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Virginia Estate and Retirement Planning Advisors, Inc. Voted 2026 “Best Local Financial Services Firm”; Thomas P. Marshall Voted 2026 “Best Local Financial Planner”
GLEN ALLEN, Va. — September 23, 2026 — Virginia Estate and Retirement Planning Advisors, Inc. has been voted the 2026 “Best Local Financial Services Firm” by readers of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Thomas P. Marshall, president of the firm, has been voted the 2026 “Best Local Financial Planner.”
The honors were awarded in the newspaper’s annual reader-voted “The Best” contest, in which residents of the Richmond region nominate and select local businesses and professionals.
“Thank you, Richmond,” said Thomas Marshall. “This year’s vote is a credit to our clients and to the team that serves them. Our employees are some of the best in their specialties. They do an incredible job. We are an independent Registered Investment Advisor. We do not sell securities. We sell advice, and we are required to put our clients’ interests first. Being chosen again by the people we live and work with is the recognition that matters most.”
Virginia Estate and Retirement Planning Advisors, Inc. is an independent, privately owned Registered Investment Advisor headquartered in Glen Allen. The firm provides fiduciary financial planning and investment advice, including retirement income planning, tax and estate planning, and portfolio management.
Thomas P. Marshall earned an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University, an M.Div. from Virginia Union University, and graduated with Distinction from the Virginia Military Institute. Tom is the author of More Retirement Smarts: Plan Well and Retire Well. He has been interviewed as a financial and tax planning expert by ABC News NBC, and CBS Virginia This Morning.
For more information, visit myverpa.com or call (804) 205-5081.
About Virginia Estate and Retirement Planning Advisors, Inc.
Virginia Estate and Retirement Planning Advisors, Inc. is an independent Registered Investment Advisor located at 4870 Sadler Road, Suite 300, Glen Allen, VA 23060.
The firm serves individuals and families across the nation with retirement, estate, tax, and investment planning under a fiduciary standard.
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Virginia Estate and Retirement Planning Advisors, Inc.
Thomas P. Marshall, President
4870 Sadler Road, Suite 300
Glen Allen, VA 23060
Phone: (804) 205-5081
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Tom Marshall retweeted
Like Fulton Sheen, I’m not always great at fasting—especially when celebrating a team member at Ted Drewes!
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Oh & if you’re Christian, especially the Catholic variety, I HIGHLY suggest visiting here.
It’s the Cathedral Basilica of St Louis
This picture does zero justice, it’s hard to comprehend how big and beautiful this is.
Ask @GoldenAspen1492, I teared up in awe walking in.
Tom Marshall retweeted
Fairfax County, VA public schools: 2,346 @fcpsnews HQ administrators who don't work in a school. Total salaries: $272 million
Superintendent Michelle Reid alone: $445,353
$56 million in legal fees since 2020 — a record $12 million this year — defending the School Board's own controversies in court.
Enrollment falling. Budget growing. Teachers cut. Central office untouched
One in five Fairfax County students failed the state reading test this year. For low-income kids — 41% of FCPS — it was nearly two in five.
The School Board didn't tell you that. A Fairfax mom did.
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a parent, not a politician. For four years she has done the job the all-Democrat School Board was elected to do: read the budget, file the FOIA requests, publish the numbers. Here's what she's found:
- 2,346 FCPS central-office administrators who don't work in a school. Combined salaries: $272 million. Superintendent Michelle Reid alone: $445,353.
- $56 million in legal fees since 2020 — a record $12 million this year — defending the School Board's own controversies in court.
- Enrollment falling. Budget growing. Teachers cut. Central office untouched.
Michelle Reid isn't elected. She's hired and directed by the 12-member Democrat School Board, led by Chair Sandy Anderson. Every dollar runs through their votes.
Her question is simple: "A school system's first obligation is to educate its students." So what did they do with the last $272 million?
Read her article. Share it with a parent who thinks FCPS is fine because their school is fine. The whole School Board is on the ballot in November 2027 — and the budget fight starts this winter.
fairfaxgop.org/one-in-five-f…
Tom Marshall retweeted
Thomas Aquinas on the nature of Islam from the beginning:
“The point is clear in the case of Muhammad. He seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by carnal men.
As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity. He did not bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth. On the contrary, Muhammad said that he was sent in the power of his arms [weapons]—which are signs not lacking even to robbers and tyrants.
