Act and successfully won passage of his bill to overhaul Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay watershed policy, which dedicated $800 million in funding toward keeping harmful pollutants out of the Bay.

He co-patroned the proposed Constitutional Amendments ensuring access to abortion and reproductive freedom, protecting marriage equality, and automatically restoring voting rights to people upon release from incarceration.

Recommendation

This is an uncontested race. Based on his impressive track record of progressive leadership while in office, Incumbent Democratic Delegate Alfonso Lopez is a progressive candidate.