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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez talks affordability and fiscal responsibility on the campaign trail, then votes against major tax relief and stays silent on Washington’s new income tax.    

Progressive lawmakers set impossible emissions targets, banned reliable power, taxed energy into the stratosphere, and now act shocked that the grid and the wallet can’t keep up.

Democrats are so confident in their new income tax that they need the government to write scare language on the ballot warning voters that repealing it will somehow cut schools with money that doesn’t exist yet.

Democrats’ progressive policies leave kids in dangerous homes and when the lawsuits pile up, their answer is always the same — pay the settlements and change nothing.

When a state agency commissions a study showing its carbon tax raises gas prices, then publicly denies any connection, that’s not a mistake — that’s propaganda.

When your new income tax is this unpopular, the only strategy left is to scare voters into thinking the sky will fall if they dare to repeal it.

When public employee unions dump millions into defeating a tax repeal, it’s not about “the children” — it’s about keeping their hands in the taxpayers’ trough.  

When you explode state spending by 230% in two decades and keep raising taxes, the only surprise is that anyone is still surprised the budget doesn’t balance.  

Washington families could access a new education scholarship program—if the governor would actually sign the state up.

When your own former governors are warning that Democrat budgets have gone off the rails, it’s probably not a messaging problem—it’s a spending problem.  

After chasing an income tax for decades, Democrats may be watching voters reject it all over again.

If Howard Schultz is sounding like a fiscal conservative, maybe Olympia should check the mirror instead of raising taxes again.