“I do consider Virginia a bellwether [for 2022].” Republicans are focusing their efforts in the upcoming elections on winning back control of #Virginia’s state House of Delegates, which was taken in 2019 by Democrats, many of whom won by slim margins. https://www.theepochtimes.com/republicans-target-13-democrat-incumbents-to-take-back-virginia-state-house_3869229.html?utm_source=minds

The mayor of Silverton, #Colorado, said he will discontinue recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the meetings. The mayor declared that reciting the Pledge would create problems, including “divisiveness.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/colorado-town-mayor-cancels-pledge-of-allegiance-at-town-hall-attendees-recite-anyway_3868031.html?utm_source=minds

Top House GOP leaders blasted an #IRS denial of a tax exemption to a #Texas prayer group as an overt attack on #ReligiousLiberty and a continuation of the targeting that plagued the agency during the #Obama era. Democratic leaders have remained silent. https://www.theepochtimes.com/overt-irs-hostility-to-prayer-bible-study-draws-gop-anger-pelosi-hoyer-other-dems-silent_3869372.html?utm_source=minds