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Olympia’s press corps apparently needed a federal lawsuit to learn that “freedom of the press” doesn’t mean freedom for journalists you approve of.

Nothing says “inclusive campus” like deciding to reject the Republican club before its members even enter the room.

Democrats say their new income tax only targets the rich—as if the restaurants they visit, contractors they hire and small businesses they support won’t notice when the customers leave.

Democrats built a bigger, more expensive state government; now their union allies want another raise and Bob Ferguson is discovering there’s no money tree on the Capitol lawn.

Washington Democrats were happy to make unemployment insurance a strike fund for their union allies—until the federal government reminded them there are still rules they have to follow.

Democrats already have Olympia; opponents of the income tax don’t need to make their job easier by fighting each other.

At 73 Trump-related cases and counting, Nick Brown’s Attorney General’s Office is starting to look less like Washington’s law firm and more like the taxpayer-funded legal department of the anti-Trump resistance.

Democrats want to keep Washington’s forests roadless—even if the only thing traveling through them is wildfire.

The Supreme Court gave Trump a win, Washington’s elections remain unchanged, and Nick Brown already has the lawsuit machine warmed up.

Nothing says “neutral ballot language” like a government warning about what happens if voters dare to repeal a tax that hasn’t even collected a dime yet.  

Democrats already run Olympia. Now they want the keys, the gas pedal and no speed limit.

King County can’t keep up with homelessness and crime, but it somehow found time to create an ICE flight hall monitor job.