Welcome to Permanent Defense, a project of the Northwest Progressive Institute founded in February of 2002 to protect the Evergreen State from bad ballot measures proposed by the militant right wing. Permanent Defense is a people-powered political action committee working to safeguard Washington’s common wealth, which funds our schools, mass transit, roads, parks, libraries, hospitals, police, fire, emergency response, and all of the essential public services that we as a people have created through the years through the wise investment of our tax dollars.

For decades, our common wealth has been threatened and attacked by a steady onslaught of right wing initiatives designed to paralyze our communities and wreck government by metaphorically drowning it in a bathtub. Permanent Defense was created to provide a year-round first response to these harmful ballot measures.