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The November 2024 election of Senator Patty Kuderer to the statewide position of Insurance Commissioner gave the legislative body of Washington State's largest jurisdiction the opportunity to appoint two new legislators. On January 7th, the Council made its selections.
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Evidence is mounting that the November 2024 general election could go extremely badly for the party of Donald Trump in the nation's thirteenth largest state.
on Sep 6
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Read NPI's review of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, published a few weeks after the horrific murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.
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A federal law dating back to the 1950s called the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act makes it straightforward for Biden to prohibit oil drilling across a wide swath of American waters. Because the law doesn't permit a president to take the opposite action, it will be difficult for Trump to reverse.
on Sat, 11PM
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Jimmy Carter: 1924-2024 - NPI's Cascadia Advocate
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Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly's appreciation of our thirty-ninth president, who died December 29th, 2024, at the age of one hundred.
on Dec 31
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A roundup of reaction to the passing of America's thirty-ninth president, a first-rate statesman and humanitarian.
on Dec 30
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Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users - In Brief
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"Meta is betting that characters generated by artificial intelligence will fill its social media platforms in the next few years as it looks to the fast-developing technology to drive engagement with its 3 billion users," write Cristina Criddle and Hannah Murphy in San Francisco.
on Dec 28
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When Trump didn't get what he demanded, namely an increase in the debt ceiling and a tax giveaway for billionaires, he and Elon Musk decided to claim victory anyway. But Trump remains angry at the Republicans who didn't go along with him.
on Dec 22
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Several dozen Republicans provided all of the votes in opposition to the measure. The rest of the Republican conference voted to pass the appropriations legislation, which doesn't adhere to eleventh hour demands made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
on Dec 21
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Morales has represented the 2nd District, one of seven districts in Seattle, since 2019. She won a second term in 2023, narrowly prevailing over Tanya Woo. Now she's leaving with three years remaining in her term. The Seattle City Council majority she can't stand working with will choose her successor.
on Dec 4
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Read or listen to an in-depth interview with Claudia Balducci, the first declared candidate hoping to succeed Dow Constantine as the Executive of Washington State's largest jurisdiction, recorded in the autumn of 2024.
on Dec 3
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Donald Trump barely won and doesn't have a mandate - In Brief
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A few columnists and reporters have put together retrospectives challenging the narrative that Trump and many of his apologists in the media are trying to peddle.
on Dec 1
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Food, gas and cars could quickly get pricier under Trump’s tariff plan - In Brief
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"Americans are finally starting to get relief from inflation, but that reprieve may be short-lived if imports from Mexico and Canada come under fire," The Washington Post reports.
on Dec 1
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Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet “monopoly” you’ve never heard of - In Brief
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"Senator wants to investigate whether VeriSign is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws," Wired reports.
on Nov 29
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Right-wing disinformation is a mortal threat to democracy - In Brief
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"We cannot ignore the success of the right-wing media’s disinformation network in shaping how millions of Americans view the country," The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin writes.
on Nov 15
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The Pacific Northwest is having a very, very different presidential election than the parts of the country that have been dubbed the battleground states. While Washington and Oregon may be thought of as blue bastions, they didn't used to be reliably Democratic. What lessons might the party be...
on Nov 6
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NPI's founder and executive director shares his thoughts on what the progressive movement needs to do now that Donald Trump's return to the White House appears imminent.
on Nov 6
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A strong majority of the membership decided to bank the gains secured through the bargaining process and in the subsequent strike that began in September.
on Nov 5
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The Washington Community Alliance's Early Vote Dashboard will give you a sense of who's turned out so far, and where; here's what turnout in bellwether Clallam County suggests we may see in the initial presidential results on November 5th.
on Nov 5
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Watch highlights from the fifth episode of SNL’s fiftieth season, hosted by John Mulaney, with Chappell Roan as the musical guest, including the 2024 Pre-Election Cold Open cold open.
on Nov 3
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Seattle voters appear poised to make a major change in their representation by sending challenger Alexis Mercedes Rinck to the City Council to replace appointed incumbent Tanya Woo. 52% of 613 likely voters interviewed from October 28th-November 2nd said they had or were voting for Mercedes...
on Nov 3
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This deep dive summaries a decade of NPI polling on previous statewide ballot measures to explain why four measures on the 2024 Washington State ballot from the Republican Party and the right wing are facing grave difficulties.
on Nov 1
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Several observers have noticed that Washington's ballot return rate is below where it was about a week out from Election Day in 2020. But it's actually ahead of what it was at a similar juncture in 2016, the last pre-pandemic presidential election.
on Oct 30
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With just over a week to go until Election Day, officials in Washington and Oregon are investigating a new attack on our democracy. The perpetrator or perpetrators targeted drop boxes on both sides of the Columbia River, with the evident aim of thwarting participation in this year's critically...
on Oct 28
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Supreme Court races in Washington are officially nonpartisan - there's no "Prefers Democratic Party" or "Prefers Republican Party" cues to guide voters. That means it's important to become familiar with who's running and what they stand for.
