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ESA’s Hit the Billion Dollar Expenditure Mark: Time to Cut the Welfare for the Rich Scam Private Education Voucher Program

November 17, 2025 by David Gordon

Republicans at the Arizona State Legislature are about to get another opportunity to prove they favor cutting waste, fraud, abuse, unneeded fiscal fat, and misplaced spending priorities in the 2026 legislative session. The plum target for cutting, if they accept it, is the fiscal Frankenstein Monster they created and unconditionally support: The Empowerment Scholarship Private … Read more

The Path Forward to Democratic Victory in 2026 and Beyond: Lessons Learned from the 2025 Elections

November 16, 2025 by David Gordon

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

Ansari Gets Under Foxx’s Skin and Introduces Amendments to Curb Corporate Influence on “Heartless” Me Me Me Trump

November 18, 2025November 12, 2025 by David Gordon

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

Did Eight Democratic Senators Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory in Ending the Government Shutdown? It Depends

November 10, 2025 by David Gordon

This is a case when Democrats did something and one person can conceivably react “Damn” and “Thank God” at the same time. In case you missed it, eight Democratic Senators, two of whom are retiring and six others who are not up for re-election in 2026, secured a deal with Senate Republicans to vote to … Read more

AG Mayes Stops “Let Them Starve” Trump Again

November 18, 2025November 10, 2025 by David Gordon

In an accelerated time frame, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, along with the AGs and leaders of 25 other states, won a restraining order stopping the “Let Them Starve” Trump Project 2025 fascist Agriculture Department from enforcing their “claw back” SNAP funds for millions of vulnerable Americans, including children, from states that had already authorized … Read more

This program reminds me of the 2000 Alternative Fuel fiasco that was set to cost Arizona about 10% of its…

I recently met a young lady who is home schooled. She has 12 siblings of whom 8 (including her) are…

Yep. Third way is republican lite. Moving right for decades is how we got PedoPOTUS. These people are just as…