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Rantz: Left-wing doctor pretends determining gender is a complex medical mystery
A Seattle doctor wants voters to believe telling a boy from a girl is a medical mystery too complex for a sports physical, and the Seattle Times is happy to give her top billing days before Election Day. The result reads less like health reporting and more like a No on I-638 mailer, which likely was the intent. The Seattle Times story, by health reporter Elise Takahama, looks at what Initiative 638 would ask of physicians if voters keep biological males out of K-12 girls’ sports.
Four years in Congress, one renamed post office: John Braun rips Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s record in WA-3
Republican John Braun says Democratic Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has little to show for nearly four years in Congress beyond a renamed post office in Bucoda. The bill, H.R. 9421, honored the late Bucoda Mayor Rob Gordon. Her congressional office announced it was signed into law in January 2025. Gluesenkamp Perez has won Washington’s 3rd Congressional District twice by casting herself as an independent voice.
Public employee unions pour millions into campaign to save Washington income tax
Public employee unions are supplying the overwhelming majority of the money behind the campaign to preserve Washington’s new income tax, with union contributions totaling a reported $11.1 million of the $12.5 million raised by the No on 645 committee, according to a Seattle Red review of Public Disclosure Commission filings.
Rantz: Want to repeal the Washington income tax? Don’t be tricked. Make sure you vote this way
Washington voters who want to kill the state’s new income tax need to vote Yes on Initiative 645 when ballots hit mailboxes in the coming days, and Washington Democrats are counting on enough of them getting it backwards. I-645 repeals the 9.9 percent tax on household income above $1 million that Democrats passed this year, the first income tax in state history. A Yes vote repeals the tax. A No vote keeps it. Ballots will be in hands in the coming days.
Jeopardy! Host Doubles Down On Lies Leaving Washington Taxpayers Searching For Answers
“I’ll take far-left game show hosts peddling far-left propaganda for $500, please.” “This Seattle millionaire just spent 30 seconds lying to Washington voters about Initiative 645, Democrats’ latest income tax scheme.” “Who is Ken Jennings?” The liberal “Jeopardy!” host stars in a new “No on 645” television ad airing in Washington state, and almost everything he says is either a lie or aggressively misleading. The only fact he gets right is when he identifies himself.
Rantz: Yakima judges effectively tell criminal defendants they can skip court to avoid ICE
Yakima Municipal Court Presiding Judge Aryn Masters has found a way to help criminal defendants dodge federal immigration agents. She’s telling them they don’t have to step foot in her courthouse. Masters and Judge Troy Clements are complaining to the Yakima Herald-Republic that ICE agents are making arrests at the Richard A. Zais Jr. Law and Justice Center without clearing it with the court first. Her fix?
Rantz: Trump brings back Columbus Day. Seattle still pretends it doesn’t exist
Monday is Columbus Day, and President Donald Trump wants the country to treat it like one. Seattle will spend the day acting like the holiday never existed. Trump’s 2026 Columbus Day proclamation declares October 12 Columbus Day and orders the American flag displayed on every public building in the explorer’s honor. “Today, as we celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World, we honor his unrivaled greatness,” the proclamation reads.
Rantz: Nidal Hasan deserves the firing squad, but we don’t need to watch it
Nidal Hasan is a monster who deserves to die, and a firing squad is a perfectly fine way to do it. Broadcasting his death to anyone with a phone, however, is a terrible idea, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should back off it. On November 5, 2009, the then-Army psychiatrist opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others. A military jury convicted him in 2013 and sentenced him to death. The families have waited 13 years for justice and that’s entirely too long.
Costco shoppers get about $30 each from a $14 million Washington email settlement while lawyers pocket $4.6 million
Costco will pay $14 million to settle a Washington class-action lawsuit over its marketing email subject lines. The shoppers who filed claims stand to collect about $30 each, though their attorneys will earn roughly $4.6 million. King County Superior Court Judge Janet Helson gave final approval to the deal last week, the Seattle Times reported Thursday. The case, Aaland v.
Marie Perez tells voters no one should choose between groceries and medicine while her campaign staff are denied coverage
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has spent her reelection campaign promising Southwest Washington voters cheaper, more accessible health care, yet federal campaign records show her committee has never paid for a group health plan for the staffers working to keep her in Congress. The Washington Free Beacon first reported the gap Wednesday, citing Federal Election Commission filings that show payments for liability and workers’ compensation insurance but no direct payments for employee health coverage.
