ENdorsements 2026

Dates and Deadlines 2026
  • May 8 - Candidate Filing Deadline
  • June 20 - OI Candidate Presentation
  • July 17 to August 4 - Voting for Primary Election
  • October 16 to November 3  - Voting for General Election 
  • Voter Portal (After you sign in, click on the “Your Elected Officials” link to see who represents you!)
  • Election History
Table of Contents:
Initiatives
​​Members of Congress​
State Representatives​
Thurston County​
WA Supreme Court 
Initiatives - Vote NO

Olympia Indivisible strongly recommends a NO vote on both these initiatives on your November ballot. Northwest Progressive Institute (NPI) and No Hate in Washington State feel strongly that both of these awful initiatives can be defeated. But it won't be easy.

IL26-001: Repeals the Safety Act, which restored the balance between student privacy and parental rights, giving parents additional rights they didn't have before.

IL26-638: Mandates invasive genital exams for young girls because Heywood and the right wing are obsessed with barring trans girls from girls' sports. It will require sex verification for any student who wants to play girls’ sports. That could mean invasive genital exams or costly genetic testing for girls as young as 11 just to join a school team: it explicitly requires verification of a student’s reproductive anatomy, genetics, or hormone levels.
​Members of Congress
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​Congressional Seat - CD10 
Marilyn Strickland (D) - OI Candidate Profile 

Representative Strickland comes from a military family, and works every day to make our nation more safe, just, and secure for all
of us.
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Events: We consider this a non-critical race, in that we expect Marilyn Strickland to win, and will not be promoting their campaign
events. But feel free to contribute and follow the volunteer page on their website.
State Representatives
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​Legislative District 2 PDC  
Representative Position 1: 
​William Dehnel (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, Town Hall 
Representative Position 2: 
Angela Taylor (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, Town Hall 
Legislative District 22 PDC 
Representative Position 1:
​Beth Doglio (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response 
Representative Position 2:
​Lisa Parshley (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, Town Hall 
​Legislative District 35 PDC 
Senator
Carolina Mejia (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, Town Hall 
Representative Position 1:
Jim A. Pierson (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response​, Town Hall ​
Representative Position 2: 
​Maria Littlesun (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, ​Town Hall ​
Thurston County

What District Am I In?
Thurston District and Precinct Maps

Commissioner 
District 3
Tye Menser (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, Town Hall ​
District 5
​Michelle Gipson (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, Town Hall 
Sheriff 
​Derek Sanders (I) - OI Candidate Profile,  Questionnaire Response, Town Hall 
Assessor
​Lynda Nashed Zeman (D) - OI Candidate Profile, Questionnaire Response, Town Hall ​
WA Supreme Court
Five of the nine total seats on the court are up for grabs this year, representing a majority of the court.

​Clarification: In the case of the Supreme Court races the Endorsement Research Team decided not to go through the full endorsement vote process. However, because of the importance of these races this year we are making these recommendations based on the research we did. These recommendations are the consensus decision of the Endorsement Research Team and do not represent Olympia Indivisible as a whole or the Steering Committee.

Background
Supreme Court Justice (Non Partisan) 
Position 1 Position 3 Position 4 Position 5 Position 7