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LIVE from Atlanta: Stacey Abrams, Barbara Lee anchor opening night of Netroots Nation

by Alonso Conrad

Good after­noon, and wel­come back to NPI’s live cov­er­age of Net­roots Nation 2017, tak­ing place in Atlanta, Geor­gia today through this com­ing Sat­ur­day. Net­roots Nation is Amer­i­ca’s largest annu­al gath­er­ing of pro­gres­sive activists, advo­ca­cy jour­nal­ists, and grass­roots orga­niz­ers. NPI has had a pres­ence at every Net­roots Nation con­fer­ence, going back to 2006, when the convention […]

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NPI presents Joni Earl and Paul Lawrence with the very first Lynn Allen Awards

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

This evening, at our ninth Spring Fundrais­ing Gala on Mer­cer Island, we debuted a new event tra­di­tion: the Lynn Allen Awards. Named for our late sis­ter Lynn Allen, a found­ing board­mem­ber of NPI, these awards rec­og­nize peo­ple who have made indis­pens­able con­tri­bu­tions to pro­gres­sive caus­es for a decade or more. We lost Lynn to ovar­i­an cancer […]

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Joni Earl, Paul Lawrence to be honored with Lynn Allen Awards at NPI’s 2017 Spring Gala

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

As pro­gres­sives, we believe in cham­pi­oning polit­i­cal progress for all peo­ple — it’s why we call our­selves pro­gres­sives. We believe that our soci­ety’s laws should be based on nur­tu­rant val­ues like empa­thy and mutu­al respon­si­bil­i­ty. As com­mit­ted pro­gres­sive activists, we work every day to advo­cate for poli­cies based on these val­ues. It’s not easy being […]

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Want to save on tickets to NPI’s 2017 spring gala? Act now to get the early-bird rate

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Read­ers, we are just forty-eight days away from our 2017 Spring Fundrais­ing Gala on Mer­cer Island (Sat­ur­day, April 29th at 6 PM), and we’re look­ing for­ward to shar­ing details of our speak­ing pro­gram with you. Before we announce who our speak­ers are, though, I want you to know that you still have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to buy a tick­et to the gala at […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Education, Events, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics

Join us tomorrow at the Rally for Student Civil Rights and Amply Funded Schools!

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

It is the para­mount duty of the state to make ample pro­vi­sion for the edu­ca­tion of all chil­dren resid­ing with­in its bor­ders, with­out dis­tinc­tion or pref­er­ence on account of race, col­or, caste, or sex. – Wash­ing­ton State Con­sti­tu­tion, Arti­cle IX, Sec­tion 1 Read­ers! Do you believe in the Con­sti­tu­tion of Wash­ing­ton State? Do you believe that all of […]

Posted inElections, Events, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the first presidential debate of 2016 from the great Pacific Northwest

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the first pres­i­den­tial debate of 2016. NPI staff will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate between Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Hillary Clin­ton and Repub­li­can nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump as it pro­gress­es. The debate, spon­sored by the Com­mis­sion on Pres­i­den­tial Debates, is being broad­cast on all major networks […]

Posted inElections, Events, Party Politics

More chaos at RNC as Ted Cruz refuses to endorse Donald Trump, gets booed off stage

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

So much for par­ty uni­ty: Repub­li­can lead­ers attempt­ed Wednes­day to steer their nation­al con­ven­tion in a more sub­stan­tive and uni­fied direc­tion behind GOP pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump, but their efforts came up against an erup­tion of lin­ger­ing bit­ter­ness from the bru­tal pri­ma­ry cam­paign sea­son. The cap­stone of the evening was sup­posed to be a speech […]

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2016 DNC primetime speaking lineup unveiled; Bernie Sanders gets Monday slot

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

In the wake of Don­ald Trump’s vice pres­i­den­tial selec­tion announce­ment, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion Com­mit­tee (DNCC) has unveiled the speak­ing line­up for the 2016 DNC, which will take place in Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia, fol­low­ing the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion in Cleve­land next week. “While Repub­li­can lead­er­ship con­tin­ues to run away from Don­ald Trump, and refuse to par­tic­i­pate in […]

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Netroots Nation 2017 to be held in Atlanta

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Next year’s Net­roots Nation Con­ven­tion will be held in Atlanta, Geor­gia thir­teen months from now, orga­niz­ers have announced. “For the first time ever, we’re head­ed to the South for Net­roots Nation,” they wrote in a post reveal­ing their site selec­tion. “Our twelfth annu­al con­fer­ence will be held in Atlanta [from] August 10–13, 2017.” “Some progressives […]

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LIVE from Tacoma: Preliminary Credentials Committee report delivered and adopted

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

We are now into our sec­ond hour here at the 2016 Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Con­ven­tion in Taco­ma; and we’ve just heard the pre­lim­i­nary report of the Cre­den­tials Com­mit­tee, co-chaired by King Coun­ty Com­mit­tee­man Javier Valdez and Pierce Coun­ty Chair Lin­da Isen­son. The report of the com­mit­tee was as fol­lows: 445 Bernie Sanders del­e­gates have signed […]

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NPI to provide live coverage of the 2016 Washington State Democratic Convention

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

This week­end, the Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty will be hold­ing its 2016 Con­ven­tion, the last event in the par­ty’s bian­nu­al cau­cus and con­ven­tion cycle, at the Greater Taco­ma Con­ven­tion and Trade Cen­ter in the City of Des­tiny. As we have in years past, NPI will be offer­ing live cov­er­age of the goings-on at the Convention, […]