Braun rips Gluesenkamp Perez’s attack ad blaming him for a budget written by Washington Democrats
Senate Minority Leader John Braun says Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is leaning on dishonest attack ads because she has no record to defend, as the two head toward their first televised debate in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District on October 7. Braun, who beat the incumbent in the August primary, pushed back Monday on a Gluesenkamp Perez campaign ad blaming him for Washington’s soaring costs, tax hikes and budget crisis.
Rantz: Literally every claim in Pramila Jayapal’s argument for a Washington income tax is a lie
Rep. Pramila Jayapal told Washington voters that repealing the state’s new income tax would hand the rich a $300 billion tax break. It’s a lie, and not even a competent one. The Seattle congresswoman posted the claim to X on Saturday morning as a way to bring attention to a new ad paid for by far-left unions. She claimed that, “Working families already pay 3 times more than the top 1% in Washington.
Rantz: KING 5 linked ICE arrests at a Shoreline Costco and Bellevue REI to a Fiestas Patrias parade miles away
KING 5’s resistance reporter Sharon Yoo took an ordinary Sunday of ICE arrests scattered from Shoreline to Tacoma and presented it as an immigration crackdown aimed at a Latino heritage parade in Seattle. Her own story shows otherwise. It was the latest example of the station’s anti-ICE, open-borders propaganda. The headline ties the arrests to Fiestas Patrias celebrations. Yoo reports at least 11 arrests Sunday, a count pulled from ICEout.org, a tracking site built by far-left activists.
52-year-old Ichiro dominates elite girls team amid WA sports fight
Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki is 52 years old, retired from Major League Baseball seven years ago, and old enough to be the father of nearly every player he faced last weekend. He still threw a 127-pitch shutout against some of the best high school girls baseball players in Japan. The performance comes as Washington voters prepare to decide one of the most contentious cultural questions on the November ballot: whether girls’ school sports should be reserved for biological females.
Nordstrom says Bellevue cops respond every time it calls 911. In Seattle, it’s barely one in three
Nordstrom’s flagship store in downtown Seattle gets a police officer on only 29% of its 911 calls, according to a letter signed by 38 of the region’s most powerful business leaders. The retailer’s Bellevue and Southcenter stores get an officer every time they call. Seattle can’t deliver what its suburbs handle as routine.
Rantz: Washington caves on NRA instructor ban after gun permit fiasco blows up in its face
The Washington State Patrol now says NRA-certified instructors can teach the mandatory permit-to-purchase class. The permit still costs $126, and the agency hasn’t reviewed a single curriculum. Days after telling independent NRA-certified instructors they could not teach the firearms safety course required under Washington’s permit-to-purchase law, the agency reversed itself. Instead of admitting it misread the law, WSP reportedly blamed the terminology.
Ex-Seattle Times columnist says far-left newsroom activists killed his columns
Matt Calkins spent 11 years pitching columns at the Seattle Times, and he says the ones that cut against the newsroom’s politics were finished before he wrote a word. Asked on The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red 770 AM what it felt like to pitch a story his editors would not want, the former sports columnist answered in one word: “pointless.” Calkins resigned in August after editors killed his column about two Washington girls who object to competing against biological males.
Seattle home prices just fell $100,000 in a single month, and the buyers Democrats taxed away aren’t coming back
Seattle home prices fell nearly $100,000 in a single month, and the city’s median is now down 9% from where it was a year ago. The Eastside gave up even more ground, shedding $225,000 in median price between July and August while active listings ran 45% above last year. Washington’s housing market isn’t softening because sellers suddenly got generous. It’s softening because the buyers who used to bid these homes up have stopped showing up.
Rantz: Washington Democrats made a gun class mandatory, then banned the teachers and jacked up permit fee
Washington Democrats spent 2025 congratulating themselves for passing a permit-to-purchase law they swore was modest, reasonable, and about nothing more than basic safety training. Eighteen months before it takes effect, the agency administering the program informed a huge share of the state’s firearms instructors that they are not allowed to teach the mandatory class. The permit now requires a course that many of the people qualified to teach it are barred from offering.
