The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | Santos is just the sixth person to be forcibly removed from the House in its centuries-long existence. |
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| Published at: | 10:36 AM on Friday, December 1st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Open Government, Party Politics, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The code asks justices not to play a part in cases where they have a professional connection or personal interest. Compliance is entirely voluntary and based the judgment of the justice. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Friday, November 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Money in Politics |
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| Excerpt: | McCarthy's speakership lasted just two hundred and sixty-nine days, ranking as one of the shortest in American history. |
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| Published at: | 2:31 PM on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Open Government, Policy Topics, Public Service |
| Other Tags: | Resolutions to Vacate, U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | Menendez might feel that since he beat previous charges brought by the Department of Justice, he can do so again. But other Democrats aren't betting on him (nor should they). |
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| Published at: | 12:40 PM on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | NJ-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | In orchestrating this bombardment of an elected official's personal mobile number with angrily-worded text messages, Tim Eyman and others are seeking to intimidate an elected official so she doesn't cross them in the future. |
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| Published at: | 1:31 PM on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Woodward was already facing a tough general election campaign to win a second term, as evidenced by her loss to Lisa Brown in the August Top Two election. Now her electoral prospects look even dimmer. |
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| Published at: | 9:05 PM on Monday, September 4th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Caya Berndt |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | WA-Cities |
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| Excerpt: | The indictment is the result of careful, methodical work by Special Counsel Jack Smith and many hardworking investigators at the Department of Justice, who have labored to ensure that the work done to expose what happened on January 6th didn't merely pass into history as a report, but led to charges. |
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| Published at: | 4:14 PM on Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Criminal Justice, January 6th Attack on the Capitol |
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| Excerpt: | The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan, invited Robert F. Kennedy's son to entertain them with conspiracy theories and misinformation on July 20th. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 PM on Friday, July 21st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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| Excerpt: | The indictment charges that Trump unlawfully took and retained classified information that did not belong to him after exiting the White House, and that he lied about his actions and obstructed the federal government's efforts to recover the documents, because he didn't want to give them back. |
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| Published at: | 11:56 AM on Friday, June 9th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Criminal Justice, Intelligence, Public Records |
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| Excerpt: | The saga of Paxton, now suspended from office pending a Senate trial, carries national lessons in the lengths to which the political right shows loyalty, and meet out punishment to those who dare to question even conduct that is outrageous. |
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| Published at: | 5:35 PM on Sunday, May 28th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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| Excerpt: | The hard right has taken a hard drubbing of late. Its election deniers were denied wins from seats in legislatures, to secretary of state races, to contests for the Senate. That's led to unexpected recriminations. |
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| Published at: | 2:00 PM on Sunday, December 4th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | GA-Sen, January 6th Attack on the Capitol |
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| Excerpt: | As summed up by Republican Liz Cheney of Wyoming: “President Trump summoned the mob. President Trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.” |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 11th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | January 6th Attack on the Capitol |
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| Excerpt: | Liz Cheney is a fierce partisan: Unlike her Republican House colleagues, however, she has no truck or trade with public fabrication of falsehoods. |
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| Published at: | 11:16 AM on Friday, December 17th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | January 6th Attack on the Capitol |
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| Excerpt: | 49% of Washington State voters surveyed from November 10th-11th by NPI's pollster said they approved of Biden's job performance, while 43% disapproved. 7% were not sure. |
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| Published at: | 6:38 PM on Monday, November 15th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics, Public Service |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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