Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

This week veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said out loud what a lot of voters have been thinking. Talking about the New York primary results. On his podcast he said. He could no longer stay in a coalition with the party's newest far left wing. Talking about Darializa Avila Chevalier . "She has attacked interracial relationships and the American flag. Lady, I ain't in the same party as you. I'm sorry," Carville said, before adding that it may be time for Democrats to talk about "the S-word. Schism." He put it another way, too. "There's just some s--- that I can't be in the same tent with." James Carville's comments about Darializa Avila Chevalier tells us about where this party is drifting. The way Carville feels about that nominee is the way I feel about Rep. Suzan DelBene and others who now lead this party. Their direction is too extreme and too fringe for me. I do not believe it reflects what the majority of Democr...

When I first saw the headline. I was surprised and disappointed. Then I read the story. And I was relieved. They took a swing at Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and missed by a mile. This is a nothing burger. There is no story here. If I were her, I would not answer a single question about it. There is nothing to it. This is not a scandal that sends a campaign into an emergency meeting to build a strategy against. There is nothing to defend. If anything it makes her more relatable. So the story is not the story. The real question is why. Why now? We have members of Congress with documented histories of sexual harassment and sexual assault against women. And this is what someone chose to spend their energy on? Stringing together unrelated, unproven hearsay from more than a decade ago. About a college student and calling it news? It is no secret that she is in a tight race. And the people behind this were betting that if they could move just a handful of voters. It might be enough to sw...

A year ago I called Olympus Spa the hill I was willing to die on. I wrote about a Korean owned women's spa in Lynnwood. Forced by the state to let biological males into a nude, women only space. I also mentioned almost in passing.  A lawsuit by a former inmate named Mozzy Clark who alleged she was repeatedly sexually assaulted. By a male inmate housed at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) after he told the state he identified as a woman. That was not a passing detail. It was a preview. On April 27, 2026 the America First Policy Institute filed a federal lawsuit.  Against the Washington Department of Corrections and Secretary Tim Lang. 0n behalf of Fair for All, Inc. and a 28 year old WCCW inmate named Faith Booher-Smith. The complaint alleges that on August 7, 2025  Booher-Smith was attacked from behind in the prison cafeteria by Christopher Williams. A six foot four male inmate convicted of a child sex offense. Who had been transferred to WCCW under...

The Problem Every few weeks another story breaks. A teacher or coach with a documented history of inappropriate conduct toward a student. Hired by a new school or college that never knew. Sometimes the warning signs were in a personnel file the new employer never asked for. Sometimes an investigation was underway and the employee simply resigned before it finished. Leaving no formal finding for anyone to disclose. Sometimes the law on the books simply did not require anyone to check. This is not a hypothetical. It happened in our own district. Shoreline Community College hired a former Henry M. Jackson High School physics teacher. Who had resigned from Everett Public Schools. While under investigation for a years long inappropriate relationship with a student. Shoreline never called the high school. State law did not require it to. Washington's 2020 disclosure law. The first of its kind in the nation. Required colleges to check with other colleges. Not with K-12 districts.  ...

The Civic Service Academy: A Phase by Phase Plan to Rebuild Trust and Rescue Failing Schools Before a tech company launches a product it runs a beta test. Before a car reaches the road it goes through years of testing. We prove that it works before we scale it. Everywhere except public policy. This is a proposal to do better. It addresses two national crises at once. The first is the widening gap between the American military and the public it defends. The second is the slow abandonment of children in failing schools. One proven model can begin to answer both. And we will test it carefully  in the open. Before we ask anyone else to adopt it. A National Problem Not a Local One The military and the country it protects no longer know each other. Fewer Americans than ever have a parent, sibling or a neighbor who served. The armed forces now recruit from the same families and the same regions year after year. While most of the nation has no personal connection to the instituti...

More Ships, Better Weapons, Smarter Spending: Let Our Allies Help Defend America America spends more on defense than any other country on Earth. Over a trillion dollars a year. I support spending whatever it takes to give the men and women of our military the best weapons and equipment in the world. But here is the uncomfortable truth. Spending the most money does not mean we are getting the best weapons and equipment. In too many cases we are paying double for less. And waiting twice as long to get it. Don't Take My Word for It. Take the Navy's. In June the Secretary of the Navy told Congress that every one of our shipbuilding programs is a mess. And that the best program was six months late and 57 percent over budget. The best one. Meanwhile  China launches warships at a pace some experts estimate at three ships for every one we build. Why? Part of the answer is a set of laws. Some dating back to the 1930s and 1940s.  That restrict where and by whom our weapons an...

In parts of Alaska a gallon of milk costs over $10. A dozen eggs can cost $15. No American should live like this. Alaska Has Been Left Behind Imagine paying twice sometimes three times what the rest of the country pays for the most basic essentials. A gallon of milk for $10. A loaf of bread for $8. Heating fuel that costs a family their entire paycheck. This is not some distant foreign hardship. This is daily life for hundreds of thousands of American citizens living in Alaska. The reason is simple and fixable. Alaska is cut off. No road, no rail, no affordable freight corridor connects it to the rest of the nation. Everything that arrives in Alaska food, medicine, building supplies, clothing and fuel. Must be flown or shipped across thousands of miles of ocean. Every mile of that journey is paid for by Alaskan families at the checkout counter. The people of Alaska are tough. They are resourceful. They are proud. But they have been failed by their federal government and by a co...