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After Republicans suffered a bruising election night in Virginia, the governor of the state once part of the commonwealth issued a public invitation for disillusioned residents to head west.
That and other invitations from other states came as the trend of people fleeing New York City and New Jersey following prior elections continues to change political dynamics, including in one of the biggest swing states.
«It’s about to get awful blue in the Commonwealth of Virginia,» West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said after urban and suburban areas turned out en-masse Democrats and overwhelmed comparatively anemic GOP turnout.
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«Don’t wait for the high taxes and heavy regulations to come, now is your chance to escape to ‘Wild and Wonderful’ West Virginia,» Morrisey added Wednesday, citing the state’s famous tagline.
While it lost a congressional seat in the last census, West Virginia has since seen population expansion in its two panhandles – the eastern being 70-90 miles from Washington and the northern equally proximate to Pittsburgh. It was part of Virginia until 1863.
Also bordering Virginia, some officials in Kentucky also welcomed the prospect of right-leaning voters relocating to the other side of Pine Mountain – in Kentucky.
«Kentucky is open for business,» Attorney General Russell Coleman told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
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«Any Virginia family or business who wants to trade one commonwealth for another and enjoy our safe streets, competitive utility rates and respect for the rule of law is welcome.»
Coleman said that while political conditions in Richmond may appear cloudy to some, things are looking up for those eyeing Frankfort:
«It’s the beginning of college basketball season, and there’s no better time to be a Kentuckian,» Coleman quipped.
While not considered a true swing state, Kentucky has a Democratic governor, two Republican senators, and a similar dynamic to other swing states in that its rural areas are heavily red but sparsely populated compared to blue strongholds like Lexington and Louisville.
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Further north, Pennsylvania is making its own pitch — one that predates the Civil War but has newfound relevance.
A bipartisan bill introduced earlier this year would provide such assistance to new Pennsylvanians and any residents who have not yet purchased a home.
«Buying a home is a significant milestone for many individuals and families that creates opportunities for growing families as well as the accrual of generational wealth,» state Reps. Nathan Davidson, D-Camp Hill, and Thomas Kutz, R-Mount Holly Springs, said in a statement on their bill.
Many people, including former New Yorkers, brave the two- to three-hour commute to the Big Apple to retain their jobs – in exchange for lower taxes and better quality of life.
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Bake Oven Knob, a famous lookout on the Appalachian Trail in Germansville, Pennsylvania. (Charlie Creitz)
That has resulted in a political purpling of northeastern Pennsylvania – as the once-Republican-friendly region has given way to narrow U.S. House races in the Lehigh Valley and Poconos.
As Billy Joel’s «Allentown» foretold, the region has been undergoing change for decades, shifting away from now-defunct Bethlehem Steel and other industry – and becoming a hub for warehousing and technology, as real estate costs both residential and commercial rise but not to the height of New Jersey and New York City.
Nearly 50,000 New York residents moved to Pennsylvania in 2022 alone, while 40,000 New Jerseyans did the same that year.
During his race, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli praised Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro for the state’s more favorable climate compared to his own.
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That ultimately led Shapiro to remind voters he was supporting Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill.
Fox News Digital reached out to Shapiro for comment on the continued westward exodus.
State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Gettysburg, a top member of the majority’s caucus and potential 2026 gubernatorial candidate, told Fox News Digital he would welcome more Americans wishing to «escape the high taxes, soft-on-crime policies, and heavy-handed government mandates» that have made New Jersey and other blue states «unaffordable and unsafe.»
«Pennsylvania is a beautiful, free, and opportunity-rich state. We know that many of the folks coming here share our values: faith, family, freedom, and fiscal sanity,» he said.
«They want safe neighborhoods, good schools, and leaders who put citizens first — not ideology. And we welcome them with open arms.»
However, he offered a warning to any new residents bringing their home-state policies with them.
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«I gently urge those arriving from failed blue states to leave behind the politics that caused them to leave in the first place,» the retired Army colonel said.
«Pennsylvania doesn’t need to become the next New Jersey or Northern Virginia. What we have here is worth protecting,» he said.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., condemned President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. airports on Sunday.
Schumer made the comments while speaking on the Senate floor Sunday, saying Trump’s decision is «impulsive» and could make the situation at airports worse.
«Today, Donald Trump and [Tom] Homan are saying they will deploy ICE agents to airports starting on Monday. This is really disturbing. ICE agents who are untrained and have caused problems everywhere they’ve gone lurking at our airports. That’s asking for trouble, and it will certainly make the chaos at the airports even worse,» Schumer said.
«No one has any faith in ICE agents. They haven’t received training. They don’t know what it is to be a TSA person and do what you need to do,» he continued. «And the real problem here is they have no plan for using these ICE agents. Trump says, send them there. They send them there. And Homan says they’re still drawing up plans with less than a day’s notice. What is this? We know what it is. It’s another impulsive action by Donald Trump.»
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President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are clashing over funding plans for the DHS. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
«Some idea pops into his head and he announces it. And then the people working for him, a few of whom do have some degree of talent and ability. Not many underlings. They have to rush to try and implement what they know is an idiotic plan,» he said.
