Northwest Progressive Institute Advocate

2 days ago | nwprogressive.org | Andrew Villeneuve

Cantwell shared the story of five-year-old Leda Winterrose of Richland, who depends on Medicaid for life-sustaining medical supplies and warned of higher premiums for everyone: “When you increase the cost of uncompensated care … you increase everyone’s cost.” SENATOR MARIA CANTWELL: Mr. President, I rise today to urge my colleagues, my Republican colleagues, to reverse course on their proposal that would take affordable health care away from the many patients across the United States who will...

3 days ago | nwprogressive.org | Andrew Villeneuve

Twelve years ago, when our team wanted to begin commissioning public opinion research to support NPI’s ballot measure work and legislative advocacy, we had a critical question to answer: Which pollster should we work with? We had no shortage of options to choose from, but we wanted a firm that shared not only our progressive values, but our can-do ethos, our fierce commitment to the scientific method, and our willingness to think unconventionally.

3 days ago | nwprogressive.org | Andrew Villeneuve

It’s Zohran Mamdani’s night. The thirty-three year old Democratic assemblymember’s people-powered campaign has overcome gauntlet of obstacles to place first in the initial returns of New York City’s 2025 Democratic mayoral primary, turning in a performance so impressive that establishment favorite Andrew Cuomo conceded defeat at his own Election Night party. Like fellow New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a supporter — Mamdani is both a member of the Democratic Party and a democratic socialist.

3 days ago | nwprogressive.org | Andrew Villeneuve

The avowed democratic socialist overcame an avalanche of corporate money to place first on Election Night. Once ranked choice voting tabulations are complete, he’s expected to emerge victorious as the party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City.

6 days ago | nwprogressive.org | Andrew Villeneuve

“When I’m back in the White House, we will expel the warmongers, the profiteers … and we will restore world peace,” grifter Donald Trump bragged in an appearance last August at the National Guard Association’s annual national conference. Less than a year later, Trump has become the third consecutive Republican president to embroil the United States in a war in the Middle East, after George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush, both of whom were egged on by a host of neoconservative advisers.