Tom Perriello

Democrat running for Virginia’s 5th Congressional district. Former diplomat, Congressman, and lifelong Virginian. Consider supporting my campaign!
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I’m running for Congress in Virginia’s 5th District because families and workers deserve a fair shot.

Costs keep rising while salaries aren’t - and MAGA Republicans in Congress are cutting food & health care to fund corporate tax breaks instead of defending Virginia’s families.

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Get ready to pay a lot more to host that summer BBQ, thanks to DOGE. Maybe if Musk had spent more time with cattle farmers than with Jeffrey Epstein, he would have know that taking a chainsaw to programs that eradicate screwworm could threaten the American cattle industry.

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The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

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Best things in life are often unplanned! Ended a great day across four counties in Southside with a sunset over the Dan River, great live music on the rooftop of the Bee, and running into friends old and new. Don’t sleep on Danville 2026!

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I am fighting to lower your electric bills, protect clean air and water, and block corporate boondoggles tearing through our rural communities. With the League of Conservation Voters, we will hand Congress back to the people.

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Happy Birthday, Mom!

You gifted me life, my love of service to others, and more joyful memories than I can count. Thank you for pushing me every day to be the best version of myself. And for helping me flip the Virginia Fifth one cookie at a time! ❤️🍪

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Poor Pete. The least qualified SecDef in history wants to claim he cares about “meritocracy” while demoting officers who have ten times his talent and qualifications.

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Rep. McGuire in a nutshell - driving America into a ditch and expecting us to throw him a parade for it.

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After great meetings with local Fluvanna leaders, folks packed the recently-restored Rosenwald school, ready to give all of Fluvanna a real voice in Congress again!

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Highly recommend the Sea Turtle + Michigan Pot Hole combo at Papa Jim’s in Palmyra!

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Time to give Americans a damn raise! Studies prove that higher wages produce faster job growth. Despite rhetoric false gospel preached by the corporate lobbyists, 40+ regions that substantially increased the minimum-wage had faster job growth than areas that kept wages low.

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Amherst County showing OUT! I was blessed to start the day with Bishop Coleman at the IHOP, and close it out with the sun setting and some quality BBQ at the Pryor’s… with their rescue pup Shadow.

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I brought economic relief to Southside in my first 4 weeks- for every family, police force, and public school. McGuire has only provided soul-crushing inflation and shuttered medical services. We cannot afford 2 more years of McGuire sticking it to Southside and rural communities

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Over 50 years watching the sun set over the Blue Ridge, and it never gets old

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Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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Great to meet with job creators and veterans, from Gretna to Keysville. Folks are tired of Washington making things harder and hoping to restore some common sense to Congress.

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Danville’s rise is real. This amazing community deserves a representative in Congress who shows up, listens, and delivers.

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John McGuire admits to voting 100% with the dark money groups that funded his election, even when it has 100% harmed our most vulnerable neighbors

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Memorial Day is about the heroes, not the hot dogs. As my mom reminds us every year, quoting the memorial at Omaha Beach, “They gave their collective futures, that we might have ours.”