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
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.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
The right wing mega millionaire is betting that Washington voters will nix the state's recently levied million dollar earners tax, given an opportunity to repeal it with Initiative to the People 645 (IP26-645). Heywood speaks as though he simply can't lose. But he made a similar bet in the 2024 cycle that backfired spectacularly, with his money helping prove that progressive ideas like the capital gains tax funding the Education Legacy Trust, the Climate Commitment Act, and the WA Cares Fund were actually popular with voters.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Founded twenty years ago, Netroots Nation is an annual gathering of progressive organizers and leaders that aims to foster collaboration and skill development in advancing all of the causes that we care about. A delegation from the NPI team will be reporting regularly on the goings-on, including through our special NPI@NN podcast series.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Developed to meet the need for tools that allow for the discovery of high quality journalism and commentary written by individuals and organizations at every level -- hyperlocal, regional, national, and international -- SearchTheLeft offers a human curated index of vetted sources and results that aren't buried below an AI prompt.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Markos Moulitsas, Anthony Robinson, Malcolm Kenyatta, Maurice Mitchell, Chris Rabb, and Minnesota organizers urged Netroots Nation attendees to secure democracy from fascists' clutches by building durable organizing infrastructure, turning resistance into governing power, and meeting fear with collective action.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
55% of likely 2026 general election voters recently surveyed by Emerson College Polling for the Northwest Progressive Institute said they disapproved of the decision by the Legislature and Governor Ferguson to reduce funding for priorities like Transition to Kindergarten, Running Start, and K‑12 public school transportation in the budget, rather than raising taxes on large corporations to avert the cuts, while only 29% approved. Another 16% were not sure.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
In every one of the 2026 Supreme Court contests we asked voters about at the end of May 2026, 60% or greater said they were not sure how they would vote. Among the respondents who did have opinions, incumbents did well, as did two appeals court judges who are running for open seats. One incumbent, recently appointed Justice Theo Angelis, appears to be more at risk of elimination than his peers, at least before the intensive voter contact phase of the campaign.
On this nineteenth day of June, we celebrate the emancipation of Black Americans at the end of the Confederate insurrection while continuing to work for greater freedom, opportunity, and equity in a country still struggling to end systemic racism.
By: 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.
