He’s at it again. Multimillionaire Brian Heywood isn’t done yet messing with our rights and values. He's paying to circulate petitions for three new initiatives:

1L 26-001 Restoring the "Parents' Bill of Rights"

1L 26-638 Defending equity in interscholastic sports

1L 26-126 Requiring verification of citizenship for voter registration

The first one would allow parents to opt their children out of school classes and activities the parents deem objectionable, prevent their children from seeing books and other educational materials, and violate the privacy rights of their children and potentially interfere with needed medical care and mental health counseling by requiring the parents be notified of such activity.

The second would bar students from participating in sports that match their gender identity. Students would have to undergo intrusive tests to "prove" they were "biologically" male or female, whatever that means, in order to play their favorite sport.

The third initiative is a voter suppression effort. This one is from the Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh who teamed up with Heywood in 2024. We will do everything in our power in Washington State to ensure that everyone eligible to vote can do so.

We weren’t fooled in 2024 so let’s not be fooled this time. PSARA mounted a full on assault on initiatives that would have rolled back the Climate Commitment Act, WA Cares, and our progressive revenue source, the Capital Gains tax. And we won! Voters soundly defeated those initiatives at the ballot box.

Once again, these new initiatives would hurt Washingtonians, especially our young people. We are not fooled by these blatant attacks on our transgender community, our teachers, and the privacy rights of our young people.

So when you head out shopping this weekend or go to a sporting event, DECLINE TO SIGN. We can nip these harmful initiatives in the bud before they even go to the Legislature.