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NPI’s 2011 Spring Fundraising Gala is only one week away… and you’re invited!

As of this evening, our 2011 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala — which will take place at the Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ter at Mer­cer View — is just one week away.  It’s shap­ing up to be one of the best events we’ve ever put togeth­er, and we hope to see many NPI sup­port­ers there. The speak­ing line­up con­sists of Bob Ferguson […]

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Jay Inslee to speak at NPI’s 2011 Spring Fundraising Gala on Mercer Island

I am delight­ed to announce this morn­ing that Jay Inslee — my rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Con­gress and a true cham­pi­on for eco­nom­ic secu­ri­ty and envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion — will be speak­ing at NPI’s 2011 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala (with all pro­ceeds to ben­e­fit NPI), hap­pen­ing two weeks from tomor­row on Mer­cer Island. If you fol­low nation­al pol­i­tics, you […]

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Camp Wellstone returning to Seattle: Don’t miss an outstanding training opportunity

Camp Well­stone, the sig­na­ture train­ing offered by the orga­niz­ing genius­es at Well­stone Action, is return­ing to Seat­tle for the sixth or sev­enth con­sec­u­tive year — I’m los­ing track 🙂 — about a month from now. The 2011 camp will take place at Seat­tle Pacif­ic Uni­ver­si­ty on May 13th, 14th, and 15th. (SPU is actu­al­ly where it […]

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Please join NPI this Saturday at Lynn Allen’s memorial service on Mercer Island

This Sat­ur­day, the North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute team will be gath­er­ing on Mer­cer Island to join Lynn Allen’s fam­i­ly and friends in a cel­e­bra­tion of her life. Lynn was a found­ing board mem­ber of NPI who pro­vid­ed invalu­able coun­sel and advice to myself and the staff. We miss her great­ly, but we will nev­er for­get the wisdom […]

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Scott Macklin to speak at NPI’s 2011 Spring Fundraising Gala on April 28th

Hap­py Fri­day! Just so there’s absolute­ly no con­fu­sion, this post is not an April Fools’ Day joke. And that’s def­i­nite­ly a good thing! 🙂 On behalf of the team at NPI, I am pleased to announce this after­noon that the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton’s Scott Mack­lin will be speak­ing at our third Spring Fundrais­ing Gala, which is coming […]

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Tim Eyman tries to rile up his supporters with Permanent Defense analysis

On Wednes­day, we pub­lished a report over at Per­ma­nent Defense ana­lyz­ing Tim Eyman’s first two months of fundrais­ing, enti­tled, “Vot­ers Want More Choic­es begins 2011 with no wealthy bene­fac­tor in sight”. That report appar­ent­ly hit a nerve, because Tim Eyman is present­ly send­ing out a mass-email to his sup­port­ers quot­ing it in full and asking […]

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Join Peter Steinbrueck and Reuven Carlyle at NPI’s 2011 Spring Fundraising Gala

Back in Feb­ru­ary, when we first announced the date for our 2011 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala, we promised that more details about the event were on their way, includ­ing our speak­ing line­up. It’s tak­en some time to put the pro­gram togeth­er, and I want all of our loy­al sup­port­ers to know that we did­n’t make this […]