First the good news. A University of Mary Washington poll taken the second week of September shows that Republican Glenn Youngkin is ahead of Terry McAuliffe in the race for governor. Youngkin has the support of 48 percent of likely voters while McAwful has the support of 43 percent. Two percent will vote for third-party candidate Princess Blanding, and five percent are undecided. In prior polls, McAwful had held a slight lead.

Another bit of good news is that the same poll shows that Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate Winsome Sears holds a six percentage point lead over Hala Ayala (47 percent to 41 percent), and Republican Attorney General candidate Jason Miyares holds a 46 percent to 42 percent advantage over incumbent Mark Herring.

Among all those surveyed, 49 percent think the nation is moving in the wrong direction while only 23 percent say it is moving in the right direction.

In Northern Virginia, instead of the usual double-digit lead for the Democrat, McAwful is favored by only 48 percent of likely voters, while Youngkin has the support of 45 percent.

Now the warning – or perhaps I should say warnings (plural).

Republicans tend to think that when they are ahead in the polls they don’t have to work as hard. But poll numbers change, and the Republican lead in this poll is not substantial when considering the margin-of-error for surveys. Not only can Republicans not slow down, we must redouble our efforts to win. Democrats have an eleven-million-dollar war chest aimed directly at Virginia. They intend to retain control of the state any way they can.

Secondly, the Republican Party and the Youngkin campaign have been working for months to counter known and suspected election fraud tactics. But countering these tactics requires a lot of volunteers. Early voting started several days ago yet people can still register to vote. We need more people (up to 15,000) to volunteer to get trained and to watch what goes on in registrar’s offices and in polling places for as many shifts as they can work. The logistics are astounding, but our statewide team of hard working coordinators are pulling the pieces together. Their jobs would be easier and our ballot integrity efforts would be more effective if they had more volunteers. It isn’t too late to have an important role in the battle for ballot integrity. Just step up to the plate by calling or emailing either your local Republican committee or the RPV to get involved in the process of having an honest election in Virginia this year.

Third, go vote. NOW. You can vote early during normal business hours at your local registrar’s office. If you vote early, no one else can come in and say they are you and vote in your place. If your local registrar’s office says they sent you an absentee ballot and you neither requested nor received one, immediately contact the RPV for information on what to do to rescue your vote. (See Hotline information below.)

If a member of your family has died in the last two years, go by your registrar’s office and fill out a form so that the deceased can be removed from the voter rolls before someone votes in their name. See if you can find out whether an absentee ballot has been sent to the deceased. Please inform the RPV if a ballot has been issued (see below). If you happen to have a copy of the death certificate, take it with you when you go to complete the form. In any event, you need to fill out the form – sooner rather than later.

VOTE. Too many people have told me that they don’t plan to vote because the elections are rigged anyway. That is exactly the wrong thing to do. We are shutting down many of the avenues of potential fraud, but we cannot shut them all down – yet. The solution is to get as many conservatives as possible out to vote. This is the only way to offset the legitimate and illegitimate votes for McAwful, Ayala, and Herring as well as House of Delegates candidates. We must get every legitimate conservative voter to the polls, hopefully early, but at least by election day. Imagine another four years of what we have now. I’d rather not.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

 

Election Integrity Hotline
Email: help@virginia.gop
Phone: 804-292-2014
Text: 804-292-2014

WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) in Detroit started a Facebook thread last week to get comments in support of a story they wanted to write. The more than 96,000 responses they received were less than supportive. A sample of them is provided below. They asked: “After the vaccines were available to everyone, did you lose an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19?”

Ryan – No, but I lost a vaccinated one.

Katelyn – No. I lost a vaccinated one and another has GBS from the vaccine.

Carmen – No, we were all fine, but almost lost one of my vaccinated family members!

Kim – My mother passed away 3 weeks ago from covid… she was fully vaxxed back in January.

Spike – This wasn’t the response you expected, I suspect.

Lani – My son’s classmate lost her mother from heart complications due to the vaccine.

Kimmy – No, I lost a fully vaccinated loved one and wife is in the ICU…

Kimberly – What about the vaccinated loved ones that were lost??????…. No one wants to talk about that????? It’s all about the unvaccinated and keeping the fear going… absolutely ridiculous!

Liz – Will you be doing any stories of the people that overcame Covid and have antibodies? Will you be doing any stories on the thousands that also have debilitating side effects from the vaccine? Curious if you will be balanced journalists and media or not – but guessing NO!

