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U.S. House District 9
2026 Virginia U.S. House — District 9 — General Election · November 3, 2026
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Election: November 3, 2026 General Election
Office Title: Member, House of Representatives
District: 9th District
Candidate Party: Democratic
Candidate Name: Joy A. Powers
Incumbent: No
Campaign Email: [email protected]
Campaign Website: www.joyforva.com
Campaign Phone: 540-521-3285
Campaign Address: PO Box 321, Moneta, VA, 24121-0321
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Campaign Email: [email protected]
Campaign Phone: 540-521-3285
Campaign Email: [email protected]
Campaign Phone: 540-521-3285
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FEC committee ID: C00926725
FEC committee name: JOY FOR VIRGINIA
Published email: [email protected]
Published email: [email protected]
Published website: https://www.joyforva.com/
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FEC committee ID: C00926725
FEC committee name: JOY FOR VIRGINIA
Published email: [email protected]
Published email: [email protected]
Published website: https://www.joyforva.com/
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Where I come from, you judge a person by whether they show up, work hard, and treat people right. Not by who they are or who they love. The land does not ask anybody who they love before the sun comes up. The work is the work, and a neighbor is a neighbor. I believe every Virginian deserves to be treated with dignity and to be equal under the law. That is not complicated to me. It is just how I was raised to treat people.
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Where I come from, you judge a person by whether they show up, work hard, and treat people right. Not by who they are or who they love. The land does not ask anybody who they love before the sun comes up. The work is the work, and a neighbor is a neighbor. I believe every Virginian deserves to be treated with dignity and to be equal under the law. That is not complicated to me. It is just how I was raised to treat people.
I’m Joy Powers, and I’m running for Congress in Virginia’s Ninth District because I love this community and believe deeply in its future. I was raised on the values of faith, hard work, and service. I’ve spent my life working to strengthen the same places and people that shaped me.
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I’m Joy Powers, and I’m running for Congress in Virginia’s Ninth District because I love this community and believe deeply in its future. I was raised on the values of faith, hard work, and service. I’ve spent my life working to strengthen the same places and people that shaped me.
My life’s work has never been about standing behind a podium or holding party lines—it has been about standing up for the people who keep our communities strong. I grew up in 4-H and FFA, learning firsthand the value of responsibility, resilience, and service. Today, I live and work on my family’s 350-acre farm in Bedford, Virginia, where we raise cattle and steward our land for future generations. I know what it means to rely on your faith, your family, and your own two hands to make a living.
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My life’s work has never been about standing behind a podium or holding party lines—it has been about standing up for the people who keep our communities strong. I grew up in 4-H and FFA, learning firsthand the value of responsibility, resilience, and service. Today, I live and work on my family’s 350-acre farm in Bedford, Virginia, where we raise cattle and steward our land for future generations. I know what it means to rely on your faith, your family, and your own two hands to make a living.
I have spent years serving this district, including:
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I have spent years serving this district, including:
Small Business Owner – Working firsthand to create jobs and economic opportunities in our rural communities.
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Small Business Owner – Working firsthand to create jobs and economic opportunities in our rural communities.
"I've spent years writing about the people of Southwest Virginia, the workers, the families, the communities that Washington has treated as a talking point instead of a responsibility. Joy Powers isn't here to talk about the hills and hollers of Southwest Virginia. She grew up in them, farmed them, & is running to fight for them. For the first time in a long time, CD-9 has a candidate who understands that real representation means showing up before the cameras do. I'm proud to endorse Joy."
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"I've spent years writing about the people of Southwest Virginia, the workers, the families, the communities that Washington has treated as a talking point instead of a responsibility. Joy Powers isn't here to talk about the hills and hollers of Southwest Virginia. She grew up in them, farmed them, & is running to fight for them. For the first time in a long time, CD-9 has a candidate who understands that real representation means showing up before the cameras do. I'm proud to endorse Joy."
Joy Powers is a fourth-generation cattle farmer, small business owner, and proud Bedford County mom running for Congress to give rural Virginia a real voice in Washington — one rooted in faith, family, and hard work. Raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Joy learned early that neighbors look out for each other, your word means something, and hope is built through action, not empty promises.
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Joy Powers is a fourth-generation cattle farmer, small business owner, and proud Bedford County mom running for Congress to give rural Virginia a real voice in Washington — one rooted in faith, family, and hard work. Raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Joy learned early that neighbors look out for each other, your word means something, and hope is built through action, not empty promises.
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Protecting the Land That Feeds Us - Support family farms, expand local processing and distribution, and defend farmland from corporate consolidation so agriculture stays local and profitable for generations.
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Protecting the Land That Feeds Us - Support family farms, expand local processing and distribution, and defend farmland from corporate consolidation so agriculture stays local and profitable for generations.
Treating Addiction as Healthcare, Not Crime - Make medication-assisted treatment available in every community, expand recovery housing linked to job training, and eliminate red tape that delays care.
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Treating Addiction as Healthcare, Not Crime - Make medication-assisted treatment available in every community, expand recovery housing linked to job training, and eliminate red tape that delays care.
