Gregoire wins
King County recount puts Democratic candidate over the top Follow coverage from Permanent Defense and the NW Progressive Institute. Unconfirmed reports from the Democratic Party say that Democrat...
View ArticleSupreme Court hears case
Follow the case with Permanent Defense and NPI. The Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments in the case, WSRP et al. v. King County, et al., and has adjourned to consider the case and reach a...
View ArticleWA Republicans are thinking about 2008
Introduction: Washington gubernatorial candidate Christine Gregoire's lead has increased to 130 votes thanks to the counting of over 500 disputed ballots that the state's Supreme Court yesterday told...
View ArticleWho is Dino Rossi, Anyway?
Some of you watching the WA State Governor's race from afar may have noticed that Republican Dino Rossi is often painted as a "moderate" by the media. We took a look at some of Rossi's past statements...
View ArticleWA Legislative Leaders: No Revote
In the topsy-turvy Washington State Governor's Race, Republicans, who are wanting another shot at winning control, have been calling for a revote recently. They even have their own website...
View ArticleCall to Action: Help Us Win In Washington
Think the gubernatorial race in Washington State is over after the second recount? It isn't. The Republicans are on the air and in the paper every day with more charges about fraud and incompetence...
View ArticleWashington State Democrats need YOUR help
In an earlier diary today, I talked about the serious need for Democrats to take action in the Washington State Governor's Race. Republicans are mobilizing their party's base and flooding our...
View ArticleWA Legislature certifies election
NPI reports: Chris Gregoire will be inaugurated as Washington's next governor tomorrow (Wednesday). The Washington State Legislature voted to certify the election after a Republican motion to postpone...
View ArticlePacific NW Portal launches for progressives
The Pacific Northwest has a new information gateway and media center for progressives and Democrats.Pacific NW Portal has just launched online at www.nwportal.org. The portal features a "newswire" for...
View ArticleFeedback on Pacific Northwest Portal, the new information gateway for...
Well, I've recieved a lot of feedback on Pacific Northwest Portal since its launch a couple days ago, and so has archerhouse. It's gratifying to hear how estatic some people are about the ease of...
View ArticlePacific NW Portal, the progressive information gateway, GETS BETTER!
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better - it suddenly did. Since launching Pacific Northwest Portal a week ago syndicating progressive viewpoints from around the region, we've been hard at...
View ArticleWe're listening to your feedback
Over the past week and a half, I've gotten a lot of feedback about Pacific Northwest Portal. Many of the comments have been about our site's RSS feeds. Many readers/viewers say the font on those feeds...
View ArticleNow there's more Oregon for all of us
Last week, when I published a diary here about the new Expanded Washington section on Pacific Northwest Portal, I told Oregonians not to worry about being left out, because on Monday of next week, we...
View ArticleBuilding on past successes with more innovation
Today, Pacific Northwest Portal, the regional information gateway for progressives, is entering a new era. The site, which we launched just one month ago at the end of January, has become a phenomenal...
View ArticleWA: Builders group uses trickery to check out voters' signatures
The BIAW, right wing business supporters of former GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi, are up to their evil, devilish tricks again. Today, the Seattle Times has a story entitled "Builders group...
View ArticlePacific NW Portal Newswires Improve
The Pacific Northwest Portal team has been hard at work building you a better website. We're rolling out our latest improvement this morning: better newswires. Here's the details:First, we noticed some...
View ArticleNetroots in Action - Uniting A Region of Progressive Bloggers
Kos speaks often of the "netroots", and how much our activism means to the future of the Democratic Party and the progressive movement. Almost four months ago, a team of people with a vision -...
View ArticleNetroots At Work: Building A Regional Community of Progressive Bloggers
Markos talks often about the "netroots", and how much our activism means to the future of the Democratic Party and the progressive movement.More than four months ago, a team of people with a vision -...
View ArticleLocal Netroots in Action: Pacific NW Portal Relaunched
Every day, I am reminded of the difficult struggle that lies before us: the challenge of taking our country back from the people who currently sit in the halls of power, destroying our democratic...
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Local Politics Matter: Netroots Prepares for Initiative Fight
One of the many reasons attributed to last November's strong showing by Republicans at the polls was the number of ballot initiatives asking voters the question of whether to ban gay marriage.Not all...
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My Kos Diary Was Read On Air By a Local Conservative Radio Host
Written for the Daily Kos Community and readers of the NPI Official BlogYesterday, I posted a diary entitled, "Local Politics Matter: Netroots Prepares for Initiative Fight" which subsequently made it...
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Pacific NW Portal solidifies connection with Daily Kos
Daily Kos is booming. With an average of 810,234 visits and 937,537 pageviews every day now (according to SiteMeter) Daily Kos has undoubtedly become the anchorweight for the national progressive...
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Media cover Washington State Kossacks' NO on 912 demonstration
Last August, I wrote about how we here in Washington State are organizing and mobilizing to fight Initiative 912, a ballot measure which would repeal 274 sorely needed transportation projects to...
