Political firm · composite — 4 spellings of the payee name, merged by us

Progressive Strategies NW

Disclosed payments to 4 filed spellings of this payee name total $4,182,195 from 55 candidate committees and 53 political committees, 2021–2026. In 1 case a candidate and an independent-expenditure committee in the same race both paid it; section 03 lists each. A shared vendor is lawful; this page documents disclosed payments and nothing else.

$4,182,195

disclosed payments

to 4 spellings of the payee name, merged by us · as filed, 2021–2026

108

paying committees

55 candidate, 53 political

1

same-race overlaps

lawful; each listed in section 03 with its gap in days

4

spellings merged

the size of the identity join behind every figure here; section 04

Sources Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp) · independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), data.wa.gov · as of 2026-09-05 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · tier composite — joined by us on a stated key

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Who paid this firm

Every paying committee, largest disclosed total first. The total is what that committee reported paying to 4 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; where a committee has a page here, its name links to it.

Committees that reported paying Progressive Strategies NW, by disclosed total
Paid by Kind Cycles Disclosed payments
Sara Nelson (NELSON SARA E) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SEATTLE candidate committee 2021 $450,711
Sara Nelson — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SEATTLE candidate committee 2025 $436,154
Tanya Woo — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SEATTLE candidate committee 2024 $384,888
Seattle Approves political committee 2022 $250,229
Adison Richards — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $236,458
Anders Ibsen — MAYOR, CITY OF TACOMA candidate committee 2025 $209,973
Citizens For Progress political committee 2024 $103,037
Jackson Legacy Fund (JLF) political committee 2024 $95,214
Jackson Legacy Fund (JLF) political committee 2025 $93,493
John M. Cummings (John Cummings) — SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE, PIERCE CO SUPERIOR COURT candidate committee 2024 $89,602
WASHINGTON STATE DENTAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE political committee 2024 $85,074
WASHINGTON STATE DENTAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE political committee 2025 $81,695
Jackson Legacy Fund (JLF) political committee 2026 $77,520
Michael L. Sommerfeld (Mike Sommerfeld) — DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, PIERCE CO DIST CT candidate committee 2026 $68,538
Candy Gutierrez (Dulce Gutierrez) — COUNTY COMMISSIONER, YAKIMA CO candidate committee 2022 $66,025
Marty Campbell — COUNTY ASSESSOR-TREASURER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2024 $58,741
Philip E Thornton (Philip Thornton) — SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE, PIERCE CO SUPERIOR COURT candidate committee 2024 $57,225
Lake Washington Citizens Levy Committee (LWCLC) political committee 2026 $55,968
Scott R. Peters (Scott Peters) — SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE, PIERCE CO SUPERIOR COURT candidate committee 2024 $49,869
Steven J. Krupa — MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE, TACOMA MUNICIPAL COURT candidate committee 2022 $49,778
Citizens for Everett Public Schools political committee 2022 $49,156
Steve Conway (CONWAY STEVEN E) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 29 – SENATE candidate committee 2022 $44,611
Tacoma Citizens for Safer Streets political committee 2026 $43,835
RURAL AMERICANS UNITED (RAU) political committee 2024 $43,776
DARYA FARIVAR (Darya Farivar) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 46 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $43,260
Gordon M. Jenkins (Gordon Jenkins) — DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, WHATCOM CO DISTRICT COURT candidate committee 2022 $42,296
Citizens For Progress political committee 2025 $41,881
Kevin J Schilling (Kevin Schilling) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF BURIEN candidate committee 2023 $41,311
Linda Farmer — COUNTY AUDITOR, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2022 $40,381
Marty Campbell — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2022 $39,760
Chanjolee Bushnell (Joe Bushnell) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 29 – HOUSE candidate committee 2026 $36,768
Bellevue Quality Schools political committee 2026 $33,812
Chanjolee Bushnell (Joe Bushnell) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF TACOMA candidate committee 2021 $33,751
Lake Washington Citizens Levy Committee (LWCLC) political committee 2024 $32,743
Lake Washington Citizens Levy Committee (LWCLC) political committee 2022 $32,730
East King County Jobs political committee 2024 $28,596
VAN VECHTEN CHRIS (Chris Van Vechten) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF TACOMA candidate committee 2023 $28,018
Yes For Highline political committee 2022 $26,482
DARYA FARIVAR (Darya Farivar) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 46 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $24,995
Central Kitsap Citizens For Quality Education (CKCQE) political committee 2022 $24,559
KRISTIN ANG (Kristin Ang) — PORT COMMISSIONER, PORT OF TACOMA candidate committee 2023 $23,187
Citizens for Northshore Schools political committee 2022 $23,088
Washington State Democratic Committee – NonExempt political committee 2022 $21,706
TAVEL PHILLIP A (Phillip Tavel) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SEATTLE candidate committee 2023 $21,391
Yes for ESD Kids political committee 2024 $19,274
2024 CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ARLINGTON SCHOOLS political committee 2024 $18,183
Central Kitsap Citizens For Quality Education (CKCQE) political committee 2022 $17,578
Catherine A Ushka (Catherine Ushka) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF TACOMA candidate committee 2021 $17,317
Citizens for Northshore Schools political committee 2026 $16,840
Citizens For Progress political committee 2026 $15,864
RURAL AMERICANS UNITED (RAU) political committee 2025 $15,698
Sofia Aragon — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, KING CO candidate committee 2023 $15,033
Citizens For Snohomish Schools (CFSS) political committee 2022 $12,636
Sven Nelson — DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, PIERCE CO DIST CT candidate committee 2026 $11,530
Kennewick Citizens Levy & Bond Committee political committee 2026 $11,296
Yes For Highline political committee 2021 $10,109
Elizabeth M. Bonbright — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, TACOMA SD 010 candidate committee 2021 $9,891
Recall Sawant political committee 2021 $9,438
Kevin J Schilling (Kevin Schilling) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 33 – HOUSE candidate committee 2025 $8,664
Takayo Ederer (Takayo Minakami Ederer) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SEATTLE candidate committee 2025 $8,038

Showing 60 of 108 paying committees; the 48 not shown are in the total above and in the PDC file.