Building a Real Economy for Southwest Virginia - Invest in advanced manufacturing, small business growth, and mine-land redevelopment to turn abandoned sites into job-ready land for industry, housing, and skilled trades.
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Building a Real Economy for Southwest Virginia - Invest in advanced manufacturing, small business growth, and mine-land redevelopment to turn abandoned sites into job-ready land for industry, housing, and skilled trades.
Connecting Every Home and Hollow - Finish the job of rural broadband, restore affordability credits for families, and ensure energy and transmission costs stay fair for households, schools, and small businesses.
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Connecting Every Home and Hollow - Finish the job of rural broadband, restore affordability credits for families, and ensure energy and transmission costs stay fair for households, schools, and small businesses.
Making Southwest Virginia a Place Families Can Afford to Stay - Lower power bills, protect grocery access, and invest in workforce housing so people can live, work, and raise families close to home.
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Making Southwest Virginia a Place Families Can Afford to Stay - Lower power bills, protect grocery access, and invest in workforce housing so people can live, work, and raise families close to home.
Feeding Families and Strengthening Local Farms - Protect SNAP purchasing power, expand local food processing and cold storage, and keep Appalachian-grown food in Appalachian communities.
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Feeding Families and Strengthening Local Farms - Protect SNAP purchasing power, expand local food processing and cold storage, and keep Appalachian-grown food in Appalachian communities.
Supporting Families and Strengthening the Economy - Treat childcare as essential infrastructure by funding new centers, supporting childcare workers, and helping parents stay in the workforce.
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Supporting Families and Strengthening the Economy - Treat childcare as essential infrastructure by funding new centers, supporting childcare workers, and helping parents stay in the workforce.
Honoring Service with Real Support - Bring specialty care and mental health services to every coal county, streamline benefits, and ensure veterans can access the jobs and healthcare they’ve earned.
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Honoring Service with Real Support - Bring specialty care and mental health services to every coal county, streamline benefits, and ensure veterans can access the jobs and healthcare they’ve earned.
And here is the part that should make everyone angry: We are already paying for it.
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And here is the part that should make everyone angry: We are already paying for it.
This is not a left or right thing here. People across the political map are tired of being squeezed by faraway interests that do not know us and do not answer to us. I want to be the kind of representative those interests do not get to buy.
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This is not a left or right thing here. People across the political map are tired of being squeezed by faraway interests that do not know us and do not answer to us. I want to be the kind of representative those interests do not get to buy.
We give them a reason to stay. Young people do not leave because they want to. They leave because the jobs, the childcare, the housing, and the internet are somewhere else. If we want them to build a life here, we have to build the things a life here requires. That means good jobs and the trades, real broadband that reaches the last mile, affordable childcare, and infrastructure that does not crumble. When the opportunity leaves, the people leave. When the people leave, the school consolidates and the hospital closes. We break that cycle by investing in the front end of it.
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We give them a reason to stay. Young people do not leave because they want to. They leave because the jobs, the childcare, the housing, and the internet are somewhere else. If we want them to build a life here, we have to build the things a life here requires. That means good jobs and the trades, real broadband that reaches the last mile, affordable childcare, and infrastructure that does not crumble. When the opportunity leaves, the people leave. When the people leave, the school consolidates and the hospital closes. We break that cycle by investing in the front end of it.
No. I support the Second Amendment. I am a different kind of Democrat, and that is one of the places I part ways with the national party. The people I grew up around hunt, farm, and protect their families, and I am not interested in lecturing them about it. I will work on keeping communities safe in ways that respect law-abiding gun owners, because around here that is most people.
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No. I support the Second Amendment. I am a different kind of Democrat, and that is one of the places I part ways with the national party. The people I grew up around hunt, farm, and protect their families, and I am not interested in lecturing them about it. I will work on keeping communities safe in ways that respect law-abiding gun owners, because around here that is most people.
I will give you a straight answer, because you deserve one: I do not take my orders from AIPAC or any other lobby. Our foreign policy should be made in Washington, in the interest of the American people, not handed over to a foreign government or the groups that carry its water. Your representative should answer to the people of this district, and no one else.
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I will give you a straight answer, because you deserve one: I do not take my orders from AIPAC or any other lobby. Our foreign policy should be made in Washington, in the interest of the American people, not handed over to a foreign government or the groups that carry its water. Your representative should answer to the people of this district, and no one else.
No. I will work with anyone who wants to help my district, and fight anyone wants to hurt it.
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No. I will work with anyone who wants to help my district, and fight anyone wants to hurt it.
A big part of this traces back to recent federal Medicaid changes that pulled billions out of Virginia hospitals starting this year. I would fight to protect that funding, because for rural hospitals it is not extra. It is the difference between open and closed.
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A big part of this traces back to recent federal Medicaid changes that pulled billions out of Virginia hospitals starting this year. I would fight to protect that funding, because for rural hospitals it is not extra. It is the difference between open and closed.
