MAGA is Enforcing Political Orthodoxy with Violence, Most Effectively and Vociferously Against Honest Republicans.
January 5, 2024
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
Internecine Warfare within the AZGOP Continues to Distract the State Party and Disrupt Fundraising
January 4, 2024
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
Ahead of President Biden’s Speech at Valley Forge, His Reelection Campaign Launches the Ad “Cause”
January 4, 2024
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
Let’s play “Your Republic is in Jeopardy!”
January 3, 2024
Crossposted with permission from David’s Substack “Arizona’s Progressive Voice” to which you ought to subscribe! “Hello and welcome to this edition of ‘Your Republic is in Jeopardy’, the game show to watch in 2024. I’m your host Wink Washington. Let’s meet the three contestants who’ll be playing with us today.” “First, the former Governor of
On January 6 Anniversary, Biden to Deliver Address at Valley Forge on the Dangers Posed by Trump and MAGA Republicans to Democracy and Freedom
January 3, 2024
With Biden/Harris Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez saying that “we are running a campaign like the fate of Democracy depended on it,” the leaders of the Biden/Harris Presidential Reelection Campaign held a press call yesterday (January 2, 2024) to outline some of the immediate steps President Joe Biden, Vice President KamalaHarris, and other members of
AZ Senate is Suing Governor Hobbs so Senate Criminal Jake Hoffman Can Continue Not Doing His Dumb Job
January 3, 2024
Most people will be aware that it is a common separation of power feature in our three branched governmental system at both the federal and state level that the Executive Branch appoints leaders to the Executive Branch’s departments and/or agencies, and frequently those appointees must then be confirmed by the Legislative Branch – most often
Governor Hobbs Unveils ESA Accountability and Transparency Plan
January 2, 2024
And we are off. Welcome to 2024. The ESA wars in Arizona have begun. In possibly a preview of comments that will be in her upcoming State of the State Address on Monday, January 8, 2023, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs threw the first salvo in what is likely going to be a long dragged-out fight
On the Future of the Regional Transportation Authority for Pima County, I Gotta Say, “See What Tim Stellar Said…”
January 2, 2024
Tim Stellar wrote the other day about the coming issue of reauthorization of the Regional Transportation Authority for the next 20 years (the current RTA authorization of a 1/2 cent sales tax will expire in 2026). Paring his criticism down to the bone, he concludes that Tucson could get an additional ~$500m in additional project
