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July 17, 2024

John Hancocks All Around

Beloveds– The hummingbirds are zipping around colorful feeders. Lilacs are in bloom. Signs of summer abound. Speaking of signs, we’re entering peak signature-gathering season. You can’t go to the farmers’…

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May 23, 2024

New Legislative Leadership

Good Morning Sunshines— The sun’s out. The heat’s building. Is it election season friction, climate change, or just a beautiful week in Washington? Who’s to say. One thing we know:…

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April 22, 2024

Initiate Voter Sequence

Hi bunnies, Last you heard from us, we did our best School House Rock impression of how an initiative goes through the legislature to the ballot. If that is the ghost of…

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April 22, 2024

Taking the Initiative

Howdy partner— As we mosey on into interim in such a monumental election season we’ve decided to continue sharing updates from WCA through The Tally twice a month. We just can’t get enough…

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March 18, 2024

4th Annual Session Awards

Theydies and Gentlethems— The time has come for our 4th Annual Session Awards. pause for fanfare. While our bills all came to a brutal, bitter end we are thankful for the…

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March 18, 2024

Government Nerds, Man

Hi my friend— Thank you for accompanying us on yet another journey through leg session. The legislature called Sine Die yesterday and adjourned for the year. Legislators will slither away…

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Graphic of Tally titled Dead and Deader with artistic photos of skulls and dried flora in background.

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March 18, 2024

Dead and Deader

Beloved— We are nearing the finish line of session with two huge cutoffs this week. Monday was the cutoff for bills passing through the opposite chamber’s fiscal committees and Ways…

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February 29, 2024

Op-Ed: State Secretary Hobbs Is Wrong to Oppose Ranked Choice Voting

THE URBANIST — By Kamau Chege, Executive Director of the Washington Community Alliance and Kenia Peregrino, statewide coordinator for Washington for Equitable Representation Voter turnout for the November 2023 election…

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Photo collage of all candidates and hopefuls for Representative McMorris Rodger's open congressional seat.

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February 29, 2024

Who is running for McMorris Rodgers’ open seat, and who won’t say

THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW — ... Kamau Chege, executive director of the progressive Washington Community Alliance, an organization with local members including the Hispanic Business Professional Association and Spokane Community Against Racism,…

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John Hancocks All Around

New Legislative Leadership

Initiate Voter Sequence

Taking the Initiative

4th Annual Session Awards

Government Nerds, Man

Dead and Deader

Op-Ed: State Secretary Hobbs Is Wrong to Oppose Ranked Choice Voting

Who is running for McMorris Rodgers’ open seat, and who won’t say

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