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New shadow money from the right

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Dec 16, 2025
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As we were perusing the latest financial disclosures from Let’s Go Washington, the conservative initiative machine that faces an impending deadline to qualify two ballot measures to the Legislature, we noticed a big new donor.

LGW got a check for $300,000 last month from an organization called Washington Rising, which has an interestingly anonymized webs…

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