Final Thought – January 23, 2026 – The New Blue Fortress, Virginia

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.” – Vaclav Havel

INTRODUCTION

This is an opinion piece written in what MIA refers to as the “prophetic voice.” This voice is intended to express an Americanist spiritual understanding (or an attempt to understand in a spiritual context) the actions this opinion piece is analyzing.

Spirit here simply means a habit of being born from core presuppositions. For the Americanist, that core presupposition is that state and corporate power should be limited by the “right” of the individual to be self-stewarded, not coerced into “belief” as defined by the state and/or the corporation.

I am analyzing the underlying spiritual realities from a primarily Americanist perspective, from the perspective of a people who value individual self-stewardship over protecting people from offensive or untrue thought. I am specifically looking at the dramatic actions by the Democrat Party immediately after taking power in Virgina following an election that openly rewarded calls for political violence.

A. TAKING POWER

Through multiple bills and executive orders, the Insurrectionist State of Virginia hopes to make itself a blue fortress shielding its Progmerican citizens from Federal authority, ESPECIALLY its illegal alien Progmerican citizens, who (to them) are the righteous wrath of the world against the unjust Americans, White Supremacists all.

Lawsuits are sure to follow quickly, but already Virginia is set to become a violent land not unsimilar to California, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, and a growing list of blue-run states lurching into political violence and anarchy, intentionally.

1. REWARDING POLITICAL DEATH THREATS – In our November 2025 Report, The DNC is Not Yet Dead, we reported on the stunning results of that Virginia election. THIS is what Virginia voted for:

The buzz about early voting initially not going great for the Democrats proved to be a false hope for Americans as the state overwhelmingly voted for violence in politics by electing a governor who wouldn’t condemn it and the highest law man in the land who also openly advocated for it.

Another abortion extremist, Abigaile Spanberger, can now be seen as the face of the white, suburban, female child murderer voter. Her refusal to condemn her fellow party member, Jay Jones, for texting he wanted to murder his republican opponents’ kids in front of him, matched the spirit she showed in defending unborn child murder up to birth. The only people abortionists don’t want you to kill are murderers and rapists. Charlie Kirk? Yes. Child rapist-murderer? No.

Now, Virginia’s Governor and Attorney General have openly advocated for terrorism, yet the DOJ refuses to arrest them after committing such an obvious crime. If you are not a progressive and you live in Virginia, 57% of your neighbors just voted to murder you. Your state leaders support your execution should you dare speak in public against them.

Spanberger beat Winsome Earle-Sears 57% to 43%. Jay Jones beat the incumbent DA 53% to 47%. Voter turnout was 55%, with only 10% being from mail-in ballots. This means, as I stated earlier, Virginia TRULY VOTED FOR TREASON. Virginia may be the first state to openly vote for political assassinations in the history of our republic, a republic they just voted against.

One could argue that the majority of Viriginia’s voters in 2025 openly committed an act of treason against our republic (though not a charge I’d ever support attempting to enforce beyond core leadership targets).

One would be correct in that assumption if they view reality through an Americanist lens. You have no right to vote for political murder as you clearly did in Virginia. This is crime of the highest order.

2. BUILDING THE BLUE FORTRESS, HOME OF POLITICS BY VIOLENCE – Over two months later, the Democrats have now taken over. They came in under an explicit approval of political violence by Virginia voters. Their reward is a slate of new bills and executive orders that will deliver to those who voted for this dystopian reality the economic and security hardships they certainly deserve. To the rest of Virginians, our condolences for your losses. Let us hope they are temporary.

Here are some of their worst proposed bills:

Softening sentencing rules for robbers.

Eliminate ballot hand-counting to assure easier election fraud.

Ban gas-powered leaf blowers.

Free Education for Illegal Aliens

Ban Arresting Illegal Aliens in courthouses

Add 4.3% Delivery Tax affecting all Deliveries, Including Amazon, Uber, and Door Dash.

“Protects” Transgender children from parental resistance

There are numerous new gun control laws proposed, and abortion will be legalized up to the birth of the child.

You can also expect Virginia Public schools to once again tell children that white babies are born with sin skins to a white race that invented evil. They will also be told that the whole world must come together to end the white devil’s tyranny.

You can also expect Virginia public schools to once again tell children they should ponder what gender they are and what gender(s) they might like to have sex with.

