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: | State Republican Chair Caleb Heimlich says that Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat isn't being fair to the party. NPI's founder debunks that allegation. |
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| Published at: | 11:19 AM on Monday, September 23rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Party Politics |
| Other Tags: | WA-03, WA-08, WA-Exec, WA-Leg, WA-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | The former King County Sheriff and United States Representative declared today that he will not be a candidate for Governor of the State of Washington in 2020, saying that he enjoys his current work and deeply values his time with his family. |
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| Published at: | 6:31 PM on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | The Washington State Republican Party is struggling to recruit candidates for the state's nine executive department positions, including governor. |
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| Published at: | 7:22 PM on Monday, September 2nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Exec |
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| Excerpt: | NPI founder Andrew Villeneuve suggests The Seattle Times might want to devote some ink to the real fires that are actually burning right now, like the ecological catastrophe in the Amazon or Individual Number One's assault on our rights and freedoms. |
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| Published at: | 11:46 AM on Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | US-Pres, WA-Exec, WA-Leg |
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| Excerpt: | The two-term Governor will attempt to become the first chief executive since Dan Evans in 1972 to earn a third term from Washington voters. |
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| Published at: | 10:16 AM on Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | US-Pres, WA-Exec |
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| Excerpt: | Governor Jay Inslee's first term was -- legislatively speaking -- sabotaged by the treachery of Rodney Tom. Inslee could regain lost opportunities to sign progressive bills into law with a third term. |
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| Published at: | 11:45 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | US-Pres, WA-Exec, WA-Leg |
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| Excerpt: | In an appearance on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, Washington State's chief executive announced that he has decided to withdraw from the 2020 field, having concluded that his candidacy was not gaining traction. |
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| Published at: | 6:37 PM on Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | US-Pres |
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| Excerpt: | In presidential years, Washington State elects a governor. If incumbent Jay Inslee doesn't run again, what will the electoral landscape look like? |
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| Published at: | 8:10 PM on Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | Count Tim Eyman among those who will surely be glad to see 2016 disappear into the rearview mirror. The brash-talking, braggadocios initiative profiteer had arguably his worst year yet since establishing his initiative factory around the turn of the century. In this post, we’re going to look back at Eyman’s awful year with a blow-by-blow […] |
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| Published at: | 2:12 PM on Saturday, December 31st, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Catastrophe. Devastating. Tragedy. Those are some of the words I’m seeing being used in an attempt to describe the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, which ended last night in a series of dark, disturbing defeats for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. And yet, while voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were handing the […] |
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| Published at: | 4:36 AM on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | US-Pres, WA-Ballot, WA-Exec, WA-Leg |
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| Excerpt: | Once again, good evening from Bellevue. The first presidential debate is behind us, and now we’ll be liveblogging the second Washington gubernatorial debate from Bellevue, between Governor Jay Inslee and Republican challenger Bill Bryant. [php function=7] |
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| Published at: | 8:10 PM on Monday, September 26th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | Today in anticlimactic announcements, Dave Reichert declared that he he will be seeking reelection to Congress in 2016, and not running for governor. Like so many of you, I have been extremely disappointed in the decisions coming out of the Governor’s Office — regarding our schools, the health of our children, and most recently a decision to […] |
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| Published at: | 7:14 PM on Friday, October 16th, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-08 |
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| Excerpt: | This just in: Republican State Senator Andy Hill (R-45th District: Unincorporated King County, Kirkland, Redmond, Woodinville, Sammamish, Duvall) will not be a candidate for Governor of Washington State in next year’s presidential elections. In a message sent out to his email list, Hill announced that, after some consideration, he has ruled out a challenge to […] |
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| Published at: | 4:50 PM on Friday, September 11th, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | Respected public opinion research firm Public Policy Polling has just published the results of a poll it recently conducted in Washington on 2016 races and voter attitudes towards background checks on gun sales, marijuana, and marriage freedom. It finds that both Governor Jay Inslee and Senator Patty Murray are in excellent shape for reelection, leading […] |
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| Published at: | 11:21 AM on Thursday, May 21st, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | Poll Watch, WA-Sen |
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