The ICE deployment is Trump’s latest move in the battle with Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Schumer also used his time on the Senate floor Sunday to criticize Trump’s actions in Iran.
«Donald Trump said, ‘you know, I may have a plan or I may not for a war,’» Schumer said. «There’s people’s lives are at stake. Billions are being spent on an almost daily basis. And he says, you know, ‘I may have a plan or I may not.’ These are the words of the commander in chief in the middle of a war involving one of the most dangerous regimes on Earth. ‘I have a plan, or I may not.’»
«That’s unhinged and dangerous. Lives are on the line. The president says he may not even have a plan. Tens of billions are being wasted. No plan. Troops being killed and injured, no plan. Civilians being killed and injured. No plan. Gasoline costs $3.94 a gallon on average. And Trump, ‘I have no plan’,» Schumer said.
Meanwhile, Schumer and his allies have refused to approve DHS funding without reforms to immigration enforcement.
TSA agents across the country have gone more than a month without a paycheck, with no clear end in sight.
Travelers wait in line at a TSA checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, on March 9, 2026. (Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump first threatened to deploy ICE to airports on Saturday, demanding that Democrats «immediately sign an agreement» to fund DHS.
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Airports across the country have reported huge numbers of employees calling out sick or not showing up for work. More than 400 TSA employees have quit their jobs.
TSA Agents scan luggage at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. (Valerie Plesch/Getty Images)
«On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard-line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all,» Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social.
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Trump also predicted blowback from Democrats, saying they would complain «no matter how great a job ICE does.»
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Eugenio Dittborn, figura central del arte contemporáneo en Chile, presenta por primera vez en la Argentina una muestra individual que reúne obras de distintas etapas de su carrera y expone su particular abordaje conceptual sobre la representación y circulación de las imágenes.
A diferencia de muestras retrospectivas convencionales, Historias del rostro, en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, con curaduría de Justo Pastor Mellado, presenta solo dos piezas principales y un conjunto de documentos históricos fundamentales dentro del recorrido del artista. Este enfoque, según detalló Mellado, busca demostrar “la potencia conceptual del universo creativo” de Dittborn, utilizando recursos mínimos pero de gran densidad visual y simbólica.
La obra destacada de esta exposición, según Mellado, es “XXII Historia del rostro”, una pintura aeropostal realizada en 1998 que condensa veinte retratos impresos, conformando lo que el curador describe como “una pequeña enciclopedia de la representación del rostro”.
En la pieza convergen dibujos infantiles, caricaturas, retratos hablados, imágenes de personas con afecciones mentales, fichas de identificación policial y fotografías de pobladores originarios tomadas de un álbum etnográfico.
Esta obra, además de su contenido visual, integra el procedimiento singular que distingue al artista desde los años ochenta: la pintura se pliega, se envía en un sobre a diferentes destinos internacionales y se exhibe junto con su envoltura, cuestionando los sistemas tradicionales de circulación y legitimación de las obras de arte.
Las pinturas aeropostales constituyen una estrategia desarrollada por Dittborn a inicios de la década de 1980. A través de este formato, el artista no solo introduce métodos de experimentación gráfica y crítica visual, sino que también propone un sistema alternativo de circulación que desafía la noción de obra única y su permanencia física en el espacio expositivo. Cada pintura, compuesta por iconografías e inscripciones heterogéneas, es doblada y enviada físicamente a distintos países, donde se despliega temporalmente junto al sobre que la contiene.
La otra producción principal de la muestra, creada en 2022, es “Todas las caras del rostro”, que reúne diez dibujos en carboncillo sobre sudarios. Mellado describe que estos rostros aparecen “con sus cuencas vacías, mostrándonos con descaro sus dientes apretados, sus cráneos pelados o adornados con rizos, sus narices puntiagudas dispuestas sobre patrones de damero vistos en escorzo, combinando tramas que delatan la textura de la tela”. De este modo, la obra dialoga directamente con los materiales y gestos gráficos constitutivos de la trayectoria de Dittborn.
El recorrido de la exposición se completa con dos publicaciones producidas por Eugenio Dittborn entre 1976 y 1979, que según el director del Bellas Artes, Andrés Duprat, “se convirtieron en acontecimientos de la historia editorial y visual chilena”. Para Duprat, el gran mérito de la curaduría radica en que, mediante una selección precisa y acotada, se “logra reactualizar la escena de origen del artista, y subraya la persistencia de la línea como principio organizador de su práctica”.
Eugenio Dittborn nació en Santiago de Chile en 1943 y cuenta con obras en instituciones internacionales de relevancia. Esta exposición en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, que cuenta con el apoyo del Centro Cultural Matta de la Embajada de Chile, constituye la primera oportunidad de observar de cerca algunos de los núcleos conceptuales y formales de su producción, a partir de piezas que exploran tanto la representación del rostro como los circuitos que permiten a la imagen persistir y desplazarse en el tiempo y el espacio.
*“Eugenio Dittborn. Historias del rostro” podrá visitarse hasta el 31 de mayo en la sala 33 del primer piso del Museo, de martes a viernes, de 11 a 19.30 (último ingreso), y los sábados y domingos, de 10 a 19.30.
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