The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, chaired by former Attorney General Eric Holder, donated $150,000 each to “Spanberger, Abigail for Governor” and the Virginia “House Democratic Caucus,” according to records posted by the Virginia Public Access Project.

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott Jr., D-Portsmouth, fired off a letter earlier this week advising members to be in Richmond for special session “to consider matters properly before the ongoing session and any related business laid before the body.”

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Scott had the power to do so because a prior special session several months ago was never officially gaveled closed.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Mount Vernon, did not respond to a prior Fox News Digital request for comment on the special session but namedropped President Donald Trump to other press and said the special session is intended to counter what he sees as successful pressure on Republican-led states to redraw maps.

House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Cumberland Gap, spoke to reporters after the news first broke – promising to do “everything legally … that we can to stop this power grab.”

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Democrats, led by then-Sen. George Barker of Fairfax, passed a state constitutional amendment in 2022 to put the power of redistricting in the hands of a semi-independent commission. The commission did also have some weighty Republican support.

However, Democrats now appear prepared to either adjust or nullify the commission’s powers depending on the specifics of any forthcoming redistricting legislation.

A constitutional amendment would not be able to physically redraw the maps, but Democrats could use the amendment process to either edit or amend the state constitution in a way they see fit.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at a podium.  (John Gress/Getty Images)

The legislature would need to pass any amendment resolution with a simple majority before election day. Then, per state code, they would have to pass the same legislation again in January or February – as an intervening election for the House must take place as a form of public accountability.

Then, if successful this winter, the amendment would appear as a ballot measure for the electorate to weigh in on.

The donation to Spanberger’s campaign is notable, as the sitting governor has the power to schedule the election – which must go forth no matter what.

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Earle-Sears, if elected, would likely schedule it the same day as the 2026 midterms – which would ensure higher turnout. By contrast, Spanberger could schedule it any time in the summer or thereafter, which might be a time of lower turnout.

Earle-Sears’ campaign told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the move might also double as a ploy to pull her off the trail in the closing days of her battle against Spanberger.

On Holder’s PAC’s website, Spanberger’s photo is prominently posted alongside three Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices — David Wecht, Christine Donohue and Kevin Dougherty — who are up for retention this year.

The Pennsylvania court system has also involved itself in recent mapping battles in Harrisburg between Democratic governors and the partially-Republican-controlled legislature.

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A court filing obtained by Fox News Digital in New Kent County shows that Commonwealth’s Attorney Scott Renick asked to be recused from the case, citing largely unspecified reasons — a move that indicates an investigation remains active.

“It is not possible for Jay Jones to fulfill the duties of the attorney general while under an open criminal investigation,” Miyares told Fox News Digital after learning of the document, first reported by National Review.

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Jay Jones, who is running to become Virginia’s attorney general in 2025, has come under fire for a series of text messages calling for the death of political opponents and remarks about police officers.  (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

“If Jay stays in the race, it shows a contempt for voters never seen in modern Virginia political history.”

Miyares said Jones’ text messages envisioning the murder of then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, already disqualified him from the position, but that Wednesday’s news is icing on the proverbial cake.

“Now we learn that he may have misled the courts to avoid jail time for recklessly driving 116mph. He has not taken accountability for his words or actions,” Miyares said.

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The order, signed by New Kent County Circuit Judge B. Elliott Bondurant, cites the case Commonwealth v. Jerrauld C. Jones.

Bondurant wrote that Renick advised the court he believed it would be “improper for him to act in the matter currently pending in the General District Court in New Kent County, due to a potential conflict.”

Without extrapolating the conflict further, Bondurant consented to the request and has appointed James City County Commonwealth’s Attorney Nathan R. Green as special prosecutor.

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Green, whose jurisdiction is adjacent to New Kent, is based out of and also includes the independent city of Williamsburg.

Green will be able to “exercise all powers of the Attorney for the Commonwealth in this matter,” Bondurant wrote.

Questions have also surfaced about the legality and ethics of Jones completing half of his 1,000 community service hours for the reckless driving case through his own political action committee. The remaining 500 hours were logged with the NAACP of Virginia, according to a sworn statement signed by the group’s president, Rev. Cozy Bailey.

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Fox News Digital has a pending Freedom of Information Act request with New Kent County for any communications between the committee – MOMPAC – and the county as well as the NAACP and the county.

