Teacher, parent win $1M in defamation suits against conservative activist David Gordon

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Teacher, parent win $1M in defamation suits against feed on X

By Julie Carey • Published June 19, 2026 • Updated on June 19, 2026 at 11:21 am

A high-profile Virginia teacher and a parent decided to fight back against social media attacks, name-calling and false allegations, each filing defamation lawsuits against the creator of a conservative X feed. ... Both just won judgments of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Fairfax County Public Schools teacher Robert Rigby is a well-known, outspoken figure in the community. The former president of FPCS Pride has publicly advocated for years on behalf of LGBTQ youth. He was used to social media attacks. ... “I’ve been attacked for 20 years,” he said.

But in 2025, posts about him on the X feed known as The Virginia Project made deeply troubling allegations. ... David Gordon created The Virginia Project PAC to raise money for GOP candidates, and he posted on the X feed. The Online State Board Election's campaign finance website shows the PAC is no longer operational, but David Gordon continues to make posts on The Virginia Project X feed.

The 2025 posts cited in the defamation suit make allegations about grooming gangs and child abduction paired with a photo of Rigby from a Daily Wire story. ... Similar social media posts also reference and picture Vanessa Hall as Fairfax County parent and community activist. ... Rigby and Hall turned to Fairfax attorney Jason Zellman.

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1. Fun fact: David Gordon's Virginia Project shares treasurer Chris Marston with Harmeet Dhillon's Center for American ...

Emily Mills
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Fun fact: David Gordon’s Virginia Project shares treasurer Chris Marston with San Francisco’s Friends of Lowell and Harmeet Dhillon’s Center for American Liberty and Moms for Liberty, and Cleta Mitchell, Paul Manafort and Tom Barrack’s Rebuilding America Now.

Jennifer Litton Tidd Âû
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Jun 18
Fun Fact: @ProjectVirginia PAC guy, David Gordon lives in NY, hasn’t lived in Virginia since 2013, lost 2 defamation cases about a teacher and local mom, after concocting an absurd scheme derived from his blatant hatred for LGBTQ people. How it started: salon.com/2022/10/06/fro…
7:26 PM · Jun 18, 2026

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Jennifer Litton Tidd Âû
@LiberateNDs

Fun Fact: @ProjectVirginia PAC guy, David Gordon lives in NY, hasn’t lived in Virginia since 2013, lost 2 defamation cases about a teacher and local mom, after concocting an absurd scheme derived from his blatant hatred for LGBTQ people. How it started:

From "grooming" to "child abduction": Right's slurs get more bizarre
From salon.com
6:38 PM · Jun 18, 2026

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