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 giant company controlled by Mark Zuckerberg is being sued by most of the United States' state governments for violating federal and state laws in the course of its business. |
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| Published at: | 11:33 AM on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | User Consent |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's recap of the Saturday morning plenary of the 2023 Oregon Summit, with Labor Commissioner Christina Stephenson, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, and Treasurer Tobias Read. |
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| Published at: | 10:35 AM on Saturday, October 21st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Seth Boun |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Events, Party Politics, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Oregon Summit, Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | By a vote of 57-40, the House voted to concur in the Senate amendments to House Bill 1155, prime sponsored by Representative Vandana Slatter (D‑48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Medina, the Points communities). |
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| Published at: | 1:27 PM on Monday, April 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | By a vote of 27-21, the Senate voted to pass an amended version of House Bill 1155, prime sponsored by Representative Vandana Slatter (D-48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Medina, the Points communities) that has the support of Slatter, Senate prime sponsor Manka Dhingra (D-45th District: Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Duvall), Ferguson, and advocates like NPI. |
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| Published at: | 4:45 PM on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | 76% of 874 voters interviewed from March 7th-8th, 2023 by Public Policy Polling for the Northwest Progressive Institute said they were supportive of blocking health tracking apps and advertisers from collecting and selling Washingtonians’ health data without their consent, barring location-specific targeting of people who visit reproductive and gender affirming healthcare facilities, and requiring companies to maintain and publish a privacy policy for people’s health data. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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| Excerpt: | "More than a gutting of reproductive rights and women's rights, Dobbs is a breach of trust," attorney Cat Williams writes in this guest post for NPI's Cascadia Advocate. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Cat Williams |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Litigation, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | In an extreme decision, the United States Supreme Court has gutted almost fifty years of precedent and removed recognition of an important right supported by a majority of Americans. |
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| Published at: | 11:02 AM on Friday, June 24th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | If you missed the movie “Twister,” watch what Dunn, who is challenging Representative Kim Schrier, says and does on reproductive rights. His mother, the late United States Representative Jennifer Dunn, who retired in 2004, was a Reagan Republican, but pro-choice. |
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| Published at: | 12:45 PM on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Elections, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Reproductive Rights, WA-08 |
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| Excerpt: | The bill, known as the Women's Health Protection Act, had been expected to get filibustered. Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer staged the vote anyway to put Republicans on record as opposed to reproductive rights |
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| Published at: | 2:54 PM on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | “The Treasury Department has made the smart decision to direct the IRS to transition away from using the controversial ID.me verification service, as I requested earlier today” Oregon's U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said. |
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| Published at: | 11:52 AM on Monday, February 7th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Digital Liberties |
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| Excerpt: | Five extreme right wing justices, including Trump's three appointees, have sanctioned a new Texas law that sets up a bounty system to punish anyone who tries to exercise reproductive rights for themselves or others. |
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| Published at: | 10:15 PM on Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | Throwing on a face covering can help frustrate the very technology that Tim Eyman says is a danger to our personal liberty. But Eyman has likened mask wearing to tyranny. |
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| Published at: | 10:17 AM on Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | 2019-2022 Coronavirus Pandemic, Personal Wellness |
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| Excerpt: | Electronic meeting technology provider Zoom is coming under harsh and much needed scrutiny regarding its privacy and security practices. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, April 6th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Digital Freedom, User Consent |
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| Excerpt: | Incumbent Republican Kim Wyman will have a tough, credible Democratic challenger in 2020. |
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| Published at: | 9:24 PM on Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Caitlin Harrington |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Intelligence, WA-Exec |
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