Tuesday, Nov. 3, is the day. Every one of us in Fairfax votes for U.S. Senate and for one House seat. Two votes, and they decide your paycheck, your power bill, your kids’ streets, your border and your country.
Will you keep your tax cuts, or hand Washington more of your paycheck? Will your power bill keep climbing?
Will the border stay secure, or go back to the people who voted against paying for its enforcement? And will we stay one country, or keep getting split into teams?
And will Congress spend the next two years working for you, or chasing President Trump?
Four Democrats want to keep their jobs: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on everyone’s ballot, and Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA-8), Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10) or Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA-11), depending on where you live.
Not our words, their votes, and you can read every one of them before you decide whether they earned another term.
The Tax Foundation put it plainly: “Without congressional action, 62 percent of filers could soon face a tax increase relative to current policy in 2026.”
Congress acted, and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act “makes many of the individual tax cuts and reforms of the TCJA permanent,” the Tax Foundation says.
Beyer and Subramanyam voted Nay when the House passed it on May 22, 2025, and No on the final version on July 3, 2025.
Warner voted Nay on the same bill on July 1, 2025. The Senate split 50-50, and the Vice President broke the tie. That is how close it was.
Three of the four voted against keeping many of your tax cuts, twice in the House and once in the Senate. Your money, their No.
Walkinshaw sat on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, representing the Braddock District from 2020 to September 2025, so his record on your bills was written in this county.
In April 2024, the Board he sat on approved a budget markup package with a real estate rate of $1.125 and an “average Real Estate Tax bill increase of just over $450.”
In May 2025, the Board he sat on added a new 4 percent tax on prepared food and drinks, starting Jan. 1, 2026.
An average tax bill up just over $450 one year. A new tax on prepared food the next. Then a promotion to Washington.
In March 2023, the House passed the Lower Energy Costs Act, 225-204. Beyer voted Nay.
CBS News described the bill as a plan to “sharply increase domestic production of oil, natural gas and coal” and “ease permitting restrictions that delay pipelines, refineries and other projects.” More supply, faster, and he said no.
The League of Conservation Voters gives Beyer 100 percent for 2024 and 100 percent for 2025, with a lifetime score of 97.
It gives Subramanyam 100 percent lifetime and 100 percent for 2025, with 33 pro-environment votes and none anti. It scores Warner 97 percent for 2025.
A perfect green scorecard and a Nay on more supply. We say that pushes your power bill one way. Up.
The Laken Riley Act became law on Jan. 29, 2025. It applies to certain noncitizens the statute lists as inadmissible, including people who are here without having been admitted or paroled.
The crimes are burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, assault of a law enforcement officer, or any crime that results in death or serious bodily injury.
If that person is charged with, arrested for, convicted of or admits committing one of those crimes, the law says DHS must issue a detainer.
Hold the ones already in trouble for those crimes, and that is the whole law.
The law carries the name of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student killed while out for a run on Feb. 22, 2024, on the University of Georgia campus.
A judge found Jose Ibarra guilty on all charges that November. Officials said the Venezuelan man entered the country illegally in 2022.
Beyer voted Nay. Not once. Three times: in March 2024, on Jan. 7, 2025, and again on Jan. 22, 2025.
He also voted Nay on the Secure the Border Act in May 2023.
Then he went after the people who enforce the law. On Sept. 8, at an Arlington County Civic Federation debate, he said, “We need to shut down ICE,” and called the agency’s culture “irretrievably destroyed.”
In July he said Congress has to “get rid of it” and rebuild something different. We say enforce the law we already have.
On Nov. 12, 2025, the House passed the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026, 222-209. Beyer, Subramanyam and Walkinshaw: Nay, Nay, Nay.
Warner voted Nay on the same bill on Nov. 10.
On March 5, 2026, the House passed the Department of Homeland Security spending bill for 2026, 221-209. All three voted Nay.
On March 26, the House passed the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, 218-206. All three voted Nay.
Warner voted Yea on Jan. 30, 2026, on a Sanders amendment to rescind certain ICE funding.
Then, from Feb. 12 to March 26, he voted No seven times on starting debate on the Homeland Security funding bill.
Nay after Nay on the bills that pay for enforcement is not a border policy. It is a press release.
Illegal immigration costs a working family jobs, we say, and at times their safety on our own streets. Holding the ones charged with theft, assault or worse is the least we should ask.
On the Pay Our Homeland Defenders vote, four Democrats voted Yea. 206 voted Nay. Ours were in the 206.
On the final tax bill, 212 Democrats voted No. Beyer and Subramanyam were two of them.
On these votes, they did not vote on what was in the bill. They voted on which team wrote it. Warner voted No on even starting the debate. Seven times.
You cannot bring a country together from inside a locked caucus room.
Look past Tuesday. If Democrats win the House and the Senate, you can be sure of what the next two years look like.
Endless congressional prosecutions of President Trump. Hearing after hearing. Subpoena after subpoena.
Gridlock on every bill that matters to your family. Showboating for the cameras while the real work sits.
None of it lowers your grocery bill. None of it keeps your kids safer. The average everyday American pays for that circus and gets nothing back.
Warner, Beyer, Subramanyam and Walkinshaw would be four more votes to make it happen.
We stand for something simple, starting with lower taxes and keeping the tax cut you already have, because your money is yours first.
American energy, with more supply, more pipelines and more power, so the bill in your mailbox stops climbing.
A border that is enforced, and real backing for the men and women who enforce it, not a plan to shut them down.
Safe streets, where the ones charged with theft, assault or worse are held, not waved through.
One country, not two teams trading shots from a locked caucus room.
That is the America First agenda, and it is not complicated: your paycheck, your power bill, your kids’ streets and your border.
Now the hard truth: if you stay home on Tuesday, you still vote.
You vote for higher taxes, for expensive energy, for more crime and more illegal immigration, and for more of the division that is tearing this country apart.
Staying home is not neutral; it is a vote for all of it, cast for you by the people who did show up.
Beyer, Subramanyam, Walkinshaw and Warner are counting on you to stay home. Do not give them that.
Early voting runs through this Saturday, Oct. 31. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Polls are open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and you can register and vote the same day.
Vote Bert Mizusawa for U.S. Senate, against Warner.
Then vote for your Republican for the House: Tony Sabio in the 8th against Beyer. Dave Beckwith in the 10th against Subramanyam. Arthur Purves in the 11th against Walkinshaw.
Two votes decide your taxes, your power bill, your border and your country on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Cast them both, and send Warner, Beyer, Subramanyam and Walkinshaw home.
Featured photos: Office of Sen. Mark Warner (CC BY 2.0); Aimee Custis Photography (CC BY 2.0); Maryland GovPics (CC BY 4.0); WrenFalcon (CC BY 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.