Has Ciscomani Gone to the Grocery Store Lately? Invite Him Along on Your Next Trip!

By Anne Carl, former Democratic candidate for Cochise County Recorder Sky-high grocery bills shock and squeeze us, but it’s worse than most realize. We’re relieved to still find some “cheap” canned, frozen and fresh produce, but it’s a ruse. We taxpayers and future generations are all paying through the nose for the deceptively affordable produce items, whether we … Read more

Where Democrats Go From Here

Those of us who are watching in horror as Trump and the entire MAGA GOP continue to take a sledgehammer to US institutions, healthcare, science and basic protections, might believe that the vast majority of Americans share our perspective. The Tuesday edition of the AZ Republic tells quite a different story – and it should … Read more

Elect a New Generation of Democratic Leaders

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 … Read more

Let’s Call Mass Deportation What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies and mass deportation strategies are not an immigration issue; that’s just a smokescreen for what’s really happening, which is “Ethnic Cleansing”. A literal translation of the Serbo-Croatian phrase etnicko ciscenje, ethnic cleansing, was widely deployed in the 1990s in Yugoslavia. The targets included Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs in Croatia, … Read more