Dear friends and neighbors, February is Black History Month, a time to celebrate our Black and African American communities, and a time to reflect on how we can fight anti-Black…
Celebrating Black History Month and a Legislative Update
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2023 Session Update, Accessing the Working Families Tax Credit, Reproductive Health, and more
Dear friends and neighbors, Hello from Olympia, where we’re wrapping up the third week of this year’s legislative session! We’re in the thick of committee hearings right now but have…
The People’s Work
Dear friends and neighbors, Hello from Olympia, where we’ve started the 2023 Legislative Session! For the first time since 2020, we’re gathering to do the people’s work in-person — a…
2022 Session Victories: Bringing down costs for Washingtonians
Dear friends and neighbors, Rising costs due to inflation are impacting all of us right now, especially working families, people on fixed incomes, and those who were already struggling to…
2022 Session Victories: Keeping communities safe
Dear friends and neighbors, One of the topics I am getting a lot of constituent emails about is community safety. Many people are concerned about whether law enforcement has the…
2022 Session Victories: Addressing Housing Affordability and Homelessness
Dear friends and neighbors, Our state faced a housing affordability and homelessness crisis even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The last two years have only made the situation more urgent….
A historic and productive session
Dear friends and neighbors, The 2022 legislative session adjourned sine die yesterday. (Sine die is latin for “without a day,” and basically means we adjourned without a date of…
Join our virtual town hall on Feb. 22
Dear friends and neighbors, We have officially reached the half-way point of the 2022 legislative session. The cutoff for policy and fiscal bills to get out of their respective committees…
WA Cares improvements, bringing down costs for Washington families
Dear friends and neighbors, It is Week 3 of the 2022 legislative session, which means we are already over a quarter of the way through it. That’s how quickly things…
Get involved: The 2022 legislative session is around the corner
Dear friends and neighbors, There is lots of legislative activity happening this week, with Committee Assembly Days in both the House and Senate. Senate committees met on Monday and…