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This comes from the Columbian’s Editorial Board. The largest newspaper in Washington's 3rd District. In Our View: Perez clear choice for 3rd Congressional District Because of her thoughtfulness, transparency, demeanor and long history in Southwest...
by Lefty Coaster
 44 comments
on Sat Oct 22, 2022 at 08:30 AM PDT
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This working class auto-repair shop owner has suddenly been thrust into a competitive race because the incumbent was knocked out of the Top 2 primary. Her new opponent, Joe Kent, is a real piece of ...
by bilboteach
19 comments
on Fri Sep 02, 2022 at 04:10 AM PDT
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Last week our state had its primaries. Like in other places, the media has been projecting Doom and Gloom onto Democrats here for months, both at the state and Federal levels. Seems like the outcome is much closer to the opposite of that. I won’t write...
by Assaf
22 comments
on Tue Aug 09, 2022 at 08:08 AM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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On Wednesday, a group of about 30 Amazon employees participated in a die-in protest at the company’s Seattle, Washington headquarters in the South Lake Union neighborhood. The company was holding a Pride Month event and was raising a pride flag when...
by Marissa Higgins
38 comments
on Thu Jun 02, 2022 at 09:53 AM PDT
with 56 Recommends
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As the novel coronavirus continues to impact daily life both in the United States and across the globe, Republicans have been more than happy to stir up hysteria to keep people distracted and outraged about the wrong things. Trans youth playing sports,...
by Marissa Higgins
274 comments
on Wed Jan 26, 2022 at 10:17 AM PST
with 170 Recommends
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It’s a pretty simple concept: "What goes on the internet stays on the internet.” Yet Republicans just can’t seem to get that through their heads. In another failed Republican attempt to blast Democrats, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz went on a stupid rant only to...
by Aysha Qamar
305 comments
on Thu Dec 30, 2021 at 09:34 AM PST
with 240 Recommends
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A friend of mine told me about this when we were working at the community church this morning. I haven’t seen anything about it yet. As reported by Joseph O’Sullivan of the Seattle Times, my state senator (facepalm) is stuck in El Salvador after...
by dragonwerx
79 comments
on Sat Nov 13, 2021 at 06:13 PM PST
with 147 Recommends
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In the time we’ve battled the novel coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen several state lawmakers push regressive, exclusionary, anti-trans bills that attack some of the most vulnerable folks in our country. Some of these bills fizzled out, but some,...
by Marissa Higgins
25 comments
on Mon Oct 18, 2021 at 02:07 PM PDT
with 77 Recommends
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by strawbale
68 comments
on Tue Nov 02, 2021 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 51 Recommends
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Hate can crop up where you least expect it. Say, for example, in a Star Wars memorabilia store. Tiesa Meskis, an openly trans woman who also happens to serve on the town’s city council, confronted the owner of one such store that was hanging a...
by Marissa Higgins
228 comments
on Mon Aug 09, 2021 at 11:39 AM PDT
with 187 Recommends
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A few months into 2021, the news cycle can feel overwhelming, exhausting, and even demoralizing. The novel coronavirus continues to ravage people on a global scale. Republicans are looking for any distraction possible across the United States,...
by Marissa Higgins
21 comments
on Thu May 06, 2021 at 07:21 AM PDT
with 46 Recommends
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Wow, our Representative for U.S. Congress, Cathy McMorris Rodgers is so lucky. She has continued to vote with the majority of the Republicans to make life harder for most people in Eastern Washington. Yet, she loses most of the time, as the Democrats...
by No9nan
28 comments
on Sat Apr 03, 2021 at 12:41 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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I only saw this video today. She is one of my senators, and I have admired her for so long and for so many reasons. She shares in this 12 min interview, how the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol invasion came so very close to where she was getting ready for that...
by momomia
52 comments
on Sat Feb 13, 2021 at 04:38 PM PST
with 144 Recommends
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In a year when the progressive campaign to Defund the Police has gained momentum, some cities have made actual moves to push the concept into reality. As Daily Kos covered, for example, the Minneapolis City Council announced a plan to dismantle the...
by Marissa Higgins
65 comments
on Wed Nov 25, 2020 at 09:24 AM PST
with 63 Recommends
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I’m following in the footsteps of giants: this diary and this one , posted on the weekend. Both deal with Washington State voting, but my main message is universal.
Washington is all-mail-voting. ...
by Assaf
23 comments
on Mon Oct 19, 2020 at 10:07 AM PDT
with 17 Recommends
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Somehow September’s already more than half over. Weird, right? Feels like it just started. But, well, with just 47 days to go until Election Day, there’s no time to waste. … unless you’re a Republican state legislator trying to hold on to...
by Carolyn Fiddler
4 comments
on Thu Sep 17, 2020 at 06:04 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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In the 2020 election let’s do all we can to Flip Everything! It’s been a while since I’ve written diaries for both personal and other reasons, but in my lurking across different Democratic supportive websites I’ve always seen the same question over and...
by Mattrek
15 comments
on Fri Jul 10, 2020 at 05:26 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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It’s been a while since I’ve written diaries for both personal and other reasons, but in my lurking across different Democratic supportive websites I’ve always seen the same question over and over asked by those newly activated and long time activists...
by Mattrek
15 comments
on Mon Jun 29, 2020 at 05:36 AM PDT
with 18 Recommends
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It’s been a while since I’ve written any diaries for both personal and other reasons, but in my lurking across different Democratic supportive websites I’ve always seen the same question over and over asked by those newly activated and long time...
by Mattrek
17 comments
on Fri Jun 19, 2020 at 08:03 AM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has a frightening tale: Community Goes Full Feral With Anti-Antifa Hysteria The details are still sketchy. Marshall is promising to do a follow up as more comes in, but here’s what he has so far on what happened...
by xaxnar
312 comments
on Fri Jun 05, 2020 at 09:40 AM PDT
with 188 Recommends
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