Larry Bodine 
Podcaster Ron Williams and writer Larry Bodine agreed that the issues that will drive change in Arizona are public school funding, voter suppression, and a fair tax system where the rich pay their fair share. “We have to get the message across to those independents and disaffected Republicans,” said Williams, who is the host … Read more
Republicans in red shirts turned the Independent Redistricting Commission satellite meeting at the Tucson Convention Center into a raucous pep rally. The IRC was holding a tele-hearing on its new grid maps on September 29. An estimated 30 Democratic speakers attended vs the “red shirt” clown show of 26 speakers (most of whom just read … Read more
Arizona is home to 25 statewide hate groups, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which pioneered the use of lawsuits to take down America’s most notorious hate groups, including the Klan. SPLC investigative researchers are identifying white supremacists who have infiltrated our governing bodies, like the U.S. State Department official we exposed a few … Read more
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced the Defend the Majority program, an unprecedented $30 million early investment in field programs ahead of the 2022 midterms. The investment includes Arizona and eight other Senate battleground states to build the organizing infrastructure for Senate Democrats’ campaigns. This is the largest investment in on-the-ground field organizing ever made … Read more
As English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote in 1651, life without government is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Don’t let the Republicans control the narrative that government “is bad” or “is the problem.” The argument is bogus. My father used to say that “civilization is the last bubble in a long fermentation.” He was a … Read more