Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Editor's Note: Due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and CDC recommendations for social distancing, many events are still being held virtually online. We are doing our best to update the calendar, but you should check with event organizers prior to attending any event to confirm the status.  Political

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The Arizona Mirror reports, The FBI subpoenaed Karen Fann and Kelly Townsend for information on the January 6 insurrection: Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Mesa Republican Senator Kelly Townsend were subpoenaed by the FBI for an on-going investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged pressure campaign on state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election

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Mayor Kate Gallego and the Phoenix City Council took steps today (July 1, 2022) to make the fifth largest city in the country a more attractive location and "livable city." 220701 Mayor Gallego and Council Add Millions in Community Support They also passed a measure, in unison with Tucson and the Gila River Indian Community

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There is no Planet B to move to if Earth's environment becomes so polluted that the human race needs to find a new home because of the damage it caused the third rock from the sun. Unfortunately, the United States Supreme Court, whose super majority is on a quest to do away with virtually every

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Anyone watching the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol would get wrong impressions that Mike Pence was a hero in doing his duty in certifying the 2020 election of Joseph Bien. Mike Pence did his duty, but when is doing one's duty make one a hero? I

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A dead woman has more rights to her body than a live one. How can this be? Simple: The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Now we are seeing a whole shipload of right-wing insanity set sail, and here is just one example. In the normal world, everyone in our society has the sole

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Last Friday, the internet troll known as "Q" from the QAnon conspiracy cult, aka Ron Watkins the administrator of the 8kun message board, Ron Watkins Slips Up, Suggests He Is Q, in HBO QAnon Documentary Series, and currently a GQP candidate for Congress in Arizona, returned after a two year hiatus. QAnon Creator ‘Q’ Returns

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For Maricopa County Interim Attorney Rachel Mitchell and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, it is perfectly reasonable to enforce Pre Statehood Arizona Abortion Laws from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on women and their physicians in 2022. At a press conference on Tuesday, Ms. Mitchell, clearly with an eye to the both the fringe

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Peter Thiel's New Right puppet Blake Masters, the GQP Senate candidate endorsed by failed coup d'etat leader Donald Trump, has also been endorsed by the founder of the Nazi Daily Stormer: One of the internet's most notorious neo-Nazis has joined Donald Trump in endorsing Arizona candidate Blake Masters (right) for the U.S. Senate. Andrew Anglin (above),

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When historians write about Enemy of the People-Political Prince of Darkness-Obstructionist in Chief-Moscow Mitch McConnell, there will probably be less than a positive sentence to say about his time in office. The Kentucky Senator who once reportedly told Vice President Biden "you must be under the mistaken impression that I care," has rightfully earned a place in

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The Biden/Harris Administration announced on June 28, 2022, that $700 million in private investments, thanks to the passage of the Presidents leadership and the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will go toward the production of 250,000 electric vehicle chargers per year. The $700 million in private investment ($450 million from Siemens and $250 million

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Up for election in the Fall are most Arizona statewide offices (Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Treasurer, Mine Inspector, 2 seats on Az Corporation Commission). There are only two contested races between Democrats in the Arizona Primary on August 2, 2022. These are listed below. Governor: Az Secretary of State

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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell asked Harvard Law professor what arguments he would present to his former student, Attorney General Merrick Garland, as the “legal highlights” of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. Professor Tribe used the opportunity to address Merrick Garland directly and expalin to him why Donald Trump and his co-conspirator Coup Plotters must be prosecuted. https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1542478751661015041?cxt=HHwWgoC-pZKQ_ucqAAAA https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1542313377493663745?cxt=HHwWgoC-3Yz2sucqAAAA

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NBC News reports, Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court: Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice Thursday, making her the first Black woman on the nation's highest court. Jackson, a former public defender and federal appeals court judge, was sworn in during a small

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It is a binary choice: you cannot do both. Period. Rep. Liz Cheney spoke at the Reagan Library for its "A Time For Choosing" speaker series, and she held nothing back in criticizing her fellow Republicans. (So much for Reagan's 11th Commandment.) The Washington Post reports, Liz Cheney says Republicans face a choice: Trump or

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The "clean up" orders list is out and it is bad news from this activist radical Republican Supreme Court. via GIPHY The Court has granted cert in MOORE v. HARPER (21-1271), the redistricting case from North Carolina in which the Court denied an application for stay earlier this year pending the filing and disposition of a

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Mark Cardenas served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.  Late last month, Arizona Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly joined 10 Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). The letter urged the agency to develop a regulatory framework to foster and support autonomous vehicles. In their letter,

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Very often in Democratic politics in AZ you hear a common assumption: that the Hispanic vote is another liberal voting block that we just need to mobilize to win. That is a faulty and dangerous assumption. We also need to persuade many Hispanic voters to come back to the Democratic Party. Ruy Teixeira of the

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The U.S. Supreme Court announced its last two opinions this morning. The first opinion is West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, a 6-3 decision by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Gorsuch files a concurring opinion joined by Justice Alito. Justice Kagan dissents, joined by Justices Breyer and Sotomayor. The questions presented are whether the Republican-led states

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