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Cristian Roldan’s path to World Cup playing time

Here’s how the Sounders midfielder can get on the field this time.

The Cooler Guild: Unspirited Away Part 3

Reign sit below the playoff line heading into a month-long league break.

MLS involvement in the 2026 World Cup

David Gass explains how this could be a pivotal moment for how MLS is perceived.

Seattle Reign sends 11 players on international duty

Eight players will represent the U.S. in senior and youth national team camps.

Second NN26 keynote celebrates return to Philadelphia with a call for radical community resistance, persistence, and joy

Speakers at the second Netroots Nation 2026 plenary session, including Helen Gym and Austin Davis, emphasized collaborative movement sustainability, urging engagement at the state and local level to enact structural changes for working families. Second NN26 keynote celebrates return to Philadelphia with a call for radical community resistance, persistence, and joy is a post from NPI's Cascadia Advocate, the journal of the Northwest Progressive Institute. Published continuously since March of 2004, NPI's Cascadia Advocate provides thoughtful commentary and analysis on regional, national, and world politics. Keep The Cascadia Advocate going by making a contribution to sustain NPI's research and advocacy here.

NPI, NPF unveil SearchTheLeft, an insightful new search engine for exploring and researching the progressive web

Developed to meet the need for tools that allow for the discovery of high quality journalism and commentary written by individuals and organizations at every level -- hyperlocal, regional, national, and international -- SearchTheLeft offers a human curated index of vetted sources and results that aren't buried below an AI prompt. NPI, NPF unveil SearchTheLeft, an insightful new search engine for exploring and researching the progressive web is a post from NPI's Cascadia Advocate, the journal of the Northwest Progressive Institute. Published continuously since March of 2004, NPI's Cascadia Advocate provides thoughtful commentary and analysis on regional, national, and world politics. Keep The Cascadia Advocate going by making a contribution to sustain NPI's research and advocacy here.

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Reign launch free kids ticket program

Bring one adult to select Reign games, and up to five kids 12 and under get in free.

At Netroots Nation 2026, Segann March makes the case for narrative as infrastructure

Progressive organizations are rich in stories, but too often those stories stay siloed, inconsistent, or disconnected from real power. One of the first trainings at Netroots Nation 2026 focused on narrative as infrastructure: the systems, practices, and discipline required to turn messaging into durable persuasion. At Netroots Nation 2026, Segann March makes the case for narrative as infrastructure is a post from NPI's Cascadia Advocate, the journal of the Northwest Progressive Institute. Published continuously since March of 2004, NPI's Cascadia Advocate provides thoughtful commentary and analysis on regional, national, and world politics. Keep The Cascadia Advocate going by making a contribution to sustain NPI's research and advocacy here.

Seattle Torrent Protect Wilgren, Murphy, Carpenter in Expansion Draft

The Torrent have made some interesting choices in the upcoming expansion process by choosing to protect Anna Wilgren, Hannah Murphy, and Alex Carpenter. Not exactly an expansion draft, the PWHL’s Expansion Roster Distribution Process is a six-phase series of very complicated (I would argue unnecessarily complicated) rules to add four new teams to the previously eight-team league, increasing the size by 50%. Because so many of the players are free agents, they couldn’t do a traditional expansion draft process, so we ended up with this. The Torrent signed Alex Carpenter and protected her, which was one of the three protection slots. The players on the roster eligible for protection are Fowards: Jenna Buglioni, Mikyla Grant-Mentis, Hannah Bilka, Alex Carpenter, Lexia Adzija, Danielle Sardachny Defenders: Cayla Barnes, Anna Wilgren Goalies: Corinne Schroeder, Hannah Murphy Everyone else is a free agent, including Hilary Knight. It’s all turmoil these days with expansion. With two more slots to go, the Torrent chose to protect defender Anna Wilgren and goalie Hannah Murphy. “Ha ha, Zaiem,” I can hear you saying now with a tinge of contempt, “you’ve made a mistake. You accidentally typed some other name instead of Hannah Bilka’s! Nice journalism and attention to detail.” If only. Yes that’s right, forward Hannah Bilka was not protected. Now, I don’t know what GM Meghan Turner is thinking here, but one thing that is of concern is that Bilka did not return to the Torrent after sustaining an undisclosed injury en route to winning gold in the Olympics in Milan. Since hockey injuries aren’t required to be disclosed and therefore never ever are, we don’t know what it was (is?). Maybe it’s serious? Maybe they are betting that she won’t get taken by an expansion team because of the injury? Or maybe it’s just an interesting decision. Hannah Murphy is not a surprising pick. She’s 22 years old and she has a lot of upside as a goalie, a position that tends to peak later in age. I also find her impossibly charming, but that was probably not a factor in the decision to keep her (probably). Defender Anna Wilgren was the third protection slot, which was the real surprise. Bilka or Barnes were the ones I was expecting, but Wilgren was a surprise. I have, however, since talked myself into it. Steve O’Rourke, the recently fired Torrent coach, spoke highly of her and I do like her 200 foot game. He talked about how she altered her game to try to make the Olympic team and it messed with her a bit, but as the season went on, she got better and better. Anna Wilgren being protected by the Seattle Torrent is probably the one decision that stands out as a surprise to most.My mind immediately went back to the postgame after her 3-point game vs. Minnesota. O'Rourke is obviously gone, but it shows how the org feels about her. pic.twitter.com/EMlQuiKX2B— Kyle Cushman (@Kyle_Cush) June 3, 2026 And so we march on with this overwrought expansion process. Where were you when we moved from Phase 1 to Phase 2?

Lobbing Scorchers: Seattle Mayor Tells All Ahead of FIFA World Cup

Lobbing Scorchers interviews Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson on the World Cup, social housing, pedestrianizing streets, transit, and more.

The NPI team has arrived in Philadelphia and is ready to bring you three days of Netroots Nation 2026 coverage

Founded twenty years ago, Netroots Nation is an annual gathering of progressive organizers and leaders that aims to foster collaboration and skill development in advancing all of the causes that we care about. A delegation from the NPI team will be reporting regularly on the goings-on, including through our special NPI@NN podcast series. The NPI team has arrived in Philadelphia and is ready to bring you three days of Netroots Nation 2026 coverage is a post from NPI's Cascadia Advocate, the journal of the Northwest Progressive Institute. Published continuously since March of 2004, NPI's Cascadia Advocate provides thoughtful commentary and analysis on regional, national, and world politics. Keep The Cascadia Advocate going by making a contribution to sustain NPI's research and advocacy here.