The number of Black women in Washington’s Legislature will triple next year, and the state just elected a Black woman to Congress for the first time.

Several races where Democrats led on election night have since flipped to the GOP, leaving the overall balance of power in Olympia unchanged.

As a group of lawmakers and advocates work on a new hate crime law, a community debates whether one attack should qualify as a hate crime. 

The secretary of state’s latest victory will make her the only statewide GOP official on the West Coast, outside of Alaska.

Activists, politicians and academics argue the Electoral College is an antiquated system with racist roots.

As the Biden-Harris administration prepares to take power, Crosscut asked six opinion writers to share early thoughts on what comes next.

With a friendly administration and a shifting local party system, a political realignment could be underway.

The pandemic is creating more ways for people to make their voices heard at the state Capitol without traveling in person to Olympia.

Democrats dominated at the top of the ticket in Washington state, even as the national results in the presidential race remained unclear.

How long will counting ballots take? Will people be demonstrating? Here’s what we’re keeping an eye on tonight.

A collective of campaign workers across the state says it’s tired of working crazy hours with no job security or health care.

Democratic candidates Marko Liias and Denny Heck are vying for an office that may not even be necessary.

At all levels of government, the state has made stunning increases in representation. But much work remains to build a democracy that reflects us all.

Often ignored or faced with barriers, young voters this year have turned out in higher numbers than 2016, 2017 and 2019.

The former Secretary of State on the political heritage that created a model for the rest of the country