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: | “Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they’ve had to defend democracy, stand up for our personal freedoms and stand up for our right to vote and our civil rights: Let’s finish the job,” Biden told his polarized country. |
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| Published at: | 5:58 PM on Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | US-Pres |
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| Excerpt: | Democrats in Washington declared the 2022 cycle a resounding victory, but a 17% decline in support within the state's fastest-growing minority group spells trouble for the party's future. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Friday, March 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Hong |
| Categories: | Elections, Party Politics |
| Other Tags: | Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Partybuilding, WA-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | Trump is back. Expect a summer full of rallies, camp followers spouting Q-Anon nonsense, and Trump leaving the stage to ovations that would send Hitler to bed happy. |
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| Published at: | 2:18 PM on Sunday, June 6th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | Thankfully, the lawsuits have failed, the Electoral College has voted, and its votes counted by Congress. Democracy has prevailed, and the candidates chosen by the people of the United States have been properly acknowledged as the winners of the election |
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| Published at: | 8:00 AM on Thursday, January 7th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | The insurrection began following a rally held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest the 2020 presidential election results, at which Donald Trump urged participants to go to, and enter, the Capitol building. |
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| Published at: | 12:40 PM on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | McMorris Rodgers will have the distinction of being the only Republican from Washington State to participate in the plot, as the state's other two Republicans have announced they will not be objecting to the election results. |
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| Published at: | 8:00 AM on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | Their ultimate goal is to create a mechanism for changing enough Electoral College votes to keep Trump in office. Never mind what the voters said and did. |
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| Published at: | 9:31 PM on Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | This year's meeting of the Electoral College took on greater importance due to Donald Trump and his followers' refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election. |
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| Published at: | 8:36 PM on Monday, December 14th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Electoral College |
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| Excerpt: | Texas and a cohort of other states with Republican attorneys general don't want Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be sworn in on January 20th. So, in an unprecedented move, they're asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the will of the people. |
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| Published at: | 7:18 PM on Thursday, December 10th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Electoral College, Fair Elections |
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| Excerpt: | Read guest contributor McCauley Pugh's analysis of the 2020 Democratic ticket's strength in Washington State outside of King County, which is an ominous sign for the Republican Party. |
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| Published at: | 3:30 PM on Sunday, December 6th, 2020 |
| Written by: | McCauley Pugh |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | Okanogan County is now known as a solidly red, Republican bastion. But before that, it had nearly a hundred year run as Washington's bellwether county in presidential races, as Joel Connelly explains. |
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| Published at: | 7:09 PM on Saturday, December 5th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | US-Pres |
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| Excerpt: | The governments of countries like the United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Germany, Australia, and India are all eager to move past the Trump error. |
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| Published at: | 1:10 PM on Sunday, November 8th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections, Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Diplomacy & Conflict |
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| Excerpt: | Spokane's daily newspaper will stop publishing unsigned editorials and candidate endorsements after its publisher's exhortation to vote for Donald Trump was poorly received. |
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| Published at: | 10:23 PM on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | Future of Journalism |
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