Republicans Define Themselves for Democrats, Independents, and Those Who Think Their Party Has Left Them

David Gordon

As we approach the 2024 election cycle, Republican candidates and officeholders are doing a great job of saving the Democratic Party Media Apparatus money by negatively defining themselves to Democrats, Independents, and those who think their party has left them. Through their positions of defending Donald Trump and his alleged criminal acts, calling the Domestic … Read more

Climate Voters Killed Prop 412 — See What Must Come Next

Michael Bryan

It was not higher fees that killed Tucson’s Prop. 412. Instead, it was the Democratic, liberal vote — the climate vote — that tanked this proposition. The climate-concerned electorate may not have been all the voters against Prop 412, but they were the deciding group. If TEP, the Mayor and Council wish to pass a … Read more

Trump’s Plan To Turn The Department Of Justice Into His Personal Police Force For ‘Retribution’ Against His Political Opponents

AZ BlueMeanie

Update to ‘Orange Mafia’ Don Trump’s Plan To Turn The Federal Government Into His Fascist Criminal Enterprise in 2025 (snippet): Jonathan Swan in an extremely lengthy (but a must read) deep-dive investigative report at Axios reports, A radical plan for Trump’s second term: Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if … Read more

Part 2: Fact Checking The GQP’s McCarthyism Smear Of Joe Biden

AZ BlueMeanie

Part 1: The New Era Of McCarthyism – Smearing Joe Biden With Unsubstantiated Innuendo And Lies. Michael Tomasky at The New Republic does a deep-dive fact check into the GQP’s McCarthyism Smear of Joe Biden. Did Joe Biden Commit Corruption in Ukraine? Or Was It Donald Trump? (The Facts): One of the right wing’s “skills,” … Read more

Part 1: The New Era Of McCarthyism – Smearing Joe Biden With Unsubstantiated Innuendo And Lies

AZ BlueMeanie

While most Americans came to their senses and eventually rejected the “red scare” tactics of Sen Joseph McCarthy and his sidekick lawyer Roy Cohn, many Republicans to this day still embrace Joseph McCarthy as a hero and a role model. Smearing people with unsubstantiated innuendo and lies has remained a Republican tactic ever since the … Read more

In a Recent Lincoln Project Ad, California Governor Newsom Beats Back MAGA Hannity and Shows How to Tout President Joe Biden

David Gordon

Democrats in Arizona and across the country would be well advised to watch this recent Lincoln Project Ad, titled “When Dems Fight,” where California Governor (and probable 2028 Presidential contender) Gavin Newsom totally beat back questions from Fox’s leading MAGA and Trumpists enabler Sean Hannity attacking the record of the Biden/Harris Administration. Starting off with … Read more

AZ GQP Ballot Measure Would Give One Legislative District A Minority Veto Over Citizens Initiatives

AZ BlueMeanie

What they can’t stop by the popular vote – more than 60% of which comes from Maricopa County, and much of the rest comes from Pima County – anti-democracy MAGA Republicans do so by rigging the rules of the game. The AZ GQP has been trying to nullify your constitutional right to citizens initiatives for … Read more

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