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Virginia House of Delegates
Alfonso Lopez
House of Delegates — District 3
Democrat
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
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Raw: 0 of 56 dynamic max
· 28 of 49 answered
State tier49 of 50 rubric questions apply at this office level — federal-only questions are marked N/A and excluded from the dynamic max. How tier grading works →
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✝ God First
0/ 70
🏛️ State First
0/ 30
National Rank
#5,813 of 9,024 · bottom 35.6% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
General · Seat up at next election
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Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
State elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections
Official Profile
Religion: Not publicly stated (received the Virginia Interfaith Center's Legislator of the Year in 2014, but his own faith/denomination is not disclosed in available sources).
Background: VA House of Delegates, District 3 (S. Arlington / N. Alexandria); in office continuously since 2012 (formerly HD-49). First Latino Democrat elected to the General Assembly; founder of the Virginia Latino Caucus; former House Democratic Whip. A.B. Vassar; J.D. Tulane. Father emigrated from Venezuela undocumented — drives his signature immigration focus.
VA Delegate HD-3 (Arlington/Alexandria), sitting since 2012; founder of the VA Latino Caucus; chairs Agriculture/Natural Resources. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Deep, uniformly progressive record across nearly every dimension. Sanctity: NARAL 100% lifetime, co-patron 2020 Reproductive Health Protection Act. Marriage: recorded YEA on HJ9 (2025) and HJ3 (2026) same-sex-marriage amendment; chief patron of VA Human Rights Act expansion + an LGBTQ advisory board. Schools: chief patron HB913 reversing the transgender-student model policies; opposes charter schools. Justice: bans on no-knock warrants/chokeholds, limited mandatory minimums, helped abolish the death penalty. Immigration (his signature): DREAM Act, driver-privilege cards (HB911), anti-ICE bills HB1440/HB1441; clearly pro-immigrant/sanctuary-aligned. Guns: chief patron of concealed-permit-competence (HB916) + firearm tax bills; backs universal background checks. NO conservative deviation. Score 0/100. His 'resist federal authority' work is ANTI-ICE (opposite valence) so federal-overreach cells are NOT credited — left null. Christian-liberty/CBDC/ESG/E-Verify/birthright/IVF have no public record — null.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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As House Democratic Whip (2016-2022) and a long-serving progressive from Northern Virginia's Arlington/Alexandria suburbs, Lopez voted for HJR 1 — the Right to Reproductive Freedom constitutional amendment — when it passed the Virginia House 51-48 on a strict party-line vote on 14 January 2025. The amendment would entrench a sweeping constitutional right to abortion at all stages of pregnancy, rejecting any personhood-from-conception standard.
- VPM — Virginia Public MediaLean Left
- WikipediaEncyclopedia
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
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Candidate opposes state physician-assisted suicide laws and opposes state Medicaid death-panel rationing
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FEC / state campaign-finance search found no abortion-industry PAC contributions for state-legislative or statewide-office campaigns (as of the cited search date)
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Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
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Candidate has voted for state legislation affirming biological sex (bathroom/locker access, sports participation, minor gender-procedure bans)
Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Candidate has voted for state conscience-exemption laws (state RFRA, medical-professional carve-outs, business-owner protections)
Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
Candidate supports state public-square Christian display protections + state legislative prayer + state Sunday-closure laws
Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
Not yet verified
Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
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Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
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Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
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Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at registration
Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
Candidate (state) has voted for state-funded border-security measures (e.g., TX Operation Lone Star analog, AZ wall expansion)
Candidate (state) has voted for state laws requiring local cooperation with ICE deportation enforcement
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Lopez spent years championing in-state college tuition for undocumented immigrants in Virginia, modeling his bills after the federal DREAM Act. In 2020 that legislation finally passed into law (HB 1547), granting taxpayer-subsidized tuition access to individuals residing in the country illegally. Lopez celebrated this as a marquee achievement. This posture — granting public benefits to unlawful residents — directly conflicts with the rubric's mandatory-deportation and enforcement standards.
- WikipediaEncyclopedia
- BallotpediaCenter
Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
Candidate (state) has voted for state E-Verify mandate (beyond federal floor) for state employers + state-benefit eligibility verification
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Candidate (state) has voted to restrict foreign ownership of state farmland (e.g., China-buyer prohibitions)
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Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
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Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
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Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
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Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
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Official has voted for or sponsored 10th-Amendment nullification or anti-commandeering measures
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Official has declined unconstitutional federal mandates or federal strings on the state
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Official has resisted federal overreach on guns, life, education, or religious liberty
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Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
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Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
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Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
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freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_H._LopezEncyclopedia
Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
www.alfonsolopez.orgUnclassified
www.alfonsolopez.org/about-alfonsoUnclassified
legiscan.com/VA/bill/HB913/2026Reference
www.alfonsolopez.org/accomplishmentsUnclassified
reprorisingva.org/2023/11/2023-wins/Left Advocacy
eji.org/news/virginia-death-penalty-abolition/Unclassified
Planned Parenthood ActionLeft Advocacy
Planned Parenthood ActionLeft Advocacy
vademocrats.org/Unclassified
democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/Unclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]Affiliated override. PPAV Endorsements 2025 HTTP 200 this hop still lists Del. Alfonso Lopez (HD-03) (not disavowed). PPAV 84-champions press HTTP 200 same names; PPAV: endorsed candidates will defend abortion access and place the Reproductive Freedom Amendment on the 2026 ballot. Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0 False. Left Advocacy
Affiliated override. PPAV Endorsements 2025 HTTP 200 this hop still lists Del. Alfonso Lopez (HD-03) (not disavowed). PPAV 84-champions press HTTP 200 same names; PPAV: endorsed candidates will defend abortion access and place the Reproductive Freedom Amendment on the 2026 ballot. Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0 False.
- [2]Affiliated override. PPAV Endorsements 2025 HTTP 200 this hop still lists Del. Alfonso Lopez (HD-03) (not disavowed). PPAV 84-champions press HTTP 200 same names; PPAV: endorsed candidates will defend abortion access and place the Reproductive Freedom Amendment on the 2026 ballot. Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0 False. Left Advocacy
Affiliated override. PPAV Endorsements 2025 HTTP 200 this hop still lists Del. Alfonso Lopez (HD-03) (not disavowed). PPAV 84-champions press HTTP 200 same names; PPAV: endorsed candidates will defend abortion access and place the Reproductive Freedom Amendment on the 2026 ballot. Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0 False.
- [3]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (biblical_marriage q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure/ HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem leftover plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. No individual statement found this hop. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (biblical_marriage q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure/ HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem leftover plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. No individual statement found this hop.
- [4]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (biblical_marriage q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure/ HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem leftover plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. No individual statement found this hop. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (biblical_marriage q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure/ HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem leftover plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. No individual statement found this hop.
- [5]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (biblical_marriage q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure/ HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem leftover plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. No individual statement found this hop. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (biblical_marriage q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure/ HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem leftover plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. No individual statement found this hop.
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