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Sound Politics — 100 episodes

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Fact-checking election attack ads

2

Could the trans ban pass in WA? Polling says yes

3

Republicans could gain ground in WA's last swing district

4

Can socialists budget better?

5

Sound Politics LIVE

6

Seattle’s mayor lives in a one-bedroom apartment. Can she help fellow renters afford to live here?

7

Voting fight update, school strike averted, Katie Wilson's pledge

8

When WA defunded Dolly Parton

9

Where food meets politics: We visit South Seattle's most iconic fish fry

10

Wilson recall, shooting fallout, primary election updates: The biggest politics stories of the week

11

Primary election results 2026: Jimothy vs. your mom

12

Did Seattle's police chief just get fired? (UPDATE)

13

Hey, big spender! Former governors rip Dems in Olympia

14

Trump drama in MAGA Washington

15

Mamdani's Seattle? Not so fast...

16

What SCOTUS' trans athletes ruling means for WA

17

RIP, vote-by-mail?

18

Ted Cruz + Maria Cantwell: Healing America With Sports?

19

Is Katie Wilson ready for the World Cup?

20

Did Portland solve the gerrymandering problem?

21

Why WA hasn't joined the gerrymandering wars....yet

22

Trump admin takes on WA's transgender prison policy

23

Is Seattle killing big biz?

24

Gerrymander? Mutiny? Dems fight it out

25

Where is Governor Bob Ferguson?

26

Historic Supreme Court races: Could they sink the 'millionaires tax'?

27

Mayor Wilson at 100 days: a progress report

28

Where are your lawmakers now? We go to the woods

29

Brian Heywood on taking the millionaire's tax to court

30

Sonic Politics

31

Why Joe Kent quit

32

How weird is Washington's millionaire's tax?

33

Listener mailbag: Iran redux

34

Seattle's Iranian diaspora processes war

35

Could conservative sheriffs get removed from office?

36

Robin Hood: Dems in Tights

37

Jayapal on what she saw in the Epstein files

38

Taxing the jocks and the nerds

39

Do “general strikes” work? Seattle history has an answer

40

How do you measure a year in Trump?

41

Incoming: a state income tax showdown with Ferguson onboard

42

Katie Wilson: Socialist mayor running a capitalist city

43

Sugar, spice and everything dais

44

Can taxing millionaires fix WA’s broken budget?

45

Policing rain city

46

'Tis the season to talk taxes

47

Thanksgiving side dish: A morsel of post-election politics

48

The inside story of Katie Wilson's win

49

Shutdown drama over, and Harrell exits stage left

50

All politics is national

51

The weird rule that shapes Seattle school board races

52

Send this to a procrastinator voter

53

Jock vs nerd: who will be the next Mayor of Seattle?

54

He went viral for shouting down 'antifa.' Now he feels different

55

The dream of the right wing is alive in Portland

56

Seagulls shut down candidates as congress shuts down the gov

57

TV on the radio

58

A high horse and a gaslight walk into a bar (with guest Brandi Kruse)

59

Heywood you sign this? Let's Go WA is working on two new initiatives

60

What's lobbying got to do with it?

61

Democrats' big, blue branding problem

62

Letter(s) of the law(s): WA and DC trade angry notes

63

A big threat to Democrats' WA swing district

64

August slipped away for Seattle incumbents

65

Polls, primaries, and a weird b-day for a 1-year-old pod

66

Everybody hates big $ in elections. Is this a fix?

67

Bruce Harrell vs. everyone

68

Who's your lawyer?

69

SO MUCH IS HAPPENING

70

(Middle) Eastern politics with Eastern WA's Congressman

71

Sound Politics goes scorched-earth

72

Protest is in the air. Plus, Rep. Smith punches left AND right.

73

SaWant to Beat a Democrat?

74

Who's footing the big, beautiful, budget bill?

75

Ferguson's pen commandments

76

Democratic dominoes and an odd election

77

Rep. Emily Randall on UW, resisting Trump, tariffs and "constitutional crisis"

78

The Grand Old Panel

79

What bills are graduating this legislative session, and what's flunking out?

80

The Democratic civil war over taxes

81

Gary Locke says WA will be caught in the China crossfire

82

All's Faire in love and trade wars

83

Sound Politics gets overwhelmed

84

Now's your time to yell (questions) at us

85

Is this the year rent limits pass?

86

Republicans' unlikely ally: Gov. Ferguson

87

The graveyard shift: lessons from WA's dead bills (so far)

88

The governor's honeymoon is over with Democrats

89

Firings and bad vibes hit PNW's federal workers

90

For your ears only: The politics of privacy

91

USAID in Seattle, Musk-opoly, and a chick off the old block

92

Does Seattle love social housing enough to fund it?

93

Washington 'gets Jesse' and sues Pres. Trump

94

A new governor and a salmon-shaped budget hole

95

Cut spending? Limit vaping? Lawmakers decide in Olympia

96

New year, new (laws that affect) you

97

Inslee looks back on his way out

98

Washington shifted right less than any state. Why?

99

Big names bowing out of Seattle-area politics

100

Washington stares into the (budget) abyss