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Friends — Now that the legislative session is over, you’ll only hear from us once a month until the next session begins (well, aside from a new newsletter we’ll start…

Friends — The Washington State legislature 2022 short session ended March 10 with no “special session” added. Follow along for our infamous Legislature Awards, and an all-up recap. The 2022…

Friends — We passed yet another short-session hurdle: The deadline where all bills have to be through all their opposite-Chamber’s Committees (otherwise known as February Twenty-Eighth—I mean, who does she…

Friends — Well, let’s just say, called iiiit. The Senate and House dropped their budget proposals this week, with a wild turn-around time to comment on them, so there is MUCH…

Friends — Picture this: You're watching a reality TV show very similar to Survivor, except the people who slowly get voted off the island are bills, and instead of a…

Friends — At the end of the day, legislators ax important bills for a few reasons that center around bad polling: 1️⃣  Our political ecosystem lacks a diversity of voices…

Friends — The Whip is the person who counts the votes, and whipping votes looks like leadership deliberately applying pressure on rank and file members so that a member votes…

Friends— So on top of everything being bureaucratic, we also have this whole cyclical thing that happens at the legislature. Our state’s budget gets redone in a timeline that’s called…