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Trump urges Virginia voters to reject ‘blatant partisan power grab’ by Democrats

Virginia voters to decide on redistricting plan that could shift power
Virginia voters are poised to vote on a redistricting plan this week, a decision President Trump warns carries national implications. Rep. John McGuire, R-Va., argues the proposal is an ‘unconstitutional power grab’ by Democrats aiming to secure more congressional seats. He highlights the impact on Virginia’s 50-50 voter split and calls for a ‘no’ vote.
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President Donald Trump is urging Virginians going to the polls Tuesday to reject a redistricting ballot measure that could hand Democrats as many as four House seats in November, a large haul with House Republicans hanging onto a slim majority.
«This referendum is a blatant partisan power grab that nobody’s really ever seen anything like it,» Trump told a telerally call with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Monday night, The Hill reported.
Just say «no» to Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s push, he added.
«It’s the liberal extremist Gov. Abigail Spanberger, too bad, and the far-left Democrats in Richmond after Spanberger promised Virginia voters that she would never do this,» he told the call. «And if it passes, Virginia Democrats will eliminate four out of five congressional seats, so you’re going to get just wiped out in terms of representation in Washington.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, is being criticized for signing a bill that critics say hand the state’s electoral votes away. (Steve Helber/AP Photo; Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«That’s what it’s all about. Please get out and vote and vote no. It’s very simple,» the president added. «Just vote no.»
Virginia has moved to push through a new map before the 2026 midterms, something that would not otherwise happen before the 2030 census.
Democrats currently hold six of the 11 House seats in Virginia, a state that narrowly went for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, but the new map would hand the Democrats a huge 10-1 advantage.
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Among the nearly 6 million registered voters in the state of Virginia, Democrats do have an edge, but not one that wide. The state is majority Democrat (51.24%), but Republicans (30.56%) and independents (18.2%) are both well represented, according to Independent Voter Project data.
«We have to stand up for fair maps and we have to vote no,» Johnson told the call.
«As your speaker of the House, I see firsthand every single day how all five of those members are leading the fight on things like lowering costs and securing our borders and making Virginia and America great again,» he said. «And we need to return all five of them to Congress this November.»
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Johnson was referring to the vulnerable seats of Virginia GOP Reps. Rob Wittman, Jen Kiggans, John McGuire, Ben Cline, and Morgan Griffith.
The new map would leave only Griffith’s 9th Congressional District with a Republican edge, but it would pit him against Cline in a difficult primary. Kiggans’ seat would remain a swing district, but one trending further into the favor of Democrats.
«They definitely want to turn us into New England,» Cline told the Ruthless Podcast last week. «Massachusetts used to have Republican members of Congress, a much more balanced delegation. Now it’s 9-0. But Republicans vote, what, 40% of the population there. They do it in Illinois. Most of the states where they control, they’re trying to just draw Republicans completely out.»
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Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, right, and former state Attorney General Jason Miyares lead a chant of «no» as they lead Republican efforts to defeat a Democrat-backed congressional redistricting referendum, on April 20, 2026 in Leesburg, Virginia. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
It is not just about gaining house seats either. The map difficulty moves future candidates further left even on the right, according to Cline.
«Their goal is the long game,» Cline added. «It is the short game of the next election, but it’s also the long game of trying to turn rural Virginia into either a non-impact on politics or convert. You either assimilate or you’re destroyed.»
Griffith is planning a legal challenge on the structure of Tuesday’s special election ballot question for its «compactness, other arguments about the process, and the question on the ballot,» he told WJHL.
«These maps are horrible, and they do not work for good government, or good representation by any of the congressmen or women of Virginia,» he added.
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Notably, the ballot asks a generic question about a desire to «restore fairness,» suggesting the previously democratically approved map might be unfair.
«Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?»
Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican, is calling out the disenfranchisement of voters in the state.
«It’s a measure to silence and disenfranchize the voices of millions of Virginians,» he told «Fox & Friends» on Tuesday morning. «And you’re exactly right when even The Washington Post calls the ‘yes’ campaign brazenly dishonest, that says something: They’re definitely not a friend to conservatives.»