View ArticleGOP tries to disenfranchise WA voters with false challenges
Introduction: This is a followup on an earlier diary by N in Seattle.They never quit, do they? King County is the latest setting for the newest series of Republican dirty tricks. Using the 2004...
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Amazing! Washington State defeats I-912 and anti-tax zealots
On Tuesday, Washington State progressives witnessed an unbelievable, incredible victory that will go down as one of the greatest triumphs ever in Washington State political history.Voters in...
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Connecting the Dots: How We're Unifying the Blogosphere
A few days ago, I received an e-mail from a delighted progressive activist who informed me that she'd just stumbled onto our flagship website, Pacific Northwest Portal, for the first time. She'd been...
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NW Progressive Institute Presents: 2005 David Neiwert Awards
The Northwest Progressive Institute is pleased to present the 2005 David Neiwert Awards to honor the achievements and accomplishments of the Pacific Northwest's most active progressive bloggers this...
View ArticleNorthwest Progressive Institute begins podcasting
As most Kossacks are well aware, talk radio is one of the Republican Right's greatest weapons. Recently, authors like David Brock have skillfully chronicled how the Right has been able to master this...
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Pacific NW Portal: Blueprint for Building Regional Community
One year ago I posted a diary here at Daily Kos entitled, "Pacific NW Portal launches for progressives." The simple, straightforward diary carried the announcement that a new information gateway and...
View ArticlePacific NW Portal: Taking online organizing to new heights
Despite the fact that the political establishment is heavily stacked against us, the progressive movement in America today is alive and well - largely thanks to one amazing medium that has lowered the...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Netroots: Liveblogging the 2006 Convention
Over the last two days (Friday and Saturday, June 2nd - 3rd) I've been in Yakima, Washington, attending the Washington State Democrats' 2006 Convention, representing the Northwest Progressive Institute...
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Live From the Road: Blogging from the WakeUp WalMart Bus
I'm sure that many Kossacks have heard of the WakeUp WalMart website and the larger effort to get the world's largest retailer to change its disgusting behavior. WakeUp WalMart is currently in the...
View ArticleSchool District bans An Inconvenient Truth after wingnut parent complains
Adapted from an entry on NPI's Official Blog The Federal Way School District in Washington State has appallingly decided to place a moratorium on the showing of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth because...
View ArticleWA Kossacks - Going to YearlyKos?
If you live in Washington State and are planning on attending YearlyKos this year in fabulous Chicago, the Northwest Progressive Institute wants to hear from you! We're working on organizing the state...
View ArticleSeattle's 710 KIRO cancels netroots radio program - "The David Goldstein Show"
Yesterday, management at Seattle's AM 710 KIRO, owned by Bonneville International, abruptly cancelled The David Goldstein Show (which ran on Saturdays and Sundays from 7 to 10 PM here in the Pacific...
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ABC to become FOX: Disney, News Corp. announce deal
NEW YORK - The Walt Disney Company and News Corp. today announced the formation of a sweeping new entertainment and news venture that will provide the highest quality journalism, political coverage,...
View ArticleLiveblogging Howard Dean's speech at Netroots Nation
Liveblogging a speech AND taking pictures is tough when you really want to pay close attention to what the speaker is saying, but I managed to catch some of the highlights of Governor Dean's speech...
View ArticleLeft Coast Election Thread for California, Oregon, Washington
It looks like Barack Obama is on his way to victory, with Ohio projected to join the Democratic column. The math is starting to look impossible for John McCain.But this is election is NOT OVER.There is...
View ArticleParental permission required to watch Obama's inauguration, school district says
Crossposted from the NPI AdvocateVia Seattle's KING5, here's another stupid "administrative policy" from the school district that decided Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truthshouldn't be shown in schools:...
View ArticleState of the movement: An update from your friends at the Northwest...
Greetings from Redmond... it's been wonderful these last couple of days to see that many familiar screen names have made the jump to Daily Kos 4, and are already making use of new features,...
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Want a Washington Progressive Blogroll t-shirt? Preorder now!
Every summer for the past several years, NPI has created/sponsored a Washington Progressive Blogroll t-shirt which we take with us to Netroots Nation.The t-shirt is essentially a wearable guide to the...
View ArticleCISPA passes U.S. House *again* - with aye votes from these CPC members
For the second time in as many days, Congress has taken a major bad vote. Yesterday, it was the filibuster of Manchin/Toomey's background checks amendment, which had majority support but not...
View ArticleWashington State Election Night Open Thread
The big day is finally upon us! Today is Tuesday, November 3rd… Election Day, also known as the last day you can do your civic duty and vote. Tonight we’ll begin to have some idea of who will be...
View ArticleVICTORY! Death penalty abolished in Washington by order of State Supreme Court
Crossposted from NPI’s Cascadia Advocate.Washington took a huge leap forward for human rights this morning with the State Supreme Court’s ruling in State v. Gregory, which holds that the death penalty...
View ArticleThere's now a State Supreme Court with 7 out of 9 female justices
These are difficult times for our country and the world community. There is so much that is wrong or going wrong right now. It can be hard to maintain a positive, hopeful attitude. So we really need...
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