Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is on a quest to bring back the Blue Dogs
The Democratic congresswoman’s strategy of appealing to working-class rural moderates won her Washington’s 3rd District. Will it work anywhere else?
Joseph O’Sullivan
Joseph O’Sullivan is Crosscut’s former state politics reporter. Before joining Crosscut in 2022, O’Sullivan spent nearly eight years as Olympia bureau reporter for The Seattle Times. Before that, he c
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