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The Daily Briefing – August 7, 2026
While voters were still deciding the 2024 race, Washington’s Attorney General’s Office was already coordinating with nearly two dozen other Democratic AGs to prepare lawsuits against Donald Trump.
The Daily Briefing – August 6, 2026
The ballots keep coming in, and so do the reminders that nothing in Washington politics is ever quite as settled as it looks on election night.
The Daily Briefing – August 5, 2026
The battle over Washington’s highest court is now officially on—and so is the fight over the future of the state’s income tax.
The Daily Briefing – August 4, 2026
After years of higher taxes, bigger budgets, and more government, Washington voters finally get a chance to decide whether Democrats deserve another term—or a timeout.
The Daily Briefing – August 3, 2026
Primary Day arrives: the ballot box narrows the field, but the political drama is just getting started.
The Daily Briefing – July 31, 2026
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.
The Daily Briefing – July 30, 2026
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.
The Daily Briefing – July 29, 2026
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.
The Daily Briefing – July 28, 2026
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.
The Daily Briefing – July 27, 2026
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.
The Daily Briefing – July 24, 2026
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.
The Daily Briefing – July 23, 2026
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.