Wendy – How about sharing how many after getting vaccinated passed from COVID, let’s talk about that.

Katie – A friend of a parent went into cardiac arrest almost immediately after receiving second dose. They were unable to revive her. I also know of someone who lost a limb due to a blood clot/circulation issue after being fully vaccinated. Hm. From the looks of the comments, you might want to change your story topic.

Ashlee – I have some vaccine injury stories if you are interested! How about that!?

Danielle – They wanna talk about losing unvaccinated people but don’t wanna speak one word about the ones we lost that were vaccinated cause they don’t want that truth to come out.

Alicia – My dad passed away 3 months after his 2^nd shot.

Adam – I know people who died painfully from the vaccine. Want those stories?

Justin – Losing anyone is hard. I absolutely feel for each of these folks. Just curious, when is the story coming about those who lost loved ones who were fully jabbed?

Bianca – How about we hear the stories of people who are vaccinated and lost their lives?!

Noelle – My dad flat-lined after his second dose of Moderna

Alice – Husband diagnosed with Vestibular Neuritis after Covid shot. I am more than willing to share his story.

Shanna – We lost 10 vaccinated friends and family members in the past two weeks. 5 of those were Police officers and firefighters.

Danielle – Would you like to share the story of my husband who developed heart arrythmia after getting the vaccine? Or how I developed reproductive system issues just being around him right after he was vax’d? Will we ever go back to reporting the news instead of furthering an agenda?

De Ann– I am so sorry for all of us. My husband has been in a terrible health situation after his second Pfizer vaccination. He passed away for a brief time then brought back to life. Along with multiple trips to the ER with mini stroke and the latest CT scan showed a lesion growing in his brain and he was told not to drive. Literally it’s like new symptoms keep happening, and we are spending all our money on office visits, specialists, and tests. No one and I mean NO ONE DARES to record the data as a vaccine reaction. So yeah. There’s a huge trust issue underneath this virus, and it’s vaccine.

Kristen – I know a family member with both doses who still ended up in the hospital with Covid. Then there’s my mom, someone already on blood thinners for clots, given the jabs, which have a known risk for clots. She had a massive stroke, while on blood thinners, as well as continuing bleeding on the brain.

Julie – My aunt’s mom got the vaccine, and within 3 weeks she was dead. How about we share the truth. What has happened to journalism, like true journalism. How about report facts instead of just one side you want people to believe?!

You can read all of the comments on the question’s Facebook page .The comments provided here are mostly in the order they appeared, and yes, I did omit a few that were irrelevant to my point, but then this is an opinion piece. I never tried to present this as straight journalism. Unfortunately, too many “journalists” do try to say their opinion pieces are “factual news.” The more important question is why the media is trying so hard to sell only the government’s side of the story. Makes you wonder what other propaganda is being pushed as news.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

The Sixth Congressional District Republican Committee (CD6) held its required third quarter meeting on Thursday evening, September 2^nd, so that its members could be free during the 45 days of election to help win statewide and House of Delegate races. Winning these races will take more than the efforts of just the members of CD6. It will take the engagement and effort of every conservative in the district. The manpower (and womanpower) needs of monitoring ballot integrity alone are massive. We cannot ensure an honest election without your involvement. Contact your unit chair immediately to see how you can help.

Of the 32 voting members, 23 were present and seven others sent proxies. Among those who attended were the new Harrisonburg chair, Pat Haden, and the incoming College Republican representative Julianna McGrath (JMU).

We moved through the agenda items fairly quickly. We were made aware of several large donations made to the Committee for the purpose of party building and helping elect our statewide candidates as well as enough Delegates to swing the balance of power in Richmond.

We discussed the dues that the units are required by the Bylaws to pay to CD6, and we set them at the very low rate that was used last year.

Then Herman Wells of Waynesboro appraised us of a couple of specific methods our trained poll watchers will be using to help keep the balloting process honest and fair. Morgan McCown presented a report on how Critical Race Theory is being forced into Virginia’s schools. [More on that in a minute.] And Jack Collins presented a report on the CD6 website, which will be updated in the near future.

The Committee approved a motion by Vice Chairman Ken Adams to reimburse Treasurer Donna Moser for the cost of the surety bond she has been paying out of her own pocket. The surety bond is intended to protect the Committee from any damages that might be caused by financial mistakes – unintended or otherwise – made by the Committee’s treasurer.

