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How an independent Cascadia would benefit tribes
Any movement toward autonomy and independence for Cascadia must include in its coalition tribes and Indigenous people.
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The feds' plot to mess with Cascadia elections
Here in Cascadia and across the US, the feds have put in place new rules to solve a problem that doesn't exist: fraud in vote-by-mail.
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Cascadia book bingo: Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
One book I read earlier this summer is the Cascadian classic, Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach. The futurist novel first published in 1975 was for many the first time they'd considered the idea of an independent, environmental utopian nation in the Pacific Northwest.
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One day, the Northwest Detention Center will be shut down
The Tacoma prison camp is a grim place, situated between a maze of railroad tracks and surrounded by razor wire. It looks exactly like what it is: a concentration camp where 1,500 people are held, many indefinitely.
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Cascadia has become a haven for trans refugees
Seattle and Portland have become safe havens from places passing restrictive anti-trans laws.
Economy
As feds hold back disaster funds to Cascadia, tax gap grows to $51 billion
Cascadia – Oregon and Washington together – paid $51.5 billion more in taxes than were returned back to our region in funding in 2025.
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Cascadia should follow North Dakota's lead and create public state banks
After a talk last night in Seattle by Bank of North Dakota CEO Don Morgan, I came away even more convinced that Oregon and Washington should make creating public state banks a high legislative priority.
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Feds want to triple logging in Oregon & SE Washington
The Trump regime is systematically destroying protections for Oregon and Washington's forests and moving to triple logging of public lands in Cascadia.
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ICE ramps up kidnappings in Puget Sound region
ICE is desperate to push forward its deportation effort and please their fascist little president.
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Independent Cascadia? Questions to be asked. Reasons to be skeptical.
Responding to a recent call for independence by a new group called Cascadia Democratic Action, I have three critical questions. Is it practical? Is it the best way to serve the common good? Could it undermine broader progressive efforts? I attempt answers here.
Arts & Culture
Cascadia shines for the World Cup
As World Cup soccer fans have flooded Seattle and Vancouver for matches, it's brought an energy an excitement to Cascadia's two largest cities.
Arts & Culture
Coast Salish Indigenous canoes inspire little poetry bookcases in Auburn & Muckleshoot land
Mateo Quispe, the poet laureate of Auburn, led the creation of little libraries of Indigenous poetry and placed them in community spaces across Auburn and Muckleshoot lands.