Legal documents obtained by Fox News Digital earlier in October did not indicate whether time logs were also filed along with the sworn certificates of completion of 500 hours each.

Jones was also issued a $1,500 fine for the incident.

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Officials who answered the phone at both the New Kent County Circuit Court and Renick’s office declined to provide details about the investigation referenced in the recusal document, though the court did release a copy of the order to Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital reached out to Jones for comment for purposes of this story but did not hear back by press time.

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For much of their 12-year marriage, the mother of three endured emotional and psychological abuse in silence. Even after the couple split in 1999, John Allen Muhammad continued to stalk and terrorize her. When she changed her phone number, he still found it — and then showed up at her home uninvited.

“He said to me, ‘You have become my enemy, and as my enemy, I will kill you,’” she told Fox News Digital.

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John Allen Muhammad and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation’s capital for three weeks. (Virginia Department of Corrections via Getty Images)

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Muhammad is now speaking out in a new Investigation Discovery true-crime documentary, “Hunted by My Husband,” which explores John’s relentless desire to murder her so he could gain custody of their children.

John, an expert rifle marksman, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span in October 2002 that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area, The Associated Press reported. Multiple other victims were shot and killed across the country in the prior months as the duo made their way to the area around the nation’s capital from Washington state, the outlet shared.

A map is displayed on a screen during the penalty phase of the trial of convicted Washington area sniper John Allen Muhammad at Virginia Beach Circuit Court on Nov. 18, 2003, in Virginia Beach. The map, which was on Muhammad’s laptop, shows marks indicating alleged shooting sites and potential shooting sites in the Washington, D.C., area.  (Dave Ellis-Pool/Getty Images)

During the investigation, authorities theorized that John believed killing Mildred would help him regain custody of their children by making her appear to be the victim of a random gunman.

Dr. Mildred Muhammad is speaking out in a new true-crime documentary about the case, “Hunted by My Husband.” (Investigation Discovery)

Muhammad met John in 1985 while he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington. She was shopping with a friend when he approached with “a beautiful smile.” They went out that same evening and married in 1988.

She described her husband as deeply invested in their relationship, and they quickly built a family together. But after serving in Operation Desert Storm in 1990, he returned a changed man. John suffered a shoulder injury and was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. When Muhammad and their eldest child, John Jr., visited him in the hospital, she recalled that “the lights were on, but no one was home.”

A note written by John Allen Muhammad found inside a bag at a shooting scene on Oct. 19, 2002. (Adrin Snider-Pool/Getty Images)

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John Allen Mohammed, seen here in this undated photo, was an expert marksman. (Montgomery County Police/Getty Images)

“He would just sit in the corner, rocking back and forth,” she recalled. “He no longer wanted to have conversations. Even if I tried to engage, he felt threatened. He was full of rage — but it was a different rage.

“John was quiet. He was trained in psychological warfare, so he would do things that made me question everything I did. I would look at him and say, ‘Why are you angry?’ He would respond, ‘Why are you saying I’m angry?’ Then he went to the mirror, wiped his hand across his face — and whatever emotion was there was gone.”

David Reichenbaugh served as the criminal intelligence operations commander for the Maryland State Police. He is seen here catching up with Dr. Mildred Muhammad during the filming of “Hunted by My Husband.” (Investigation Discovery)

Once warm and attentive, John became quick to anger and consumed by paranoia. He grew cold and calculating, making Muhammad’s belongings vanish if he disapproved of them. He nitpicked over small things, punishing her with days of silence whenever she dared to act independently. To avoid his quiet fury, Muhammad learned to stay silent. He chipped away at her self-worth, repeatedly telling her she didn’t matter.

Dr. Mildred Muhammad is seen here with her daughters at her office in Camp Springs, Maryland, on Sept. 13, 2008. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“I tried to reach out for help, but I didn’t have physical scars,” she said. “I tried to go to my place of religion, and all you’re talking about is that I’m supposed to honor my husband. But how do I honor a man who emotionally hurts me?”

“Abusive relationships don’t begin harshly,” she reflected. “They begin with a dream they sell you, because they’re trying to control your life without you knowing. Once you submit to that dream, they breadcrumb affection toward you. Then you begin to wonder, ‘What did I do?’ You don’t understand that none of it is your fault. . . . If you try to reach out, you’ll get in trouble.”

