For the better part of a year, Fairfax Republicans have been saying the same thing about Abigail Spanberger’s redistricting referendum: this isn’t about fair maps. It’s about Richmond Democrats redrawing the lines themselves so voters can never hold them accountable again.
Last weekend, reinforcements finally showed up.
Former Governor Glenn Youngkin made his first campaign-trail appearance since leaving office in January. He picked a “Vote No Rally” at the Bella Rose estate in Lynchburg. At least 150 Virginians packed the room. And the former governor used his return to call on the Supreme Court of Virginia to strike the referendum down entirely, calling the proposed map “the result of a process that’s unconstitutional and illegal.” Former Attorney General Jason Miyares — now co-chair of the Virginians for Fair Maps PAC — stood beside him and made the legal case, as reported by the Loudoun Times.
Fairfax has been carrying this fight locally for months. Now the cavalry has arrived. And not a minute too soon — because the fight is close.
A Washington Post-Schar School poll shows 52% of likely voters currently favor the referendum. Read that number again. We are behind. Six days out. Behind.
Don’t let anyone tell you this is a done deal in our favor. It isn’t. The Democrat machine — Governor Spanberger, Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (SD-34), and Speaker Don Scott — has spent months selling this as “fair maps.” It’s working. And it’s working because they have the money to run ads and mail pieces into every corner of the Commonwealth while local Republican committees fight to be heard.
Here’s the other thing Miyares pointed out in Lynchburg that every Fairfax voter should remember: when Spanberger was running for governor, she told voters she had “no plans” to redistrict Virginia. No plans. That was the campaign line. The moment she took office, the plan showed up — drawn by the same Richmond Democrats who spent 2024 and 2025 telling Virginians they were the moderate, reasonable party. This is the bait-and-switch Fairfax has been warning about for more than a year.
Democrats are framing all of this as a “response” to Republican redistricting in red states. Don’t buy it. Virginia voters didn’t put Spanberger, Surovell, or Don Scott in office to retaliate against Texas or Ohio. They put them in office to govern Virginia. Using your ballot as a revenge weapon against voters in other states is not governance. It’s a power grab — and if it works, the congressional map stays rigged through the next regular redraw in 2032. Every federal election in the meantime — 2026, 2028, 2030 — runs on lines Democrats drew for themselves.
Three election cycles on a rigged map. Think about every congressional race, every policy fight, every committee gavel that flows downstream from who controls the U.S. House. Three cycles of it decided next Tuesday.
This is also where the money fight matters. National Democrat PACs and out-of-state donors are pouring cash into the “Yes” side. The Fairfax GOP can’t match that dollar-for-dollar — but every local donation buys direct voter contact into a specific Fairfax precinct. If you can donate to the Fairfax GOP before Tuesday, do it. Money the Committee has on Monday is money that reaches a voter on Tuesday.
We are six days out. We are four points down. Youngkin and Miyares just joined the fight publicly, but they can’t win it from a rally stage in Lynchburg. Fairfax wins it — precinct by precinct, neighbor by neighbor, ballot by ballot.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Vote NO on the redistricting referendum. Bring your spouse. Bring your neighbors. Bring the coworker who says they “don’t really follow politics.” Bring the college kid home for spring break. Bring everyone you know.
Spanberger told Virginians she had no plans to redistrict. She lied. Surovell and Don Scott drew the map anyway. The only thing standing between Richmond Democrats and three federal election cycles of rigged congressional maps is the turnout Fairfax puts up next Tuesday.
Find your polling place at fairfaxgop.org/voter-info. Then go. And bring everyone.
Further reading: “Youngkin returns to campaign trail, calls for court to strike redistricting vote” — Loudoun Times, via Virginia Mercury, April 11, 2026.