Mayor Katie Wilson once again failed to commit to blocking a major expansion to the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) surveillance capabilities that the City approved last fall, but has yet to implement. Wilson sided with advocates for immigrants rights, reproductive justice, and civil liberties, opposing the expansion the former Mayor championed and the City Council passed during her campaign. But now, while she still holds concerns about privacy for vulnerable populations,

The Washington State Democrat’s flashiest bill of the session, the millionaires tax, passed 27-22 off the floor of the Washington State Senate Monday afternoon, mostly on party lines. Three Senate Democrats from — Sens. Adrian Cortes (D-Battle Ground), Drew Hansen (D-Bainbridge Island), and Deborah Krishnadasan (D-Gig Harbor) — voted no, borrowing progressive, populist rhetoric about the unfair tax burden on working people to justify it. However, these Democrats did not propo

Southwest Washington’s switch-hitter Democrat Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez changed her stance on a Republican-led effort to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters to crackdown on the imaginary threat of non-citizens infiltrating U.S. elections. After facing intense national scrutiny for her fascism-enabling voting record, Gluesenkamp Perez may be feeling the pressure to take less morally reprehensible votes — or at least differentiate herself from her moderate Republican c