Seattle renters are bracing for a long-haul brawl to defend their rights from a City Council that seems hellbent reversing wins for working people with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball—and about as much concern for who gets crushed. At the Housing Development Consortium’s (HDC) annual fundraiser, renters crashed the party—not for the finger food, but to hand out flyers exposing HDC’s months-long campaign to gut renter protections. 

Visitor services at the Washington State Capitol declared Rep. Shaun Scott (D-Seattle) and three Seattle educators trespassers for overstaying public hours during a sit-in at the Governor's office. The group requested a meeting with Gov. Bob Ferguson to demand he tax the rich and to impress upon him the devastating consequences of the proposed cuts to education, healthcare, and, perhaps most compelling to the Governor, his own political ambition.

Senate Democrats quietly proposed a shameful 55% cut to abortion access funding in their budget, leaving just $7 million for the 2026–2027 biennium to cover a critical healthcare service in a state that prides itself on being pro-choice. With Trump already training his crosshairs on reproductive rights, it's incumbent on the State Legislature—and Governor Bob Ferguson—to bolster funding for abortion, not sacrifice it on the altar of anti-tax orthodoxy