Brendan Shea (left), a DNA expert with the FBI, points to the Bushmaster rifle used in the sniper shootings as Prince William County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney James Willett (right) holds the weapon on Nov. 5, 2003, in Virginia Beach. (Dave Ellis-Pool/Getty Images)

The conflict deepened after Muhammad filed for divorce. When John threatened to kill her, she went into hiding with her family. A judge granted a lifetime restraining order — but there was one loophole.

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Dr. Mildred Muhammad told Fox News Digital her husband was a different man after he was diagnosed with PTSD. (Dudley M. Brooks/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“The restraining order was against me, not the children,” she explained. “Even though it was for life, visitation was still required every other weekend. We were preparing for court to decide on custody. That’s when he took them.”

In 2000, John kidnapped their three children, taking them on an 18-month odyssey to Antigua, the Washingtonian reported. Muhammad told Fox News Digital that because there was no parenting plan in place by the court, she was told, “He has just as much of a right to the children as you do.”

Dr. Mildred Muhammad was separated from her three children for 18 months. (Investigation Discovery)

“There are no words to describe the level of pain I was in,” she said.

Taalibah Muhammad, the daughter of Dr. Mildred Muhammad and John Allen Muhammad, spoke out in “Hunted by My Husband.” (Investigation Discovery)

“In my prayer, I said, ‘Lord, I have to give You back my children. I can’t focus on what I need to do and worry about them. I’m placing them back in Your hands so I can prepare myself to stand before a judge to prove I can care for them.’ At the end of that prayer, I cried for two hours. Then I felt a presence — like someone covering me with a blanket up to my neck. I stopped crying.”

“I didn’t cry much after that,” she continued. “That’s when I began taking paralegal courses to learn how to get my children back. I had my writ of habeas corpus, which meant wherever they found my children, they had to return them to me.”

John Allen Muhammad abducted the children without permission. He took them out of the country to Antigua, in the Caribbean, using false identification and forged documents. (Steve Earley-Pool/Getty Images)

Muhammad was reunited with her children in 2001 after an emergency custody hearing in Tacoma, Washington, the Washingtonian reported. Then, in 2002, investigators knocked on her door in Maryland, where she was residing.

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Dr. Mildred Muhammad was in hiding when she learned from investigators that her ex-husband was the D.C. sniper. (Investigation Discovery)

“They told me, ‘Have you heard about any shootings in the area?’ I said, ‘No, I have not,’” she recalled. “An agent stopped and said, ‘We’re going to have to tell you — we’re naming your ex-husband as the D.C. sniper.’ My head hit the table. They asked, ‘Do you think he would do something like that?’ I looked up and said, ‘Yes.’”

Muhammad remembered once watching a movie with John when he turned to her and said, “I could take a small city and terrorize it. They would think it’s a group of people. It would only be me.” When she tried to ask why, he quickly changed the subject.

John Allen Muhammad was also known as the “Beltway Sniper.” (Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images)

The investigator told Muhammad, “Didn’t you know you were the target? There was a man shot two miles from you at a convenience store. There was another man shot right down the street from you six times. He took $3,000 and his laptop. Ms. Muhammad, you were the target.”

“Hunted by My Husband” features never-before-seen home videos of the Muhammad family and new interviews with the law enforcement officers who worked tirelessly to track and identify the snipers. (Investigation Discovery)

Muhammad and her family were quickly taken to a hotel for safety.

“I saw the TV — there he was,” she said. “I put my hand on the screen and said, ‘What happened to you?’ My children cried themselves to sleep. I went to the bathroom, turned on the water, sat on the floor and screamed into a pillow.”

“The next day, he was caught,” she added.

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John Allen Muhammad was executed on Nov. 10, 2009, by lethal injection. He was 48. (Steve Helber-Pool/Getty Images)

In Antigua, John met Malvo, a Jamaican teenager with whom he formed a father-son bond. John was accused of manipulating Malvo to serve as his partner in the shootings.

Lee Boyd Malvo is serving a life sentence. (Rich Lipski/Getty Images)

With the help of a tip, police arrested John and the 17-year-old while they slept in their car at a Maryland rest stop, ending a three-week reign of terror that gripped Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, according to the BBC.

John was executed in 2009 at age 48. Malvo, now 40, is serving a life sentence without parole.

Dr. Mildred Muhammad is now a speaker and advocate for survivors of domestic violence. (Lou Rocco/Disney-Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

Today, Muhammad advocates for survivors of domestic violence and hopes her story encourages others to seek help before it’s too late.

