[00:00:00] Lawrence O’Donnell: Our next guest, like Kyrsten Sinema, is an activist in Arizona, democratic politics before being elected to office herself in September of 2019. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly discovered that the county recorder’s office in her county, Pima County, Arizona maintains voter registration records in 2020. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly ran for the office herself and won.

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In 1984, Ronald Reagan began his reelection campaign with his Morning In America television campaign ad. It was a successful attempt to gloss over his dismal economic record. Reagan’s Recession: The deepest post-World War II economic downturn occurred in the early 1980s. According to the accepted arbiter of the economy’s ups and downs, the National

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With both Democratic members voting "no," the Independent Redistricting Commission certified the new Congressional and Legislative district maps at their January 21st meeting, as described in this Jeremy Duda article in the AZ Mirror: Redistricting commission gives final certification to new maps Below are links to the new maps in both Google My Maps and

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Today (January 27, 2022,) is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a day to honor and remember the 12 million victims of Nazi and Nazi-Collaborater barbarity during World War Two. Six million of the victims were Jews. Others perished because of their: sexual preference. mental or physical disabilities. being Gypsies. being Jehovah's Witnesses. being political

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In a positive step for Tucson's infrastructure future, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA,) at their January 27, 2022 meeting, has agreed to expand Tucson's representation on key committees (Technical Management and Citizen's Accountability for Regional Transportation,) address an existing funding gap dating back to 2006, and  potentially install, based on a Maricopa Association of Government structure,

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This happened in the Arizona Legislature last year. Authoritarian Rethuglicans Propose The Most Blatant Voter Disenfranchisement Bill Ever (excerpt): State Rep. Shawnna Bolick Now comes along the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick, former litigation chief for the “Kochtupus” Death Star the Goldwater Institute, Rep. Shawnna Bolick (R-Phoenix), who wants to reclaim

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EricAz posts at Daily Kos, Saving Voting Rights Amid A Storm of Right-Wing Crazy in AZ: Grassroots organizers reached agreement with lawyers on Wednesday on the final text of a sweeping Voting Rights Initiative that will push back on decades of Voter Suppression, broaden the franchise and prevent the radical rightwing from stealing voting rights

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Update to Why Has Attorney General Mark Brnovich Not Already Prosecuted These Fake Republican Electors? (Updated). Former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton was interviewed on Arizona Horizon (PBS) to discuss renewed scrutiny of two sets of fake Republican electors who signed off on Donald Trump winning the 2020 election in Arizona. (Video at link).

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The House of Representatives is on "District Work Period" this week, but returns to work in Washington on February 1. So this can't be done today, it will have to wait until next week, but get it done! The Huffington Post reports, A Trump-Era Memo Is Blocking The Equal Rights Amendment From Being Ratified Today:

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In this episode of the John C. Scott political forum, broadcast on January 22, 2022, I describe what I would advise Biden to do, now that the Build Back Better agenda has been blocked. You’ll also hear how you can activate yourself with Democrats of Greater Tucson. Larry Bodine: If there ever was a

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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman is continuing to sound the alert on the budget situation for public schools should the Arizona State Legislature not act soon to remove the spending cap expenditure limit on funding. In a series of social media posts, Superintendent Hoffman

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Update to Rep. John Kavananagh’s Unconstitutional Bill To Restrict Video Of Cops Committing Crimes. First he wanted to make it a crime for citzens to exercise their First Amendment right to video bad cops committing crimes. Now he wants to tamper with video evidence on police body-cams. Bill requiring redactions on all body camera footage

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Unvetted Afghani Refugees Forced Out Of Military Base And Dumped In Scottsdale pic.twitter.com/e0pUJgsU91 — Representative John Kavanagh (@JohnKavanagh_AZ) January 25, 2022 In his latest bid to be the worst person in Arizona, AZ Rep. John Kavanagh tweeted a video of himself trying to stir up his bigoted followers against Afghan refugees being resettled in Scottsdale,

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Above: The Senate government committee at work on Jan. 24, 2022. From left, Sen. Sonny Borrelli, Sen. Kelly Townsend, and Sen. Wendy Rogers, all QAnon and Trump personality cult members and election deniers who promote the Big Lie and are proposing legislation for the GQP to steal the next election. This is the longstanding GQP culture

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AZ Senator Kelly Townsend is the 'Ted Cruz of Arizona', despised even by many members of her own caucus. She's so disagreeable that she has publicly feuded with Representative Andy Biggs, Arizona Senator T.J. Shope, and Arizona Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita, (though, to be fair, some of those 'lawmakers' are also notoriously nasty people) and has engaged in

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A day late and a dollar short if you ask me. The arrogance Justice Breyer displayed in defending this dysfunctional Supreme Court last year while promoting his new book will not soon be forgotten. This should have occurred last summer. CNN reports, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire: Breyer could formally announce his retirement

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Russia's useful idiot Donald Trump and his fawning adoration of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin for five years turned a large number of formerly "better dead than red" anti-communist cold warriors into Putin-loving "fellow travelers," giving Putin a "fifth column" of supporters in the U.S., especially at the Fox propaganda network. The most over-the-top Putin propagandist

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Gabe Ortiz at Daily Kos posts, 'Adiós Sinema': Voto Latino announces campaign to replace Arizona senator: Voto Latino announced Monday evening that its launching a six-figure campaign to unseat and replace Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema. The advocacy group says on the Adiós Sinema website that in siding with the Jim Crow filibuster over critical voting reforms, “Sinema’s actions directly undermine

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Black History Month 2022 presented by the Tucson Humanities Festival College Of Humanities <coh-news@humanities.arizona.edu> Announcing Black History Month events! "Presented as part of our Tucson Humanities Festival spring series, the College of Humanities and Africana Studies Program are hosting several events to celebrate Black History Month. Join us in February for special guest speakers and more! Events

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The issue of preservation of historic Black spaces and environmental racism has come to the fore in the last several years with the preservation of the Underground Railway, slave cabins on the plantations in the South, several museums including the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the capital mall, and the Legacy Museum documenting the

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