Washington Indivisible Podcast

Fuse Washington's Reiny Cohen joins us to give a preview of key legislative priorities in the upcoming 2024 session.

With the start of the 2024 legislative session just a month away, we talk this week about two ways you can have a real impact on the legislative process.

The first is to become a bill tracker with Washington Indivisible Legislative Action, or WILA. The other is to sign up for the Take Action Network, or TAN, an email subscription database that sends you a list of actions you can take on specific legislative issues based on your areas of interest.

Our guest is Louise Pathe, leader of Washington Indivisible Legislative Action (as well as a member of the Washington Indivisible Network steering committee).

Show Notes:

Email: [email protected]

https://www.takeaction.network/videos

https://www.takeaction.network/bill_tracker_training

https://bit.ly/TAN-Logos-Signup

As we gear up for the 2024 election cycle, this show is going to be bringing you a number of ways that you can get involved. This week, we talk with our friend, Jody Rein. She is Indivisible’s senior manager of Truth Brigade, a group of volunteers who work to fight disinformation and shape narratives online, and she joins us to talk about how messaging can move the needle in 2024.

Truth Brigade will be hosting their final call of the year on December 13th, to celebrate community and to talk about their new Disinfo-Busters campaign.

SHOW NOTES:

Indivisible's Twitter/X Last campaign: https://www.xlast.org/

Disinfo-Busters campaign, live next week at SpeechiFAI: https://app.speechifai.tech/campaign/D470242F-C007-4C19-BB05-A907E220F444

Join the Truth Brigade: https://act.indivisible.org/signup/indivisible-truth-brigade

Truth Brigade's notes on the Middle East conflict: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15OJP_wjkXFitzIh7JNnKEUPgnwCNx-1xRfFgQBjrcNg/edit

Learn more about Truth Brigade: https://indivisible.org/campaign/truth-brigade

Washington Democratic Party Chair Shasti Conrad joins us to discuss:

- Her current priorities as chair

- Important races she's focused on for November 7

- Her take on where things stand for the 2024 election with our governor's race, as well crucial House races in the 3rd and 8th CDs

- Where we can best direct our time, energy, and resources in 2024 to have the greatest impact

- and more!

As we wind up our school board race coverage, we talk this week with three candidates who are running for seats on the Puyallup School District Board, each whom faces an opponent affiliated with Pierce County Moms for Liberty.

Amanda Cuthbert (Position 3)

Trish Crocker (Position 2)

Davida Sharpe Haygood (Position 5)

Show Notes:

Amanda Cuthbert: https://www.amandacuthbert.com/

Davida Sharpe Haygood: https://www.vote4davida.com/

Trish Crocker: https://friends4trish.com/

Patty Kuderer is a state senator representing Washington’s 48th LD, and she recently declared her candidacy for state insurance commissioner in next year’s election. She joins us this week to discuss:

- her personal and professional reasons for running for the position

- her commitment to creating universal healthcare for all Washingtonians, and how she'd work as commissioner to advance work she's already done as state senator

- her ideas for regulating the gun industry through the insurance industry

- and much more.

Show Notes:

http://www.pattykuderer.com

In response to the threat posed by extreme right-wing groups like Moms for Liberty to our public schools, we continue our coverage of critical school board races across the state. This week, we are joined by three individuals who are running for election in and around Kitsap.

Breezy Mitchell: https://www.electbreezymitchell.com/

Terri Schumacher: https://schumacher4board.poliengine.com/

Karen Bolton: https://www.electkarenbolton.com/

Listeners to this show know just how important this year’s school board elections are. Radical right-wing groups like Moms for Liberty have been working to infiltrate our school boards here in Washington, so to raise awareness, we are beginning our coverage this week of crucial school board races across the state.

We begin with three women who are running for election in and around Spokane, each against an extreme-right challenger. Jaime Stacy is running for an open seat in the Mead School District. And Debra Long and Cindy McMullen are both incumbents running for reelection to the Central Valley School District board.

These are exceptional candidates, and they offer an instructive example of how to fight back against extremism in your school district.

Show Notes:

Jamie Stacy campaign website: https://www.votejaimestacy.com/

Strong Women Achieving Greatness: https://www.strongwomenachievinggreatness.com/news

Campaign website for Debra Long: https://cvsdkidsfirst.com/debra/

Campaign website for Cynthia McMullen: https://cvsdkidsfirst.com/cindy/

While efforts to ban books in other states have gotten nationwide attention, many of us may not be aware of similar attempts right here in Washington to censor books in our schools and public libraries.

Secretary of State Steve Hobbs oversees Washington’s public libraries, and he joins us to talk about what’s being done to counter this threat, and also to bring us up to date on what’s being done to protect our elections going into 2024.

Unpacking this year's primary results with chair of the King County Democrats, Carrie Barnes.

We discuss results in the many city and county council races, as well as some critical school board races, and Carrie talks about the many ways you can get involved with this November's general election.

Show Notes:

For inquiries on how you can get involved: [email protected]

http://www.kcdems.org