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Virginia State Senate
Angelia Williams Graves
State Senate — District 21
Democrat
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
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F
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· 28 of 49 answered
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✝ God First
0/ 70
🏛️ State First
0/ 30
National Rank
#5,799 of 9,024 · bottom 35.7% 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: Baptist — member of Grove Baptist Church, Portsmouth (Altar Ministry); raised by a pastor father and missionary-teacher mother
Background: Democratic VA State Senator, District 21 (City of Norfolk); sworn Jan 2024. Former Norfolk City Council member (2010-2021, Vice-Mayor 2014-2016) and Delegate (HD-90, 2021-2024). Principal broker/owner of a Norfolk real-estate firm. Serves on Senate Privileges & Elections Committee.
VA State Senator, SD-21 (Norfolk), sitting since Jan 2024. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Uniformly progressive HARD record. Voted YES on the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247, 2025 first passage; re-affirmed 2026, headed to Nov 2026 ballot) and is graded A+ / 'Champion' by ReproRising VA; her own site lists 'safeguarding reproductive freedom and access to abortion care' as a priority. Voted YES on the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment (SJ249, 2025; re-affirmed 2026) and lists 'defending marriage equality and protections for the LGBTQ+ community' as a priority. Voted YES on the felon-voting-rights-restoration amendment. Gun-control record: chief patron of SB173 (2026, firearms banned in hospitals/psychiatric facilities, signed into law) and voted YES on SB1181 (2025 assault-firearms/large-capacity-magazine ban, vetoed by Youngkin). No conservative deviations found. Dimensions with no public record (family/child sovereignty, christian liberty, economic stewardship specifics, federal overreach, border) left NULL — not inferred from party.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
FALSE (0)[1]
1 claim
Publicly stated that 'women are capable of making their own healthcare and family planning decisions and don't need politicians to interfere,' and identified reproductive rights as a key campaign priority; votes with the Democratic caucus on abortion-access legislation, rejecting personhood-from-conception protections.
- wavy.comUnclassified
- BallotpediaCenter
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
FALSE (0)[1]
Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state physician-assisted suicide laws and opposes state Medicaid death-panel rationing
Not yet verified
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
1 claim
Supported the Virginia Remove Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendment (2026), which would strike the state constitution's existing one-man-one-woman marriage definition — rejecting the biblical definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
- BallotpediaCenter
- BallotpediaCenter
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
Not yet verified
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
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
Not yet verified
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
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
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to restrict foreign ownership of state farmland (e.g., China-buyer prohibitions)
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
Not yet verified
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)
Not yet verified
Official has voted for or sponsored 10th-Amendment nullification or anti-commandeering measures
Not yet verified
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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Sources & Evidence
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Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
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freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
www.norfolksenator.com/issuesUnclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
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 2023 99-champions press HTTP 200 this hop still lists Angelia Williams Graves (SD-21) (not disavowed). PPAV 2025 list is statewide+House only. Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0 False. Left Advocacy
Affiliated override. PPAV 2023 99-champions press HTTP 200 this hop still lists Angelia Williams Graves (SD-21) (not disavowed). PPAV 2025 list is statewide+House only. Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0 False.
- [2]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.
- [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.
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