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«But what this is is nothing but a left-wing power grab» Miyares continued. «Virginians have already spoken on this in 2020 by a 30-point landslide. They said, ‘Hey, we don’t want politicians of either party drawing these lines,’ but Democrats, as soon as they got in power — remember Abigail Spanberger promised in August of 2025 that she wasn’t going to gerrymander Virginia — yet that was the very first bill she signed in office and is one of the reasons why she’s the least popular governor in the entire history of modern Virginia politics.«
While Spanberger has argued Virginia has to retaliate for other states efforts to redrawn favorable districts in their states for this midterm election, Miyares argued this one is the last and most blatantly lopsided.
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«It’s been called the most gerrymandered map in the entire country,» he told Fox News. «And now it’s why rural Virginians are standing up saying, ‘No, do not disenfranchise our voices,’ because 56 counties in Virginia, if this passes, will effectively not have a voice in Congress.
«That’s wrong. That’s not fair. That’s not democracy. Virginians need to go vote now, today.»
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Perdón, el argentino nace donde puede

Si me preguntan, digo que soy más argentina que el Obelisco. Soy argentina, fuera del país me reconocen en la calle otros argentinos, yo los reconozco a ellos. Kolesnicov, me llamo. Patricia Kolesnicov: no es un apellido diaguita. Ni coya. Ni guaraní. Ni, bueno, español.
Hace un tiempo, con compañeros periodistas teníamos una regla: si aparecía en algún cable que venía del extranjero un apellido como el mío y un nombre en castellano, había que sospechar que ahí había un argentino. Acertamos varias veces.
Soy argentinísima y, en las fiestas, cocino pastrón con arroz turco. El pastrón es una delicia de los judíos de Europa del Este. El arroz turco es lo que acá conocemos como “pilav” y es oriental: porque soy argentina, judía y en parte de Europa del Este pero allá atrás hay también bisabuelos turcos. Se mezclaron en Buenos Aires, claro.
Dicho esto: por el pasillo llegan otros olores. Mi vecina, de familia italiana, nos mata con la salsa. Pero, ¿qué otros apellidos tiene detrás, cuántas historias? Si mi mezcla fueron judíos rusos y turcos, ¿cómo fue la de mi vecina?

Pienso apellidos argentinos: Pueyrredón, Menem, Quispe, Sato, Sturzenegger, Rossi, Tavares, O’Donnell, García, Kim, Kicillof, Mamani., Pien, Ndiaye. ¿Sigo? ¿Cuál es menos argentino? En este país, los apellidos tienen fecha de llegada: tarde o temprano, a nadie le llaman la atención.
Soy argentinísima y voy a lo de mi argentinísima amiga Sánchez que hace.. bagna cauda. En el supermercado chino de la otra cuadra me atiende una verdulera de Cochabamba -Bolivia- y mientras las dos compramos tomates, hablo con otro vecino, un joven coreano, que acaba de apoyar en el suelo su bolsa de carbón: habrá asado el día del partido, me dice. Y hay que prepararse. Frente al televisor, mi compañera de facultad de apellido francés insulta de una manera que hubiera puesto colorada a mi abuela. Y no en francés, justamente.
Entre aproximadamente 1870 y 1914 llegaron a la Argentina unos 5,9 millones de inmigrantes, de los cuales más de la mitad se radicó definitivamente. En el censo de 1914, casi el 30% de la población había nacido en el extranjero, una de las proporciones más altas del mundo. En la ciudad de Buenos Aires, los extranjeros rondaban el 50 %.
No fue casualidad todo esto: en el plan de Juan Bautista Alberdi, cuando se estaba imaginando el país en el siglo XIX, decía claro “Gobernar es poblar”. Él no pensaba, sin embargo, en poblar a mansalva, era selectivo: “Poblar es civilizar cuando se puebla con gente civilizada, es decir, con pobladores de la Europa civilizada . ( . . .) Pero poblar no es civilizar, sino embrutecer, cuando se puebla con chinos y con indios de Asia y con negros de África” . Por eso la Constitución nacional sigue teniendo, en su artículo 25, una directiva: favorecer la inmigración europea.

