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Democracy Warrior Gail Kamaras Inducted into Democratic Hall of Fame
Gail Kamaras of Tucson singlehandedly collected signatures for 250 petitions for the pro-choice AAA Initiative. An attorney and avid hiker, she loves setting up a colorful ironing board at a local library or farmer’s market to gather signatures on petitions or register new voters. Gail, a precinct committee person in Legislative District 18 in Tucson, was inducted … Read more
The AZGOP Has Become a Death-Spiraling Dumpster Fire: Their Fundraising is a Joke & #HariKari Lake is Their Future?!
It’s not just this liberal progressive blogger calling Kari Lake and the AZGOP a dumpster fire… #HariKari! ‘He just tells it like it is, folks!’ Conservatives with a reasonable eye on the bottom line of actually winning offices – rather than using primaries to just hunt so-called ‘RINOs’ (i.e. real conservatives who won’t go along … Read more
The Biden/Harris Administration Actually Delivers on Infrastructure Week after Week
Remember when the term ‘Infrastructure Week’ was a joke during the Trump/Pence years because the supposed ‘Great Builder’ could not get a Congress under his party’s control to pass an Infrastructure Law. They were more concerned with passing tax cuts for the rich, attempting to take away health care from millions, and confirming Supreme Court … Read more
Extra! Extra! Where Americans Get Their News in 2024
More Americans are getting their local news online, while fewer are turning to television or print, according to the Pew Research Center. More Americans are getting news on TikTok In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in 2020 to 14% … Read more
President Biden Challenges Trump to Debates, Saying “Make My Day, Pal,” and “I Hear You’re Free on Wednesday’s.”
Let the debate on debates begin. President Joe Biden just released an ad, calling Donald ‘I Killed Roe v Wade’ Trump’s bluff on scheduling debates for the 2024 Presidential Election season. “Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020 and since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he’s acting like he … Read more
Democrats at Udall Dinner Vow to Deliver Arizona to Joe Biden, Again
Speaking through thundering applause, US Senator Mark Kelly and North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Andrew Clayton called on Democrats at the annual Udall Dinner to deliver Arizona to President Biden in November. More than 400 Democrats attended the banquet on May 11, 2024, at the Desert Diamond Casino, which is owned by the Tohono O’odham … Read more
The #1 Worry that Young Voters Have Today — Homelessness
Housing stresses most young people, according to John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. One-third are concerned that one day they could become homeless. In the Spring 2023 Harvard Youth Poll, we found that 11% of young adults under 30 are very concerned that they could be homeless one day, … Read more
Trump Campaign is a Raging Dumpster Fire
According to veteran political analyst Simon Rosenberg, the Trump campaign is “weak, struggling, a raging dumpster fire.” The Washington Post published a remarkable story on May 10 about the financial and organizational struggles of the Trump campaign and RNC. “I literally laughed out loud a few times reading it. There is Olympian levels of GOP bullshit in … Read more
