Andrew Villeneuve

It’s not every day a presidential library opens. George W. Bush and Laura Bush joined Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton for the occasion. Donald Trump was not invited.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has halted Donald Trump's efforts to control mail-in voting by enjoining the U.S. Postal Service from refusing to mail ballots if states don't give their voter rolls to his regime. The ruling emphasized that states have the constitutional authority to manage elections, and overturned several sections of Trump's executive order deemed unconstitutional and void.

With a majority of the court up for election in 2026, voters face significant decisions in the upcoming August ballot. Our joint project with the Northwest Progressive Foundation helps voters study the electoral landscape and learn more about the candidates. We've added more tools that offer additional context about these critical races.

In the case of Watson v. Republican National Committee, the Court's six member right wing bloc splintered. Two of the bloc joined with the liberals to hold that the federal election-day statutes (3 U. S. C. §1, 2 U. S. C. §§ 1, 7) "do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day." This means Washington, Oregon, and other states can keep counting ballots with a timely postmark that are delivered after Election Day.

The chief executive of Washington State's largest city is urging voters to replace Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen and longtime State Representative Gerry Pollet in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. Both lawmakers are seeking to return to the statehouse.

On June 30th, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment in a split decision, affirming that children born in the U.S. are citizens, whether or not their parents have citizenship or not. The ruling hopefully has the effect of ending Donald Trump's attempts to overturn this sacred constitutional guarantee.

The campaign to uphold the state's recently enacted million-dollar earners tax says that an initiative seeking its repeal backed by wealthy right wing donors faces rough prospects, despite their attempts to create an invincibility narrative.

Democratic U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger John Braun are running about even for the U.S. House in Washington's 3rd Congressional District, NPI's summer 2026 Civic Heartbeat polling has found. 51% of likely November 2026 voters who say they're also voting in August are backing either MGP or Braun, while in a hypothetical general election matchup, 45% backed Braun and 44% backed MGP, with 11% not sure.

With each paper’s set of endorsements now available to scrutinize, we’re bringing back our popular comparison that visually shows you where the papers agree and disagree. You might think the papers would be far apart in their choices, and sometimes they were… but not always!

With each paper's set of endorsements for the first round of voting now available to scrutinize, we're bringing back our popular comparison that visually shows you where the papers agree and disagree. You might think the papers would be far apart in their choices, and sometimes they were... but not always!