Mala suerte, Alberdi. Vinimos, de todos lados. Vinimos los pobres, los perseguidos, los que nadie quería, aquellos a quienes la Revolución Industrial había dejado sin trabajo, aquellos que escapamos de los pogroms, aquellos que huimos de la guerra, aquellos a quienes el ejército entró a buscarnos a casa, aquellos que buscábamos una vida mejor porque la que teníamos no estaba bien. Nadie se va a vivir a otro país si nada en la libertad, la seguridad y la abundancia., Nadie se va a otro lugar del mundo por pasear, nadie deja su casa, su forma de hablar, nadie se va a jugar de visitante por los lindos paisajes: ni en el siglo XIX ni ahora.
Ahora, digo, que vinieron tantos venezolanos, que endulzan el español rioplatense con su castellano, que hacen que las arepas -¿y los tequeños?- se empiecen a hacer un lugar en los menúes porteños. Sus apellidos suelen ser españoles: en las listas no se ven.
Durante el Mundial, se nos dijo “racistas”. Por favor: los negros que llegaron como esclavos -los trajeron aquellos europeos, ¿no?- perdieron sus apellidos, en general, y fueron bautizados como sus amos. Algunos fueron a la guerra de la Triple Alianza como soldados, algunos murieron en la fiebre amarilla porque vivían en los barrios pobres donde la epidemia pegó más fuerte. Spoiler: nadie sale rico de la esclavitud. ¿Dónde están? Las historias familiares -y las caras que nos cruzamos en las calles- muestran una historia que quedó escondida tras el relato de la argentina blanca: nos mezclamos, otra vez. Y, también la ola migratoria enorme, de Europa. No la Europa que quería Alberdi, pero la tez más o menos clara.
A principios de siglo llegaron también los japoneses. Y los caboverdianos. En los 70 y 80, chinos y coreanos. Más africanos vinieron desde los 90: de Senegal, de Ghana, de Nigeria. Sus apellidos todavía “se ven”, mientras que Messi, Menem, Mac Allister ya se perciben, simplemente, como argentinos. Algunos apellidos todavía nos llaman la atención. Otros dejaron de hacerlo. Quizá dentro de cincuenta años ocurra lo mismo con Kim o Ndiaye. Y, junto a los apellidos de quienes llegaron, siguen estando los de quienes nunca tuvieron que llegar: Quispe, Mamani, Catrileo. Porque la historia argentina no empezó con los barcos.
Basta recorrer una guía telefónica —o, hoy, un padrón electoral o una red social— para leer una historia de la Argentina. Los apellidos cuentan la conquista española, la supervivencia de pueblos originarios como los mapuches y los andinos, la gran inmigración italiana y española de fines del siglo XIX, la llegada de judíos, sirio-libaneses, armenios y galeses, las corrientes japonesas, coreanas y chinas del siglo XX y las migraciones africanas y latinoamericanas más recientes. Pero también cuentan silencios: los apellidos africanos que la esclavitud borró y muchos apellidos indígenas que fueron reemplazados por otros, castellanos. Más que un catálogo de orígenes, el mapa de los apellidos argentinos es una síntesis de cinco siglos de conquistas, migraciones, mezclas e integraciones.
Al final, “Kolesnicov”, no habla tanto sobre mí como sobre un camino que, también, es la historia del mundo. No se castellanizó, no hizo falta ni me obligaron. Si alguien me pregunta un nombre argentino, le doy este: Patricia Kolesnicov. Y sí, el pastrón queda espectacular con tapa de asado: la mezcla también es argentina.
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Resource rich nation praises US ties amid Washington-Beijing critical minerals race

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UNITED NATIONS — The Democratic Republic of Congo does not view growing American involvement in its critical-minerals industry as a contest with China, the country’s foreign minister told Fox News Digital, arguing that Kinshasa needs multiple partners to transform its vast natural wealth into prosperity for its people.
«I don’t like talking about competition. I like talking about complementarity,» Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner said in an exclusive interview at the United Nations.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance meet Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters)
«A country as big as the USA, but also a country as big as the DRC and as big as China, they do not develop just with one single partner,» she added. «They develop with different partnerships that respond to different needs and that bring different expertise to the table.»
