Virginia Democrats Pass Bill Forcing Schools to Teach About J6 as a “Violent Insurrection”

Democrats in the state of Virginia are now literally trying to re-write history in an effort to brainwash school children.

Last Thursday, they passed a bill that would force schools to teach that the Capitol protests on January 6, 2021 were a violent insurrection to overturn the election.

The bill is now headed to leftist Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s desk to be signed into law.

BREAKING: Virginia Democrats just passed a bill which would require schools who teach about January 6th to say it was a violent insurrection to overturn the election results and ban teachers from saying there was election fraud or that it was peaceful

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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 11, 2026

BREAKING: Virginia Democrats just passed a bill which would require schools who teach about January 6th to say it was a violent insurrection to overturn the election results and ban teachers from saying there was election fraud or that it was peaceful

The bill was sent to Democrat Governor Spanberger‘s desk for signature.

The bill specifically bans teachers from saying that J6 was a “peaceful protest.”

It forces them to describe it as “an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions.”

CBS News has more details:

Virginia’s legislature has passed a bill prohibiting schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it “as peaceful protest.”

The General Assembly approved the measure Thursday, as a first-of-its-kind legislation to combat false statements by supporters of President Trump.

The bill says that school instruction must “Not describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest.”

Schools may also not “state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

Instead, the measure says that school instruction must “Describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

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The legislation was sponsored by state delegate Dan Helmer, a Democrat from Northern Virginia. In the state Senate, the bill passed 21-19 — the chamber’s 19 Republicans opposed the measure. CBS News has requested comment from Virginia state Senate GOP leader.

State and local police in Virginia were among the law enforcement responders who helped repel the rioting mob on Jan. 6, 2021.

“The White House has tried to rewrite history,” Helmer told CBS News. “I don’t want to celebrate traitors in our public schools.”

This is just the latest example of Democrats doing what they do best — lying and manipulating the narrative to fit their agenda.

And, under Gov. Spanberger, things are bound to get even worse.

In response to the new, highly dystopian, legislation, folks on X are making some great points:

Virginia trying to re-write history.

I am guessing they are going to leave out the 274 FBI agents that were in the crowd.

— Right MAGA Party (@RightMagaParty) March 11, 2026

The old Soviet Union used to alter the historical record too.

— Nurse Patriot (@LABeachGal1) March 11, 2026

Are they also going to move the book “1984” from fiction to non-fiction?

— MisterBozo (@bozo_mister) March 11, 2026

Virginians, if you’re not already, it’s probably time to think about pulling your kids out of public school and either sending them to a private institution or homeschooling.

How would you judge it?