Arizona Congressional Democrats React to the Arrest of Journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon
February 2, 2026
With Donald Trump, no basic freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights is safe. That includes the Freedom of the Press. Days after the courts refused to grant an arrest warrant, the Trump Fascist Injustice Department went ahead and arrested local writer Georgia Fort and former CNN journalist Don Lemon under the ludicrous charge that
Arizona Republicans Sure Love a Good Fantasy
February 2, 2026
Arizona has real problems. Relentless heat. Shrinking water supplies. Homelessness. A housing crunch. A healthcare system under strain. A climate that is becoming increasingly hostile to human life. So naturally, Republicans in the Arizona Legislature choose to look busy by pretending to worry about imaginary threats in the sky. This session, Republican lawmakers are advancing
Federal Agents Who Murdered Alex Pretti Are Identified
February 2, 2026
According to Pro Publica, the two ICE agents who murdered Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. The records viewed by ProPublica list Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, as the shooters during the vicious murder of Pretti last weekend
While Arizona and National Republicans Take Freedoms Away and Defend ICE, Democrats Work to Save Working and Middle Class Rights and Affordability
February 1, 2026
Arizona Legislative Republicans are back at it at the State Capitol, playing the same old MAGA-White Nationalist-Religious Extremist broken records of voting suppression and taking away reproductive freedom, sponsoring measures designed to take people’s rights away in both areas. In both chambers, Arizona Republicans want to circumvent a probable Gubernatorial veto by sending a ballot
TMZ: Underage Girls Claim Trump Forced Oral Sex
January 31, 2026
In the latest Epstein Files document release, an underage girl claims she was forced to perform oral sex on Donald Trump and bit him on his penis, TMZ reports. The allegations come from a document in the files that describes a tip sent to the feds. Trump forced oral sex The first complaint summary says
Pro & Con on RTA Next discussed on Buckmaster Radio Show
January 31, 2026
Yesterday Tucson Sentinel political reporter Jim Nintzel hosted a balanced discussion on the RTA Next, known as Prop. 418 and 419 on the upcoming March 10, 2026 special election ballot. This was on the Friday Bill Buckmaster radio show, 1030 AM on KVOI FM radio. Regular host Bill Buckmaster was on vacation. Listen to it
Pro & Con on RTA Next discussed on AZPM’s The Press Room
January 30, 2026
The Press Room on AZPM hosted by new News Director David Lee held a live audience forum last week, which aired today online about the upcoming March 10, 2026 RTA Next ballot. It is a proposed extension of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) passed in May 2006, for another 20 years to 2046. The original
Ciscomani Votes For Trump’s Brown Shirts
January 29, 2026
Juan Ciscomani voted YES on the House of Representatives bill 7147, which provided appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including Border Patrol and ICE. The bill contains no measures that would restrict the unlawful behavior of agents. He cast his vote with knowledge of atrocities committed by agents: detaining four- and five-year-old children to
