Andrew Villeneuve is the Founder and Executive Director at the Northwest Progressive Institute. With over two decades of experience in advancing progressive causes, he focuses on themes such as government and politics, transportation policy, and media. Andrew has been featured in The Urbanist, Case Publishing, Inc., and the Northwest Progressive Institute.
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By: Andrew Villeneuve
Citing an unbroken line of precedent, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that revenue measures supporting state government are not subject to the referendum when the Legislature invokes the necessary for the support of state institutions clause, dealing a final blow to right wing hopes of doing a referendum on SB 6346.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Who had filed for public office in Washington State as of Monday evening on Filing Week 2026? This post covers notable filings and provides links to the complete list for each county.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Who had filed for public office in Washington State as of Tuesday evening on Filing Week 2026? This post covers notable filings and provides links to the complete list for each county.
Who had filed for public office in Washington State as of Tuesday evening on Filing Week 2026? This post covers notable filings and provides links to the complete list for each county.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Declaring "I don’t pretend to know a lot about everything... but I do know a lot about ballot measures," the former initiative promoter also admitted that the law the Northwest Progressive Institute championed to require fiscal disclosures in ballot measure titles in the early 2020s has destroyed his old formula for passing anti-tax ballot measures, which relied heavily on deceiving voters.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
More than 1,100 candidates filed for office in Washington this past week, with dozens of legislative races already effectively decided before voting begins in the August Top Two election. This deep dive will take you on a journey through the filings.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
For the midterms, the federation is supporting a mostly Democratic slate for the Legislature along with every incumbent Democratic member of Congress except for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. The WSLC is also opposing right wing mega-millionaire Brian Heywood's latest crop of destructive initiatives.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
The Longview pulp and paper mill had drawn repeated state and federal scrutiny before Tuesday’s disaster, including environmental violations, safety complaints, spills, equipment concerns, and multiple recent fires.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
A May 24th KIRO commentary by Seattle's Morning News host Charlie Harger that’s built around former Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna’s soundbites refuses to accept a basic requirement of rigorous fiscal analysis: raw-dollar budget comparisons across eras always yield invalid conclusions because they start with bad inputs.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
On Tuesday, May 26th, a chemical vat at the Nippon Dynawave pulp and paper mill in Longview catastrophically failed, killing as many as eleven people (there are two confirmed fatalities and nine individuals unrecovered) as well as injuring several more.
