Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva Tears into Trump’s DoJ on Contemptuous Epstein Files Release Fail

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Today, Rep. Grijalva ripped into the Trump Admin for their defiance of the law and Congressional authority in failing to release the Epstein Files in full in yet another attempt to sheild Donald Trump from accountability for his decades-long friendship and collusion with Jeffery Epstein’s crimes. Follow the story live at NYT on this thread. … Read more

UPDATED: Juan CiscoMAGA is Going Full Grinch This Christmas Season!

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Juan Ciscomani is doing NOTHING to carry through his promises (and that of the MAGAGOP) to actually have a vote on MAGA’s Big Ugly Budget ACA Subsidy cuts that prompted the longest government shutdown in American history this fall. The deal that ended the impasse was that Speaker Mike ‘Tiny’ Johnson promised to hold a … Read more

Trump’s Economic Policies Aim at Our Past, Not Our Future

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A post on Persuation by Jeff Tyler Syck about the problems with Trump’s MAGA prescription for revitalizing rural American communities caught my interest recently and prompted a post-length comment on his newsletter that I thought would work as the basis for a post here on the Blog. I suggest reading that post before diving into … Read more