Michael Bryan 
I wrote recently about my donation to the Northeast Arizona Native Democrats encouraging you to do the same, and now I have gotten a followup email that is a good model of how to communicate to established donors for anyone trying to raise political money. I share it here with you both as a model, … Read more
One of my favorite political analysists is Rachel Bitecofer, who publishes the SubStack newsletter The Cycle, among other projects. She is fiercely partisan and firmly on team democracy, but she is a hyper-qualified PhD in political behavior and statistical methodology, and just plain has lots of common sense, Here in Southern Arizona had a chance … Read more
Never let these MAGA clowns pretend to care about our military ever again. Republicans Biggs, Crane, Gosar, Lesko, and Schwiekert all voted to reject funding our military this year in a snit over bullshit like ‘DEI’, ‘ESG’, transition surgery, abortion services and travel, and drag shows on military bases. They think their culture war nonsense … Read more
You might be aware that in much of Arizona (outside the Active Management Areas) it is perfectly fine for a foreign citizen, corporation, or nation to buy a plot of Arizona farmland and then mine an unlimited amount of ground water under said property to grow whatever they like and then export it back home … Read more
Arizona state representative Alexander Michael Del Rey Kolodin – who is allegedly an attorney – has admitted to the Arizona Bar that he violated the Code of Ethics for Arizona attorneys. Kolodin admits he committed those ethical violations in the course of his representation of his client in the so-called ‘Sharpie-gate’ litigation, in which he … Read more