Washington Progressive Party

Washington Progressive Party
Founded	2002; 23 years ago (2002)
Headquarters	Bow, Washington
Ideology	Progressivism Democratic socialism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	National Progressive Party
Colors	Red
Seats in the U.S. Senate	0 / 2
Seats in the U.S. House	0 / 10
Statewide Executive Offices	0 / 8
Seats in the State Senate	0 / 49
Seats in the State House	0 / 98
Politics of Washington Elections

The Washington Progressive Party (WAPP) is a minor political party in Washington state affiliated with the National Progressive Party. The current chair of the party is Ashley Stallworth accompanied, by vice-chair Stephanie Browne.^[1] The party advocates for leftist politics and policies including Medicare for All as Single-payer healthcare^[2] and the Green New Deal.^[3] It had three candidates running under its name in 2020, Kathryn Lewandowsky for Washington Legislative District 39, Taylor Zimmerman for Washington Legislative District 10, and Gentry Lange for Washington's Secretary of State.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Political positions

Healthcare

The WAPP supports universal, single-payer healthcare, and abortion rights.

Education

The WAPP supports universal pre-K, tuition-free public colleges and universities, Education in American Sign Language, Education in both English and a person's first language, Free lunch, Free school transportation, school mental health services, changing class sizes and hiring more teachers.

Housing

The WAPP supports an increase in public investment to create affordable housing, as well as rent control, housing subsidies, supportive services for renters, updating housing codes to include unconventional and wheeled housing and they oppose homeless sweeps. All with the goal to eliminate involuntary homelessness.

References

1. "Meet our Council". Washington Progressive Party. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
2. "Candidates, Elected Officials, Businesses and Leaders who have endorsed Whole Washington". Whole Washington. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
3. "Washington Progressive Party - Platform". www.waprogressiveparty.org. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
4. "Taylor Zimmermann". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
5. "Gentry Lange". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
6. "Washington Progressive Party - Candidates". www.waprogressiveparty.org. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
7. "Kathryn Lewandowsky". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
8. Davis-Leonard, Ian (October 18, 2020). "Incumbent faces third-party foe in 39th District Senate race". HeraldNet.com. Retrieved June 2, 2021.