Let’s Go Washington and Brian Heywood reckon with the rising proclivity for political violence fomented by America’s right wing

Violence begets violence. It's therefore not surprising that Republicans and right wing organizers are now experiencing an increase in political violence themselves. They unleashed a monster, metaphorically speaking, and they can't control it.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/10/lets-go-washington-and-brian-heywood-reckon-with-the-rising-proclivity-for-political-violence-fomented-by-americas-right-wing.html

#FairElections #FirstFreedoms #PermanentDefense #PoliticalViolence #WA-Ballot

Washington voters emphatically rejected “buffer zones” for signature gatherers in 2013, but Brandi Kruse still wants them

The right wing podcaster is still upset that a Republican legislative effort to unconstitutionally restrict the people's right to peaceably assemble went nowhere after one of NPI's senior advisers made the case against it in 2023.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/09/washington-voters-emphatically-rejected-buffer-zones-for-signature-gatherers-in-2013-but-brandi-kruse-still-wants-them.html

#FairElections #FirstFreedoms #MisinformationandDisinformation #PermanentDefense #WA-Ballot

Jimmy Kimmel Live to return tomorrow night, Disney says, as Bob Iger and top executives try to stave off more brand damage

The company is unsuspending Kimmel's show, though Sinclair and Nexstar have not committed to airing it. Disney did not disclose details of the understanding it has reached with the late night host, but it has been under immense pressure to bring him back.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/09/jimmy-kimmel-live-to-return-tomorrow-night-disney-says-as-bob-iger-and-top-executives-try-to-stave-off-more-brand-damage.html

#censorship #FirstFreedoms #FutureofJournalism #MediaConsolidation

Watch Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers respond to Jimmy Kimmel’s unconstitutional FCC-demanded suspension

Watch five clips from other late night talk shows expressing solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel and condemning government-ordered censorship.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/09/watch-jon-stewart-stephen-colbert-jimmy-fallon-and-seth-meyers-respond-to-jimmy-kimmels-unconstitutional-fcc-demanded-suspension/

#Censorship #FirstFreedoms #FutureofJournalism

Disney/ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair just pulled late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off the air after threat from Trump’s FCC chair

Weeks after Paramount canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel's show has been iced... and not because Kimmel said or did anything wrong, but because he was making jokes Donald Trump's regime doesn't like.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/09/disney-abc-nexstar-and-sinclair-just-pulled-late-night-talk-show-host-jimmy-kimmel-off-the-air-after-threat-from-trumps-fcc-chair.html

#censorship #FirstFreedoms #FutureofJournalism #MediaOwnership

False equivalency journalism is masking the truth that the right wing is behind rising political violence nationally and globally

Perhaps afraid to antagonize Donald Trump or his enablers, or not wanting to be attacked by right wing media, many journalists are choosing not to call out who and what is responsible for an increase in political violence. That must change.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/09/false-equivalency-journalism-is-masking-the-truth-that-the-right-wing-is-behind-rising-political-violence-nationally-and-globally.html

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Taking book bans to a whole new level: Right wing parents are trying to shutter an entire library in rural Washington via ballot measure

A rural community library system in the Pacific Northwest is under attack from a right wing ballot measure that seeks its closure after library staff and trustees refused to go along with a parent's censorship agenda.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/08/taking-book-bans-to-a-whole-new-level-right-wing-parents-are-trying-to-shutter-an-entire-library-in-rural-washington-via-ballot-measure.html

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