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Republicans Seek Revenge with Ballot Measure to Allow Racial Profiling by Police
The AZ Senate voted in a party-line vote to create a new state crime of crossing into the U.S. illegally. The ballot referral #HCR2060 would invent a license for state law enforcement to racially profile people of color to enforce it. “No sooner than we repealed the 1864 AZ abortion ban, the Republicans decided they needed revenge,” … Read more
Biden Reacts to Trump Verdict and Presents Israelis Ceasefire Proposal
At the White House today (May 31, 2024,) President Joe Biden conveyed his reaction to Donald Trump being found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He also announced an apparent three phase Israelis ceasefire proposal that the President hopes will end the eight month war in Gaza. In his comments on the guilty … Read more
‘Convicted’ Donald ‘I Want to Be a Dictator for a Day’ Trump Refuses to Answer Questions at a Press Conference
The day after ‘Convicted’ Donald ‘I want to be a dictator for a day’ Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records by a jury of his fellow Manhattan peers, the person who proudly said ‘I killed Roe v Wade’ held a press conference low on energy and long on lies, misrepresentations, … Read more
President Biden’s Economy is Roaring with New Jobs and Low Unemployment
By Shawn Snyder, Global Investment Strategist, J.P. Morgan Wealth Management The U.S. labor market has added nearly 3 million private sector jobs in the past year, and the unemployment rate remains close to 50-year lows. But will this hot streak last? While the Federal Reserve is trying to cool things down, we have reason to believe that … Read more
The Lincoln Project Wasted No Time Producing an Ad on the 34 Trump Jury Convictions Called “Verdict”
The social media ad creators and producers at the Lincoln Project wasted no time in releasing an ad on the 34 Trump convictions issued by 12 jurors today. Called “Verdict,” the ad immediately showed CNN anchor Jake Tapper telling his audience that “Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.” The … Read more
The Republican Presumptive Presidential Nominee will Go to the June 27 Debate as a Convicted Felon; He May Not be Free for the Next One
In a truly historic day for the American Republic, the notion that no one is above the law was proven. The legal system worked. Donald J. Trump was convicted by a jury on 34 counts of business fraud related to hush money payments to two women in 2015 and 2016 to influence the course of … Read more
Remember and Never Forget: January 6 Law Enforcement Heroes Visit Arizona and Warn About the Dangers of Trump to American Democracy
Remember and Never Forget. Protect Democracy. Reject Election Denialism and Political Violence. Defeat political candidates like Donald ‘I want to be dictator for a day’ Trump that call insurrectionists “hostages” and “patriots.” Those are the messages and themes January 6 law enforcement heroes Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and Officer Harry Dunn conveyed at an event at … Read more
Responding to Attacks on the ESA Program, Superintendent Tom Horne Admits that Most Students in the Program Did Not Attend Public School
Over the last few days, the organization Save Our Schools (SOS) Arizona has launched a state budget education campaign blasting the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Program (ESA)and the Ducey-approved Flat Tax for blowing a hole (about $1.8 billion) in the fiscal budget, making the Grand Canyon State the financial equivalent of Kansas from the … Read more
