Just Because Arizonans Voted to Protect Reproductive Freedom Does Not Mean MAGA Republicans Are Going to Stop Trying to Take it Away
The way Republicans played the voucher game was a first clue here. When Arizonans overwhelmingly rejected the Republican desire to expand private school voucher-Empowerment Scholarship Accounts at the ballot box in 2018, the Doug Ducey Administration and their Anti-Public School Republican allies in the State Legislature went around the will of the people and passed … Read more
Trump’s Early Honeymoon Is Over as Young People Turn Away
Trump’s approval rating has quickly tanked down to 39% (it was 53% on inauguration day). Young Americans, aged 18 to 29, rapidly soured on Trump for ignoring skyrocketing prices and inflation. That’s according to John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics and a frequent New York Times … Read more
LWVAZ 2025 Legislative Week, Feb. 24 to 28
“WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE LUNCH AND LEARN SESSIONS: Monday, Feb. 24 Federalism and States’ Rights; Intersection of Federal and State Laws and the Impact on Arizonans This is an essential opportunity for anyone looking to better understand how federal and state laws intersect, how they affect Arizonans, and why it matters for the future … Read more
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes Reacts to Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan’s Refusal to Temporarily Block Elon Musk’s DOGE
Judge Tanya Chutkan, the one who would have presided over Donald Trump’s federal trial for his role in the January 6, 2021 Domestic Insurrection at the United States Capitol had he lost last November, dealt a set back to 14 State Democratic Attorney Generals today (February 18, 2025,) including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, by refusing, for … Read more
In a Victory for Democracy, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoes the Voter Suppressing HB2703
No surprise here. After warning Arizona Legislative Republicans that she would not support their version of speeding up election results that would do away with the State Active Early Voting List (AEVL) and deprive voters of the ability to drop off their ballots on Election Day, Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed HB2703 that passed the … Read more
Save Our Schools Calls Out MAGA-Loving Charlie Kirk’s Publicly Funded Indoctrination Centers
In a well-produced new video that is circulating across social media, Save Our Schools Arizona is calling out MAGA-loving and Turning Point head Charlie Kirk’s drive to create publicly funded private religious indoctrination centers under the guise of promoting “objective truth.” Below is a transcript of portions of the video narration: “There’s a big and … Read more
In his Role as both Appeaser and Bully, Trump Tries to Extort Ukraine
In what looks like a flashback to the 1938 Munich Conference where the Western European Great Powers (Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy,) broke up Czechoslovakia at the low point of appeasement toward Hitler, Donald Trump is sending his envoys, headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Saudi Arabia to meet with Vladimir Putin’s … Read more