Congress is finishing work on a new farm bill this year. I want a farm bill that actually serves family-scale and independent producers, not just the biggest operations. That means a strong safety net, fair access to federal programs, real support for local food systems, and standing up for the right to repair the equipment you already paid for. Rural economic development should build up the land and the people here, not sell them out.
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Congress is finishing work on a new farm bill this year. I want a farm bill that actually serves family-scale and independent producers, not just the biggest operations. That means a strong safety net, fair access to federal programs, real support for local food systems, and standing up for the right to repair the equipment you already paid for. Rural economic development should build up the land and the people here, not sell them out.
We do not have to agree on everything to agree on that much. I am not interested in using anyone's family as a political talking point, and I am tired of watching politicians do it. I want every person in this district to have a representative who sees them as worth fighting for.
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We do not have to agree on everything to agree on that much. I am not interested in using anyone's family as a political talking point, and I am tired of watching politicians do it. I want every person in this district to have a representative who sees them as worth fighting for.
And I do not think American families should keep paying for what Benjamin Netanyahu's government is doing. He is under an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes. We send Israel's government billions in weapons and taxpayer dollars every year with almost no conditions and no accountability, and I would end that. I do not believe families here, the ones struggling to afford groceries and keep their hospitals open, should be footing that bill.
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And I do not think American families should keep paying for what Benjamin Netanyahu's government is doing. He is under an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes. We send Israel's government billions in weapons and taxpayer dollars every year with almost no conditions and no accountability, and I would end that. I do not believe families here, the ones struggling to afford groceries and keep their hospitals open, should be footing that bill.
I am not against good jobs or new investment. I am against being exploited again. If a project cannot run without raising your power bill, draining our water, and pocketing a tax break the rest of us pay for, then it is not a good deal for Southwest Virginia, and I will say so plainly. This region has given enough.
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I am not against good jobs or new investment. I am against being exploited again. If a project cannot run without raising your power bill, draining our water, and pocketing a tax break the rest of us pay for, then it is not a good deal for Southwest Virginia, and I will say so plainly. This region has given enough.
I want the hostages home. I want the killing to stop. I want safety and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians alike. But a real friend tells the truth, and the truth is that our weapons should come with our values attached.
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I want the hostages home. I want the killing to stop. I want safety and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians alike. But a real friend tells the truth, and the truth is that our weapons should come with our values attached.
I am confident by Joy’s roots and resume she will work to preserve our common values, chief among them is the restoration of transparency and trust from Washington to the county courthouse. No elected official of government should be able to hide behind secret deals and agreements that involve the public's trust."
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I am confident by Joy’s roots and resume she will work to preserve our common values, chief among them is the restoration of transparency and trust from Washington to the county courthouse. No elected official of government should be able to hide behind secret deals and agreements that involve the public's trust."
Joy is a sunrise-to-sunset fighter for our rural communities. I am excited to keep fighting alongside her to get paychecks up and protect rural healthcare for working families across the Commonwealth!
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Joy is a sunrise-to-sunset fighter for our rural communities. I am excited to keep fighting alongside her to get paychecks up and protect rural healthcare for working families across the Commonwealth!
Keeping Care Close to Home - Protect rural hospitals, expand behavioral health and addiction treatment, and make sure veterans and families can access the care they’ve earned without traveling hours or waiting months.
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Keeping Care Close to Home - Protect rural hospitals, expand behavioral health and addiction treatment, and make sure veterans and families can access the care they’ve earned without traveling hours or waiting months.
Linking Classrooms to Careers - Align schools, apprenticeships, and local employers so students can train and work in their home communities — turning “brain drain” into homegrown opportunity.
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Linking Classrooms to Careers - Align schools, apprenticeships, and local employers so students can train and work in their home communities — turning “brain drain” into homegrown opportunity.
I am running to put real weight back on the side of working people. That means going after the price-gouging and the consolidation that lets a handful of companies set the price of your food, your seed, and your medicine. It means measuring every policy by one question: does this make life here easier or harder?
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I am running to put real weight back on the side of working people. That means going after the price-gouging and the consolidation that lets a handful of companies set the price of your food, your seed, and your medicine. It means measuring every policy by one question: does this make life here easier or harder?
I am a proud public school parent, public school graduate and I am a public school advocate. I want strong funding for our schools, fair pay for the teachers we already struggle to keep, and real investment in career and technical education and our community colleges. Not every good future runs through a four-year degree, and our schools should reflect that.
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I am a proud public school parent, public school graduate and I am a public school advocate. I want strong funding for our schools, fair pay for the teachers we already struggle to keep, and real investment in career and technical education and our community colleges. Not every good future runs through a four-year degree, and our schools should reflect that.
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FEC candidate totals November 14, 2025 through July 15, 2026.
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Candidate ID: H6VA09136
Name: POWERS, JOY
Office: House
State: VA
District: 09
Party: DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Coverage start: 2025-11-14
Coverage end: 2026-07-15
Total receipts: $85335.47
Total disbursements: $71394.86
Cash on hand: $13940.61
Debts owed by committee: $0.00
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