Political Calendar: Week of January 2, 2022
January 2, 2022
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GQP War On Democracy: A Slow-Motion Insurrection By Seizing Control Of Elections
December 31, 2021
Above: Seditious leader Rep. Mark Finchem at the January 6 Insurrection, now a GQP candidate for Secretary of State. See, Mark Finchem was much closer to the Jan. 6 insurrection than he claimed. QAnon/Trump personality cult members are insinuating themselves into local elections boards, and others are running for secretary of state, attorney general and
Democrats Running in 2022 against the Dictatorship, Death, and Denial Party
December 31, 2021
While much has been written about how redistricting has gone against Democrats in Arizona and other purple states like Texas and North Carolina (to be fair, Republicans are probably not happy with the district redrawings in states like California, Illinois, and New York,) 2022 does present a great opportunity for Democratic Party Candidates at all
Minimum Wage To Increase Despite Sen. Sinema’s Cutesy Curtsey Thumbs Down Vote
December 31, 2021
Arizona’s minimum wage is set to increase from $12.15 an hour to $12.80 an hour on Jan. 1 under a citizens initiative approved by the state’s voters in 2016. Arizona Minimum Wage Going up to $12.80 an Hour on Jan. 1. The measure was opposed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Republicans in the Arizona Legislature,
Statistical Evidence Of The Criminal Negligence Of The Doug Ducey Administration
December 31, 2021
Will Humble, the Director of Arizona Public Health Association and former Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, has some statistics on the Governor Doug Ducey administration’s criminally negligent mismanagement of the Coronavirus pandemic:
The QAnon/Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracy Theorists Are Turning On The QAnon/Big Lie Conspiracy Theorists
December 30, 2021
The unifying insanity of the pro-Covid, anti-democracy far-right appears to be fraying after the “Dear Leader” of their cult, Donald Trump, spoke favorably about the Covid-19 vaccinations last week. The QAnon/anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists are now turning on the QAnon/Big Lie conspiracy theorists in blind rage. They are destroying one another – “please proceed,” as Barack
School Board Races will be at Center of the Culture Wars in 2022
December 30, 2021
While many voters will be paying to Gubernatorial, State, Congressional and Legislative electoral contests in 2022, there is another set of non-partisan races that could determine how children are educated and protected in schools in Arizona and across the country. These are the races for school board seats on district governing boards. Designed to be
Traitorous MAGA Squad (Sedition Caucus) Plots A ‘Night Of The Long Knives’ Against Fellow Republicans
December 30, 2021
The Washington Post recently reported on the Sedition Caucus of the Republican Party that regularly uses violent eliminationist rhetoric towards their political opponents and openly advocates for civil war. House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans: The defiant far-right [fascist] acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican
