Political Calendar: Week of September 19, 2021
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, events are being cancelled or postponed to later dates. 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. … Read more
Do Not Look Now but the Party of America’s Enemies is Threatening to Shut Down the Government Again
If you are a member of any of the governments of America’s enemies and strategic rivals like Russia, China, or Iran, you are probably buying stock in the former Party of Lincoln aka the Republican Party. Arguably since the Reagan Era, Republican economic, foreign, and cultural policies have made the United States less united, safe, … Read more
Arizona Deserves Better, Stop Dark Money, and Invest in Arizona Launch Weekend Telethon Today to Get Final Petition Signatures
Time is running out to collect 119,000 qualifying petition signatures on six 2022 ballot initiatives each to stop Republican efforts to gut Invest in Ed, and the suppression of voting rights. There is also a seventh ballot initiative designed to stop the continuing influence of Dark Money in Arizona politics. To that end, Stop Dark … Read more
Rural Arizona Democrats Fight Against The Odds and Extreme Divisiveness
Click the arrow to listen to the podcast. Arizona was a “swing state” in 2020 — capable of delivering votes nationally to either party — in part because of the increased Democratic turnout in rural areas. While accounting for only nine percent of voters in Arizona, eight of the thirteen rural counties in Arizona … Read more
Fox News Fascist Propaganda Has Conditioned Republicans to Accept Atrocities
Philip Bump of the Washington Post reports, The worrisome pro-Capitol-riot activism isn’t a rally. It’s in right-wing media. (excerpt): The government has spent months trying to track down those involved in the January 6 insurrection, arresting them and — usually — then releasing them until trial. A Guardian analysis in May found that 70 percent … Read more
Update: Georgia Criminal Probe Into Trump Election Interference Is Just Gearing Up
CNN reports, Georgia criminal probe into Trump’s attempts to overturn 2020 election quietly moves forward: Criminal investigators in the state have been quietly conducting interviews, collecting documents and working to build a line of communication with congressional investigators as they aim to build a case against the former President for his alleged attempts to overturn … Read more
Now Supreme Court Justices Are Trolling Us That Their Decisions Are Not Political
Supreme Court Justices who live in the rarified air of “the ivory tower” of the U.S. Supreme Court are elitists who genuinely believe that their own shit doesn’t stink. They are among the most out-of-touch political actors in the American democratic system because they are unelected and serve lifetime appointments. They almost never have contact … Read more
The GQP Insurrection Has Only Begun, And Democrats Must End it
The Republican Party, which I now refer to as the GQP, has already begun the second American civil war. Let’s count the ways in which they are defying the federal government’s authority, denying its legitimacy, undermining our security for political gain, using violence to political ends, and seeking to tighten minority control of state governments. … Read more
