The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a netroots powered strategy center working to raise America's quality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | It's truly refreshing to see a country's leadership take swift and decisive action to improve gun safety laws in the aftermath of a horrific mass shooting. |
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| Published at: | 10:19 PM on Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Last week, right wing blogs and media outlets credited the NRA with a big victory when a judge blocked the Alliance for Gun Responsibility's I-1639 from the ballot. Now that the Supreme Court has reversed that judge's decision, though, no mea culpas appear to be forthcoming. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 AM on Saturday, August 25th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | Media Criticism |
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| Excerpt: | Legislation to ban bump stocks, also known as trigger modification devices, took another step towards landing on Governor Jay Inslee's desk today when the Washington State House voted decisively to pass ESB 5992. |
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| Published at: | 5:27 PM on Friday, February 23rd, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | The good news out of Olympia just keeps on coming! By a vote of twenty-nine to twenty, the Washington State Senate tonight voted to ban bump stocks, the now-infamous devices that were used in the horrific Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in American history. |
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| Published at: | 10:58 PM on Thursday, January 25th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods |
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| Excerpt: | The gun lobby knows that if Republican Jinyoung Englund wins, the NRA's accomplices stay in charge of the Senate, and will retain the power to kill off any gun safety bills they don't like. The gun lobby can overlook Englund's divergence from the party line. What ultimately matters to them is the majority, not what Englund tells Eastside voters in an effort to attract support for her candidacy. |
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| Published at: | 6:13 PM on Wednesday, October 4th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Vowing to protect lives and strengthen the state’s many diverse communities, Washington’s chief legal officer announced today he will be proposing legislation to ban the sale of assault weaponry — in other words, guns designed for the sole purpose of killing large numbers of human beings. The agency request legislation, which already has the support […] |
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| Published at: | 5:17 PM on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Fed up with inaction in Congress on gun safety reform, Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives have decided to occupy the well of the House until Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team agree to hold a vote on legislation that would address the nation’s gun violence epidemic. The sit-in began with […] |
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| Published at: | 12:41 PM on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Live Coverage |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Early this morning, at 8:21 AM Pacific Time, Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to the Senate floor to call for action to address gun violence. But instead of merely giving a short speech and then yielding the floor, Murphy courageously began what has now turned into the eighth longest “talking filibuster” in […] |
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| Published at: | 10:40 PM on Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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| Excerpt: | Anyone who has spent time attempting to understand the politics of the Washington State Republican Party knows that Republicans spend an awful lot of time listening to (and taking their cues from) militant, right wing initiative profiteer Tim Eyman, who has become obsessed lately with gutting Washington’s cherished tradition of majority rule and replacing it […] |
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| Published at: | 2:32 PM on Monday, January 11th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Economic Security, Legislative Advocacy |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Fair Elections, Fair Wages & Benefits, Pollution, Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | Gun violence has once again left dozens of people dead and wounded at a place of learning, this time right here in the great Pacific Northwest: An incident with an active shooter has taken place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg that has left at least 10 people dead and more than 20 injured. According […] |
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| Published at: | 12:17 PM on Thursday, October 1st, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods |
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| Excerpt: | America’s deadly gun violence epidemic has once again visited Washington State. Today, at Seattle Pacific University, one young person was killed and several others were critically and seriously hurt by an unidentified gunman who walked into Otto Miller Hall and began shooting at students early in the afternoon. The gunman was tackled and subdued by […] |
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| Published at: | 8:20 PM on Thursday, June 5th, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods, WA-Ballot |
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