Concerted GQP Voter Suppression Efforts In Swing States
The Washington Post reports, Republicans sue to disqualify thousands of mail ballots in swing states: Republican officials and candidates in at least three battleground states are pushing to disqualify thousands of mail ballots after urging their own supporters to vote on Election Day, in what critics are calling a concerted attempt at partisan voter suppression. … Read more
Sen. Wendy Rogers Wants Illegal Private Militias Patrolling The Border With ‘Shoot To Kill’ Orders
Brahm Resnik posts to Twitter: Georgetown Law School explains, Fact Sheets on Unlawful Militias for All 50 States Now Available from Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection: In anticipation of possible unlawful militias intimidating voters at the polls, Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) has released fact sheets on unlawful … Read more
October Jobs Report Stronger Than Expected; Corporations Are Using Inflation As Cover For Price Gouging To Increase Profits
If you were to believe the fear mongering ads from Republicans and their affiliated dark money PACs, you would think that the U.S. economy is in a Great Depression with masses of unemployed and long bread lines. The exact opposite is true. Jeff Cox reports for NBC, U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs in October, better … Read more
No Republican Should Be Returned To The Arizona Legislature Because of the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ For Public Education That They Purposefully Created
Republicans are anti-public education, what these White Christian Nationalists disparage as secular “government schools.” Their objective is to totally privatize the pubic education system into a for-profit private education system which would allow for religious indoctrination (of the White Christian Nationalist variety, naturally) and not having to comply with non-discrimination provisions in federal law, as the … Read more
To All McCain Republicans in Arizona: Kari Lake Does Not Deserve Your Vote
There is a variation of a phrase out there about how to judge a person’s character: “Unsure of a Person’s Character? Look at the Company They Keep.” Truer words were never said about Trump Republican and Fringe-Gutter Politician Kari Lake. Look at who she invites to her rallies and who she supports: A twice impeached … Read more
In Her Alternate Reality World, ‘Krazy Kari’ Lake Threatens To Arrest FBI Agents For A Policy To Protect Teachers And Administrators
This is what 22 years as a propagandist for the local Fox News affiliate gets you, a demagogue who lives in an alternate reality world in which she can just make up shit. Background “Krazy Kari” Lake wants to impose the White Christian Nationalist Hillsdale “1776 Curriculum,” from Hillsdale College in our schools, what her … Read more
Political Calendar: Week of November 6, 2022
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, many events are still being held virtually online. 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. Political … Read more
