Senators Epstein and Sundareshan Preview Democratic Goals Ahead of the 2024 State Legislative Session

David Gordon

Arizona Democrats at the State Capitol have several policy goals going into the 2024 legislative session. The major ones are: While they have a supporting ear in Governor Katie Hobb’s office, the key to advancing any portion of their agenda is finding support among the Republican majority leadership in both legislative chambers. Senate Democratic Leader … Read more

Hell Has Frozen: I Agree with Rep. Andy Biggs!

Michael Bryan

If there is a polar opposite to everything I believe and advocate, it could be embodied in the shorthand that is Freedom Caucus leader Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs, whom I generally refer to as the #BiggsestTraitor for his role in planning and executing the #Jan6 insurrection. For me to agree with anything that comes out … Read more

Martin Luther King Jr. January 2024 celebration schedule in Phoenix

Carolyn Classen

Every year the MLK AZ Celebration Team hosts a number of activities in Phoenix. There are several events in January, 2024, starting on January 3 with audtions (for MLK Festival), through the MLK holiday on January 15, to the Youth Rally on January 20. All 2024 events listed here: https://azmlk.org/ The 38th Annual Living the … Read more

UPDATED: At Valley Forge, Biden Calls the 2024 Election “Deadly Serious,” Saying “Democracy is On the Ballot.”

David Gordon

With a welcoming audience near Valley Forge chanting “four more years,” President Biden delivered a blistering attack on Donald Trump, saying “Democracy is on the ballot” in 2024. Telling the audience and outside viewers that he was “deadly serious” about the theme of his address, the President made numerous references to George Washington, as a … Read more

MAGA is Enforcing Political Orthodoxy with Violence, Most Effectively and Vociferously Against Honest Republicans.

Michael Bryan

MAGA has become a violent extremist movement that enforces its beliefs – and its delusions – on America. Those who most frequently feel those threats are Republicans. Vox reports on the phenomenon using an example from right here in Arizona: Maricopa Recorder Steven Richer: Vox documents that threats and violent incidents have been widely documented … Read more

Internecine Warfare within the AZGOP Continues to Distract the State Party and Disrupt Fundraising

Michael Bryan

I report with amusement and copious amounts of schadenfreude that the AZGOP remains in a state of civil war. The MAGA faction within the Republican Party – most especially within the Maricopa County Republican Committee – has been trying to purge their Arizona State Party Chairman Jeff DeWit, elected just 1 year ago now, for … Read more

Ahead of President Biden’s Speech at Valley Forge, His Reelection Campaign Launches the Ad “Cause”

David Gordon

With President Biden due to deliver a major address at Valley Forge on the anniversary of the Trump-inspired Domestic Terrorist Attack at the Nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021, his reelection campaign team has released an ad called “Cause” in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The ad … Read more

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