Washington Indivisible Podcast

Chris Franco is a Ranger-qualified combat veteran who currently works as in key leadership for King County at the forefront of racial equity issues and the COVID response.

He's just announced his run for King County Council in District 9, and he joins us on the pod to talk about his vision for proactive, empathetic leadership in government.

Links:

Website: https://www.francoforkingcounty.com/

Campaign launch: tinyurl.com/FrancoKickoff

In this Deep Dive Town Hall Series, we tackle the climate crisis. Representatives from three Washington join us to talk about their respective legislative agendas, and what their goals and hopes are for this year’s session. With:

- Jamie Ptacek, Lead Organizer of the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign with the land-use organization, Futurewise

- Lauren Braynaert, Coalition Director with Climate Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, a multi-sector, climate-just coalition in WA state.

- Kat Holmes, Field Director with the Washington Environmental Council and Washington Conservation Voters

This was recorded live on Saturday, January 26th.

Show Notes:

Washington Can't Wait legislative agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k6x9vcawlVSQc-qDmqgy819cLfAO_31tLJZeOyhb2gA/edit

Environmental Priorities Coalition legislative agenda: https://wecprotects.org/environmental-priorities-coalition-2/

Climate Alliance for Job & Clean Energy legislative agenda: https://waclimatealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Climate-Alliance-Resilient-Future-Platform.pdf

Today's pod is all about how progressive taxation can fix the most upside-down tax structure in America. Washington State’s tax system is broken, and Rep. Noel Frame has devoted much of her time in the state legislature to fixing it.

In her capacity as the newly appointed chair of the House Finance Committee, she joins us to talk about the history of our tax system, and about a number of legislative cures, including a brand new wealth tax, aimed at making our state’s 100 billionaires pay their fair share.

Show notes:

HB 1406 Wealth Tax: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1406&Initiative=false&Year=2021

HB 1406 text: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/1406.pdf?q=20210127165225

HB 1297 Working Family Tax Credit: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1297&Initiative=false&Year=2021

HB 1336 Broadband bill https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1336&Year=2021&Initiative=false

Rep. Frame’s Tax Structure Working Group: taxworkgroup.org

Watch all live testimony here: http://tvw.org

If you’d like to participate in the hearing on Tuesday, February 2nd at 1:30pm:

• Go to: https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSIRemote/House

• Choose “Finance” as the committee

• Choose Feb. 2 1:30pm as the meeting slot

• Select which bill to support (Rep. Frame recommends selecting both the wealth tax, HB 1406, AND the Working Families Tax Credit, HB 1297)

• Choose one of the following:

- I would like to submit written testimony (deadline: 24 hours after start of hearing)

- I would like to testify live during the hearing (deadline: 1 hour prior to start of hearing)

- I would like my position noted for the legislative record (deadline: 1 hour prior to start of hearing)

If you’d like to testify, please coordinate with Emily Parzybok with Balance Our Tax Code at [email protected].

Per Rep. Frame: “Live testimony is time limited and we need to ensure advocates are coordinated. Once they coordinate and decide they’ll indeed testify, they can sign up at that link up to 1 hour prior to the hearing.”

As we transition into a new era with a Biden presidency and a Democratic trifecta(!), many progressives are wondering what happens next.

Today's podcast is a town hall with Indivisible co-founders and co-executive directors, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, discuss “Indivisible Guide: A Practical Guide for Fixing Our Democracy,” brand-new guide offering lessons from the past, and directives for a new and better future.

This was recorded live on Saturday, January 23rd.

In partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network, we bring you our Deep Dive Town Hall Series, learning about key issues Indivisibles care about.

Today, a look at the legislative agenda for Washington for Black Lives a black-led, multiracial coalition here in the state. We’re joined by three of its members, Kamau Chege (Director of the Washington Community Alliance), Samuel Martin (CEO of S.D. Martin Consulting), and Representative Jesse Johnson (LD 30), to discuss demands for economic justice, police and prison defunding, and ending police militarization.

This was recorded live on the evening of Thursday, January 14th.

Today, two of our state’s top Democrats join us to discuss, well, everything that’s happened since the beginning of year. Shasti Conrad, Chair of the King County Democrats, and Will Casey, Communications Director for the Washington State Democrats, weigh in on the inauguration, President Biden’s first day in office, and what we can be pushing for as progressives.

We also talk about the Jan. 6th insurrection, how it connects to hate groups here at home, and about what it’s going to take to disempower and delegitimize these forces going forward.

Sign up for Leah & Ezra's town hall on the new Indivisible Guide here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/3814357108639918/

In partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we bring you our Deep Dive Town Hall Series, learning about key issues Indivisibles care about.

Today, we break down how the budgeting process works in the Washington State Legislature, and why it matters. In the words of our guest, 45th LD State Senator Manka Dhingra, budgets are a direct reflection of our values.

Also, her role as the Majority Deputy Leader of the Senate, she lays out the Democrats’ legislative priorities in this year’s session, and shares her thoughts on how we as citizen activists can work to get key legislation through.

This was recorded live on Saturday, January 16th.

In partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we bring you our Insider Town Hall Series, speaking with key decision-makers in Congress and the state legislature about issues Indivisibles care about.

Today, Congressman Rick Larsen. In our wide-ranging discussion, we talk about his experiences during the insurrection, get his thoughts on impeachment, COVID recovery, and how we as Indivisibles might work together on common goals with a new Democrat-controlled federal government.

This conversation was recorded live on Zoom on the evening of Tuesday, December 12th.

In partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we bring you our Deep Dive Town Hall Series, learning about key issues Indivisibles care about.

Today, we break down the legislative process and how laws are made in the Washington State Legislature with former 41st LD state representative, Marcie Maxwell. She unpacks the intricacies and nuances, with a special emphasis on how you can get involved and impact the process.

Today, we check in with national Indivisible’s director of democracy policy, Meagan Hatcher Mays, about the upcoming week of action, The People Lead, about the Democrats’ huge win in Georgia, and we also talk about the insurrection in our nation’s capital (words I never thought I’d say), and its fallout and potential consequences.