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VOTE NO ON I-645, I-001, and I-638
Washington faces three MAGA-backed ballot initiatives this November, all designed to have devastating impacts on K-12 schoolchildren. Defend Washington is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and individuals from across Washington working to stop mega-millionaire Brian Heywood from forcing his MAGA agenda onto our state.
Initiatives I-645, I-001, and I-638 will impact all of us by cutting taxes for millionaires (including Heywood himself), cutting funding for education, and putting all students at risk.
Brian Heywood is a millionaire hedge fund manager who paid to put these initiatives on our ballots. This is the same guy who tried to pass initiatives in 2024 and failed. As a mega-donor to MAGA and Trump, Heywood is trying, again, to institute his policies on our schools and families.
Send Brian Heywood and his initiatives packing. Defend Washington. Vote No on all three initiatives.
Far-right MAGA Republicans and Brian Heywood are sponsoring this slate of initiatives on the ballot this November. They are part of an agenda pushed by representative and MAGA Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh, who repeats the lie that the 2020 election wasn’t legitimate, who compared COVID public health measures to slavery and the Holocaust, and who has mocked the idea of climate change.
All three initiatives are bankrolled by MAGA hedge fund manager Brian Heywood, who spent millions on paid signature gatherers to qualify these measures. Make no mistake: these three initiatives are deceptive and roll back progress we have made here in Washington in recent years.