Mayor-elect Katie Wilson distinguished herself from the incumbent she toppled by standing with the overwhelming public opposition toward massively expanding the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) surveillance cameras capabilities, which advocates worried, rather fairly, would aid in the Trump administration’s unprecedented wave of ICE kidnappings and crackdown on other civil liberties. But now that she’s won her race and even as cities across the state have opted to backpedal

Tuesday marked the official start to what will certainly be a long, bloody battle over the state’s budget. In the space of a few hours, the State legislature’s lone socialist hard launched a proposal for a new, $2 billion payroll tax on the state’s largest corporations and the Governor finally admitted — what advocates had long feared — that he is writing a cuts-only budget.  Tuesday’s dueling proposals cleanly set up lawmakers with the age-old question of whether to balance

Ahead of New York City Mayor Elect Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani viral (and bromantic) meeting with president Donald Trump, the U.S. House passed a glorified subtweet condemning the “horrors of socialism.” The resolution divided House Democrats with 98 voting “no,” 86 siding with Republicans, and 29 staying out of it.  Even in Washington, a State where socialists have recently made impressive gains — winning a seat in the State legislature for the first time in 100 year