The Resolutions Committee presented four resolutions that were approved by the Committee. One resolution called for the General Assembly to order a full forensic investigation of Virginia’s 2020 General Election and to conduct a thorough review of each subsequent general election. The second resolution called on the U.S. government to cease deficit spending, to reorganize the Executive Branch to reduce inefficiency, to abolish the Federal Reserve, to reduce foreign debt, and to require our allies to pay their fair share into our common defense.

The third resolution required the use of common sense in the matter of transgender issues including not allowing biological males to participate in female sports and keeping our schools and our military out of involvement in transgender issues.

The fourth resolution is, among other things, a commendation of teachers and members of local school boards, boards of supervisors, city councils, and the General Assembly who have taken a stand against the 1619 Project, the Model Policies program, and the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

This brings us back to the comments of Morgan McCown, a mother of four who served a stint in the Marine Corp and is a former teacher. She is currently running for a seat on the Rockbridge County School Board. Her report was impressive, informative, and well researched. The liberals have stopped calling it Critical Race Theory because they know we care about it. The euphemisms now being used are “culturally relevant instruction,” “culturally responsive teaching,” and “cultural competency” among other inventions of the state Department of Education. Mrs. McCown suggests that every conservative should google “VDOE Equity Initiative” and get an eyeful of what Virginia’s DOE is trying to cram down our children’s throats.

As Chairman Massoud said at the end of Mrs. McCown’s report, “Our enemies have no shame and no logic. They know it, and they don’t care. We can’t reason with them. Our only choice is to vote them out of office.”

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

 

I recently ran across an article about the wall on our southern border that was written by a liberal “journalist,” although anymore the term liberal used with journalist is an oxymoron. The two just don’t go together. Most liberals in the field of journalism deal in editorial comments, not with straight news.

The liberal editorialist went on to call the border wall a “political prop.” Any conservative would call the border wall an effort to secure the integrity of the United States by securing the integrity of our borders. But then liberals have their own set of filters for viewing things – no matter how wrong they are in attributing motives to conservatives. I have yet to see a liberal editorialist – or troll – get conservative motives right. They are clueless in that regard – but I digress

This liberal editorialist wrote that the “monsoon rains in Arizona” and the resultant flash floods had left President Trump’s “impenetrable” [used sarcastically in context] border wall rusted and with the gates intended to be opened to allow such floods to pass through hanging from their hinges.

But this editorial piece does let us know that the border wall is deteriorating. Not only did Biden stop construction on the wall as soon as he took office, but he also has done nothing toward its maintenance. The ultimate result of failing to maintain something man-made is the deterioration of that man-made thing.

Conservatives may have assumed that so long as Biden didn’t tear down the wall, the wall would serve its intended purposes in the places it had been strengthened and lengthened. Obviously, liberals thought differently. They believe that if they do nothing with the wall, the elements and the terrain will take care of the wall’s destruction for them. They are right.

Conservatives have apparently made the same assumptions about our liberties that we made about the wall. We have thought that the liberties that we have held dear throughout the history of this country would always be there. As a result, we have failed to maintain them. The elements of destruction and the enemies of our freedoms knew that if they could just lull us into a false sense of security, we would fail to maintain our freedoms and they could erode them to the point where they fall apart. And they have been eroding for decades. But we haven’t noticed because it has been a little rust here, a loose bolt there, and eventually our liberties have fallen into a great state of disrepair. If we don’t each immediately begin to repair what we can, the entire fabric of our freedom will disappear in tatters.

The biblical reference is Nehemiah 3 and 4. When the walls of Jerusalem had been torn down, Nehemiah set about rousing the citizens of Jerusalem to rebuild it. He set each family to rebuild the part of the wall that was in front of their own homes. Then when their enemies threatened to attack them while they were rebuilding, Nehemiah set half of the men to build and half of the men to guard the builders.

Our liberties will not survive if we don’t pay attention to them. Nor will they survive if conservatives only cheer (or complain) about how other people’s efforts are going. We need every liberty loving American to attend to the work of freedom in the area right before their own homes. This might be doing the work. This might be protecting and encouraging those who are doing the work.

More immediately and more specifically, this means getting involved in the efforts to ensure ballot integrity. The RPV has developed training so that each worker, each guard, can know exactly what to do in order to fulfill their part in the total effort. But without people standing up and doing the work of rebuilding, maintaining, and guarding our liberties, we will lose them.

