We Believe:

• All Americans must have equitable access to the political process, regardless of health, place of residence, economic status, race, religion, disability, criminal status, legal financial obligation repayment status, or gender. All attempts to intimidate voters or interfere with voting, recording, storing, and tallying votes should be criminalized and litigated.
• That Ranked Choice Voting should be used for Presidential Primary elections;
• Voter participation is crucial to the health and future of our democracy. All elections should be fair, secure, and easy to vote in. Washington must remain a national leader on voting rights and electoral justice. Attempts to eliminate Washington’s vote-at-home system or institute schemes to suppress the vote and confuse voters must be defeated.
• Voting and petitioning should be done on paper to ensure that participation in our democratic process is auditable, secure, and protected from bad actors and foreign interference.
• Ballot measures should be described in plain language that allows the voter to understand what the measure would do. Short, arbitrary word limits for statewide ballot measure descriptions should be increased.
• In requiring, funding, and supporting automatic voter registration nationally. 
• That all State and Federal elections be declared a non-working holiday in the state of Washington.
• Corporations are not people, money is not speech, all elections should be publicly funded, and Citizens United is not consistent with the Constitution and should be overturned.
• Every eligible American should have a say in deciding which people and policies will determine our future.  Many eligible voters are wrongly denied their right to vote.  We strongly support measures at the state and national levels to increase voting of all eligible voters, including voting by mail.
• Legislative clarity and vigorous enforcement of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S.Constitution covers the President, federal elected and appointees. When judges, federal, or state employees receive current, or promises of future, financial, business, or media favors,  that can create a conflict of interest in the execution of their duties.  None may use the power or perks of their office to favor any private person or entity for personal, business, or political gain.
• Evaluating public policies through a human rights lens, promoting intercultural dialogue, and respecting the democratic values of the Constitution, empowers our communities to work toward meeting the needs of all residents while upholding fundamental rights, principles, and internationally accepted standards of justice and fairness.
• In the importance of governmental intervention in areas where individual action or private sector provision is insufficient or ineffective.  The method involves comparing existing or proposed policies and regulations for alignment with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and governing constitutions, evaluating whether the proposed or existing public policies impact all rights holders equally, to ensure everyone is included in society’s mainstream.
• Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality. Mainstreaming is not an end in itself but a means to achieve the  goal of gender equality.  Mainstreaming involves ensuring that gender perspectives and attention to the goal of gender equality are central to all activities – policy development, research, advocacy/dialogue, legislation, resource allocation, planning, and implementation and monitoring of programs and projects.

Media reform

• Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Therefore, public airwaves, broadband and internet access which is affordable and high quality must be provided to everyone as a utility, especially in rural and underserved areas.
• In order to provide information to the public, journalists must be legally protected from governmental interference or prosecution, retaliation, and from being compelled to reveal their sources, especially whistleblowers.
• Reinstating the Federal Communications Commission’s Fairness Doctrine and enshrining it in law is critical for the integrity of public airways, cable and social media platforms.  Cable and social media must be regulated for factual honesty and integrity across the board, applying the same principles required in journalism.
• In order to sustain a vibrant, open exchange of information that represents many interests, aggressive application of antitrust laws is necessary to prevent the formation of media monopolies.  That also requires limiting the number of news outlets that any media conglomerate may own and operate.