Tuesday’s election was a disaster for America. And the results don’t bode well for the midterms. The GOP and the RNC need to step up and do more than appeal for donations.
Big-name national gun-control organizations with deep pockets spent large to help pull off wins for their candidates and issues at the polls on Tuesday. These elections impact law-abiding gun owners up and down the East Coast, where Americans’ Second Amendment rights have long been under siege from anti-gun politicians and gun control advocates.
Virginia
In Virginia, former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to flip the polarity of the state’s Governor’s Mansion starting in 2026. Spanberger, 46, a former CIA officer, represented the Old Dominion state’s Beltway area 7th Congressional District from 2019 to 2025, where she was a reliable vote for gun control on Capitol Hill. She pledged during her gubernatorial campaign to move toward enacting a statewide ban on the manufacturing, sale, and transfer of “assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines” should she win office.
A former volunteer for the Bloomberg-backed Moms Demand Action anti-gun organization, Everytown, ran a $1 million paid media campaign to elect Spanberger as Virginia’s next governor and reportedly reached out to 250,000 Virginia voters in battleground counties.

