Fuse Washington

Fuse Washington is a progressive advocacy organization in Washington state and a member of the ProgressNow network. Fuse, a 501(c)(4) organization, along with its sister organization the Fuse Innovation Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, claims to be the state's largest progressive organization because of its email list of more than 100,000 people.

Fuse was launched in 2007 by Executive Director Aaron Ostrom. Since then, the organization has grown to a staff of ten with an eight-member Board of Directors.

Like other ProgressNow organizations, Fuse uses e-mail campaigns and grassroots organizing to inform its subscribers about local politics and lobby elected officials.

Fuse's Progressive Voters Guide is an online elections guide to races and initiatives in Washington. The guide includes the endorsements and voting recommendations of many progressive organizations in Washington. Current partners include the Cascade Bicycle Club, Equal Rights Washington, Latino Political Action Committee, NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, National Women’s Political Caucus of Washington, OneAmerica Votes, Planned Parenthood Votes! Northwest, Progressive Majority Washington, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, SEIU Healthcare 775NW, SEIU Local 925, The Stranger, UFCW Local 21, Unite Here, and Washington Conservation Voters.

Fuse's Sizzle and Fizzle awards are a humorous way to recognize the political figures that they think have done the best and worst job in the previous year.

In 2012, Fuse awarded Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna a Fizzle award for his on-going effort to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Additional Fizzle awards were given to State Representative Mark Hargrove for comparing same-sex marriage to a person marrying bacon and Senator Don Benton “for putting the interests of Wall Street ahead of his constituents.”

Fuse’s 2012 Sizzle awards were given to State Representatives Hans Dunshee, Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney, Jamie Pedersen, and Luis Moscoso, State Senators Derek Kilmer, Frank Chopp, and Lisa Brown, and the Washington State Budget and Policy Center.

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