In 2025, MVP’s Virginia partners helped secure critical statewide races — Abigail Spanberger for Governor, Ghazal Hashimi for Lieutenant Governor, and Jay Jones for Attorney General — and helped increase Dems margin of power in the House of Delegates.
Virginia’s new Democratic governing trifecta will open the door for securing stronger worker rights, enacting comprehensive gun-safety measures, advancing immigrant justice, guaranteeing robust climate and environmental protections, and helping Virginia win the mid-decade redistricting fight.
MVP Virginia Partners Help Win Full Democratic Control
MVP’s largest base-building and field partners — New Virginia Majority, CASA in Action, and UNITE HERE Virginia — helped lead a coalition of more than a dozen state and local organizations that ran coordinated and complementary programs to reach and turn out voters across the state. Collectively knocking nearly 1 million doors, they deepened their alignment and strategic focus around shared goals and messaging — laying the foundation for durable, independent political power in the state.
New Virginia Majority
New Virginia Majority (NVM), focused on voters in strategically targeted areas in Northern Virginia, Central Virginia, and Hampton Roads — regions with the state's largest populations of color. To catalyze support specifically for Hashimi and Jones, New Virginia Majority intensified their efforts in dense Democratic areas like Arlington and Alexandria, knocking an additional 25,000 doors in September and October.
They also put on their first-ever, large-scale community engagement event — CousinzCon & Cousinz Festival — a two-day, civic engagement and culture-forward festival blending music and art to build community power and voter turnout. At CousinzCon, NVM trained 1,500 participants in relational organizing technology and immediately integrated them into the New Virginia Majority's ongoing election campaign. On the second day, an estimated 15,000 people attended the festival, where voters could register and pledge to vote, moving them into NVM’s get-out-the-vote engagement pipeline.
CASA In Action
CASA in Action knocked 35,000 doors with a focus on developing high-quality canvassers since the start of 2025. CASA first trained canvassers on engaging voters on the issues they care about, helping build relationships with voters early in the year, before shifting to electoral canvassing in the summer. By prioritizing intentional, in-depth conversations with working-class voters that focused on affordability and housing, the organization increased their persuasion rate — the rate at which voters said they would vote for CASA’s endorsed Dem candidates — from 5 percent to an above-average 10 percent.
With less than a month to go until Election Day, CASA also quickly expanded their already-impressive field program into four precincts in House District 64 — where no other organizing group was active and where statewide candidates, Hashmi and Jones, had underperformed in the primaries. CASA's essential work, including an additional four days of canvassing thanks to support from MVP, helped secure the win in HD 64 and boost the statewide ticket.
UNITE HERE
For the first time, UNITE HERE launched a 70,000-door canvassing program entirely led by member-leaders who have been organizing in their workplaces since 2021. As part of this program, they specifically included the competitive Williamsburg’s HD 71 — a top-tier, targeted House of Delegates race that Democrats lost in 2023 by less than two percent. UNITE HERE was able to help elect Jessica Anderson, the state’s most progressive candidate, flipping the seat back to the Dems. UNITE HERE was the only group able to expand and scale in this district, prioritizing local canvassing led by Black workers — specifically those from College of William and Mary dining halls and local restaurants — to speak directly to Black voters, leveraging their worker power for increased electoral power.
State-Level Wins, National Implications: Dem U.S. House Majority, Here We Come!
Beyond the ways the 2025 electoral wins will improve the lives of Virginians, they could also make the difference in Democrats winning back the U.S. House next year.
Virginia has also entered the mid-decade redistricting fight, with the Democratically-controlled legislature moving forward with a redistricting push that could gain Dems 2-3 additional U.S. House seats.
Here’s how it works:
- The redistricting amendment needs approval in two consecutive legislative sessions.
- On October 31, 2025, the state legislature passed the amendment for the first time (yes!). Now, it needs to pass one more time in the next legislative session by January 21, 2026.
- Why by January 21? Because if we meet that deadline, there’s enough time for the amendment to go before voters in a statewide referendum in April.
- Why is April important? Because if approved by voters in April, there’s enough time for the state legislature to re-draw new electoral maps in time for the 2026 midterms — potentially gaining 2-3 U.S House seats for the Dems.
Virginia redistricting is a prime example of why it matters to push for state progress and win electoral power down-ballot. Because MVP partners helped Dems hold the State Senate and flip the State House in 2023, Dems were able to move swiftly on redistricting, make significant progress, and now — if we keep up the momentum — win with voters in 2026.
With leadership from New Virginia Majority, MVP’s partners in Virginia are already working to ensure this amendment will be adopted, testifying at the state legislature and preparing to launch a full messaging and get-out-the-vote campaign in early 2026.
