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: | The 2023 general election will also be the first general election in more than a decade with no anti-tax disinformation at or near the top of the ballot in Washington State. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, Permanent Defense, Tim Eyman's Push Polls |
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| Excerpt: | A scheme to destroy the nearly century year old Dayton Memorial Library has been thwarted thanks to the efforts of a bipartisan coalition called Neighbors United for Progress, which filed a lawsuit to get a measure seeking the library's dissolution off the ballot. |
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| Published at: | 10:08 PM on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | In orchestrating this bombardment of an elected official's personal mobile number with angrily-worded text messages, Tim Eyman and others are seeking to intimidate an elected official so she doesn't cross them in the future. |
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| Published at: | 1:31 PM on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Permanent Defense |
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| Excerpt: | A wealthy donor to the Washington State Republican Party has begun funneling serious money into a signature drive that aims to qualify a slew of six right wing initiatives to the 2024 Washington State Legislature, reports filed this week with the Public Disclosure Commission by his political committee show. |
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| Published at: | 2:02 PM on Friday, September 15th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Clean Campaigns, Permanent Defense |
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| Excerpt: | Ultra MAGA Republican gubernatorial candidate Semi Bird is on the verge of being removed from his perch on the Richland School Board, with voters in the Tri-Cities area school district saying yes to a recall effort that was launched against him and two other board members. |
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| Published at: | 12:55 PM on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Schools |
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| Excerpt: | Because no referendum was filed against 5082, it has gone into effect with ninety days having elapsed since the adjournment of the 2023 Washington State legislative session, just in time for this year's election season. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, Permanent Defense, Tim Eyman's Push Polls |
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| Excerpt: | A right wing effort to force a statewide vote on a new Washington State law supporting youth and young adults seeking protected health care services has failed, which means that the law can go into effect as scheduled. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 PM on Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Nondiscrimination |
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| Excerpt: | Initiative 2078, filed in April 2023, is a right wing grassroots effort to create a giant loophole in the gun safety laws passed by the people and the Legislature for the last ten years. NPI's research shows 46% of likely 2024 voters oppose it. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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| Excerpt: | 54.43% of the votes tallied and reported out as part of King County's April 2023 Special Election Night drop favor King County Proposition 1, the official name of the crisis care centers levy, which has also been the moniker of other levies in years past, including as recently as last November. 45.57% were opposed. |
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| Published at: | 9:48 PM on Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | Read a transcript of Macklemore's comments in support of the April 2023 King County Proposition 1, delivered at King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay's Hometown Heroes luncheon on March 30th, 2023. |
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| Published at: | 8:23 PM on Monday, April 24th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | Find resources for the February 14th, 2023 special election in Washington State in this Cascadia Advocate post. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Election Day, Reminder to Vote, WA-Cities, WA-Schools |
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| Excerpt: | A right wing group formed and primarily funded by Republican donor Brian K. Heywood of Redmond has admitted defeat in its efforts to qualify a batch of eleven right wing initiatives to the 2023 Washington State Legislature. |
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| Published at: | 11:18 AM on Wednesday, January 4th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Eyman had fantasized in mid-2022 about voters electing a Republican-controlled Legislature that would take on Governor Jay Inslee and potentially adopt a slew of right wing initiatives introduced by his friend Brian Heywood. But not only did Republicans fail to capture control of the Legislature, they lost seats to the Democrats. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Leg |
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| Excerpt: | A proposed charter amendment conceived at the Northwest Progressive Institute that would move elections for twelve King County offices from odd to even-numbered years remains popular with voters and is destined for passage. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Friday, November 4th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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