Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

Arizona’s Santa Cruz County Sheriff, David Hathaway, Gives a Frank Inside View of ICE Operations and Practice

February 11, 2026February 4, 2026 by Michael Bryan

Here is the video of Sheriff Hathaway in conversation with Judge Napolitano. It’s highly enlightening and deeply insightful. Well worth 20 minutes of your time. Presented without comment for now. I will likely update this post with my own reactions and insights in the next day or two. In the meantime, I rely on you … Read more

URGENT ACTION: Board of Supervisors to vote on ICE Detention Center Tomorrow, TUESDAY FEB. 3rd!

February 2, 2026 by Michael Bryan

You can add your voice and presence to this key issue before the Pima BoS to resist ICE’s invasion and occuption of Tucson. Mobilize Signup Link. Also to be discussed is restricting use of County property by ICE.

AZGOP Elects an ‘Anchor Baby’ to Be Their Party Chairman

February 4, 2026January 26, 2026 by Michael Bryan

The MAGA movement, which has wholly taken over the Republican Party with Trump as their warlord, detests all immigrants. They are demonstrating that hatred every day on the streets of America. They perjoratively call children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants ‘anchor babies’. They hate the Americanjus soli tradition, inherited from Great Britian … Read more

AZ ACLU Condemns MAGA’s 2026 Ballot Referrals to Restrict Our Own Right to Vote

February 2, 2026January 22, 2026 by Michael Bryan

I’m a proud card-carrying member of the AZ ACLU. I’ve NEVER understood the Anti-Constitutional bias of those who think that’s a insult of some sort. Since when did standing up for American’s freedoms and rights become a partisan thing? Those trolglodites are pissing on the corpse of every patriot who has ever died wearing America’s … Read more

Citizens Must Act to Halt Autocracy

January 20, 2026 by Michael Bryan

By Phineas Anderson, Crossposted from the Arizona Star with permission of the author We know that Donald J. Trump will utilize legal, illegal, and even violent means, to stay in power. In 2020, he tried to use fake electors. On January 6, 202l he incited a mob to attack Congress in an attempt to delay … Read more