Democrats in Arizona can flip the state legislature blue, elect the Governor and capture all eight statewide offices – if they follow a new strategy that just worked in California. Republicans have used the strategy for years. But it will work equally well for Democrats and engage independents: capitalize on fear and anger. By that,

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If you are a member of any of the governments of America's enemies and strategic rivals like Russia, China, or Iran, you are probably buying stock in the former Party of Lincoln aka the Republican Party. Arguably since the Reagan Era, Republican economic, foreign, and cultural policies have made the United States less united, safe,

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Time is running out to collect 119,000 qualifying petition signatures on six 2022 ballot initiatives each to stop Republican efforts to gut Invest in Ed, and the suppression of voting rights. There is also a seventh ballot initiative designed to stop the continuing influence of Dark Money in Arizona politics. To that end, Stop Dark

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Click the arrow to listen to the podcast.   Matt Capalby, a Carpenters Union consultant Arizona was a "swing state" in 2020  -- capable of delivering votes nationally to either party -- in part because of the increased Democratic turnout in rural areas. While accounting for only nine percent of voters

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Philip Bump of the Washington Post reports, The worrisome pro-Capitol-riot activism isn’t a rally. It’s in right-wing media. (excerpt): The government has spent months trying to track down those involved in the January 6 insurrection, arresting them and — usually — then releasing them until trial. A Guardian analysis in May found that 70 percent

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CNN reports, Georgia criminal probe into Trump's attempts to overturn 2020 election quietly moves forward: Criminal investigators in the state have been quietly conducting interviews, collecting documents and working to build a line of communication with congressional investigators as they aim to build a case against the former President for his alleged attempts to overturn

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Supreme Court Justices who live in the rarified air of "the ivory tower" of the U.S. Supreme Court are elitists who genuinely believe that their own shit doesn't stink. They are among the most out-of-touch political actors in the American democratic system because they are unelected and serve lifetime appointments. They almost never have contact

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The Republican Party, which I now refer to as the GQP, has already begun the second American civil war. Let's count the ways in which they are defying the federal government's authority, denying its legitimacy, undermining our security for political gain, using violence to political ends, and seeking to tighten minority control of state governments.

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This is an actual headline in the New York Times, not from The Onion: As G.O.P. Digs In on Debt Ceiling, Democrats Try Shaming McConnell. I didn't know The Times hired comedy writers to be copy editors. I almost spit out my coffee this morning to laugh. The first thing that came to mind was

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From an AZDem press release: This morning, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors met to discuss their response to Attorney General Brnovich’s dangerous and transparent political gambit that threatens the public safety of Maricopa County. This is just the latest in a series of baldly political moves from Brnovich as he tries to win the

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Axios reports, Scoop: Sinema's secret spreadsheets: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is negotiating the size and scope of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget plan armed with her own spreadsheets about the costs and tax hikes needed for each program, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. [Maybe she should actually ask her constituents what they want,

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Update on Update On State Lawsuits Over Anti-Mask Orders (excerpt): [Background]: Mask mandates, election changes don’t belong in budget bill, lawsuit claims: Mask mandates, changes to how elections are run and limits on how racial issues can be discussed in Arizona classrooms all were stuffed into the state budget in June. Now, a coalition of education and

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Maybe now we will finally get "the most transparent audit in history" that Senate President Karen Fann falsely promised us at the beginning of the Arizona Senate's GQP sham "fraudit." Yeah, right. The Arizona Mirror reports, ‘Audit’ documents are public records: Arizona Supreme Court declines Fann’s appeal: Communications between subcontractors, invoices and a host of

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Recently, our partisan hack attorney general Mark Brnovich said businesses can require COVID-19 vaccines: Private Arizona businesses can require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 but must allow reasonable religious and medical exemptions under state and federal law, state Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote in a legal opinion. And they can impose vaccine requirements on

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Mark Brnovich is trying to rehabilitate himself with the fringe base of his party that is disenchanted with him for not protesting the Arizona results of the 2020 Presidential Election. In an attempt to demonstrate (before the Republican Senate Primary which he is running in) that he has their science-denying-Know Nothing interests at heart, the

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The last ten days have seen a shakeup among Democratic contenders in the race to succeed Ann Kirkpatrick in what is now Arizona Congressional District Two. Dr. Randy Friese decided to drop out of the race and focus his time working to help people stricken with the Coronavirus and other health ailments. This surprising development

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Over the last couple of days I have been annoyed by a cartoonish, totally ineffectual social media meme-styled political ad from a political PAC misleadingly calling itself the Common Sense Leadership Fund. This PAC name was formerly a Leadership PAC affiliated with former Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). The Hill reports, Conservative group targets Kelly, Hassan

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I am becoming increasingly impatient with the Democratic Party’s leaders and Democratic members of the House and Senate as the days of September slip by with no visible progress on anything. The double-tracked “infrastructure” bills lie dead in the water while Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema play statespersons—not because they are, but because they can.

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