The West Virginia WASP

05/13/2026

Kris Warner's Website Fails West Virginia on Election Night

The Secretary of State promised a new election night reporting system. West Virginians found out what it was actually worth.

05/11/2026

West Virginia's primary war is nearly over. The governing war may be just beginning.

West Virginia's primary war is nearly over. The governing war may be just beginning.

05/01/2026

Our latest: The Out-of-State Money Machine Remaking West Virginia's GOP

A sitting governor is using a PAC funded almost entirely by out-of-state billionaires to primary his own Republican colleagues. Voters deserve to ask: whose legislature would this actually be?

04/20/2026

Democrats Watch the GOP Civil War and Hand Out Recruitment Brochures

Democrats published a letter this weekend urging disaffected Republicans to switch parties. This tells us more about the state of the GOP primary than it does about Democratic strength in deep red WV.

04/20/2026

How one man voted to protect the law that made his nursing homes worth more. Then he sold them. Then he boosted a PAC aimed at knocking off certain Republicans and supporting at least one high profile Democrat. Read all about: ⬇️

Campaign finance records and a publicly available transaction document raise conflict-of-interest questions about the WV GOP National Committeeman.

04/18/2026

💣 BOMBSHELL: Ben Anderson a West Virginia Republican Party leader and Greenbrier County GOP chairman and his colleague, Greenbrier County GOP executive committeeman Steve Dunford, go scorched earth on Patrick Morrisey . Read all about it:

There is an old fable about a dog crossing a bridge with a bone in his mouth.

04/13/2026

One man. Three Committees.

David Howell is the one man.

04/11/2026

The Supreme Court rules that two women in Cabell County will indeed face criminal trial for election shenanigans. Cabell County Commissioner, Kelli Sobonya weighs in.

How two Cabell County women allegedly filed to run in the wrong commission district, refused to leave the ballot, sued taxpayers for their trouble, and now face a revived criminal case.

04/11/2026

PROXY WAR: Morrisey vs. Capito Battle Lines Drawn in WV Senate Primaries

A sitting Republican delegate unloads on the governor on camera. A U.S. senator fires off with endorsements. West Virginia's Republican civil war is no longer a slow burn.

04/10/2026

🚨BOMBSHELL: Delegate Michael Hite (R-Berkeley) says Patrick Morrisey is the “worst governor I have seen certainly in my lifetime….the worst Republican governor I have ever seen or heard of.” MORE HERE ⬇️