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July 22, 2025

Katina Moss was surprised to receive a letter in the mail indicating she qualified for Medicaid coverage.

Issues:Health
April 29, 2025

Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan spoke straight, framing this moment in American history in two ways: A reckoning with our nation’s founding ideals of liberty and equality and a warning that the current political climate is stress-testing the very foundations of American democracy.  

March 27, 2025

In the 1880s, my great grandfather founded a school in their rural community because the state of Alabama did not provide a good education to Black children.

Issues:Education
January 31, 2025

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Graphic of Black Virginia News and Rep. Jennifer McClellan with drawing of Capitol Hill and outline of Virginia.
January 16, 2025

Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, who represents Virginia’s fourth congressional district, is a veteran of Virginia politics. With Donald Trump entering his second term in office, Rep.

January 16, 2025

When I was 7 years old, I wrote President Jimmy Carter a letter. He was the first president I could remember, and whenever I saw him on the news, he seemed very kind. So, I invited him to dinner at our home in Matoaca, Virginia, confident that he would say yes. I just knew he would come.

January 16, 2025

Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan is working to ensure that every Veteran in the 4th District enjoys a heartfelt Valentine’s Day.

This year, McClellan introduced the 2025 Valentines for Veterans initiative, aimed at creating and delivering Valentine’s Day cards to veterans living in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District.

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Margo Wagner, Richmond Times-Dispatch
October 11, 2024

The latest news from Richmond's once-beleaguered regional mail center is that delivery times are getting back to the national average — but the latest advice if you're voting by mail is to do it sooner rather than later, Virginia's two U.S.

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Charlotte Rene Woods, Virginia Mercury
October 7, 2024

“The Affordable Care Act saved my life,” said Laura Packard, a Virginia resident, Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor and health advocate who joined other advocates and state and federal Democratic lawmakers on Monday as part of a national bus tour highlighting Democrat-led efforts to expand health care access.

September 30, 2024

In mid-July, as listeria infection cases multiplied across the United States, Maryland health officials who track foodborne illnesses grew increasingly alarmed. The outbreak was spreading at a much more rapid rate than normal for listeria.