Editor: The recently-elected Maricopa County Recorder, Stephen Richer, who is a dyed in the wool Republican with credentials far deeper and stronger roots in the conservative movement than most, yesterday published an open letter which, if there is any way to rationally push back on his Party’s turn toward the irrational, conspiracies, and kookism, will rock … Read more
There is, as EJ Montini headlined in an oped yesterday (August 19, 2021,) an Arizona Republican war on children. This is in addition to their separate wars on science, reality, economic sanity, and Democracy. Over the last several months, their operatives in the Legislature, the Governor’s office, and the Arizona Supreme Court have: Opted to … Read more
Voting rights super lawyer Marc E. Elias tweets: From Democracy Docket: Voting Rights Groups Sue Arizona Over New Voter Suppression Laws August 17, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, various voting rights groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging two new voter suppression laws in Arizona. Mi Familia … Read more
The race among Arizonan pro-Democracy and Public Education activists over the last couple of weeks to gather 170,000 petition signatures by September 27 to block enactment of reactionary Republican laws designed to suppress the vote and defund Proposition 208 has gained momentum. Volunteers, largely through the umbrella organizations of Arizona Deserves Better, Stop Dirty Money, … Read more
Above: Kari Lake, former Fox 10 news anchor and Republican gubernatorial candidate, speaks to Young Republicans at a protest over Arizona State University’s mask mandate. The protest took place outside Hayden Library in Tempe on Aug. 13, 2021. – BENJAMIN CHAMBERS/THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Former Fox News propagandist, now MAGA/QAnon cult candidate for governor, Krazy Kari Lake, teamed … Read more