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: | She has held office fewer than three months, but the 3rd Congressional District's Representative Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez (MGP), D-Washington, is emerging as a role model and media magnet in the Democrats’ Class of 2022. |
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| Published at: | 1:30 PM on Sunday, March 26th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections, Public Service |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | "I promised during the campaign that I would accept the outcome of the election, now definitively determined as the recount has concluded," Kent said in a statement issued today by his campaign. "This morning, I called my opponent to concede and offer my congratulations on her victory." |
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| Published at: | 2:31 PM on Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | Gluesenkamp Perez faces an overarching task. She needs to secure reelection to continue representing Southwest Washington. Upset winners have targets on their backs when they seek a second term. Being proactive is the key to survival. |
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| Published at: | 3:37 PM on Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | The recount, which involved seven counties, added five votes to Kent's tally and nine votes to Gluesenkamp Perez's tally. At certification, Democrat Gluesenkamp Perez led by 2,629 votes out of 319,759 total votes cast in the district. |
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| Published at: | 2:50 PM on Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | Having prevailed over ultra MAGA Republican Joe Kent in the contest for U.S. Representative in Washington's 3rd, just as NPI's research showed she could, Gluesenkamp Perez is now getting ready to take office on January 3rd. |
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| Published at: | 6:45 PM on Monday, December 19th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has put a different hue on the 3rd District, scoring the most surprising Democratic upset of any U.S. House race in the country. |
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| Published at: | 10:19 AM on Sunday, November 13th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | "I am humbled and honored by the vote of confidence the people of Southwest Washington have put in me and my campaign," said Representative-elect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in a statement. "Right up to the end, far-away pundits and prognosticators said this race couldn't be won." |
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| Published at: | 6:45 PM on Saturday, November 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | After a fourth consecutive day of counting, Democratic congressional hopeful Marie Gluesenkamp Perez remains ahead of ultra MAGA Republican rival Joe Kent in the race for U.S. Representative in Washington's 3rd Congressional District. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Friday, November 11th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | On the third day of counting, Republican Joe Kent reduced Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's lead from 10,273 votes to 5,882 votes. But the rural counties that have backed him most enthusiastically are now mostly out of ballots. |
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| Published at: | 8:50 PM on Thursday, November 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | Democratic congressional hopeful Marie Gluesenkamp Perez remained ahead of ultra MAGA Republican rival Joe Kent on November 9th as thousands of ballots were tabulated across the five counties in Washington's 3rd Congressional District. |
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| Published at: | 9:47 PM on Wednesday, November 9th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-03 |
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| Excerpt: | 49% of 782 respondents surveyed by Public Policy Polling for NPI from October 19th-20th expressed a preference for Democrats in U.S. House contests, while 40% expressed a preference for Republicans. 11% were not sure. |
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| Published at: | 8:50 AM on Friday, October 21st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings, US-House, WA-08 |
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| Excerpt: | Gluesenkamp Perez, a small business owner, skillfully and effectively used her experience as the owner of an auto repair shop throughout the debate to relate to people in the audience and invite them to relate to her, while Kent leaned hard into right wing populist rhetoric in an attempt to make his militant, dangerous ultra MAGA beliefs sound as appealing and mainstream as possible. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 PM on Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Debates |
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| Excerpt: | Only three percentage points separated the candidates in the survey's final head-to-head matchup, with Kent garnering 47% and Gluesenkamp Perez 44%. 9% are not sure. Those figures are almost identical to responses to the initial head-to-head question, in which Kent got 48% and Gluesenkamp Perez got 44%. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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| Excerpt: | Many Republican candidates in the Pacific Northwest have either done a duck dive on Trump's attack on democracy or voiced “reservations” in such a way as to appease the MAGA cult and avoid Trump's wrath. |
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| Published at: | 2:35 PM on Friday, September 9th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, OR-Sen, WA-04, WA-05, WA-Sen |
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