Progressive pollster hands Marie Gluesenkamp Perez her latest ugly poll in WA-03
A poll from one of Washington’s most reliably far-left outfits just handed Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washougal) the worst possible headline heading into her reelection fight. The Northwest Progressive Institute, run by a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, found Republican John Braun leading the Democratic incumbent in every version of the WA-03 ballot it tested. Her own side’s pollster could not find her a lead.
Seattle is America’s worst city for overnight home break-ins, new data shows
Seattle is the worst city in America for overnight home break-ins, according to a new analysis of federal crime data, and Spokane sits right behind it at number three. It turns out soft-on-crime policies don’t benefit residents. The report from home security company Vivint examined FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System figures for 2024, counting residential burglaries that happened between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. across 100 of the country’s most populous cities.
Bellevue developer says Seattle’s office collapse won’t end without ‘a change at the ballot box’
One of the region’s most prominent commercial real estate executives says downtown Seattle’s record office collapse will not fix itself. Kevin Wallace, CEO of Bellevue-based Wallace Properties, published a pointed analysis on LinkedIn responding to The Seattle Times’ report that nearly 37% of downtown office space now sits empty, the worst rate of any major American downtown, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
Is Jay Inslee running for president again? The guy who polled at zero may think he has a shot
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is suddenly everywhere again. He went on CNN last week to bash President Donald Trump over Iran and deliver his familiar clean energy sermon, the latest stop in a media blitz that has political observers wondering whether the presidential flop is talking himself into another White House run. If he is, he may be the only person in America who thinks it makes sense.
Tim Eyman celebrates ‘incredible 4th of July gift’ as income tax repeal crushes signature record
Tim Eyman, the anti-tax activist who has been tormenting Olympia for nearly three decades, personally hauled petitions into the Secretary of State’s office in Tumwater this week to help qualify the initiative repealing Washington’s 9.9% income tax. The signature drive did not just clear the bar; it obliterated it, with 511,043 voter signatures collected in only 51 days.
Let’s Go Washington turns in over 511,000 signatures to repeal state income tax
Let’s Go Washington delivered 511,408 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office Thursday, putting the repeal of Governor Bob Ferguson’s 9.9% income tax on track for the November ballot. The number crushes the 308,911-signature threshold, and additional petition sheets were still arriving as supporters gathered in Tumwater. The initiative targets SB 6346, the income tax Washington Democrats passed this spring on households earning above $1 million.
Kids’ go-to Christmas gift gets pricier as Microsoft hikes Xbox costs
One of the most requested gifts for kids is about to get a lot more expensive. Microsoft confirmed it will raise prices on Xbox consoles worldwide by as much as $150, and the increase takes effect August 1, well before the holiday shopping rush. The Redmond company announced the change Thursday in an Xbox Wire announcement, marking its third Xbox price hike in roughly 13 months. Starting in August, consoles with 512 GB of storage go up by $100, while 1 TB models climb by $150.
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez plays mechanic in new ad her own website contradicts
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washougal) is back in costume, starring in a new campaign ad that sells voters the same grease-under-the-fingernails mechanic act her own deleted website already exposed as fiction, according to the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee). The Washougal Democrat has built her political identity around a blue-collar small business image, casting herself as a working mechanic who understands Southwest Washington.
Seattle broker challenges City Hall to keep the World Cup version of downtown year-round
A veteran Seattle real estate broker says the World Cup has proven the city can be clean, safe, and open for business, and he is now daring City Hall to keep it that way once the cameras leave. Jeff Reynolds, a managing broker at Compass who brands himself the Seattle Condo Authority and tracks more than 200 downtown buildings, laid out the challenge in a LinkedIn post that has drawn plenty of reactions.
Rantz: Gov. Bob Ferguson’s Pride order bumps the POW/MIA flag off a Steilacoom flagpole
A rainbow Pride flag now flies at the Steilacoom ferry terminal where a POW/MIA flag used to hang thanks to an alarming decision by the state. The flagpole sits on a slice of the Pierce County ferry dock that is leased to the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), which controls restricted access to the Special Commitment Center on neighboring McNeil Island.
Seattle’s housing market defies economic gravity. The Eastside is acting like an adult.
Seattle home prices climbed back toward record highs in May even as inventory hit a 14-year peak, a contradiction that has even one of the city’s most-followed real estate brokers openly puzzled. Matt Goyer of Urban Living, who tracks the Seattle and Eastside markets weekly, laid out the numbers in his latest newsletter. The median sale price in Seattle hit $1,025,000 in May, up $37,000 year over year, above the 2022 peak, and closing in on the 2025 record of $1,040,000.
