Offering asides, recommended links, blogworthy quotations, and more, In Brief is the Northwest Progressive Institute's microblog of world, national, and local politics.
Read Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat’s first take on the August 2022 Top Two election results, in which he credits NPI for having correctly assessed for months that the available data didn’t support Republicans’ claims that a red tsunami was on its way.
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“In Virginia, New Jersey and Washington, a blue wave rises,” writes The Huffington Post’s Nick Baumann, Amanda Terkel, and Igor Bobic.
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Manka Dhingra delivers her August Top Two election night victory speech
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Serial public disclosure law offender Tim Eyman can’t get enough of his sweetheart Washington State Senator Pam Roach, who has frequently gotten into trouble for
LaunchKING5’s Natalie Brand talks to NPI boardmember and Washington for Bernie Sanders organizer Mario Brown about the movement’s plans to organize on behalf of downballot
LaunchRepublican Andy Hill, who is trying to become the first Republican to get reelected in the suburban 45th District (Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Woodinville, Duvall) since
LaunchI think that the reason Travis did as well as he did is because people are tired of failed leadership and the same old thing.
LaunchState Representative Roger Goodman (D-45th District: Redmond, Kirkland, Woodinville, Sammamish) waves to onlookers as he marches in the annual parade that takes place along the waterfront as part of Kirkland’s Fourth of July celebration (Photo: Andrew Villeneuve/NPI)
LaunchThis is terrible news for the Republicans… The Senate was going to be competitive anyway. Now it’s even more competitive. — Former state Republican Party
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