The team at NPI is excited to announce that the reception for this year’s Spring Fundraising Gala (to be held Saturday, April 7th at the Renton Community Center) will be hosted by hydroplane legend Chip Hanauer.
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At Everett Library, crowd gathers to discuss Trump, fascism, and white supremacism
Read NPI’s recap of yesterday’s symposium on right wing extremism with investigative journalists David Neiwert and Scott North, titled The Radical Right and Its Effects on Communities.
Darcy Burner to emcee NPI’s 2018 Spring Fundraising Gala on Saturday, April 7th
Meet our 2018 Spring Gala Master of Ceremonies: Darcy Burner. Darcy has a long history of involvement in progressive politics as both a candidate and a strategist. She has run for Congress and the state Legislature and played an instrumental role in getting progressive members of Congress more organized.
LIVE from the Crosscut Festival: The GOP is dead
The final panel I attended at the Crosscut Festival had the provocative title, “The GOP is dead. Long live the GOP!” The discussion was of course about the future of the Republican Party, with a focus on Washington State.
LIVE from the Crosscut Festival: Mayors of Cascadia
In the second afternoon session of the Crosscut Festival, the mayors of Seattle, Vancouver, B.C., and Portland came together to discuss what makes their cities and our region great, as well as the challenges. The moderator was Knute Berger. Berger started with some funny commentary on Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. He noted that many of […]
LIVE from the Crosscut Festival: All the President’s Men
Panelists include David Frum, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush; David Litt, former special assistant and senior presidential speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush.
LIVE from the Crosscut Festival: “When free speech becomes hate speech”
This panel featured panelists Ethan Blevins, staff attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation; Evergreen State College student Jamil Bee; David Neiwert, investigate reporter and author of a recent book on the Radical Right; and Evergreen State College professor of Geography and Native Studies, Zoltán Grossman.
LIVE from Crosscut Festival: Tax breaks for titans
During this panel discussion, Rep. Reuven Carlyle said that Washington has the most tax breaks because we have the most upside-down and backwards tax structure in the nation. Regarding the negotiations around Boeing tax breaks, he acknowledged that there were both “substantive wins and substantive loses” for the people of Washington.
LIVE from the Crosscut Festival: Bridging the Cascade Divide
The first session I attended today was “Bridging the Cascade Divide” discussing the political differences, but also the commonalities, between Eastern and Western Washington.
LIVE from Seattle University: Day Two of the Crosscut Festival kicks off
Organized by news outlet Crosscut, the Festival is intended to “bring together some of the boldest thought leaders in politics, business and social justice activism to be interviewed live on stage by some of the finest journalists in the Pacific Northwest.”
Tickets are now on sale for NPI’s 2018 Spring Fundraising Gala on Saturday, April 7th!
NPI is excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for our 2018 Spring Fundraising Gala, taking place Saturday, April 7th at 5:30 PM. This post goes into more detail about the event and provides a link to buy tickets.
LIVE from Seattle: Hillary Clinton comes to the Paramount to discuss “What Happened?”
Hillary Clinton is in the Emerald City for the Seattle stop of her What Happened? book tour. Read NPI’s take on her appearance at the Paramount Theatre.
Netroots Nation 2018 will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from August 2nd-4th
It’s official: America’s largest annual gathering of progressives will be heading to the Big Easy next year during the first few days of August. Chuck Rocha, who memorably inspired attendees of Netroots Nation 2009 in Pittsburgh with a powerful, well-received speech, just announced onstage that New Orleans will be the host city for next year’s […]
LIVE from Atlanta: Netroots Nation hears from Ben Jealous and Elizabeth Warren
Good morning, and welcome back to our continuing live coverage of Netroots Nation 2017, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia. Attendees are once again coming together in the Centennial Ballroom for a morning plenary session with Elizabeth Warren and many other distinguished speakers. The Rev. angel Kyodo williams, author of Radical Dharma, returned to open the […]