Seattle ranks among most expensive World Cup cities for Airbnbs, study finds
A new study ranks Seattle the 5th most expensive city to book an Airbnb during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the average listing going for nearly $248 a night during the tournament. The figure comes from student travel company Rustic Pathways, which analyzed Airbnb listings across all 16 World Cup host cities for June and July 2026 and ranked them by average nightly cost. Seattle came in fifth at $247.96 per night, behind Kansas City, Vancouver, Boston, and Dallas.
Inside the Dave Asprey Beyond Biohacking Conference, where MAHA meets the future of your health
Dave Asprey didn’t start a health conference. He started an argument with medicine. Fourteen years ago, the man widely credited with creating “biohacking” gathered 100 people at a San Francisco bar because bars are cheap during the day.
Gluesenkamp Perez stays silent as her party’s income tax strips local cities of police and parks funding
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washougal) has not said a word about Washington’s new 9.9% income tax, and cities across the state are now discovering why Democrats may have preferred that silence to scrutiny. Senate Bill 6346, the legislation that imposes the millionaires tax, also strips away local sales tax revenue that municipalities use to fund police, fire departments, roads, and parks.
Former Microsoft exec moving his business to Idaho, says Washington is ‘hostile’ to small businesses
Ben Rudolph spent years building his career in Washington state, first as a Microsoft executive and then as an entrepreneur. This summer, his brand and strategy agency Cartografiq is heading to Idaho. He is not leaving quietly. Rudolph launched his company after departing Microsoft in 2023, eventually forming Cartografiq, which handles messaging strategy, branding, and go-to-market content for clients across the country and around the world.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal slammed for shameless Memorial Day tweet that ignored the fallen
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) posted a Memorial Day tweet Monday that had nothing to do with Memorial Day. It was an attempt to criticize President Donald Trump. The Seattle Democrat and Squad grandmother spent the holiday attacking Trump over grocery prices, writing that his policies made some cookout staples more expensive for American families. She didn’t mention the military, the fallen, or any reason the day exists. She treated the holiday as a day merely for cookouts.
Rantz: Liberals, can you please stop trying to murder conservatives?
There is a recurring nightmare playing out in real time, and nobody on the left wants to discuss it honestly. On Friday night, a gunman allegedly opened fire on a Secret Service security booth outside the White House before agents returned fire and killed the suspect. A bystander was also struck in the exchange, and President Trump was not harmed. It was the third shooting in or around the White House in a single month.
WA-03 is now a Toss-up: Gluesenkamp Perez hemorrhages base support as her numbers crater
Inside Elections upgraded Washington’s 3rd Congressional District from “Tilt Democratic” to “Toss-up” on Thursday, the latest sign that Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is running out of road heading into 2026. The shift tracks a race that has gotten steadily worse for Gluesenkamp Perez since the year began. A recent NRCC poll, conducted by co/efficient among 982 likely general election voters, shows Republican challenger John Braun leading by seven points, 41% to 34%, with 26% still undecided.
Even the New York Times noticed Seattle’s ‘socialist’ mayor helped drive Starbucks out
The New York Times called Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson a “socialist.” It said she “taunts the rich.” That’s in the headline, not buried below the fold, shining a giant, national spotlight on the tensions between Wilson and the Seattle business community, particularly Starbucks. The paper published a report Sunday framing the growing rift between Wilson and Starbucks as part of a political divide between Seattle and cities like Nashville that actually want businesses to stay.
Seattle teachers union elects new president under investigation for allegedly abusing autistic student
The Seattle Education Association (SEA) just elected a new president who has been on paid administrative leave since December, under investigation for allegedly physically abusing a special-needs student. The union certified her win anyway. Ibijoke Idowu, a special education teacher at Rising Star Elementary School in South Beacon Hill, defeated her opponent 767 to 548 votes, a 58.3% to 41.7% margin, according to certified results first reported by The Seattle Times.
Union-backed group files ‘baseless’ complaint against Brandi Kruse, Let’s Go Washington
A progressive group with ties to public-sector unions has filed a campaign finance complaint with the state Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) targeting Let’s Go Washington over content posted by political commentator Brandi Kruse, a filing that both Kruse and the initiative organization are dismissing as baseless.
