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Rep. Michael Baumgartner & the White Nationalist Movement

Rep. Michael Baumgartner & the White Nationalist Movement

Michael Baumgartner signed a Supreme Court brief backing a legal campaign to narrow birthright citizenship. This article traces how that decision reflects coordination with the White House, alignment with white nationalist legal theory, and a moral framework that abstracts human cost.

Before Congress Acts, the System Does

Before Congress Acts, the System Does

Seeds We Choose to Plant

Seeds We Choose to Plant

The Autism Registry Gambit: WA-5 Families as Pawns in RFK Jr.'s Profit Scheme

The Autism Registry Gambit: WA-5 Families as Pawns in RFK Jr.'s Profit Scheme

When Ideology Subverts Education: The Cost of Political Agendas in Central Valley Schools

When Ideology Subverts Education: The Cost of Political Agendas in Central Valley Schools

Spokane as Ground Zero in the National War on 'Housing First'

Spokane as Ground Zero in the National War on 'Housing First'

Vital Wines and the Vineyards Rewriting the Ethics of Washington Winemaking

Vital Wines and the Vineyards Rewriting the Ethics of Washington Winemaking

Community

The Day the Airwaves Were Cut: Public Media Just Lost Its Lifeline in Rural Washington

The Day the Airwaves Were Cut: Public Media Just Lost Its Lifeline in Rural Washington

UPDATE – July 17: Today, the U.S. Senate followed the House in voting to slash funding for NPR, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The final blow came despite months of warnings from journalists, educators, and rural broadcasters who know exactly what’s at stake. With this vote, Congress

This Is Our Country Too

This Is Our Country Too

This Land Is Us: A Rural County Fought Back Against Washington, D.C. and Won

This Land Is Us: A Rural County Fought Back Against Washington, D.C. and Won

The Ground We Tend Together

The Ground We Tend Together

The Quiet Liquidation: What the Land-Sale Bill Reveals About America’s Vanishing Stewardship

The Quiet Liquidation: What the Land-Sale Bill Reveals About America’s Vanishing Stewardship

Washington Cities Push Back Against ICE Enforcement

Washington Cities Push Back Against ICE Enforcement

College Reform Plan Could Collapse Washington State Athletics

College Reform Plan Could Collapse Washington State Athletics

Natural Resources

What the River Remembers

What the River Remembers

The Fight for the Lower Snake, and the Future of the Land It Fed The Lower Snake does not rage. It does not roar. But it endures. Along its quiet bends near Lower Granite Dam, where slackwater curls around concrete and turbines hum without notice, the river moves with the

Washington’s EV Future Is Thriving … But Trump and Baumgartner Are Trying to Kill It

Washington’s EV Future Is Thriving … But Trump and Baumgartner Are Trying to Kill It

What We’re Made Of: The Natural Bonds of WA-5

What We’re Made Of: The Natural Bonds of WA-5

Health

Baumgartner Backed the Cuts. Then Tried to Take Credit for the Fix

Baumgartner Backed the Cuts. Then Tried to Take Credit for the Fix

A Quiet Betrayal, Then a Sudden Conversion The bipartisan H.R. 879 was introduced in January 2025 to respond to a 2.83% Medicare cut that had just taken effect. The Washington State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and rural health providers nationwide urged Congress to act quickly to

Left to Burn: EPA Grant Cuts Are Smothering Rural Washington’s Fight for Clean Air

Left to Burn: EPA Grant Cuts Are Smothering Rural Washington’s Fight for Clean Air

A Silent Culling: What 51,000 Preventable Deaths Reveal About Trump’s Health Care Cuts

A Silent Culling: What 51,000 Preventable Deaths Reveal About Trump’s Health Care Cuts

Natural Resources

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What the River Remembers

Washington’s EV Future Is Thriving … But Trump and Baumgartner Are Trying to Kill It

What We’re Made Of: The Natural Bonds of WA-5

environmental justice

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The Plot They Almost Pulled Off

Far-Right Policy. Local Waters. One Line of Defense.

Politics

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He Said It Was About Energy Security. Then He Cut the Power to the Future.

Birthright Citizenship Makes Washington Strong