Retired Army and Marine Veteran Dan Toporek has been in the public sphere his whole adult life. The 2020 Democratic Nominee for Maricopa County Treasurer, he is now seeking an opportunity to represent the North Phoenix residents of Arizona Legislative District Two in the Arizona State Senate. Saying the people deserve a legislature that works for them, Toporek, if … Read more
In an Executive Order issued earlier today, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs took the first steps to cut state taxes for Arizona’s Senior and Middle Class residents. In her order, called Cutting Taxes for Hard-Working Arizonans, designed to bring Arizona “in conformity” with the few tax cut measures that actually help the 98 percent contained in … Read more
Fresh off a Democratic electoral victory that exceeded expectations on November 4, 2025, Third Way Senior Communications Director Kate deGruyter interviewed with Blog for Arizona and discussed the path forward for Democrats heading into the 2026, 2028 campaigns and beyond. In the dynamics of Presidential politics, that includes supporting candidates that can win in the … Read more
Seldom to do I pen a post just to quote and recommend the work of another – unless it’s just too good to miss and exactly what I was about to say myself (but probably with more unnecessary words!). Today, political scientist and practitioner Rachel Bitecofer did just that: When the government reopened, cable pundits … Read more
House Democrats are relishing and taking advantage of every opportunity to call returning Republicans out for hiding from their responsibilities to the American People during the government shutdown the last seven weeks while still getting paid when their staffers and many other federal workers were not and forced to go to food banks to get … Read more