“My help was slow in coming,” she said. “But I knew I had to make it through for my children.”

"Hunted by My Husband: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper" premieres Oct. 28 at 9 p.m.

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Reid, the Republican nominee from Richmond, challenged Hashmi, a state senator from Chesterfield, to a series of regional debates around Virginia. Reid noted Hashmi is the only candidate of the six running for statewide office to decline a debate.

A representative for Reid ensured that the AI only envisaged Hashmi’s likeness and voice — and that of the moderator – and the responses given by the representation of Hashmi were based on her prior quotes or publicized policy positions.

Hashmi’s campaign called the video a “deepfake” and told The Washington Post it was a “desperate move straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook.”

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Virginia lieutenant governor candidates John Reid and Ghazala Hashmi  (Lyra Bordelon/USA Today Network via Imagn Images; Bill O’Leary/Getty Images)

“While we appreciate that ‘AI Ghazala’ did share her vision, like her commitment to public education and reproductive rights, it’s pretty clear Reid only cares about shoddy gimmicks and not governing,” the campaign added.

The AI debate differed from other recent artificially created videos, where the words and representations of lawmakers were made to be cartoonish in some cases.

President Donald Trump shared a viral AI video earlier this month showing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., wearing a sombrero as “La Cucaracha” played in the background and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., referred to his party as “woke pieces of s—.”

Schumer never said that in real life.

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For her opening statement in the debate, the “AI Hashmi” said she is running because Virginians need “someone who has the experience, knowledge and ability to fight for Virginians.”

“I have a track record with regard to the issues Virginians care about — education, health care, housing and opportunity. I am ready to make policy that will make Virginia an example for other states.”

In response, Reid — in real life — noted that Hashmi would not appear for a real debate.

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“If she’s not willing to engage in her own campaign for lieutenant governor, I don’t know why anybody thinks she would be able to fight for anything,” he said.

Reid said Hashmi supported keeping Virginia schools closed an extra year after the coronavirus pandemic and has “push[ed] for boys in girl sports… higher taxes [and] releasing criminals early.”

“Everything that we would ID as a problem in the state of Virginia, Ghazala Hashmi has pushed,” he said.

In this regard, Reid said his work in communications in Congress, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and radio help him understand what businesses need from state government if they choose to operate in Virginia.

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The lieutenant governorship is “not just gaveling in the Senate,” Reid said. “[It is] working for the state of Virginia.”

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The charges against James stem from her 2020 purchase of a home in Norfolk, Virginia. Prosecutors allege that James misled a bank about the nature of the residence in order to obtain more favorable loan conditions.

The indictment states that James misrepresented the financial institution in claiming it would be her secondary residence, and instead rented it out to a family.

According to the indictment, the lower interest rate would allow James to save nearly $19,000 over the course of the 30-year loan.

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NY AG Letitia James and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

James entered the not guilty plea herself to U.S. District Judge Jamar K. Walker.

She is being represented in the case by defense attorney Abbe Lowell, and by Andrew Bosse, a former assistant U.S. attorney based in Norfolk who formerly headed up the office’s criminal division.

James’ arraignment is the latest in a string of prosecutions brought against the president’s perceived political foes, despite objections from career prosecutors — some of whom have since been fired or resigned.

James, a Democrat, has long-drawn Trump’s ire after she campaigned for attorney general in 2016 largely on vows to investigate Trump’s actions and businesses.

She also successfully secured a $450 million civil fraud case against him last year, though an appeals court later tossed the financial penalty portion of the case.

“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system,” James said in a statement after she was indicted.

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Trump denies B1 bombers flew toward Venezuela amid cartel threats. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost,” she added.

Her indictment, like the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, was presented to a grand jury by former White House aide Lindsey Halligan, whom President Donald Trump installed as the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia last month.

Trump, in September, said he would install Halligan as the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, replacing interim attorney Erik Siebert, who resigned under pressure to indict both Comey and James.

“No one is above the law. The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust,” Halligan said in a statement. “The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.”

After the arraignment, it is likely that she will file a motion to dismiss her case for vindictive and selective prosecution, following similar steps taken by Comey’s legal team in Alexandria earlier this week.

She will also file a motion to dismiss her case based on what her lawyers will argue was the unlawful appointment of Halligan in securing her indictment.

