August 2026 Top Two results: Democratic challengers are making strong showings in several battleground legislative districts

From the 17th and 18th to the 12th and 35th, and a few others, the Democratic Party is demonstrating in the initial election returns that it has real pickup opportunities this year on both sides of the Cascades,

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August 2026 Top Two results for Washington’s ten congressional districts: The Democratic ticket is doing well across the state

The state's eight Democratic incumbents all led in initial returns, including frontline member Marie Gluesekamp Perez. Meanwhile, Democratic candidates appear to be on a course to nab the second place spots in the state's two Republican congressional districts, ensuring there will be no R-on-R races for Congress this year.

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Liveblogging Washington State’s August Top Two election from the Pacific Northwest: First impressions of the initial returns

Join us as the initial results from the Washington Top Two election roll in. We're also watching primary contests in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, and Virginia.

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It’s Top Two Election Day 2026 in Washington State – don’t forget to vote and return your ballot to a drop box!

August 4th, 2026 is Top Two Election Day across the Evergreen State, with hundreds of contests on the ballot! Have you voted? Have you checked in with family and friends to make sure they have voted?

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We’ve seen this movie before… a lot: 2026 Washington Top Two voter turnout still under 20% with one day left to vote

With one day left to cast a ballot, voter turnout stands at just 19.92% statewide, with 1,025,371 ballots returned out of 5,147,787 issued. It's part of a long-running trend of anemic turnout in the qualifying round of Washington's two-part general election system.

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Todd Blanche on track for confirmation after Cornyn strikes Trump settlement deal

The Texas senator is a crucial vote on the attorney general nominee in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is set to vote Tuesday.

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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (July 27th-31st, 2026)

The week's major votes included Senate confirmation of Jay Clayton to be the Director of National Intelligence and the passage of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act. The House was in recess.

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Spokane is burning, and the inferno could be the most destructive set of fires in Washington State history

Three wind-driven wildfires have destroyed more than six hundred structures, forced widespread evacuations, and overwhelmed local resources as crews battle the wholly uncontained Spokane Complex.

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Meet the 2026 candidates for the Washington Supreme Court Position #3: Mike Diaz

A Washington State Court of Appeals judge who previously served as a King County Superior Court judge, Diaz is the frontrunner for the seat being vacated by Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis, NPI's Civic Heartbeat public opinion research indicates.

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Meet the 2026 candidates for the Washington Supreme Court Position #5: Sharonda Amamilo

A retired Army Warrant Officer, Amamilo serves as a judge on Thurston County Superior Court, the trial court for the county where the state capital is located. She is challenging recently appointed Justice Theo Angelis and received the same percentage he did in NPI's May 2026 Civic Heartbeat survey, which fielded not long after the close of filing.

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The Durbin-Marshall proposal to overhaul how credit cards are processed is bad news for Main Street

In a guest essay for The Cascadia Advocate, a Spokane small business owner argues that forcing banks to add new processing networks could reduce rewards, raise fees, and fail to deliver meaningful savings.

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Watch every news conference Mayor Katie Wilson has held about the Bite of Seattle shooting and the dismissal of Chief Shon Barnes

Catch up with the week's big news by watching any or each of the news conferences that Mayor Katie Wilson has had about the tragedy at the Bite of Seattle on July 26th and the replacement of former Chief Shon Barnes, who resigned on July 30th.

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48th District D-on-D House race between Amy Walen and Jessica Forsythe is drawing big independent expenditures

Business-aligned and progressive political committees are spending huge sums trying to shape voters’ first impressions of two Democratic rivals for the Washington State House of Representatives ahead of their inevitable November rematch.

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Meet the 2026 candidates for the Washington Supreme Court Position #5: Theo Angelis

The recently appointed justice is campaigning for Position #5 on a platform of "upholding the rule of law" and faces three challengers, two of whom he was statistically tied with in NPI's May 2026 Civic Heartbeat Supreme Court polling.

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Wilson rips AG ballot warning on WA income tax repeal

Former state Sen. Lynda Wilson says AG Nick Brown's ballot warning on the WA income tax repeal is a scare tactic over money the state won't collect until 2029.

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EBay agreed to pay nearly $50M to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask

EBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner under a newly finalized settlement resolving a lawsuit over a 2019 cyberstalking campaign carried out by former...

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Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow order targeting mail-in voting before midterms

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow for now an executive order targeting mail-in voting.

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Fact-checking Viet Q. Nguyen: “Culliton 2026” website has a faulty premise and inaccurate statements that need revising

The website, which is presented as a voter's guide, tries to predict how Washington Supreme Court candidates might rule on the constitutionality of the state's new million dollar earners tax, but its premise is speculative and it contains many unsupportable and problematic statements. Respected constitutional law expert Hugh Spitzer told NPI "it's not possible" to predict how many of the justices would rule if the tax were to come before the court.

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CNN Data Guru Paints Grim Picture for Trump on Economy

The polling is “absolutely devastating” for the president, Harry Enten said.

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