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: | Read NPI's review of Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, by historian Lily Geismer, an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. |
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| Published at: | 4:00 PM on Sunday, March 27th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Media & Culture, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Books |
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| Excerpt: | The New York Times has a great article today that delves into the origins of the House Republicans’ government shutdown. It turns out that powerful right wing groups, including the vast political machinery assembled and funded by the Koch brothers, have been agitating for a shutdown for a long time, and were finally able, with […] |
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| Published at: | 6:51 PM on Sunday, October 6th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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| Excerpt: | We are almost through Day One of the first major shutdown of the federal government in seventeen years, and sadly, it still appears that House Republicans are unwilling and unready to do their jobs. They could have easily averted the shutdown days ago by simply passing the continuing budget resolution the Senate sent them, and […] |
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| Published at: | 6:18 PM on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Full Employment |
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| Excerpt: | The blackmail continues: House Republicans plan to attach a one-year delay of [the Patient Protection Act] and a repeal of its medical device to a stopgap spending bill on Saturday, a move that could ensure much of the federal government shuts down on Tuesday. Speaker John Boehner (R‑Ohio) outlined the maneuver to Republicans in a […] |
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| Published at: | 11:57 AM on Saturday, September 28th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility |
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| Excerpt: | Once again, we have occasion to say: So much for compassionate conservatism. By a vote of two hundred and seventeen to two hundred and ten, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted to make significant and destructive cuts to SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, colloquially known as food stamps. Their legislation reduces funding […] |
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| Published at: | 5:47 PM on Thursday, September 19th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Economic Security, Healthcare, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Nutrition |
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| Excerpt: | Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives achieved a Pyrrhic victory earlier today with the passage of an unconscionable, cruel farm bill that they managed to pass with only a handful of votes to spare after hours of acrimonious debate. The Republican-backed proposal, which passed without a single Democratic vote, provides around $195 billion in […] |
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| Published at: | 8:09 PM on Thursday, July 11th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Farms & Agriculture |
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| Excerpt: | Yesterday, gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna posted on Crosscut a variety of statements on how to impair our state Medicaid system, and chose to omit any sort of content on how consequences of those changes would affect our state. While blasting Medicaid expansion(which, by the way, is in contrast to how 67% of Americans feel), Mr. McKenna […] |
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| Published at: | 8:07 PM on Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 |
| Written by: | Patrick Stickney |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Economic Security, Elections, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Privacy, WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | As expected, in a series of votes earlier today, House Republicans formally blocked legislation overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. Senate a few days ago that would temporarily extend the one-year payroll tax break enacted by Congress last year (S. Amdt. 1465 to H.R. 3630) for another two months. The House’s action threatens the compromise on […] |
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| Published at: | 5:43 PM on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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