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Party Boy Kash Patel heads the Federal Bureau of Intoxication
May 13, 2026
Drunken, wandery-eyed FBI Chief Kash Patel is busy these days getting blackout drunk, flying his extra-young girlfriend around in his government jet, handing out his FBI brand bourbon and selling merch on his Fight With K$H website. Patel is so blotto that he misstated that Chinese mass-produced driver’s licenses were used in a mail-in ballot
(UPDATED) “End the Waste. End the Fraud. End the Abuse”: Auditor General Finds Major Issues of Non-Compliance with the ESA Program
May 12, 2026
It is amazing what an audit can uncover. In another bombshell report by 12 News journalist Craig Harris, the billion-dollar-a-year Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) private school voucher welfare/scam for the wealthy and huckster class program, has been found by the Auditor General to have major issues of non-compliance in how management at the Arizona
These Three Remarks from Mad King Trump May Be the Democratic Midterm Campaign Ads for the Year
May 12, 2026
When he is not dozing off on television in the Oval Office or heading up a crime family scamming the American taxpayer, or destroying the nation with his brain-dead economic and foreign policies, Mad King Donald Trump gives the press a lot to write about and broadcast with his words. Earlier today, as he left
Competitiveness and the Voting Rights Act
May 12, 2026
[Note: this article was co-written with retired attorney Jay Simpson.] Redistricting is in the news. While it can be an obscure topic, mostly of interest to a modest number of nerds (us included), it has become national news every day. More people now see how it can fundamentally affect our democracy. As established in the
Donald, Pete, and Juan’s War Breaks Your Bank
May 11, 2026
Pete Hegseth and Juan Ciscomani are buddies. But GasBuddy is not their buddy. We were going to write about Affordability, the mid-term election topic important to voters. But it turns out, one can’t write about Affordability without first addressing the Iran War. We call it Donald, Pete, and Juan’s War because Donald Trump mindlessly
4 Benefits Voters Get with Nick Mansour as Arizona Treasurer
May 10, 2026
Nick Mansour, a successful businessman and former college president, will bring four benefits to the neglected office of Arizona Treasurer: “We’ll make Arizona the best place to live, work and raise a family,” Mansour told Democratic activists in Legislative District 18. Mansour launches education-first campaign Mansour, 50, said his top priority as Treasurer is improving
Despite the Court Setbacks, Democrats Need to Persevere and Fight
May 10, 2026
The decisions from the United States Supreme Court to essentially gut the Voting Rights Act and the Virginia Supreme Court to nullify a Democratic-held election where voters approved the redrawing of their congressional districts are setbacks and have allowed Republican states in the South to engineer a racist power grab by wiping out districts held
Ciscomani Has His Back to the Wall in the “Battleground” Sixth District
May 9, 2026
Most of the election polling we see these days is done on the national level. Despite his fervent efforts to appear great and strong, Americans give Donald J. Trump abysmal ratings for his Presidential job performance, and they are steadily sinking to new depths. The polling site FiftyPlusOne, which combines many polls, has Trump’s average