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Lowell, her attorney, has described the case against her as “improper political retribution,” and vowed they would “fight these charges in every process allowed in the law.”

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to Fox News’s request for comment on the case, or whether Halligan or Keller wouldbe joined by any other federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Speaking to reporters outside the court on Friday, James said the Justice Department is being used as a tool of “revenge,” and a “vehicle of retribution.”

“But my faith is strong,” she told the group that had massed outside the courthouse in Norfolk, Virginia, hours earlier. “I have a belief in the justice system.”

“Never cow down or break or bend. So there is no fear today,” she said. “I will not be deterred.”

Judge Walker set a trial date for Jan. 26, 2026, and ordered parties to appear back in court for motions hearings in early December.

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Fredrica-Maame Ama Deegbe, whose now-deleted Linkedin profile said she was a “Campaign Organizer for Spanberger 2025” for the Democratic Party of Virginia, bemoans the choices presented to voters in a video obtained by Fox News Digital. In the video, she cited concerns about not only Republican candidate Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears but also about Spanberger’s law enforcement background.

“CIA agent, literally, which is crazy, like yeah, vote for the CIA agent, guys, like what the f—,” said Deegbe.

“I don’t know what happened. We’re in, like, the darkest timeline,” she said. “Our only choices are between a Black woman, which ordinarily all for, but this time you think we should bring back slavery, Winsome. … Even with that, it’s like either vote for the Black woman who thinks that slavery should be brought back or vote for the White woman who was in the CIA.”

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Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger cheers with a crowd, not pictured, in Henrico County, Va., in September 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In spite of these concerns, the Democratic operative said of the Spanberger campaign, “They pay me really, really good money.

“Working on the campaign made me realize that this all a really big pyramid scheme,” Deegbe admitted. “We’re all working for the betterment of not really a person but for what the person represents and what that representation is going to be for the rest of the nation.

“Focusing so much on the representation, it kind of feels like I’m in The Wizard of Oz … like all of this is behind the smoke and mirrors and curtains.

“There’s such a disconnect between the person that we’re voting for, the work that we do, like the numerical aspect of it, like all of it doesn’t feel cohesive, copacetic. It feels like I’m a sales representative.”

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Winsome Earle-Sears, Republican gubernatorial candidate for Virginia, center, during a campaign event at the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department in Vienna, Va., July 1, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Pressed by the undercover journalist on her true views on Spanberger, Deegbe said, “I think she represents the idea. I know she represents the idea as best of an idea as we can find right now.”

Sears and Spanberger, who left the House of Representatives earlier this year, are locked in a tight race with just weeks until the November election. The face-offs are viewed as political bellwethers ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Most polls indicate that Spanberger is enjoying a lead over Earle-Sears. However, Spanberger has been hit with blistering criticisms in recent weeks for refusing to rescind her endorsement of embattled fellow Democratic candidate Jay Jones, who is running for Virginia attorney general.

In recently resurfaced text messages, Jones fantasized about the murder of Republican then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his young “fascist” children.

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Jay Jones, who is running to become Virginia’s attorney general in 2025, has come under fire for a series of text messages calling for the death of political opponents and remarks about police officers.  (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

Jones texted Del. Carrie Coyner, R-Hopewell, in 2022, imagining a scenario where he would choose to “fire two bullets” into then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert’s head, describing Gilbert as worse than dictators Pol Pot or Adolf Hitler.

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Jones also referred to Gilbert’s young children as “fascists” in the exchange.

Fox News Digital reached out to Deegbe, the Democratic Party of Virginia, the Spanberger campaign and the Earle-Sears campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Fox News Digital’s Charles Creitz and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.

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In May 2020, during unrest in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death, Mavis Jones posted on Twitter: “I just donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund,” linking to the group’s donation page and urging others to do the same. The account has since gone private.

The revelation, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon, comes as Jones, a Democrat, trails Republican incumbent Jason Miyares in a tightening race for Virginia’s top law enforcement post. The state’s attorney general oversees state-level prosecutions and police oversight.

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The Minnesota Freedom Fund, promoted at the time by several progressive figures, including Sen. Kamala Harris, raised more than $41 million during the 2020 protests, pledging to support demonstrators arrested during clashes with police.

But a FOX 9 investigation later found the group spent most of its money bailing out defendants accused of serious violent crimes rather than low-level protest offenses.