More importantly, America used to be a Christian nation, but we let down our guard there as well. False teachers have entered our churches, our schools, our media, and perverted the foundational faith of America. The bedrock of our freedoms is our Christian faith and heritage. That bedrock needs our attention as much or more than any of our other concerns.

You can do nothing and let America erode into a footnote of history, or you can do your part to rebuild our liberty.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

Her name was Noma, although people kept trying to call her Norma. After her husband’s brother married an actual Norma, Noma would just say, “No. Norma is my sister-in-law.” One time, both ladies ended up in the same hospital at the same time – but they both survived the experience.

Her parents, Edward and Georgia, moved as newlyweds from Alabama to Oklahoma when fields were fertile and opportunity seemed unlimited for farmers. They had little more than the clothes on their back, a pot for soup, and hope. Then the drought hit, and the Grapes of Wrath Dust Bowl became a reality.

Noma was born in 1927 near Konowa in southeastern Oklahoma. She was the sixth child of the family. She had three older brothers, two older sisters, and one younger sister. Black Friday and the Great Depression would not hammer the rest of the country for another two and a half years, but the drought was already devastating family farms. No rain meant no crops, which meant no money, which meant no way for farmers to pay their mortgages. Banks couldn’t afford to carry those debts unpaid year after year, so lots of farmers lost their land.

Edward tried to buy farms two different times but lost both of them. At one time things were so bad, Edward and his boys dug into the side of a hill, roofed the dugout with tree limbs and sod, hung a blanket across the front, and that was home. Back then you relied on yourself, did the best you could with what you had, and made it work.

Noma’s family was poor, but they were no worse off than a lot of other people of the day. Unlike today’s children, they didn’t need cell phones or video game for entertainment. Children were never bored. There was always work to do to help the family survive. When they played, they used their imaginations to create games with what they had. And they didn’t need organized sports leagues. When they wanted to play, the kids organized the games themselves and made up their own rules as needed. It was an early lesson in problem solving, negotiating, and getting along with people. The family not only survived, they thrived. And they did it without welfare or food stamps or Medicaid. When they had extra, they shared with those who didn’t have enough. They knew the difference between freeloaders and those truly in need of a helping hand.

Noma picked cotton in summer. She sewed her own clothes. She could turn a famine of ingredients into a feast of a meal. She won poetry contests and wrote short stories. She graduated as salutatorian of her high school class. She stepped up to do what needed to be done at home while her brothers served in the military during World War II.

After high school, she moved to Oklahoma City to work. In 1946, her boss embarrassed her when he tricked a returning service man into taking her out to dinner. She got over it. She and Richard celebrated their 68^th wedding anniversary three days before she died at the age of 87. When a wartime ailment caught up with Richard and put him in the hospital for three months followed by more months of rehabilitation, she went out and got a job that she worked for 28 years. When Richard was finally able to return to work they worked hard to pay off their mortgage early and put their children through college without any debt. They weren’t rich; they were wise with money.

In addition to formal education, they taught their children life lessons. Work hard. Love God. Take care of family. Be good to your friends. Neither they nor their children were perfect, but they tried to live life as Jesus taught us to live it. Noma was appalled by the “snowflake” mentality of today. She had no respect for anyone who thought they had a “right” to something for nothing. She would rare up and declare, “The only right they have to get stuff is the right to work for it. Those lazy bums need to get off their lazy bums and get a job. And get fired if they don’t do the job well enough to earn the pay they get for it.”

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., recently said that the Republican Party is working to repeal the 20^th century. Noma, who grew up as a Democrat but became a Republican when the Democrats lost their senses, would say we need to repeal the second half of the 20^th century and go back to the morals and ethics that helped the nation survive the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and two world wars. She would tell you that we had real men back then, and most of what we have now are snowflakes who can’t stand the heat. Yes. Noma was a feisty woman. She loved her children, her ten grandchildren, and her 25 great-grandchildren. And she taught them by example what it means to be an American.

I can’t visit Noma’s grave in Oklahoma this Memorial Day, but I can write this column to say “Thanks, Mom.”

[Yes. I’m repeating this column from a couple years ago on the seventh anniversary of Mom’s death. We need more women like her to build a legacy for their children and grandchildren as she helped build a legacy for hers.]

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.