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: | The state's three-term chief legal officer has scored an impressive number of wins in a bevy of cases with big ramifications. |
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| Published at: | 4:35 PM on Monday, March 7th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Litigation, Public Service |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, Money in Politics |
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| Excerpt: | The Grocery Manufacturers Association remains on the hook for a record-setting judgment because it flagrantly violated Washington State's public disclosure laws during its efforts to defeat a GMO labeling initiative. |
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| Published at: | 8:34 PM on Friday, November 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Washington State's newly minted Democratic Senate majority notched its first signature legislative win tonight, bringing Andy Billig's DISCLOSE Act to the floor for a vote and easily passing the legislation with the support of several Republicans. |
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| Published at: | 9:41 PM on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, Money in Politics |
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| Excerpt: | The State of Washington is suing Republican Secretary of State Kim Wyman for multiple public disclosure law violations, Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office announced in a news release this afternoon. “The complaint alleges the Wyman campaign failed to timely file contribution and expenditure disclosure reports, as required under the state’s campaign finance laws. It also […] |
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| Published at: | 2:11 PM on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today he is asking courts in Snohomish and Thurston counties to hold initiative profiteer Tim Eyman and his associates in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with lawfully-issued civil orders seeking documents that would shed light on potential violations of Washington’s public disclosure law. “Despite a subpoena […] |
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| Published at: | 1:30 PM on Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense |
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| Excerpt: | In a video address to Netroots Nation 2016, played during tonight’s closing plenary session in St. Louis, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton committed to introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Roberts Court’s horrible Citizens United ruling within her first one hundred days in office. “Today I’m announcing that in my first thirty days as […] |
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| Published at: | 6:05 PM on Saturday, July 16th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Money in Politics, Netroots Nation, US-Pres |
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| Excerpt: | A complaint alleging that Tim Eyman failed to follow Washington’s public disclosure law back in April when he launched an ad campaign excoriating Democratic lawmakers for not doing his bidding has been returned to Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office for further action by a unanimous Public Disclosure Commission. In an early afternoon teleconference, Commissioners Anne […] |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Friday, July 8th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense |
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| Excerpt: | Initiative profiteer Tim Eyman has once against been busted for serious violations of Washington State’s public disclosure laws. Staff at the Public Disclosure Commission — Washington’s equivalent of the Federal Elections Commission — have finished investigating a complaint filed by NPI partner Washingtonians For Ethical Government several weeks ago which alleges that Eyman and his associates […] |
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| Published at: | 2:30 PM on Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Elections, Open Government |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Leg |
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| Excerpt: | Yesterday, September 21st, 2015, felt a lot like February 5th, 2002. That was the day that people all over Washington State woke up to the news that Tim Eyman had confessed to taking over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars of campaign funds for his own personal use while falsely claiming he was working as […] |
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| Published at: | 12:42 PM on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Money in Politics, Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | On Tuesday, The Seattle Times ran a column from Danny Westneat titled “The trouble with union donations, school cases”, which expressed discomfort over the fact that the Washington Education Association has previously donated money to the campaigns of several of the justices who now sit on our state Supreme Court. Almost from the moment that […] |
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| Published at: | 9:14 PM on Thursday, September 10th, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation, Live Coverage, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Judicial Ethics, Money in Politics |
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