Democracy requires participation "If our votes didn’t matter, candidates and political action committees wouldn’t be spending billions of dollars trying to influence us."
Weaponization of the spoiler effect "This is not an article to support one candidate or another, but rather to shine a light on a flaw in our system."
Claudia De La Cruz: Why we are running in the 2024 Presidential race "Those who vote for alternatives are portrayed as petulant and privileged..."
Initiative 2117: Three groups say “NO WAY” Citizens Climate Lobby, Citizens Advisory Network, and The League of Women Voters all urge us to vote NO on I-2117.
The League of Women Voters: Supporting democracy for over 100 years "The League supports credible and ethical local journalism, in whatever format it is published, as essential to our democracy.”
“This isn’t a crusade:" Forming a new minor party in Washington State "Novoselić said that having a new party is giving people more options"
Justice, Peace, Love - Response to violence "The response from news pundits and social media to the July 13th assassination attempt on Donald Trump was as predictable as it was reactionary and uninformed."
Plurality versus Ranked Choice Voting "Ranked Choice Voting could increase our access to choices outside of the two-party system."
A bipartisan pathway for pricing carbon in 2025 "There are good reasons to think that a national price on carbon can be passed by Congress in 2025."
Shirley Chisholm "Shirley Chisholm has paved the way for Black individuals who felt they weren’t seen in the political world."
¡VOTA! / VOTE! BILINGUAL: "In the next couple of weeks, you are going to receive a ballot for Washington state’s primary elections."
Can climate solutions address other systemic issues? "by passing carbon fee and dividend legislation ... we can make progress on a variety of economic and environmental issues..."
Alleviating income inequality "A key priority of most Democrats is reducing the income inequality that has drastically increased since the Reagan Revolution in the 1980s."
Opportunities when the Republican Party is a mess “Few Republican politicians have publicly supported the carbon fee and dividend policies that CCL advocates.”
Let's buy our own ballot dropbox… "Republican party head Jim Walsh and others believe conservatives are not voting in the numbers that they used to."
Methane as a Greenhouse Gas “We can therefore reduce the radiative forcing of global warming by 14% within decades if we can eliminate methane emissions from human activity.”
The dangerous politics of woke “The idea of staying awake in the face of oppression has been around for at least a hundred years.”
Coalition unites to stop gas pipeline expansion in Pacific Northwest “Some of the project’s worst environmental impacts — hidden from local communities — stem from extraction of the gas itself.”
Fringe extremist group fails to shutter Dayton library “Book challenges continue across the country. Sometimes the Republican legislators threaten to ‘defund’ the libraries.”
Democracy needs free press to survive “The freedom to report on the government and its leaders without censorship is a fundamental principle of a functioning democracy.”
