PFAW’s Next Up Victory Fund convened 16 Next Up endorsees in Virginia and notable progressive leaders Andrew Gillum, Florida’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate and PFAW Senior Fellow; Dolores Huerta, civil rights hero and PFAW board member, and former Virginia Gov. and DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe, at a launch event for the 2019 Virginia campaign.

The event raised visibility on the national importance of the Virginia statewide election and gave Next Up-endorsed candidates and Democratic leaders a chance to connect and support one another in the countdown to Election Day.

Following the release of a jaw-dropping whistleblower complaint recounting the efforts of various people in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 elections, one thing is clear: the American people have every right to expect all those who participated in this scheme to be held accountable.

But how did we get here?

Jared Holt, an investigative reporter for People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch, believes it’s the president having abandoned the world-class intelligence to which he has access in favor of the far-right conspiracy theories that have long motivated him and his political base.

Nearly one year ago, on October 6, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh was pushed onto the Supreme Court by the Trump administration and Senate Republicans who prevented the FBI from conducting a legitimate investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct that had been raised against him. The Court’s new term gets underway in October – and while Kavanaugh may be seated on the bench, there will still be plenty of unfinished business around the process that put him there.

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