What is more, no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning. Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Muhammad forced others to become his followers by the violence of his arms. Nor do divine pronouncements on the part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. On the contrary, he perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them into fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law.
It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place any faith in his words believe foolishly.”
—Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles I.6
Tom Marshall retweeted
Germany tried to ban this movie for telling the truth about third-world mass migration, so they posted it on 𝕏 for the world to see.
Incredible
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Children from fatherless homes are:
75% of all teenage murderers
71% of high school dropouts
70% of incarcerated youth
60% of convicted rapists
Demographics of fatherless youth:
Black children: 64%
Latino children: 42%
White children: 24%
Asian children: 16%
This is the real crisis, not "white racism"
Tom Marshall retweeted
They made it in a lab. They KNEW it would kill. And they released it anyway.
On June 18, 2026 — her FINAL day as Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard declassified 4.7 million pages. Every email. Every wire transfer. Every internal memo they thought was buried forever.
What the media WON'T show you from those files:
PAGE 2,847 — NIAID Internal Memo, October 3, 2019:
"Phase 3 aerosolization test complete. Mortality projection: 1.8 to 3.2 million within 18 months of release. Recommend immediate halt."
Fauci's handwritten response: "Continue. Funding secured through Geneva."
THAT WAS 3 MONTHS BEFORE THE FIRST "CASE" IN WUHAN.
The money trail — now FULLY visible:
▪️ $47.3 million routed through EcoHealth Alliance to Wuhan between 2014-2019
▪️ $128 million in "preparedness grants" sent to 3 Swiss intermediaries
▪️ $2.1 BILLION in Moderna pre-production contracts signed AUGUST 2019 — 4 months BEFORE the pandemic was announced
They ordered the vaccine BEFORE the virus was public.
A classified briefing — November 14, 2019 — attended by Fauci, Collins, and 7 members of Congress. They were told a novel pathogen would emerge from Wuhan within 60 days.
They didn't warn you. They BOUGHT STOCK. Congressional trading records show $312 million in pharma positions opened between November 15 and December 20, 2019.
THEY BET ON YOUR DEATH. AND WON.
Declassified DOD mortality analysis — completed March 2024, suppressed until now:
▪️ COVID direct deaths: 1.2 million
▪️ Vaccine adverse deaths: 487,000
▪️ Lockdown deaths: 340,000
▪️ TOTAL: 2.03 MILLION AMERICANS
From a virus MANUFACTURED and RELEASED with full knowledge.
THIS IS THE LARGEST MASS MURDER IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
WHAT COMES NEXT:
A sealed federal grand jury — empaneled May 22, 2026 — has reviewed these documents for 27 days. 11 indictments ready. Fauci. Collins. 3 EcoHealth executives. 2 Moderna board members. 4 sitting members of Congress.
Trump's response on June 19: "No deals. No immunity. TRIBUNALS."
You watched them lock you in your homes. Silence your doctors. Inject your children. NOW YOU KNOW WHY.
GAINOF-FUNCTION-1019
MODERNA-PRE-0819
TRIBUNAL-11-SEALED
They created the plague. They sold the cure. They buried the evidence. But the evidence just ROSE FROM THE GRAVE.
t.me/AXIOS4B
Tom Marshall retweeted
1% of people account for 63% of all violent crimes.
0.2% of people ever commit murder, and **67% of all murders**are committed by people with prior arrests
You can literally just fix crime by not tolerating people who show a history of being destructive to society.
Tom Marshall retweeted
Schools make sure that every child knows Thomas Jefferson had slaves, and they carry out a massive agenda to use slavery to attack heritage Americans, so I always wondered why we didn’t hear the names of the big slave owning families… I think I found out why.
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May 15, 1864. The Shenandoah Valley.
A Union army marched south to burn the breadbasket of the Confederacy.
Standing in its way: John C. Breckinridge, former Vice President of the United States, the man who had run against Lincoln in 1860, with 4,500 men he didn't have.
Among them, 257 cadets from the Virginia Military Institute. The youngest was 15. They had marched 80 miles in four days to reach the field, sleeping in the rain, eating nothing but hardtack.
Breckinridge ordered them held in reserve. "I will not put those children in," he said.
By afternoon, his center was buckling. He turned to his aide, eyes wet.
"Put the boys in, and may God forgive me for the order."
They advanced through a rain-soaked wheat field. The Virginia mud was so deep it sucked the shoes from their feet. The locals would call it the Field of Lost Shoes forever after.