‘Historic inventory shock’ hits Seattle real estate as homeowners ditch Washington
Seattle is drowning in homes that nobody is buying. And that, according to one real estate analyst tracking the data closely, finally puts buyers in the driver’s seat. Nick Gerli, CEO of the Reventure App, posted on X Sunday that the Seattle metro is experiencing what he called a “historic inventory shock,” with active listings now running at nearly double their normal level for this time of year.
Pro-Hamas UW hate group calls Turning Point USA ‘Nazis,’ demands school ban conservative speakers
Antisemitic student groups at the University of Washington (UW) are calling on supporters to storm a Turning Point USA event featuring Chloe Cole on Tuesday, calling the mainstream conservative student organization a “Nazi” “hate group” and demanding the school revoke its campus standing. It’s an ironic charge given the same activist network has spent years running cover for Hamas.
New poll shows John Braun leading Marie Gluesenkamp Perez by 7 in WA-03
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released internal district-level polling for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District for the first time this cycle, and the numbers paint a grim picture for Democratic incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. The survey, conducted by co/efficient between April 25 and 29 among 982 likely general election voters, shows State Senate Minority Leader John Braun leading Gluesenkamp Perez by seven points, 41% to 34%, with 26% still undecided.
Seattle’s socialist mayor doesn’t plan on limiting her attacks to the rich Original
Video NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Seattle’s new socialist mayor, with the help of Washington state Democrats, are running the wealthy out of town and they’re laughing about it. Not because they’ll miss the tax revenue generated by the wealthy, but because the wealthy aren’t the only targets. Earlier in May, Mayor Katie Wilson appeared at a Seattle University event and was asked whether she believed progressive taxes were an "easy" solution to the region's fiscal problems.
Washington’s $80,168 salary threshold is the highest in the nation, and Olympia isn’t done
Washington’s salary threshold for salaried workers is the highest in the nation, and Olympia isn’t done raising it. Effective January 1, the state’s exemption threshold climbed to $80,168 per year. That’s the minimum a worker must earn for an employer to avoid tracking their hours, paying overtime, and handling the compliance burdens that come with non-exempt classification. The federal threshold is $35,568. California, the state Democrats typically invoke as a progressive model, is at $70,304.
Katie Wilson’s ‘bye’ to millionaires is a preview of Seattle’s economic collapse: Jason Rantz
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being mocked after she laughed and waved goodbye to any millionaires thinking about leaving Washington over the state’s new 9.9% income tax. Her response reflected a staggering indifference to economic warning signs that are already flashing red. “A couple of Beatle songs come to mind. The first is ‘Taxman,’ and then Seattle says, ‘Goodbye’, and Idaho says, ‘Hello Hello, hello,'” Jason Mercier of the Mountain States Policy Center responded.
Washington state governor’s people are the judge, jury, and prosecutor of ranchers
A Washington ranching family that has worked the same land since the 1950s is now fighting for the right to have their case heard by a jury rather than a panel of governor-appointed bureaucrats. Wade and Teresa King, who operate King Ranch across Grant and Douglas counties in central Washington, face a $267,540 civil penalty from the Washington State Department of Ecology and estimated compliance costs of more than $3.7 million.
Rantz: Jay Inslee is lying about Washington’s emissions record — the numbers prove it
Former Washington Governor Jay Inslee posted something on social media this week that was intended to mislead, while patting himself on the back. After all, he was once labeled the “climate daddy.” It doesn’t take much more than a casual review to realize what he’s doing. “We are reducing carbon pollution and growing our economy,” the former Washington governor wrote of a new Department of Ecology propaganda report on clean energy.
Newhouse leads 15-member House push demanding USDA fix Farm Service Agency staffing crisis
Washington farmers are drowning in costs and paperwork, and the federal offices supposed to throw them a lifeline can’t keep up. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) is demanding the USDA fix a staffing crisis at the agency level before a band-aid becomes the permanent answer. The staffing crisis Newhouse is targeting is well-documented. USDA’s own Office of Inspector General found that FSA shed 24% of its national workforce between January and June 2025 alone.
Glacier Peak High School students accidentally shown nude images during classroom PowerPoint presentation
Students at Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish were shown nude images during a classroom PowerPoint presentation, according to a letter sent to families by the school’s principal. It was an accident. The Snohomish School District says it’s investigating, but many parents still don’t know who the teacher is, what class was affected, or whether that teacher is still in the building.
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