This page will be updated each year to reflect Lobby Day activities in January. It will also include links to get quick access to legislative updates, progress on bills, and will include links for you to quickly provide your input to state and national legislators on issues you support.
Lobby Day is Monday, January 26, 2026. It will be virtual this year and will take place beginning at 9:00am. Please register for free using the link below.
Use this-> link to register for the Zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting.
Our keynote speaker is Emily Bender, UW professor of linguistics and director if its Computational Linguistics Laboratory. She co-authored the 2025 book The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.
Other presenters will be our legislative consultant Nancy Sapiro and members of our AAUW-WA Public Policy Team.
Review our Advocacy Day 2026 Checklist.
Sneak Peak at our advocacy day bills. As always, this could change as the session progresses. But check out this summary that includes some information about how your legislators voted on these issues in the past!
Follow our Advocacy Day bills in This Week in Olympia (sign up ->here to receive TWinO), with updates from our lobbyist and easy action steps to take to support our advocacy efforts.
Sign up for THIS WEEK IN OLYMPIA here. Even if you were receiving the weekly reports last year you need to signup for the 2026 reports.
Use this-> link to view a list of bills we are tracking (on BillTrack50) for 2026.
Review our bill list and Talking Points:
- Our AAUW-WA Priorities (ask your legislator to support these bills)
- Talking Points for these AAUW-WA Priority Bills
- Sample Letter to Legislators
- 2025 WA Legislator Scorecard (on BillTrack50)
- 2026 WA Legislator Scorecard (will be updated at the end of the session)
The Legislator Scorecard will be used at the end of the session to “score” how your legislator voted on our Advocacy Day bills. You can also use it now to see: bills they sponsored, their profiles, the committees to which they are assigned, and other information.
Puyallup Branch’s legislators Committees this year:
Please use this link to sign up for AAUW National Two-Minute Activist. This will keep you updated on issues supported by AAUW nationally and will allow you to quickly send messages of support or opposition to your local and state representatives.
https://www.aauw.org/act/two-minute-activist/