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Sound Politics — 107 episodes

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Hey, big spender! Former governors rip Dems in Olympia

2

Trump drama in MAGA Washington

3

Mamdani's Seattle? Not so fast...

4

What SCOTUS' trans athletes ruling means for WA

5

RIP, vote-by-mail?

6

Ted Cruz + Maria Cantwell: Healing America With Sports?

7

Is Katie Wilson ready for the World Cup?

8

Did Portland solve the gerrymandering problem?

9

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

10

Trump admin takes on WA's transgender prison policy

11

Is Seattle killing big biz?

12

Gerrymander? Mutiny? Dems fight it out

13

Where is Governor Bob Ferguson?

14

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

15

Mayor Wilson at 100 days: a progress report

16

Where are your lawmakers now? We go to the woods

17

Brian Heywood on taking the millionaire's tax to court

18

Sonic Politics

19

Why Joe Kent quit

20

How weird is Washington's millionaire's tax?

21

Listener mailbag: Iran redux

22

Seattle's Iranian diaspora processes war

23

Could conservative sheriffs get removed from office?

24

Robin Hood: Dems in Tights

25

Jayapal on what she saw in the Epstein files

26

Taxing the jocks and the nerds

27

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

28

How do you measure a year in Trump?

29

Incoming: a state income tax showdown with Ferguson onboard

30

Katie Wilson: Socialist mayor running a capitalist city

31

Sugar, spice and everything dais

32

Can taxing millionaires fix WA’s broken budget?

33

Policing rain city

34

'Tis the season to talk taxes

35

Thanksgiving side dish: A morsel of post-election politics

36

The inside story of Katie Wilson's win

37

Shutdown drama over, and Harrell exits stage left

38

All politics is national

39

The weird rule that shapes Seattle school board races

40

Send this to a procrastinator voter

41

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

42

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

43

The dream of the right wing is alive in Portland

44

Seagulls shut down candidates as congress shuts down the gov

45

TV on the radio

46

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

47

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

48

What's lobbying got to do with it?

49

Democrats' big, blue branding problem

50

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

51

A big threat to Democrats' WA swing district

52

August slipped away for Seattle incumbents

53

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

54

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

55

Bruce Harrell vs. everyone

56

Who's your lawyer?

57

SO MUCH IS HAPPENING

58

(Middle) Eastern politics with Eastern WA's Congressman

59

Sound Politics goes scorched-earth

60

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

61

SaWant to Beat a Democrat?

62

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

63

Ferguson's pen commandments

64

Democratic dominoes and an odd election

65

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

66

The Grand Old Panel

67

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

68

The Democratic civil war over taxes

69

Gary Locke says WA will be caught in the China crossfire

70

All's Faire in love and trade wars

71

Sound Politics gets overwhelmed

72

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

73

Is this the year rent limits pass?

74

Republicans' unlikely ally: Gov. Ferguson

75

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

76

The governor's honeymoon is over with Democrats

77

Firings and bad vibes hit PNW's federal workers

78

For your ears only: The politics of privacy

79

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

80

Does Seattle love social housing enough to fund it?

81

Washington 'gets Jesse' and sues Pres. Trump

82

A new governor and a salmon-shaped budget hole

83

Cut spending? Limit vaping? Lawmakers decide in Olympia

84

New year, new (laws that affect) you

85

Inslee looks back on his way out

86

Washington shifted right less than any state. Why?

87

Big names bowing out of Seattle-area politics

88

Washington stares into the (budget) abyss

89

The governor's gambit: Bob Ferguson's rise from chess champ to state leader

90

In a redder America, Washington stands alone

91

As America zigs, Washington zags

92

Is WA a crystal ball for who will become the next president?

93

Doordash, Walmart, and Pinocchio (??) want to sway your vote

94

Will Washington voters pass the gas (initiative)?

95

Who are the big political donors handing out treats this spooky season?

96

Death, taxes, and horseplay

97

WA GOP Horoscope: Trump rising, Dan Newhouse in retrograde

98

Gas prices, climate change, and the biggest ballot initiative of the year

99

The debate you didn't hear about - governor smackdown!

100

Can astronauts vote… for lands commissioner?

101

Instead of going high, Democrats are going 'weird'

102

Democrats are on a hope high in Chicago

103

Why our ballot's so big

104

Sound Politics gets primaried

105

A red-hot rematch is shaping up in purple southwest Washington

106

Brat Summer is over. The WA governor's race is here

107

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