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: | Pastor Carey Anderson, a Democratic candidate for State Representative in the 30th Legislative District, was shot at close range by a BB gun Thursday evening. |
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| Published at: | 3:38 PM on Saturday, July 16th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Elections, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | WA-Leg |
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| Excerpt: | Considering that the Senate has done pretty much nothing to protect Americans from the scourge of gun violence for decades, this is indeed a breakthrough. It is far from enough, but it is a start... and we have to start somewhere. |
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| Published at: | 3:31 PM on Sunday, June 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Washington State has shown what can be accomplished even in the face of strident opposition from the gun lobby, but Congress has not, because Senate Republicans have sadly blocked any and all progress to date. |
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| Published at: | 9:45 AM on Saturday, June 11th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | A majority of likely 2022 voters in Washington State support a ban on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle, with over fifty percent expressing strong support, NPI's most recent statewide survey has found. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Friday, June 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | While the U.S. Senate once more strives to come up with a watered down gun safety bill, the government of Canada is preparing decisive action to cap gun culture and get military-style assault weapons out of Canadians’ hands. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Republicans cannot go against the NRA and the groups aligned with it, not even after the slaughter of schoolchildren and their teachers in a Republican-run state. |
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| Published at: | 12:32 PM on Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | The shooting is the country's deadliest so far this year, and horrifically similar to a shooting from almost ten years ago, in which a gunman attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. |
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| Published at: | 4:16 PM on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Senate Bill 5228 (providing flexible new revenue authority to Sound Transit) and House Bill 1630 (prohibiting the carrying of weapons at local government meetings and election sites) have completed their journey through the legislative process. |
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| Published at: | 7:22 PM on Monday, March 7th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership, Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | A pair of extremely important, much needed gun safety bills previously approved by the House of Representatives each received constitutional majorities in the Washington State Senate on March 1st, 2022 and are one step closer to becoming laws. |
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| Published at: | 9:20 PM on Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | 60% of 700 likely 2022 Washington State voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling (PPP) for NPI from February 17th-18th expressed support for reducing the scope of gun violence in our state by banning the sale of high-capacity magazines. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Monday, February 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | 66% of seven hundred likely 2022 Washington State voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling for NPI expressed support for taking action to prevent gun violence and protect our democracy while just 29% were opposed and 5% were not sure. 57% of the total surveyed expressed strong support. |
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| Published at: | 1:00 PM on Monday, February 21st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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| Excerpt: | House Bill 1719 and House Bill 1735 received nearly unanimous support in Friday afternoon floor action. |
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| Published at: | 4:34 PM on Friday, January 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Criminal Justice |
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| Excerpt: | The Republican political strategy in this Washington is straightforward. Try to negatively define the Democrats’ legislative agenda and deploy fear to turn voters against the Evergreen State's current governing political party. |
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| Published at: | 1:33 PM on Monday, August 2nd, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods |
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| Excerpt: | For more than half a century, the police have treated right wing demonstrators and even terrorists differently than left wing demonstrators, a distinction that was again apparent on January 6th, 2021. |
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| Published at: | 7:27 PM on Thursday, January 7th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Nondiscrimination |
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