on Oct 28
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The Cornhusker State is getting more attention this year, and that is because it is setting an example of how to make changes in states that currently tend to vote for Republicans. It has large troves of voters who could move towards the Democrats in future elections, with few places for the...
on Oct 27
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‘Take back the states’: The far-right sheriffs ready to disrupt the election - In Brief
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"Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a 'stolen' election—by any means necessary," David Gilbert reports.
on Oct 26
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44% of the 716 likely Oregon voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling in mid-October for NPI said that they were voting for Read, while 38% said they were voting for Linthicum. 3% said they were voting for Paravinci. 15% said they were not sure.
on Oct 25
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53% of 571 likely general election voters in Washington are backing Cantwell, a veteran Democrat, for a fifth term, while 38% are planning to vote for Dr. Raul Garcia, her Republican challenger. 9% are not sure. The result is similar to our February and May findings for this contest earlier this year.
on Oct 21
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Local and national outlets have been seeking out NPI's perspective on the four statewide initiatives that multimillionaire hedge fund manager Brian Heywood and Washington State Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh put in front of voters.
on Oct 19
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The Democratic frontrunner is well positioned to become Washington State's next governor and enjoys a seven-point advantage, 48% to 41%, in NPI's latest survey. Ferguson holds more commanding leads in other recently released public polls.
on Oct 18
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55% of 571 likely voters surveyed in Washington are voting for the Democratic ticket, along with 53% of 716 likely voters surveyed in Oregon. 40% of the Washington poll sample is backing the Republican ticket along with 41% of the Oregon poll sample. Single digit groups favor another candidate...
on Oct 18
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With each paper's set of endorsements now available to scrutinize, our team thought it would be interesting to do a comparison and see where the papers agree and disagree. You might think the papers would be far apart in their choices, and sometimes they were... but not always!
on Oct 18
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Read NPI's assessment of Stuart Elway's October 2024 poll of likely voters, which fielded October 8th-12th, 2024 and looked at four statewide races along with Brian Heywood and Jim Walsh's slate of destructive initiatives.
on Oct 17
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Tracking Kamala Harris' interview spree: Watch her appearances - In Brief
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Vice President Kamala Harris has significantly ramped up her media appearances in the past few days. Here's a collection of videos published by the outlets and podcasts that she has been interviewed by in October of 2024.
on Oct 9
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Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal - In Brief
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LNG leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell study.
on Oct 9
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The television spot, which is now airing, features a group of voters letting their fellow Washingtonians know who's behind the 2024 statewide initiatives and how those measures would hurt the Evergreen State.
on Oct 3
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Read an archive of NPI's live coverage of the October 1st, 2024 vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and J.D. Vance.
on Oct 2
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The former King County Sheriff and 8th District Congressman waited until Jay Inslee's retirement announcement to mount a gubernatorial campaign, but is finding that running as a Republican statewide in Washington is difficult and punishing.
on Sep 28
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NO on I-2109 unveils its first television ad - "What We Know” - NPI's Cascadia Advocate
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The ad "focuses on the brazen attempt by wealthy hedge fund manager Brian Heywood to rob Washington’s children of billions of dollars in childcare and education funding in order to give a tax cut to the super wealthy."
on Sep 25
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Evans didn't just prioritize education as governor... he did so throughout his life. He went on to serve as President of the Evergreen State College and President of the University of Washington, too. Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly's appreciation of his contributions.
on Sep 25
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We need to address the underlying costs of healthcare. Solutions like setting or capping rates for drugs and medical services, limiting harmful consolidations, and mitigating effects of existing consolidations are key to long term system healthcare transformation, the Economic Opportunity...
on Sep 21
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A majority of the justices on Washington State's highest court restored a Growth Management Hearings Board decision that had been overturned by the Court of Appeals, handing Friends of Sammamish Valley and Futurewise a crucial victory in their long-running legal battle with King County.
on Sep 21
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"Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago," CNN reported.
on Sep 20
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Reichert used his closing statement in the second 2024 gubernatorial debate to make a pitch for a Republican governor to go along with a continued Democratic House and Democratic Senate. Voters are unlikely to be receptive to that pitch.
on Sep 20
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DCCC goes up on the airwaves with ad showcasing voters opposed to Joe Kent - NPI's Cascadia Advocate
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's first WA-03 television spot is now airing in the Seattle and Portland media markets. It features voters sharing their concerns about Kent, who espouses alarming and discredited conspiracy theories.
on Sep 19
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The week's major votes included House passage of a large slate of bills taking aim at China's influence and Senate confirmation of several Biden judicial nominees.
on Sep 15
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Read NPI's review of Timothy Ryback's book about the crucial chain of political events that led to Adolf Hitler's horrific regime in Nazi Germany.
on Sep 14
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Rank and file Machinists slam Boeing's offer; strike appears imminent - In Brief
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Boeing management will be forced to significantly sweeten its offer if it wants the work stoppage to be short.
on Sep 13
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The spot's call to action: "Don't let some hedge fund millionaire control our future. Vote NO on all the statewide initiatives on your ballot."
on Sep 11