Two unelected Democratic state senators, Deb Krishnadasan and Victoria Hunt, are feeling the heat—and not just from summer. Business-backed groups and the state GOP have already dropped $330,000 in ads and mailers targeting them ahead of the August 5 primary, reminding voters who’s responsible for a $9.4 billion general fund tax hike and another $3.2 billion for gas and transportation. Spoiler: It wasn’t the Republicans.

Krishnadasan is up against Republican Rep. Michelle Caldier in the swingy 26th District, while Hunt—who did vote for the tax hikes—is being challenged by former legislator Chad Magendanz in the 5th. These aren’t just toss-up races; they’re a full-on referendum on whether voters are fed up with Democrats’ tax-and-spend addiction.

Democrats, meanwhile, are crying foul because someone dared call them out. Their campaign arm is whining about “spam texts” and “negative attacks,” conveniently ignoring that the real spam was the 6-cent gas tax shoved onto Washington drivers.

And when challenged, the best they can muster is, “At least we’re not Trump.” Yes, really.

The message from the business community and everyday voters is clear: if Democrats think endless tax hikes and bloated budgets won’t catch up with them, they’ve got another mailer coming. Read more at the Washington State Standard.

In a scathing op-ed, recovering addict and policy advocate Ginny Burton blasts Washington state’s proposed “safer supply” program — a plan so wildly misguided it would make the state an official distributor of fentanyl, heroin, and meth. Yes, really.

Burton, who has 12.7 years in abstinence-based recovery, credits jail time and real treatment with saving her life. Under today’s Democrat-backed policies, she says people like her would still be stuck in addiction — not recovering, but maintained in misery by a system more focused on handing out drugs than offering any real path out.

She tears into the Orwellian doublespeak driving this madness: “Treatment” now just means lifetime chemical maintenance. “Services” mean dependency. And worst of all, “compassion” now means state-sanctioned self-destruction.

Burton also exposes the financial engine behind the addiction-industrial complex. Who profits? Pharma giants pushing dependency meds, bloated bureaucracies, and now—possibly—cartels, if Olympia moves forward with turning government into a legalized drug pusher. Who doesn’t benefit? The addicts. Their families. Their communities.

While Democrats try to spin this as “harm reduction,” Burton rightly calls it what it is: a death sentence disguised as policy. Recovery doesn’t make anyone rich—but addiction sure does. And that’s the business model too many in power seem eager to preserve.

If this is progress, maybe it’s time to rewind. Because you can’t fix addiction by enabling it—and you definitely shouldn’t be funding it with taxpayer dollars. Read more at Center Square.

In a stunningly tone-deaf appearance on The Joy Reid Show, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) proudly declared that what really inspires her is when activists physically obstruct ICE agents from doing their jobs—like surrounding courtrooms and preventing arrests. You know, the kind of behavior that used to be called interfering with law enforcement.

She even bragged about her new “Resistance Lab,” a training program teaching tens of thousands how to “resist” America’s immigration laws—because apparently in her world, enforcing the law = fascism, and sabotaging it = heroism. And while she describes it as “nonviolent resistance,” let’s be honest: she’s celebrating direct interference with federal agents, even as attacks on ICE and Border Patrol officers are spiking nationwide.

Just hours after her July 4 interview aired, a coordinated attack on an ICE facility in Texas left a law enforcement officer shot. On the same day, a Border Patrol agent was also gunned down. But to Jayapal? It’s just another teachable moment to “resist harder.”

She’s even gone so far as to call ICE a “terrorist force”—then had the gall to demand an apology from the White House when they pushed back. Sorry, but when a sitting member of Congress spends more time rallying against the Constitution than defending it, we’re no longer talking about “activism”—we’re talking about incitement.

Jayapal’s rhetoric isn’t just reckless—it’s dangerous. And no amount of progressive book clubs or “virtual trainings” will change the fact that her words are putting real lives at risk. Read more at the New York Post.

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