VA Governor Candidate Spanberger Invents ‘News’ Site to Deceive Voters

Abigail Spanberger is the Democratic Party candidate for Governor in Virginia. 

Automatically, that makes her suspect. 

Pravda and the Democrats have promoted Spanberger as a moderate Democrat, whatever that means these days, although she tends to avoid discussing issues and is distancing herself from her radical voting record. There’s a lot of vague talk–something pretty common in politics, I admit–and lots of promises that utopia is just around the corner. 

But to get an idea of what the real Spanberger is like, all you need to know can be summed up by one fact: her campaign has literally invented a fake news site to push the narrative that she is a different kind of Democrat, and that Republicans are the puppy and kitten killing party. 

This is so dirty from @SpanbergerForVA … I thought there was no way they’d actually create a media outlet to front for their propaganda.

I was wrong. pic.twitter.com/m3NDzuaHfF

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) September 6, 2025

The “news” outlet is the Commonwealth Courier, which is a Facebook page that presents itself as a “Media/News” company. Only it isn’t a company at all. It is, in fact, an artificial creation of the Spanberger for Governor campaign. 

The Commonwealth Courier doesn’t exist to get followers–it has very few–and I couldn’t even find a webpage for it. There is a “Commonwealth Couriers,” but they provide courier services, not fake news. 

No, the “media company” pays to advertise itself to Virginia Facebook users, making it appear that friends have shared “news” that was wholly created by the Spanberger campaign. 

Virginians on Facebook may see a post from what looks like a news outlet touting Democrat governor candidate Abigail Spanberger’s campaign stops and message on education.

Unsuspecting Virginians may think a friend posted this news, but it’s actually appearing in their feeds because someone paid for it. It also doesn’t come from a news outlet, but from a Facebook page run by Spanberger’s campaign.

According to Meta’s Facebook ads library, ads on the page “Commonwealth Courier” have racked up at least 8 million “impressions,” which means that a promoted post has appeared in front of a user 8 million times, though often the same accounts see the same posts multiple times.

Users see a logo with the map of Virginia and the words “Commonwealth Courier.” This Facebook page describes itself as a “media/news company” and introduces itself as “Providing political news to Virginians across the Commonwealth.”

It’s a sleazy move, and you have to wonder why the campaign goes to the trouble of inventing a “news” source rather than sharing the tongue-licking coverage provided by the Pravda News sources that are so soft on her to begin with. 

I suppose that if you are running a campaign, you want total control over the information space, and Democrat voters eagerly vacuum up and believe everything a “news” outlet says as if God Himself had written it.

Still, this move shows even greater contempt for the voters than usual. 

No doubt the Democrats will pour nearly unlimited amounts of cash into Spanberger’s campaign–even with reduced resources, the relatively small number of campaigns in an off-year will allow them to spend quite a bit. And Virginia, being a purple state, presents a serious opportunity for a pickup. 

Assuming, that is, voters in that state want to be fooled. 

My guess? Vast numbers of them do. The federal government sure has a lot of employees living in the state, and Trump has them fighting mad. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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