Andrew Villeneuve is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Progressive Institute. With over two decades of experience advocating for progressive causes, he focuses on elections, government, politics, public policy, and civil rights, while also addressing accessibility and racial issues in public education. Andrew's insights and expertise have been featured in The Urbanist, Case Publishing, Inc., and the Northwest Progressive Institute.
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By: Andrew Villeneuve
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.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
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?
By: Andrew Villeneuve
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.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
A law championed by the Northwest Progressive Institute in 2022 requires voters to be told if a measure will increase or decrease funding for public services. Multiple legal challenges filed with the aim of allowing right wing mega-millionaire Brian Heywood's latest initiative to evade that law were turned back today.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
After a week of ballot counting, the crowded races have been winnowed down and we know the names of the eight candidates who will join Judges Ian Birk and Sean O'Donnell on the November ballot for four positions.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
“With Sound Transit’s failure to deliver light rail to Ballard by 2035 as originally promised, now is the moment for Sound Transit and Seattle to build a no-frills, quick-build station near the Ballard Locks to connect people to Sounder commuter rail service that’s already up and running,” Matthew Trecha writes. Trecha is a transit enthusiast who has lived in Europe and Canada.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
On Monday, August 24th, the unaccountable, out-of-control right wing bloc on the United States Supreme Court issued a procedural order lifting one of the injunctions preventing the Postal Service from carrying out Donald Trump's executive order to disenfranchise American voters. Democratic AGs and elected officials are vowing to fight on.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia are asking a federal court to urgently block new United States Postal Service rules for mailing ballots that usurp state authority and are meant to rig the November 2026 general election in Republicans' favor.
By: Andrew Villeneuve Guest
Two 2026 charter amendments are at the heart of a Republican megadonor's plan to take over Snohomish County.
By: Andrew Villeneuve
Labor Day, established in the late nineteenth century, was born out of the union movement. It's a day to recognize the immense contributions and sacrifices of our workers.
