Beau Correll

04/22/2026

Every year your freedom gets a little smaller.

Most people never notice.

I'll never forget when I first started practicing law as a prosecutor in 2008. The Virginia criminal code fit in a modest volume you could carry under one arm.

Today?

Two large volumes - and thicker every session.

Civil liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate wrote a book called Three Felonies a Day. His thesis - one I can't vouch for, but one worth sitting with that seems conceivable - is that the average American unknowingly commits three felonies every single day just by going about an ordinary life.

Whether the exact number is right or not, the direction is undeniable: the net keeps widening, and ordinary people keep falling into it.

Think of your life as a bubble.

Inside that bubble, you act freely - you work, you build a business, you raise your family, you live one with your neighbors and with nature.

That is the space a free person is supposed to occupy.

That bubble is shrinking.

A little smaller every year.

A little less room to breathe.

A little more of your ordinary life suddenly subject to a permit, a fee, a fine, or a felony you didn't know existed.

Like a frog in a pot with the chef slowly turning up the heat - by the time you feel it, you can't jump out.

This is what our legislators get wrong in Richmond ...

Every.

Single.

Day.

They go down to the General Assembly and come back proud of how many new bills they passed - as if the volume of legislation is the measure of a good legislator. As if they somehow became more moral than us and we, The People, need more rules.

In reality, most of those bills are restrictions - on trade, on business, on property, and on individual freedom.

It is long past time for candidates in the next cycle to run on a different record. Not how many new laws they added, but how many they took off your back. Candidates need to be proud of how much freedom they gave back to our people.

Not how much they regulated you, but how much they freed you.

Not how they grew government, but how they helped you live the life you were meant to live.

If you're running for office and you can't answer the question "What did you take off the people's back?" - you are part of the problem.

The bubble doesn't have to keep shrinking. But it will - unless we start sending people to Richmond who understand that their job is to give freedom back, not to take more of it away.

04/22/2026

Here is the exact question Virginians were asked to vote on tonight. Not paraphrased:
"Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?"

Restore fairness.

Stop and read it again. Because every word of it is propaganda dressed up as a ballot question - drafted by the same party-line majority that wrote the new map, put on the ballot by the same party-line majority that will benefit from it, and signed into law by a governor of that same party.

Who writes this crap?

Virginia already had a nonpartisan redistricting system. Virginians voted for it by landslide in 2020 — a bipartisan commission of eight legislators and eight citizens, with an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. That is the fair process. Virginians built it. Virginians approved it. It is still on the books.

What passed tonight did not "restore" fairness. It cancelled it — and dressed the cancellation up in the language of reform.

Don't take my word for it. A Virginia judge looked at that exact phrase - "restore fairness" - and ruled it misleading and unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Virginia stayed that order so the vote could proceed. The court has not yet decided the merits. The legal fight is not over.

You don't tell voters "help us rig ten of eleven seats for our team." You tell them "restore fairness" — then hand them a pen. That is not a ballot question. That is ad copy on a constitutional amendment.

Wi******er, the Shenandoah Valley, and every Virginian who believed the 2020 reform meant something deserved better.

03/29/2026

Looking forward to Nate Prezzy on Wi******er City Council! He will be outstanding!

03/27/2026

Wi******er GOP chairman Beau Correll issues call for candidates

Beau Correll, chairman of the Wi******er Republican Committee, urges residents who care about Wi******er’s future to consider running for City Council in the 2026 elections, according to a media release.

03/25/2026

Interested in running? *DEADLINE CLOSES IN DAYS*

03/03/2026

📝Jobs to avoid for a while - Iranian missile launcher operator, Interim Iranian President, drug boat captain.

02/25/2026

02/19/2026

Honoring the Pledge of Allegiance isn't a ritual - it's a foundation of our freedom. I proposed adding it to our meetings to uphold what unites us as Americans. Dismissing it as 'unnecessary' or 'pageantry' misses the point.

I stand by the pledge, always.

https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/decision-to-not-include-pledge-of-allegiance-draws-fire/article_c4e777d3-b645-5467-96a0-0f873e180aa8.html?fbclid=IwdGRzaAQEZJ9jbGNrBARkZWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHnK2gR29cwxjHzFm2QYQiXNGE1G8eFiBkrsWWSekxLBZWBZntf6WuH-3devB_aem_0zkX9t8DT8QE7P4LV8Fm6Q&sfnsn=scwspwa

The Wi******er Planning Commission voted this week to not recite the Pledge of Allegiance prior to its business meetings, a decision that has caused a furor on social media and

02/19/2026

STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN CORRELL:

To be honest, I was shocked at Tuesday’s meeting. I found myself surrounded by a measure to excise the Pledge of Allegiance from our proposed bylaws package.

While we do not presently say the Pledge of Allegiance in our meetings, we certainly should, and I thought this would be a very uncontroversial measure. For example, the Frederick County Planning Commission right beside us - where I attended as the liaison yesterday - not only recites the Pledge, but also opens with an invocation.

The Pledge is a recognition that we owe the highest fidelity to the Constitution and its founding principles. It anchors our words and actions as a public body. It shows that we do what we do not just for the people of the City of Wi******er, but that we adhere to certain founding principles that have stood the test of time - principles weathered by the nation's brave souls who fought for our freedoms, and of which we all remain the beneficiaries.

To hear such a basic concept of our American way of life called "pageantry," labeled "unnecessary," or treated as a "ritual" that somehow gets in the way of a normal meeting - I found it incredibly offensive. In fact, you could tell by my tone that I was taken aback by this resistance.

The foundation of freedom is only as strong as the bricks that form it. If we allow those bricks to be taken away, we will lose the very safety of our freedom.

Despite this, we have much great work to do as a Planning Commission for the City of Wi******er. I sincerely wish this unnecessary diversion had never happened, but we must now look forward and dedicate our full attention to the vital business of serving our community.

02/16/2026

While the world mourns the loss of a cinematic titan - a shapeshifter who could embody the soul of any man - we in Virginia mourn something far more personal. We mourn a neighbor, a steward of our land, and a true gentleman of the Piedmont.

Robert Duvall was not born a Virginian, but he became one of our finest by the sheer force of his love for this place. For decades, he found his sanctuary not in the hills of Hollywood, but in the rolling pastures of Fauquier County. In the quiet rhythm of The Plains, "Bob" was not a celebrity to be gawked at; he was the man at the next table at the local diner, a familiar face at the breathless stillness of a foxhunt, and a fierce advocate for preserving the open spaces that make this state so beautiful.

He understood the weight of history that permeates our soil. Whether he was breathing life into historical figures on screen or simply walking the grounds of his beloved Byrnley Farm, he treated Virginia’s heritage with a scholar’s mind and a poet’s heart. He respected the land, the horses, and the people, blending into the community with a grace and humility that belied his legendary status.

To choose Virginia is to choose a specific kind of quiet dignity, and Bob wore that dignity well. He showed us that one can conquer the highest peaks of global art while keeping their feet firmly planted on the red clay of home.

We extend our deepest, heartfelt condolences to Luciana and the entire Duvall family. Thank you for sharing him with the world, but especially for sharing him with us here in the Commonwealth. The Blue Ridge stands a little more somber today, having lost one of its greatest admirers.

Rest in peace, Bob. You are forever part of this landscape.