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), 2021–2026 · as of 2026-09-05 · rows 60 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · caveat a payment routed through this firm to a subvendor appears here under this firm, as filed

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Payments by cycle

Disclosed payments to 4 spellings of the payee name, merged by us, by the election year the paying committee filed under. One bar scale; the figure beside each bar is the figure. Odd years are local elections and even years state and federal, so consecutive years are not comparable.

  1. 2021

    local cycle

    $552,218
  2. 2022

    state and federal cycle

    $1,038,620
  3. 2023

    local cycle

    $150,723
  4. 2024

    state and federal cycle

    $1,123,221
  5. 2025

    local cycle

    $922,110
  6. 2026

    state and federal cycle

    $395,302

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election_year as filed · as of 2026-09-05 · scale $1,123,221 = full width · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues

03

Same race, both sides of the wall

A candidate’s committee and a committee making independent expenditures in that candidate’s race may not coordinate; both may hire the same printer. Each row is a race where both paid this firm, with the days between the last candidate payment and the first independent expenditure, and whether that gap falls inside the twelve-month window in which WAC 390-05-210 presumes coordination unless rebutted. Overlap is lawful. This table is a list of coincidences in public filings, not a finding.

Races in which a candidate committee and an independent-expenditure committee both paid this firm
Year Race Candidate client IE committee client Gap in days In the window Shared officer
2024 CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF SEATTLE Tanya Woo $384,888 WASHINGTON REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $6,289 0 yes none — both registrations read

Source Same-race overlap layer over PDC expenditure (tijg-9zyp) and independent-expenditure (67cp-h962) filings; committee registrations for the officer column · as of 2026-09-01 · rows 1 · n 1 inside the twelve-month window · key race = the candidate’s office and jurisdiction as filed; the IE committee’s target is that candidate · caveat overlap is lawful and is not a finding of coordination

04

How these records were merged

The PDC issues no vendor identifier. Every figure on this page is the sum of rows whose payee name normalises to one string: PROGRESSIVE STRATEGIES NW. That is our join, not the state’s, and its size is 4 spellings of the payee name, merged by us.

The key
payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues
Spellings merged
  • Progressive Strategies NW 78 payer-year rows
  • PROGRESSIVE STRATEGIES NW 26 payer-year rows
  • Progressive Strategies NW LLC 3 payer-year rows
  • PROGRESSIVE STRATEGIES NW LLC 3 payer-year rows
What a wrong merge looks like
Two different firms whose names differ only in a suffix or punctuation would be one row here, and their totals would be added. Two spellings of one firm that differ in a word would be two rows, and this page would be short a spelling. Both errors are ours; neither is in the filings. Corrections are taken at the address in the cite block.
Why this is not a graph node
The entity graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity and are never merged by name. This profile is the opposite decision, made for reading, and it is kept out of the graph so a merge of ours never becomes an edge.

Source Payee names as filed in PDC expenditure reports, normalised by build-vendors.js · as of 2026-09-05 · n 4 spellings over 110 payer-year rows · tier composite — joined by us on the key above

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What this page will not compute

A firm page is where a reader expects a verdict about the firm. Each of these would be one, and none follows from payee rows on a form.

No finding of coordination.
Overlap is lawful. A candidate and an independent-expenditure committee hiring the same firm is two contracts, and the twelve-month window in section 03 is a presumption the law lets either party rebut. The table lists the coincidence and stops.
No share of a race.
What fraction of a race’s spending went through this firm would need every committee’s every payment, resolved to the same merge. We do not have that, and a share computed from part of it would be wrong with confidence.
No “network”.
Clients who share a vendor are not connected to each other by that fact. A diagram of them would draw relationships the filings do not record.
No company facts.
This page describes payments to spellings of a name. It does not say what the firm is, who owns it, or what it did for the money; the expenditure description field is not reliable enough to summarise.
No connected-records section.
A merged profile is not a node in the entity graph and draws no edges. The graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity; this page is deliberately not one of them.

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“Progressive Strategies NW — Washington political firm profile,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-09-19. https://washingtonindependents.org/firms/progressive-strategies-nw/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

Why this firm has a page
Appears in the same-race overlap layer. Profiles exist for the firms in the independent-expenditures and coordination analysis, not for every payee; a listing is a description of disclosed payments.
Identity
payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues This profile merges 4 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; section 04 lists them.
Payments
PDC expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election years 2021–2026, summed per paying committee. Amounts as filed; subvendor pass-throughs appear under the reported payee.
Overlaps
the same-race overlap layer over the expenditure and independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), as of 2026-09-01. Gap in days is from the last candidate payment to the first independent expenditure; the window is WAC 390-05-210’s twelve months. A shared officer is named only where both committees’ registrations were read.
Retrieved
expenditures 2026-09-05 · independent expenditures 2026-09-05, from data.wa.gov, per the import log.