They didn't run. They didn't break. They charged a Union battery in the open, and took it. One cadet swung the captured gun around and fired it back at the retreating Federals.
10 boys died. 47 fell wounded. The youngest killed was 17.
162 years later this morning, VMI will call their names. A bugler will play. The Corps will stand silent in formation.
They have done this every May 15 without missing a year.
Tom Marshall retweeted
A brilliant explanation of the sources of wokeism and the foundation behind most of the West’s challenges in recent years.
A very important read.
I would never have found this post except for @X’s auto-translation feature. The original post in French.
Aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction.
La déconstruction est le virus mental le plus efficace jamais conçu contre une civilisation. Il a été fabriqué en France entre 1966 et 1980 par trois hommes : Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Il a été exporté aux États-Unis, hybridé avec le puritanisme racial américain, et il est revenu trente ans plus tard sous le nom de wokisme paralyser l'Occident entier. Voici comment il fonctionne, et pourquoi il faut le détruire.
La thèse est simple. Toute vérité n'est qu'un rapport de pouvoir déguisé. Tout texte sacré, toute loi, toute science, toute norme, toute hiérarchie, toute identité, toute institution cache en réalité une domination. Déconstruire, c'est montrer le rapport de force sous le vernis du vrai. C'est arracher le masque. C'est "démasquer".
Formulé comme ça, ça paraît inoffensif. Voire utile. Qui n'aime pas un peu d'esprit critique ? Le piège est là. La déconstruction se présente comme une méthode. Elle est en réalité une ontologie. Elle ne dit pas seulement "interrogeons les normes", elle dit "il n'y a *que* des rapports de pouvoir". La différence est civilisationnelle.
Une société qui interroge ses normes reste debout. Une société qui croit que ses normes ne sont *rien d'autre* que de la domination s'effondre. Parce qu'elle ne peut plus rien défendre. Plus une frontière, plus une loi, plus une science, plus une langue, plus une histoire, plus une biologie, plus une famille. Tout devient suspect. Tout devient négociable. Tout devient "construit donc déconstructible".
C'est la première raison pour laquelle c'est un virus. Il s'auto-réplique. Une fois inoculé, il transforme tout ce qu'il touche en cible. La science est patriarcale, donc déconstruisons-la. Le langage est colonial, donc réinventons-le. La méritocratie est raciste, donc abolissons-la. Le sexe est une construction, donc choisissons-le. Il n'y a plus de roc. Tout est sable.
Deuxième raison. Le virus est *non-falsifiable*. Si vous défendez une norme, c'est que vous êtes l'oppresseur. Si vous niez être oppresseur, c'est la preuve de votre privilège inconscient. Si vous citez des faits, vos faits sont contaminés par le pouvoir qui les a produits. Si vous citez la raison, la raison elle-même est blanche, masculine, occidentale. Il n'y a aucune sortie possible. Le système est conçu pour rendre toute objection irrecevable par définition.
C'est exactement la structure d'une secte. Et c'est exactement ce qui s'est installé dans les universités, les RH, les médias, les administrations, les conseils d'administration depuis vingt ans.
Troisième raison. Le virus s'auto-réfute mais ne s'auto-détruit pas. Si toute vérité est pouvoir, alors la phrase "toute vérité est pouvoir" est elle-même du pouvoir, donc sans valeur. Logiquement, la déconstruction se mord la queue dès la première phrase. Mais elle s'en moque. Parce qu'elle n'a jamais cherché la cohérence. Elle cherche l'efficacité politique. Et son efficacité politique est immense. Elle désarme ses ennemis et arme ses militants. Elle paralyse le défenseur et libère l'attaquant. C'est une arme asymétrique parfaite.
Quatrième raison. Le virus produit des humains diminués. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Elle sait soupçonner, jamais admirer. Elle voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Elle peut produire mille pages sur le caractère opprimant de Shakespeare et zéro ligne qui vaille la peine d'être lue dans cent ans. Elle a confondu l'intelligence critique avec la pose critique. Elle est stérile par construction. Un esprit nourri à la déconstruction est un esprit qui ne sait plus rien édifier.
Cinquième raison, la plus grave. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers. La croyance qu'une vérité est accessible à la raison. La croyance qu'un bien se distingue d'un mal. La croyance qu'un héritage mérite d'être transmis. La déconstruction a méthodiquement dynamité les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui avait nourri ses prophètes. Mais le résultat est là. Une civilisation qui ne croit plus en sa vérité, ni en son bien, ni en son héritage ne se défend pas. Elle s'excuse en attendant la fin.
