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Capital gains tax at risk. Contact legislators!
Please contact Guy Palumbo, Mark Mullet, Dean Takko, and Steve Hobbs and ask them to support the capital gains tax bill SB 5314 (“Assisting Washington families by improving the fairness of the state’s tax system by enacting a capital gains tax and providing property tax relief”). They’re the ones who may prevent one from happening.…
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World Beyond War is a global movement to end all wars. Is that asking for too much?
https://worldbeyondwar.org/ It kinda reminds me of George W Bush’s war on evil: too ambitious. I’d be happy with a significant lessening of war. But maybe that’s the wrong way to look at.
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Credible allegations of cover-ups about JFK, MLK, and RFK assassinations
I eschew giving credence to far-out conspiracy theories. But given the accumulated evidence that there was a cover-up about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, I am sharing a link to this googledoc, which was signed by a prestigious list of professionals and celebrities, many who had first-hand knowledge of the relevant events in…
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Only the Wealthy Decide What Social Issues to Fix
Corporate and billionaire giving helps their image more than it helps us January 19, 2019 By Matthew CaruchetReprinted from Economic Opportunity Institute Microsoft announced this week that it will spend $500 million to offset the lack of affordable housing and combat homelessness around Lake Washington. The money will be dispensed through loans and grants to…
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Link: Two-Tracks; The Key to Single-Payer Success
Two-Tracks; The Key to Single-Payer Success Good article about Rep. Jayapal and the two tracks towards single payer.
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Russigate Denial
On many left-wing blogs, such as OpEdNews, there’s a large group of Russiagate-deniers. I don’t know if they’re trolls or if they just hate the Dems, the Deep State, and the cold war. A friend, Lansing Scott says, “Yeah, I know several people like that. They believe that any talk about Russia is either to…
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Link: Donald Trump’s Companies Destroyed Emails in Defiance of Court Orders
Donald Trump’s Companies Destroyed Emails in Defiance of Court Orders Over the course of decades, Donald Trump’s companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded in official proceedings, often in defiance of court orders. These tactics—exposed by a Newsweek review of thousands of pages of court filings, judicial…
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All in for Washington: Fighting Washington’s Upside-Down Tax Code
All In For Washington is a statewide effort to clean up the tax code so that all communities in Washington thrive. We know we can do great things when we all chip in our resources together to achieve the amazing things we could never accomplish alone. 
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Expert on wall construction explains why the wall is a bad idea
Amy Patrick January 8 at 7:52 PM Howdy. To recap: I’m a licensed structural and civil engineer with a MS in structural engineering from the top program in the nation and over a decade of experience on high-performance projects, and particularly of cleaning up design disasters where the factors weren’t properly accounted for, and I’m…
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Resolution about US military spending, for Rep. Adam Smith
(See the statement below by Rep. Smith about this resolution.) (New, April 7, 2019: The Washington State Democratic Central Committee passed a slightly amended version of this resolution at the state party meeting in Pasco. The THEREFORE clause is as follows: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, call on…