The Purge of Public Health: Retaliation with a Side of Recklessness
October 14, 2025
This wasn’t a clerical error. It was a political hit job. More than 1,300 CDC employees—lab specialists, disease trackers, and epidemiologists—were abruptly fired on October 11, 2025. Days later, about half were reinstated after officials blamed a “coding error.” The story keeps changing, but the outcome doesn’t. America’s public-health defenses are being dismantled in plain
Selina Barajas: Ward Five’s First Female Council Member is Breaking Barriers for Young People
October 14, 2025
Selena Barajas is blazing a new trail as the first woman elected to represent Ward Five on the city council. Her commitment to youth engagement is rapidly setting a new standard for public service in southern Arizona. Republicans did not field a primary candidate in Ward 5, and she will take office on November 4,
Do the Right Thing? Redistricting in Mid-Decade is Unethical
October 13, 2025
As non-lawyers and Arizonans, we can offer a “big picture” perspective. Redistricting between censuses is just a terrible idea.
On Indigenous People’s Day: No Kings
October 13, 2025
It’s a federal holiday today. Our not-so-illustrious President has declared that it is no longer a day to celebrate Indigenous People, but rather, a day to admire “the original American hero,” Columbus. The truth is, the name of the federal holiday has never been changed from the Columbo one (and that confused navigator was Italian,
Elect a New Generation of Democratic Leaders
October 12, 2025
By David Hogg, Co-founder of Leaders We Deserve, a grassroots organization dedicated to electing young progressives. This is life in America today — where military raids against our own people are routine and Black and Brown communities are terrorized. What’s happening in Chicago right now should horrify everyone in this country — and every elected official
“These Mother F-ers Are Crazy”: Using the Project 2025 Playbook to Dismantle Special Ed and Cripple the CDC
October 12, 2025
Using their own created shutdown as an excuse, the American Duce Wannabe and his Project 2025-American Mein Kampf-White Christian Nationalist Partner Russell Vought have, as promised, instituted a series of federal government layoffs that they have targeted as “Democrat-oriented.” Unfortunately, these layoffs are nothing more than a continuation of the federal workforce cuts, outlined in
Mike Johnson’s Holy War Against Democracy: The Coward Who Fears Adelita Grijalva
October 12, 2025
There are moments in political life so morally bankrupt, so cynically calculated, and with such disregard for the voice of the people that they demand to be inscribed in History. Some people’s lives may best serve only as an example to others. Such is Mike Johnson. Let History take note. Speaker Johnson refuses to seat
Where are the Shutdown Congressional Republicans While the Nation’s Bravest Have to Go on Food Lines Thanks to Them and Trump
October 11, 2025
Must be nice to be a MAGA House Republican not having a worry in the world and being able to stay home for another week getting paid while many of their constituents are about to see their health insurance rates spike up and members of the military, who are charged with protecting these same Congressmen,