The comments come as the Trump administration seeks to increase American access to Congo’s copper, cobalt, lithium, gold and other strategic resources, while reducing U.S. reliance on mineral supply chains dominated by China.
A strategic partnership signed by Washington and Kinshasa on Dec. 4, 2025, calls for increased economic cooperation, investment and the development of secure and transparent critical-mineral supply chains. The agreement accompanied a broader regional framework linking economic integration to efforts to end decades of conflict between Congo and Rwanda.
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Excavators and drillers at work in an open pit at Tenke Fungurume, a copper and cobalt mine 110 km (68 miles) northwest of Lubumbashi in Congo’s copper-producing south, January 29, 2013. (REUTERS/Jonny Hogg/File Photo)
A separate arrangement involving DR Congo’s state mining company Gécamines and commodities trader Mercuria could give U.S. buyers priority access to some copper and cobalt supplies, Reuters reported on Dec. 5, 2025. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation also expressed interest in taking a strategic stake in the partnership.
Kayikwamba Wagner said relations between the U.S. and DR Congo were taking «a more concrete shape» based on mutual economic interests.
She said Kinshasa welcomed «more U.S. interests in the DRC» that could help the country turn its mineral wealth into «tangible transformations for the lives of Congolese,» while also delivering benefits to American partners.
Speaking separately at a high-level U.N. meeting on critical minerals Tuesday, Kayikwamba Wagner warned that the global shift toward clean energy must not reproduce an economic model in which raw materials leave Africa while processing, technology and most of the profits remain elsewhere.
«The global energy transition must not become another extractive transition,» she said. «If it merely replaces one form of dependency with another, it will have fallen short of its promise.»
She called for foreign partnerships to support local processing, infrastructure, technology transfers, research, industrialization and access to financing — not simply secure supplies of raw materials.
CHILL COMING FROM TRUMP’S SUMMIT WITH XI IS PROOF OF A NEW COLD WAR WITH CHINA

M23 rebels stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. M23, a rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda, has seized Rubaya, a mining town in eastern Congo known for producing a key mineral used in smartphones, the group said Thursday, May 2, 2024, in a statement. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
The minerals push is closely connected to the U.S.-mediated peace process between the DRC and Rwanda. The countries initially signed a peace agreement in Washington on June 27, 2025, before Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame reaffirmed the deal and signed related economic agreements on Dec. 4. The framework was intended both to reduce fighting and attract Western investment to a region rich in cobalt, copper, tantalum and other minerals.
Kayikwamba Wagner acknowledged that the agreement had not ended the violence, but said Washington’s willingness to impose consequences for violations showed that the process remained meaningful.
«This is a 30-year conflict we’re dealing with,» she said. «It’s not going to happen overnight.»
She praised the administration for sanctioning the Rwanda Defense Force and senior Rwandan officials over what the Treasury Department described as their support for the M23 rebel group. Treasury said in March that the RDF had supported, trained and fought alongside M23 as it seized territory and strategic mining locations in eastern Congo. Rwanda has repeatedly denied supporting M23.
«I find it encouraging to see that we have with us a partner that is not willing to give up at the first obstacle,» Kayikwamba Wagner said.
She was in New York as the DRC, which holds the Security Council presidency for July, elevated the connection between natural resources, armed conflict and sexual violence.
Kayikwamba Wagner said rape and other forms of conflict-related sexual violence had risen sharply in areas held by M23 and Rwandan forces, affecting women and girls as well as men and boys.
Victims in occupied areas, she said, often lack access to courts, healthcare or other avenues for redress.
«This is also one of the reasons why we continue to be mobilized against this illegal occupation of eastern DRC,» she said, arguing that restoring state authority was essential to providing survivors with justice and medical care.
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President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In her U.N. remarks, she cited the Rubaya mining area, which is under M23 control and supplies a significant share of global tantalum demand. She said U.N. experts estimated that at least 1,400 tons of coltan were smuggled into Rwanda during the first year after the mines were seized, generating approximately $800,000 per month for the armed group.
The Treasury department imposed additional sanctions on June 25 against a network it accused of working with M23 to smuggle minerals from eastern Congo into Rwanda, saying the action was intended to support the Washington peace framework and improve transparency in regional mineral supply chains.
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