Democratic Senate Leader Priya Sundareshan Discusses the Upper Chambers Sprint to Finish Legislative Business at the State Capitol Last Week
June 22, 2025
With her first year as the State Senate Leader in the Arizona Legislature, Senator Priya Sundareshan graciously took time to discuss the upper chambers sprint to the legislative finish line last week headlined by the passage of two bipartisan measure: a 17 billion dollar budget and a water security bill that will protect urban water
Arizona Congressional Democratic Reaction to Trump Bombing Three Iran Nuclear Sites
June 21, 2025
Despite appearing to give diplomatic efforts a two week window, Donald Trump, (surprise surprise) went back on his word and ordered the bombing of three of Iran’s underground nuclear facilities with bunker busting bombs. According to Trump, the strikes were successful. While no one should feel sorry for the Iranian regime, a government that for
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Calls Whiny House Republicans Position on Budget “A Farce” and Their Fiscal Plans DOA
June 21, 2025
After meeting with fiscal bomb throwing MAGA “Free Caucus” State House Republicans, an incensed Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs issued the below statement, calling their position “a farce” and “pointless political grandstanding” that hurts hardworking Arizonans. She also reiterated that their move to pass a continuation budget would “meet her veto pen.” “For months I have
Masking Tyranny
June 21, 2025
I may be a progressive liberal, but I know history and human nature – and the nature of State power (from a career as a criminal prosecutor) – well enough to have some very conservative and libertarian impulses when it comes to limitations and conditions on the State’s police powers. This video from the Lincoln
Whiny MAGA Arizona House Republicans Put a Potential Wrench on the FY26 Budget
June 20, 2025
Arizona House MAGA Free Caucus Republicans led by Speaker Steve Montenegro, the ones who decided to take a one month siesta away from the State Capitol and ignore the people’s business have chosen to whine and ignore a bipartisan FY26 budget passed earlier this morning in the Senate and forge a continuation budget that will
The Republican Answer to ESA Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Put it in the State Constitution and Let’s Deregulate Charter Schools While We’re at it.
June 19, 2025
Another school year. Another $20,000,000 in free luxury expenses for private after school extracurricular activities that many of Arizona’s wealthiest, the people who do not need the money, legally fleece from the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Account appropriations that working and middle class taxpayers put into state coffers. Additional reporting from Craig Harris has
AZ’s CD7 Special Election Race Forecast: Odds and Ends
June 18, 2025
If you aren’t familiar with the candidates, I advise you to watch the debates and TheDGT.org’s Monday Shows with QA with each of them. There is only a little public polling available in Arizona’s very safe Democratic Congressional District 7, but there are some fairly easy assumptions to make regarding the state of the race
Desert Logic: Water Theft Is Fine, If You’re Local
June 18, 2025
If you thought Arizona had learned anything from our state’s last water scandal, think again. Pima County just sold off 290 acres of public land near the Fairgrounds for a $3.6 billion data center project. Yep, in a 3–2 vote on June 17, the Board of Supervisors approved a deal with Project Blue, a San
