Michael Bryan 
As rare of hen’s teeth and as powerful as Bigfoot on a bender, we have sighted that rarest of legislative species under GOP control: good legislation that simply makes reasonable public policy! SB1037, sponsored by Senator Shope, does something simple that helps people, saves the state money, and simply makes sense: it extends AHCCCS coverage … Read more
The Brennan Center has put out a report entitled “Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders” on the rising tide of politically motivated threats, violence and intimidation in our public life, especially focused on elected officers, government workers, and candidates for public office. The trends they document that have emerged since that moment when Trump glided … Read more
Anthony Kern, who currently contaminates an Arizona Senate seat and wants to besmirch a seat in Congress (based on his credentials as a treasonous #Jan6 conspirator, an as-yet-unindicted felony fraud fake elector, or a petulant, back-turning Hobbs election denying twat, apparently) thinks that Arizona’s citizens should just shut up and let him and his MAGA … Read more
The narrative we are being fed by the Republican noise machine – and that mainstream media is only too happy to amplify for them – that the border is ‘overrun‘, ‘out of control‘ or a ‘crisis‘, is bullshit. And far too many Democrats are buying into that tall tale and blaming Joe Biden for the … Read more
Wow! I can’t believe that Republicans here in Southern Arizona will put up with this: Former president Donald Trump is dominating the congressional endorsement game, picking up the backing of every member of the House GOP leadership as well as an increasing number of senators. But a key group has not endorsed him: the most vulnerable 17 … Read more