Pro & Con on RTA Next discussed on AZPM’s The Press Room

The Press Room on AZPM hosted by new News Director David Lee held a live audience forum last week, which aired today online about the upcoming March 10, 2026 RTA Next ballot. It is a proposed extension of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) passed in May 2006, for another 20 years to 2046. The original … Read more

Ciscomani Votes For Trump’s Brown Shirts

Juan Ciscomani voted YES on the House of Representatives bill 7147, which provided appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including Border Patrol and ICE. The bill contains no measures that would restrict the unlawful behavior of agents. He cast his vote with knowledge of atrocities committed by agents: detaining four- and five-year-old children to … Read more

In Any Funding Deal Over DHS, the Innocent Need to be Released from America’s Concentration Camps, and Noem, Lewandowski, Miller, and Hohman Have to Go

With another Government Shutdown looming over, not health care costs this time, but what to fund ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is negotiating a potential deal to avoid it with the White House. In reporting from the New York Times and MSNOW, the outlines of the deal … Read more

Fascism IS Happening Here

The hideous ICE murders in Minneapolis of the so-called “domestic terrorists” have become more common — and blatant. I am reminded of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.” The story was about the United States evolving from a representative democracy into a totalitarian autocracy. This concept was considered impossible, even though it was … Read more

Arizona Democratic Battleground Congressional Candidates Are Outraged at Pretti Execution

Several of Arizona’s leading Congressional Candidates in battleground districts reacted to the horrific and unprovoked ICE-Black Shirt murder/execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last Saturday. Arizona Congressional District (CD) Six Candidate JoAnna Mendoza posted: In Arizona CD One, Marlene Galán-Woods wrote: “Enough is enough. Another person has been shot and killed by federal agents in … Read more