BlogForArizona: Your Resistance Headquarters
April 15, 2025
We here at BlogForArizona are deeply concerned about the emerging Trump Dictatorship, just like so many of you. We have been and will continue covering closely the ongoing Coup by this Admin against the other branches of our government at the Federal and State level, our public institutions, and civil society. We will endeavor to
Bravo to Kyrene School District For Standing Up to Tom Horne and MAGA Anti D.E.I. Policies
April 15, 2025
When there is one side that is for promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) and another one does not, you can be pretty sure that the group that favors D.E.I. is on the right side of history. Such is the case of the Kyrene Elementary School District in the Tempe/Chandler/Ahwatukee area of Maricopa County’s East
Pima County Board of Supervisors Appoint Former AZ House Rep. Andres Cano to Vacant District 5 Seat
April 15, 2025
District 5 Supervisor Adelita Grijalva resigned on April 4, 2025 to run for the CD 7 Congressional seat vacated by the death on March 13 of her father Raul Grijalva. He had served 22 years in that seat, and died from lung cancer at age 77. His daughter had followed in his footsteps to serve
Who’s running for vacant CD 7 Congressional Seat in Special Primary 2025
April 14, 2025
Az Secretary of State has posted the official list of candidates interested in running for the CD 7 seat which has been vacant since the death of Congressman Raul Grijalva (D) on March 13, 2025. The deadline for filing nomination petitions was April 14 at 5 p.m. A total of 27 citizens filed statements of
“Fascism”: Ansari and Kelly Condemn Trump’s Refusal of Supreme Court Ruling to Bring Kilmar GarcĆa Home
April 14, 2025
It was astonishing, in a bad way, to read and watch the Felon in Chief, his enabling Attorney General, and the leader of El Salvador say with straight faces that, despite a 9-0 Supreme Court Ruling, they would not return Kilmar Abrego GarcĆa, a man wrongly deported from this nation last month. It was beyond
US Senators Cory Booker and Mark Kelly Blast Trump Cuts to Health Insurance
April 14, 2025
800 voters jammed a town hall in Tucson and roared their applause for US Senators Corey Bookman of New Jersey and Mark Kelly of Arizona. The senators blasted the Trump oligarchy’s budget plan to cut health insurance coverage. “We have a Congress where there are enough votes on the Republican side to pass the greatest
Gallego: Trump is Driving America into a Recession
April 13, 2025
JPMorgan says there is a 60% chance of an economic recession despite Trump’s 90-day pause in his draconian tariffs. A recession means you won’t be able to get a job, loans will be expensive and hard to get, stocks in retirement savings will crash, and you may have to file for bankruptcy. “Last week, President
Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari Speaks Out Against Voter Suppression and For Helping People Pay Their Air Conditioning Bills
April 13, 2025
With Arizona’s other Congressional Democrats, House CD Three Representative Yassamin Ansari has not been shy about criticizing MAGA/Project 2025 Republican Extremism or pushing for policies that, unlike the Musk/Trump/Vance/Kennedy Jr. Central Committee, will actually help lower and middle-class Americans. After passage of the voter suppression measure under the Orwellian-named SAVE Act, Representative Ansari spoke on
