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Young Latinos in Spokane hope to make voices heard this election

Jennyfer Mesa, executive director of Latinos en Spokane (LES), said elections are always stressful for “mixed status” communities, in which some people have been in the U.S. for generations — some are...

Eastern WA farmworkers fear deportation if Trump is reelected

The largest mass deportation in history, called “Operation Wetback,” dates back to the 1950s under the Eisenhower administration, an initiative about which Trump has often spoken highly.Last year at a rally in...

Indigenous candidates hope to boost representation in WA state

Iyall is a candidate for the state Senate from the 22nd District, which includes Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater. If elected, he would be one of four Native Americans in the legislature.Lekanoff is...

How redistricting changed WA’s 12th Legislative District

Since at least 2008, no Democratic legislative candidates in the 12th District have broken 40% in a primary or the general – and in some years no Democrats were on the ballot...

WA voters poised to reject two initiatives, accept other two

Initiative 2066, which would prohibit laws that discourage natural gas use or promote electrification, and which would instead require utilities to provide natural gas to customers, was the only initiative that got...

What’s in a word? Why the WA GOP is pushing against ‘democracy’

The delegates approved a resolution emphasizing that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, and asserting that “every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of...

Even before Dobbs, Washingtonians sought abortion care in Oregon

It’s a gap in the state’s abortion infrastructure that preceded Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and persists today, at a time when states like Washington and Oregon are accommodating even more abortion...

WA Public Lands Commissioner primary likely headed for a recount

By Monday evening, Upthegrove had 395,812 votes and Kuehl Pederson had 395,619, a difference of 193 votes – about 0.02% of their total votes. There were an estimated 1,350 votes left to...

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