For months, Fairfax conservatives have warned that Governor Abigail Spanberger’s version of “moderate” means handing Virginia’s vote to whoever wins somewhere else. This week, Fox News caught up — reporting that Spanberger signed the National Popular Vote interstate compact into law, a bill critics say makes Virginia voters constitutionally irrelevant in presidential elections.

As Fox News reported on April 14, the Virginia Republican Party posted on X that “fake Moderate Spanberger just signed a bill to render Virginians’ vote for president NULL AND VOID!” The party went on to explain what the bill actually does: under the compact, “all of Virginia’s Electoral College votes will go to the winner of the national popular vote — no matter who wins the popular vote in our Commonwealth.” The Virginia GOP called it “an unconstitutional assault on our democracy.”

Read that again. If a Virginia Republican wins this Commonwealth by a million votes, and a Democrat wins the national popular vote by a hundred, Spanberger’s law hands all thirteen of Virginia’s Electoral College votes to the Democrat. Virginia voters don’t decide who Virginia supports — Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago do. That is not moderation. That is surrender.

And it is not an isolated move. It is part of a pattern — the same pattern Richmond Democrats are running on redistricting. Spanberger, State Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, and House Speaker Don Scott have spent this session writing Virginia voters out of every decision that matters: out of the Electoral College, out of the congressional map, out of the ballot itself. Each bill is marketed as “reform.” Each one, in practice, strips accountability from the only people it was ever supposed to answer to — the voters of this Commonwealth.

The National Popular Vote compact was the appetizer. The redistricting referendum is the entrée. And Richmond Democrats are counting on Fairfax voters being too tired, too distracted, or too disengaged to notice before the polls close.

Prove them wrong. On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, go to your polling place and Vote NO on the redistricting referendum. Bring your spouse. Bring your neighbors. Bring every Fairfax Republican you know. Spanberger already told you what she thinks of your vote for president — don’t let her and Surovell do the same thing to your vote for Congress. Check early voting and polling place information here, and show up.

Further reading: “Spanberger’s ‘unconstitutional’ push to redefine presidential elections makes voters ‘NULL AND VOID’: critics” — Fox News, April 14, 2026.