Voilà ce qu'on a fait. Voilà ce qu'il faut nommer.
La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'un virus mental ne survit que tant qu'on lui cède l'autorité du discours. Il meurt dès qu'on cesse de jouer son jeu. Dès qu'on réaffirme tranquillement qu'il existe une vérité, un beau, un bien, un héritage. Dès qu'on cesse de demander la permission aux déconstructeurs pour bâtir. Dès qu'on refait. Dès qu'on transmet. Dès qu'on crée.
Les bâtisseurs ont toujours le dernier mot sur les commentateurs. Toujours. Parce qu'à la fin il reste ce qui est construit, et rien de ce qui a été déconstruit.
Alors aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction. Et demain je construis.
Tom Marshall retweeted
The verdict from the failed 2026 redistricting referendum is clear: break up Fairfax County. No single locality should ever again be anointed with that much concentrated power in Virginia.
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Ok, so the AG of Virginia, Jay Jones, has filed an emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court asking them to overrule the Virginia State Supreme Courts ruling, and while he may have sent it through spellcheck this time, he failed to change templates..because this one is still going to the Supreme Court of Virginia. The incompetence is mind blowing. 😆😆😆
Tom Marshall retweeted
I'm incorporating a new scan into my process called the Liquid Doublers.
If you want access to this, comment LIQUID, retweet this and I'll send it via DM.
Must be following, otherwise I won't be able to send.
If you are a @trendspider member, you can import this scan into your platform and it will update daily automatically.
Tom Marshall retweeted
Wanted to gauge interest in a newsletter write-up on this power bottleneck, where I go over each chart in detail, mapped out with Elliott Wave and price targets.
It's a big lift, but I'm willing to do it if there's interest.
100 RT's and I'll work on that this weekend.
Power is becoming the bottleneck of the AI economy.
For 30 years, U.S. electricity demand barely moved. Now AI data centers, reshoring, EVs, industrial automation, and grid upgrades are all hitting the system at once.
That means the next big trade may not just be chips.
It may be everything that feeds the chips.
Companies that could benefit:
$GEV, GE Vernova: turbines, grid equipment, power generation
$POWL, Powell Industries: switchgear, power control systems
$ETN, Eaton: electrical equipment, power management
$HUBB, Hubbell: utility and grid components
$PWR, Quanta Services: transmission and utility infrastructure
$VRT, Vertiv: data center power and cooling
$GNRC, Generac: backup power and grid resilience
$CEG, Constellation Energy: nuclear power supply
$VST, Vistra: power generation and capacity demand
$NEE, NextEra Energy: renewables, grid, utility scale power
$AMSC, American Superconductor: advanced grid and power systems
$PLPC, Preformed Line Products: transmission and grid hardware
$SPXC, SPX Technologies: transformers and power infrastructure
$CLF, Cleveland-Cliffs: electrical steel exposure
$MOD, Modine: thermal management and cooling
The big idea:
AI needs chips.
Chips need data centers.
Data centers need power.
Power needs grid upgrades.
That’s the second-order trade.
Tom Marshall retweeted
The last 10-days have been unlike any 10-day period in the market since 1950.
First, the S&P 500 is up 9.8% in 10-days, which is in the 99.7th percentile of all 10 day returns.
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When Islamists gain power
SYRIA: A group of young Muslims entered the Christian town of Al-Suqaylabiyah in Hama and tried to rape Christian girls. Brave Christian men fought them and kicked them out.
They later returned with a government-backed mob, looted homes and properties, opened fire, and arrested several Christian men who they plan to execute.
This is daily life for Christians living under Islamic rule.
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Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change.
That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder.
In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book.
Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing.
A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens.
UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain.
One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off.
The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.
Tom Marshall retweeted
* Start war
* Give 5 different reasons for war
* 80% disapproval
* Immediately blow up little girls school surrendering all moral high ground
* Kill leadership which is immediately replaced by more radical leadership
* Declare victory
* Have no contingency plan for closing the straits of Hormuz
* Have no clear victory conditions
* Gas prices skyrocket
* Economy craters
* Service members killed, taxes wasted, bases blown up, no material gain for the American public
* Continue declaring victory
Worst war ever conducted







































