
How Republican Kim Wyman keeps winning in blue Washington state
The secretary of state’s latest victory will make her the only statewide GOP official on the West Coast, outside of Alaska.
Melissa Santos is formerly a Crosscut staff reporter who covered state politics and the Legislature. She came to Crosscut from The Seattle Times editorial board, where she wrote columns and opinion pi
The secretary of state’s latest victory will make her the only statewide GOP official on the West Coast, outside of Alaska.
He’s not actually out of work — and the city of Republic didn’t exactly 'defund' its police department, as the Republican candidate claimed.
The pandemic is creating more ways for people to make their voices heard at the state Capitol without traveling in person to Olympia.
Democrats already had strong majorities, but Tuesday’s election may have created an even more progressive Legislature than before.
Democrats dominated at the top of the ticket in Washington state, even as the national results in the presidential race remained unclear.