Fuse Washington is a Washington state progressive advocacy organization that mobilizes grassroots supporters, produces communications and research, and runs electoral and policy campaigns to advance progressive priorities. Founded in 2007, Fuse operates online and on-the-ground programs including a widely used Progressive Voters Guide, and describes its mission as helping progressives win more often and giving ordinary people a stronger voice in politics.
Typically pursues progressive legislative priorities including climate and environmental policy, racial and social justice, reproductive rights and health care access, tax fairness and budget priorities, workers' rights and labor policy, voting rights and election-related advocacy, and political accountability and transparency
Primarily funded by individual donations and small-dollar online supporters, supplemented by grants and contributions coordinated through affiliated political committees and progressive funders
Fuse Innovation Fund (501(c)(3)), Fuse Votes (state PAC), Together for Progress (federal Super PAC), ProgressNow network, and frequent coalition partners such as Washington Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, and state labor councils; founder and longtime executive director Aaron Ostrom is a prominent organizational leader
501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy organization with affiliated 501(c)(3) and political committees (state PAC and federal Super PAC)
