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VPM, BEN PAVIOUR Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger announced on Monday that she'll back impeachment proceedings against President Trump, setting the stage for a complicated 2020 re-election fight. After months of sidestepping her fellow Democrats’ calls for impeachment proceedings, Spanberger announced that she’s open to the process as a means to investigate the latest allegations agains... Read more »

RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH, LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, and JONATHAN LEMIRE President Donald Trump ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before a phone call in which he pressured the Eastern European nation's leader to investigate the family of political rival Joe Biden, a revelation that comes as more Democrats move toward impeachment proceedings. Trump,... Read more »

VIRGINIA MERCURY, ROBIN BRAVENDER Virginia Reps. Elaine Luria, D-Virginia Beach, and Abigail Spanberger, D-Henrico, joined five other freshman House Democrats on Monday night saying that — if true — recent allegations leveled against President Trump “represent an impeachable offense.” Rep. Don McEachin, D-Richmond, issued a separate statement joining calls for impeachment late Tuesday morning, lea... Read more »

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PBS NEWS HOURS To Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., what's most troubling about the latest allegations against President Trump is that he allegedly pressured a foreign government to dig up dirt on a political opponent, and that he potentially sought to use taxpayer dollars to create that pressure. But Spanberger also told William Brangham on Tuesday that impeachment is not a “foregone conclusion.” R... Read more »

NPR, HERE & NOW, JEREMY HOBSON Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia's 7th district is one of seven first-term Democrats from swing districts calling for the impeachment of President Trump if allegations are true that he withheld military aid to Ukraine if they didn't investigate political rival Joe Biden. Rep. Spanberger (@RepSpanberger) joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to discuss why. This segment... Read more »

NBC NEWS, ALLAN SMITH Two hundred and eighteen House Democrats — almost the entire 235-member caucus — now support some type of impeachment action in light of President Donald Trump's burgeoning Ukraine scandal. The fast-expanding list includes at least 82 lawmakers who have come out in favor of action since reports last week that the president pushed Ukraine to investigate the Biden family. In ad... Read more »

WASHINGTON TIMES, DAVID SHERFINSKI Seven freshmen House Democrats with national security backgrounds are now saying it would be an “impeachable offense” if President Trump did withhold military aid to Ukraine to try to get the country to dig up dirt on his political opponent. “For me, the calculation that I put into this is am I standing up for the Constitution I swore to uphold?” Rep. Abigail Spa... Read more »

MS. MAGAZINE, CARMEN RIOS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump—forming a feminist front line in the fight to protect the United States’ democracy. “We have devoted our lives to the service and security of our country, and throughout our careers, we have sworn oaths to defend the Constitution of the United States many times over,” seven recen... Read more »