Fuse Washington

While the MAGA justices on the Roberts Court were plotting to gut the federal Voting Rights Act and block eligible voters of color from voting, we were fighting in the WA Legislature to ensure that every vote counts with this update to our state's VRA!

We're thrilled to see these protections come into force:
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/07/07/these-3-wa-communities-now-need-state-approval-for-election-rule-changes/

Linking our market to limit carbon pollution with California's and Quebec's means more stable revenue for projects that keep our air and water clean. It will also entice more progressive states and provinces to join us, lowering pollution for more people!

WA to agree to link carbon markets with CA, Quebec The agreement, which the American states and Canadian province will sign Thursday, has been years in the making.

MAGA Justices just ruled that politicians can bully transgender children off of sports teams.

Brian Heywood's transphobic initiatives on our ballots this fall make clear that the GOP plans to do that by forcing invasive ge***al inspections on all girls who want to play sports with their friends.

The Supreme Court's trans athlete ruling is a threat to gender equality Justice Brett Kavanaugh is “not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection all women get.”

MAGA failures are just a repeated lesson in the old adage: "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"

'To pay [capital gains] tax you first have to book personal profits north of $278,000 — a windfall so rarefied it has blessed fewer than 10,000 Washingtonians each year.

So what just happened? The state’s chief economist reports that the latest returns have blown the roof off.

'This morning we got the updated numbers for fiscal year 2026 for capital gains … it came in at $1.5 billion,' economist Dave Reich told state lawmakers earlier this month. 'So a very significant increase, quite a bit above our forecast from what we had before.'”

WA’s rich are leaving? Another tax on wealth smashes records Reports keep coming of the rich moving. Yet the state's main tax-the-rich vehicle, capital gains tax, just tripled its revenues. Somebody is paying all that tax.