To the Editor:
More local No Kings! rallies are being planned for Bellingham and Whatcom County, focused on turning people out to vote early. No Kings! events are once again happening across the country. This event gives us a local way to connect with others across the country and encourage early voting in Whatcom County. Dropping your ballots off at the various drop boxes around the county also ensures against any mail delivery problems. Check the Elections office for locations.
As if we needed any more evidence of the present administration’s unhinged attempts to corrupt the voting process while at the same time trying to re-write history, it is the crazy Make Nixon Great Again movement. Nixon had the sense to resign. His impeachment was justified, as have been with each of the impeachments of Trump… but Trump has no sense of decency, only a pathological compulsion to deny, ignore and play the king.
—Michael Waite, Sedro Woolley; Oct. 5, 2026