Talarico has polled well in a state that hasn't had a Democrat in the U.S. Senate since 1993.

More than two dozen Southwest Washington organizations have joined statewide efforts to defeat Initiatives 001 and 638, measures they say would dismantle safeguards for K-12 students.

At 17 years old, Booker High School senior Jodany Del Rosario-Arcadia is too young to vote. That didn’t stop her from ...