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August 11th, 2026

Did Olympia Sabotage the Income Tax Fight?!

Brian Heywood joins John Curley to describe what he calls a Franz Kafka-style courtroom episode that unfolded before Let's Go Washington ever got a chance to argue its case against the state income tax's ballot wording.

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