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.

Our Citizen’s Initiative Limiting ESA Vouchers Lets Voters to Do What AZ’s MAGA Legislators Flatly Refuse to Do!

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Spokespersons for the new citizen’s intitiative (David has a great rundown of the outline, so I won’t repeat) say It’s time to bring accountability, transparency, and safety standards to Arizona’s billion-dollar ESA voucher program, protect the vast majority of our kids’ educational opportunities, and give Arizona taxpayers the accountability and transparency we deserve. Damned right … Read more

BlogForArizona is Very Active on Bluesky! Please Follow, Like, and Comment! And One More Thing…

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BlogForArizona has a very active presence on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/blogforarizona.bsky.social). We DO push notices of our new posts there, in case that’s your perferred method of notice (rather than email delivery, or loading up the blog on a browser), and to help new folks discover our blog and our posts, but that is FAR from all; … Read more

Nemik’s Manifesto and the Rebellion Growing in American Souls

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From inside a fictional universe, wherein free people, regular people, psychologically normal people are just trying to live their normal lives, creeps the shadow of modernity’s greatest and most destructive evil: fascism. In the Star Wars series, Andor (the only truly well-written and inspiring tale from that universe in decades, IMO) we get a page … Read more

Surprise AZ’s Propsed ICE Facility Is Surprisingly Large and a Surprisingly Grave Moral Question for Every AZ Community

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This footage (which will play in your Blue Sky app if you click below) gives an interesting insight into the sheer size of the recently DHS-purchased warehouse facility in Surprise, AZ. It looks as if the campus would be capable of holding many THOUSANDS of detainees. The size is simply staggering. That revelation is supplemented … Read more