Virginians Pass Key Redistricting Initiative; HRC President Kelley Robinson: “Virginians just put anti-democracy, anti-freedom lawmakers on notice”

by Laurel Powell •

HRC PAC-endorsed ballot initiative will combat anti-democratic gerrymandering in Republican-led states by temporarily redrawing Virginia’s congressional districts.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign PAC (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, celebrated the passage of a Virginia ballot initiative that amends the state constitution to allow the Legislature to re-draw the state’s Congressional districts this year. This effort comes in response to the anti-democratic moves by several Republican-led state legislatures after demands from President Trump, which gerrymandered their Congressional maps and disenfranchised pro-equality residents of those states.  

Virginians made their voices heard today, rebuking Republicans’ attempts to stack the deck in their favor in the 2026 midterm elections and beyond.

This year, we’re going to take Congress back from the fringe extremists who have bent the knee to  President Trump’s historically unpopular agenda at every turn. Virginians just put anti-equality, anti-democracy, and anti-freedom lawmakers on notice - together, we are fighting for a future where every single American’s vote matters and where every elected official must earn their constituents’ trust.

Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaign PAC

HRC’s Commitment to Virginia

Equality Voters — including the more than 2.2 million in Virginia — are a powerful and diverse voting bloc united by support for LGBTQ+ equality. Equality Voters are younger, more racially diverse, and more female than the general electorate, and they recognize and trust the HRC brand. HRC PAC has made significant investments in Virginia over the years, working to elect pro-equality champions up and down the ballot.

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