Science is dead in Virginia, as are safe spaces for children, who soon will no longer be safe in their schools as they were when the Progmericans were reined in under Glenn Youngkin. Children will soon longer be safe in their own communities as crime will explode in the cities as local DNC and state DNC insurrectionist leaders can more directly work together to continue to foment arrest in America’s cities (no doubt intentionally).

Expect the professional rioters to thug freer on the streets in Virginia cities once the Blue Fortress of Virginia is established (which should take about 3 months). Criminals are righteous scourges on an unrighteous land to the blue acolyte. This is why they don’t charge them, and when the police do, they release them and fail to prosecute them.

B. A SOBERING REALITY FOR AMERICANS TRAPPED IN VIRGINIA

If some of our readers find themselves in Virginia, we hope you have been building your own hope exits, and, when possible, even your own Hope Castles, for things are about to get tough for you, ESPECIALLY if you have children. Homeschooling might be the only option at this point, for the children of Virginia are about to be set upon by the predators called “teachers” (college-indoctrinated anti-American revolutionary activists), who will now be unleashed, protected by state laws.

If you cannot afford to homeschool, check to see if other parents are having the same problem. This writer assumes there will be efforts to create homeschool networks to allow parents to pool their resources so they can rescue their children from state-inflicted psychological terrorism. If there aren’t, maybe you’re the one to start it.

Virginia is a land filled with Americans who now find themselves behind enemy lines. As much as we can, we hope to offer solutions to those Americans on how to build hope exits right where you are. On July 10, 2026, we are scheduled to release our full Hope Exit Series updated and supplemented.

It contains a breakdown of the essential needs of people and communities and solutions that free you from dependence on a system that wants you dead (and believe me, Virginia’s Democrats WANT Americans dead, even if just through attrition).

Write to us at MIAMailroom@gmail.com if you’re in Virginia. Tell us what you’re doing to prepare and what you might need to help you prepare.

SUMMARY

In the second installment of our Transition series, the Qin Dynasty inflicted a great burden on a people who were rewarded for that pain with security and expansion. But when the conquest ended, so too did the tolerance for the pain being inflicted upon the people. The Han rose on the literal corpse of the Qin Dynasty, preserving the core while destroying the parts that greatly oppressed the people.

Here, the core of the Spangenberger Empire is still Americanism. It is their legitimacy claim to power. They continue to attempt to use language that is outwardly keeping with Americanism even if its spirit is a dagger aimed at her heart.

Their conquest, though, is not over, for they are merely newly gained territory for the Progmerican Empire as a whole, an Empire DYING to shake off its American mask and speak plainly the language of the Prog.

They are the legalists of their time, aiming to use rigid anti-moral moral supremacism to assure no one even THINKS outside the official orthodoxy EVEN in the privacy of their own home.

So long as there is hope for future conquest, those true blues, the true progs of Virginia, will happily endure their temporary hardships, and they’ll happily endure others suffering far more profoundly than them, even up to their neighbors being imprisoned.

The same goes for the MSM-attached TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) Progmericans who still think THEY are the true American patriots because they LITERALLY think we Americans, ESPECIALLY the MAGAs, are LITERAL NAZIS! No joke.

I cannot emphasize enough how psychotic, how detached from reality this class of people truly has become. They are more likely to commit violence than even the true blues, the Antifas, are.

For Virginians, I can’t offer you much immediate hope. Your enemies, your own neighbors, are only going to become even more emboldened, more hostile. But for those outside the war zone, Virginia is about to win over a lot of “normies” who will see for themselves yet another apocalyptic transformation of a state given over to the full blue program, unfettered by the constitution.

For Virginians, there is hope, even if not immediately, but that will come only from the Federal government exposing the DNC-CCP conspiracy that has inflicted this land for decades. This will undo ALL DNC power in this land, for a few generations to come, at least.

Let us hope our leaders find the strength to carry through with the prosecutions necessary to end Progmerica’s reign of terror on America, and thus on Virginia as well.

“‘And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.’” – Genesis 15:16

For our fellow Christian readers, let us remember that vengeance is the Lord’s, and our Kingdom does not advance through violence. A nation that continues to embrace child sacrifice, abortion, must rely on God’s patience, for surely mercy is not given to the unrepentant, but even the Amorites had four more generations of patience given to them before God used the Israelites as a righteous scourge on a child-sacrificing land.

Let us hope and pray first for America’s emergent, consensual repentance, and secondly for God’s patience with our unrighteous land, with the hope that our working out the Great Commandment and Great Commission, through the Holy Spirit, will lead us to that repentance.