Armando Avila

@DreamAmerica_ Dumb. Our founding fathers knew better than that.

PETE BUTTIGIEG: "What if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College?"

@HillaryClinton Good. Your isms hold no weight.

@GavinNewsom Never happened.

Louisiana’s GOP governor just declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY to CANCEL an election. Not for a storm — but to redraw maps so he can ERASE a historically Black district. They’re not even hiding it. MAGA is rigging elections to silence YOU.

@BarackObama Can we all agree that it’s racist to draw congressional maps based solely on skin color? Can we also agree that eradicating race-based maps is a good thing? By the way, Utah’s only black member of Congress is being replaced by a white man because democrats drew new maps.

INSANE. Seattle's Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington state by saying "BYE" ... then laughing. We're doomed.

@BarackObama Nope. It levels the playing field.

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

For eleven straight years, a Washington state budget line called "Special Appropriations to the Governor" had zero staff. Zero. Every year from FY2014 through FY2025. Until 2026 In FY2026, it has 20.5 full-time positions (FTE) and $1.14 billion in public funds. That number comes directly from the Washington Office of Financial Management's own statewide staffing history at ofm.wa.gov. It is not an interpretation. It is on the state's public record. Here is what this budget line actually does, in OFM's own words: "Special Appropriations to the Governor has been created as a budget entity to separate appropriations that the Governor allocates to other state agencies. Once the allocation is made, expenditures are recorded in the receiving agency." Translation: the legislature puts money into a pool. The governor's office decides which agencies get what and when. The allocation decisions happen inside the governor's office, not in a public legislative vote on that specific use. For context: the entire Office of the Governor proper has 161 FTE and $70.6 million in total appropriations for this biennium. The Special Appropriations pool managed by those 20 positions is sixteen times larger than the governor's direct office budget. The bill that created this structure, ESSB 5167, passed the Senate 28-19 and the House 52-45. Every yes vote was a Democrat. Every no vote was a Republican, per the legislative vote record. It was signed by Governor Ferguson on May 20, 2025. The governor's office has stated the expansion was necessary to respond to federal funding uncertainty from the Trump administration. That explanation may be entirely accurate. It does not change what the structure is. Over a billion dollars flowing through a single pool. Allocation decisions made inside the governor's office. By staff who do not appear on any public vote record. Zero staff for eleven years. Then twenty, managing $1.14 billion. And the average Washington taxpayer has no idea this line exists. I publish the full research and sourced breakdowns on Substack every week. Search Shane Kidwell if you want the deeper dive. @WaGov_US got me on this. We are talking about a discretionary pool of over $1.1 billion that flows through a single budget entity controlled by the governor's office, with 20+ staff managing the allocations, zero elected oversight of how those dollars get distributed to agencies, and a history of zero FTE in this line from FY2014 through FY2025. @GovBobFerguson @KING5Seattle @komonews @KIRO7Seattle @fox13seattle @seattletimes

@GavinNewsom Never happened.

Ron DeSantis just rammed out a gerrymandered MAGA map that openly violates his own state constitution — and leaked it to Fox News before he gave it to the legislature. California let voters decide. Virginia did too. DeSantis won’t. He’s rigging the map because he knows he can’t win on a fair one. Donald Trump started this war on voters. DeSantis is on his knees carrying it out.

Jamie Pedersen, the sponsor of the state income tax, essentially claims you're too dumb to understand his scheme and that's why you're complaining. LOL

@DRPOOLQ17 Will it pass the senate though?

🚨 BREAKING: In a massive victory, the US House has PASSED legislation that DEPORTS migrants who commit fraud against America The legislation targets fraud that involves SNAP, Social Security, a range of conspiracy to defraud, ID fraud and more 186 Democrat traitors opposed it

A King County program manager sent nearly $1 million in grant money to her own family members. Officials were warned about this six years ago—and did absolutely nothing.

@KIRONewsradio @graciegirl1014 Jamie Pedosen is a bald faced liar.

Is Washington moving toward a state income tax? A new report suggests the proposed millionaires’ tax could open the door, but Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen says that’s not true.

@GovBobFerguson Why should anyone care about your press conferences when you refuse to answer questions from the free press? x.com/melissasantos1…

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown looked the press in the eye and claimed his office wasn't helping lawmakers kill your vote on the income tax. The emails say otherwise. He's lying.

Try going on Disney owned ABC and saying that Michelle Obama deserves to be a widow. Or Jill Biden. Or Hillary Clinton. You’d not only have your show canceled, you’d be banned from network media for life. And I’d agree with that. Because wishing death on a woman’s husband is an evil thing to do. No matter the politics. So why is it ok for @Disney owned @ABC to allow Jimmy Kimmel to wish death on Trump and his supporters time and time again? It’s not. It’s indefensible. Fire Jimmy Kimmel. Enough.

Former WA Attorney General @robmckenna refutes claims by current @AGOWA Nick Brown. “I had not seen before this week an example of the AG’s office actively collaborating with a legislative sponsor on how to draft a bill that could get the Constitution basically reinterpreted, and 95 years of precedent overturned," said Mckenna an article by @TCSWashington dated 04.23.26. It appears @AGOWA Nick Brown's Office has been caught red-handed. @WAGOP @KCGOP @JimWalshLD19 @WAPolicyCenter

HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life 🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'" 🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration." 🔵 "Senator Alex Padilla said people are DYING because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration." 🔵 "Senator Elizabeth Warren: President Trump is making the country look like a 'FASCIST STATE'" 🔵 "Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook" Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarism on STEROIDS" 🔵 "Governor JB Pritzker: 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a MOMENT of peace.'" 🔵 "Rep. Pressley saying we'll see you in the streets." 🔵 Monica M McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will "not take this sh*t from Donald Trump. He thinks he's a DICTATOR. We are at WAR!" "These are Democrat elected officials calling for WAR against the president of the United States and his supporters."

In light of the damning emails showing Attorney General Nick Brown's office advised the legislature to add an Emergency Clause, for the specific purpose of blocking a Referendum on the income tax... Lets Go Washington has added this evidence to its case to the Supreme Court that an Emergency Clause was not appropriate in the first place. Expect more updates later this week. @CarleenJohn1970 | @TCSWashington 'WA Income Tax Fight Escalates: New Filing Cites Explosive Documents'

California auditors gave Newsom a map of (210) Hospice centers within a mile of each other, and Newsom ignored it RFK Jr shutdown (500) of them and not one called to ask why... this has been going on the entire time Newsom has been Governor The evidence is in... charge Newsom

@GovBobFerguson It’s a constitutional republic.

Thankful for the quick actions of law enforcement keeping everyone safe at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Violence has no place in our democracy.