ANALYSIS: Are Candidates Trading Shoe Leather for Online Ads?

Eugene Vindman has spent more than $2 million on online ads according to the Brennan Center. Is it making a difference? Election Day will tell. In the run-up to the 2020 election, Route 3 in Spotsylvania County was sometimes a Trump Train raceway. Share Supporters of Donald Trump would gather in elevated pick-up trucks with […]

Spotsylvania’s Early Voting Site in County-Owned Building

Early voting location has been different each of the past three elections. By Hank SilverbergCORRESPONDENTEmail Hank Early voting sites in Spotsylvania County have been different in each of the last three elections. Apparently, landlords have had regrets about the action occurring outside some of the previous locations. Share Registrar Kelly Acors says the county tried […]

2024 Voters’ Guide

Caroline County, Fredericksburg, King George County, Spotsylvania County, and Stafford County. By FXBG Advance Staff Election season is back, and FXBG Advance is pleased to once again provide this Voters’ Guide to the citizens of Caroline, Fredericksburg, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford. Stay with us from Early Voting (which begins September 20) through Election Day […]

Tim Kaine Holds Roundtable with Local Educators

Spotsylvania event is part of Senator’s “Salute to Service” tour. Fredericksburg-area educators feel disrespected, distrusted, overburdened, overworked, and underpaid, they told Senator Tim Kaine and his wife Anne Holton at a roundtable Tuesday morning. Yet national polls consistently show broad support among Americans for public schools in general — and strong support for their own […]

Election Update

And the winners are … The prelims are over, and the main events are set for November 5. On the Democratic side of the ledger, Eugene Vindman won the party’s nod to represent them in the party’s effort to hold on to the 7th Congressional District seat for a fourth consecutive term. Vindman won with 49% of […]

It’s Election Day!

Make your voice heard. Today is Election Day. Democratic Primary voters will choose between seven candidates hoping to win the 7th Congressional District seat currently held by Abigail Spanberger (D). Spanberger’s tenure in Congress is ending, as she prepares to run for governor in 2025. The winner of the Democratic Primary advances to the General […]

Pre-Primary Fundraising Totals

The final fundraising totals for candidates prior to the Primary came out last week. The numbers are larger, but the trends and storylines haven’t changed – Eugene Vindman is outraising everyone. The pre-primary fundraising totals are in. The same trends we reported in the spring hold true now; the numbers are just larger. And there’s […]

Pre-Season, but not Dull 

The Republican Forum in Fredericksburg Thursday night offered insights into the range of opinions within the party around foreign affairs – and a few fireworks. If politics were baseball, Thursday night’s Republican Candidates’ forum in Fredericksburg would have been just another preseason game. Of interest only to the most rabid fans. After all, most of […]