Jay Jones addresses supporters after winning the Democratic nomination for Virginia attorney general as wife Mavis Jones looks on in Norfolk, Va., June 17, 2025.  (Trevor Metcalfe/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Among those bailed out was Christopher Boswell, a twice-convicted rapist facing new kidnapping and assault charges who was freed after the fund posted $350,000 in cash bail.

The group also paid $100,000 to release Darnika Floyd, who was charged with second-degree murder, and $75,000 for Jaleel Stallings, who allegedly fired at a Minneapolis SWAT team before being acquitted at trial.

Greg Lewin, then the fund’s interim executive director, told FOX 9 that same year, “The last time we were down there, the clerk said, ‘We hate it when you bail out these sex offenders.’ I often don’t even look at a charge when I bail someone out.”

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Darnika Floyd, charged with second-degree murder, was released after the Minnesota Freedom Fund posted $100,000 bail in 2020. (Minnesota Department of Corrections)

In one case, the fund posted bail for George Howard, a career criminal later charged with fatally shooting a man in a Minneapolis road rage incident just weeks after his release.

The news adds to a string of controversies for Jones, 35, who has already apologized for violent text messages directed at Republican leaders. In one exchange, he wrote that then–House Speaker Todd Gilbert gets “two bullets to the head” and that Gilbert’s wife Jennifer should “watch her children die.”

Mavis Jones, wife of scandal-plagued Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones, D-Va., eportedly posted about her support of the Minnesota Freedom Fund in 2020, which bailed out accused murderers and rapists. (Jay Jones via X)

Court records also show Jones was convicted of reckless driving in 2022 for traveling 116 mph on a Virginia highway. He was fined $1,500 and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service, but a state ethics review is examining whether hours spent volunteering for his own political committee should count toward the sentence.

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The latest controversy gives Miyares and Republicans new fodder in the closing weeks of the campaign. A Trafalgar Group poll released Oct. 17 found Miyares leading 49.5% to 44.6%, a reversal from earlier surveys that had Jones up six points before the text scandal broke.

As of Friday, Mavis Jones has set her X account to private.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund and the Jay Jones campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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In 2022, Virginia attorney general candidateJay Jonestexted a colleague that he wished violence against former Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children. The private messages sparked outrage from Republicans and unease among Democrats, forcing Spanberger to navigate one of the most volatile moments of her campaign.

While some liberals have called on Jones to drop out of the race, Democrats — including Spanberger — appear to be standing by him. As of last week, Spanberger’s campaign website still featured merchandise endorsing Jones’ candidacy.

Spanberger was still selling merchandise in her campaign store endorsing Jones’ bid for office last week.

VIRGINIA DEMS BACK AG CANDIDATE JAY JONES, DESPITE TEXT MESSAGES

Abigail Spanberger (center) with Jay Jones (left) and State Senator Ghazala Hashmi (right). (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Spanberger was interviewed on Monday by WTVR CBS 6 host Bill Fitzgerald, who asked her directly about the controversy and its aftermath.

“So there’s been a bit of a distraction, as you’re well aware,” Fitzgerald said. “Last week there was a debate among the attorney general candidates. Were you satisfied with the Democratic candidate, Jay Jones’ apology for the texts that he had sent that were seemingly threatening the life of then-House Speaker [Gilbert]?”

“Well, I want to begin by, first, you know, condemning clearly the texts that he sent to a colleague. And I condemned them as soon as I learned of them and, you know, called on Jay Jones to publicly explain himself,” Spanberger replied. “And I think that he’s been quite clear in his apologies and in his taking ownership of that poor choice.”

DEMOCRATS UNDER FIRE FOR STANDING BY VIRGINIA AG HOPEFUL WHO JOKED ABOUT SHOOTING GOP RIVAL

Then-Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill on April 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C.  (Getty Images)

She then pivoted to highlight the recent Virginia attorney general debate, praising its importance for voters.

“You know, importantly, at this point, we’ve got hundreds of thousands of Virginians who have voted. Certainly, I think that debate was an important one for being able to show the contrast in the difference between two different approaches for voters, [to] make a clear decision as they vote early or on Election Day for who will best defend them or work for them as attorney general.”

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate, former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., addresses a small get-out-the-vote rally on the first day of early voting outside the Eastern Government Center on September 19, 2025, in Henrico, Virginia.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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