The S.S. Trump is Going Down—Can Juan Be Saved?

Illustration from the Unseat Ciscomani Team — Carol Braddick A year ago, Congressional Republicans, including Southern Arizona’s very own Juan Ciscomani, booked passage on the S.S. Trump, a luxury liner (with, reportedly, gold toilets), headed for a victory cruise on the placid waters of MAGA-dominated public opinion.             Something, however, has gone very wrong on … Read more

Mayes and Fontes Disparage Trump, Wanting Republicans to Disobey the Constitution by Federalizing and Controlling Elections

Earlier in the week, Donald Trump raised another stink in his ever-ending pursuit, fueled by lying disinformation and public denialism, to create election infrastructure in his MAGA image by suggesting, on the recently departed F.B.I. Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s podcast, that Republicans should nationalize and control elections in 15 areas. Trump repeated his suggestions, backed … Read more

While Arizona and National Republicans Take Freedoms Away and Defend ICE, Democrats Work to Save Working and Middle Class Rights and Affordability

Arizona Legislative Republicans are back at it at the State Capitol, playing the same old MAGA-White Nationalist-Religious Extremist broken records of voting suppression and taking away reproductive freedom, sponsoring measures designed to take people’s rights away in both areas. In both chambers, Arizona Republicans want to circumvent a probable Gubernatorial veto by sending a ballot … Read more

The Way Forward?

Many Democratic centrist candidates come off as “Republican Lite” which ever since Reagan has put Democrats being perceived as being in a defensive crouch instead of aggressively confronting the folly of Republican policies while highlighting Democratic ideals exemplified by FDR. Many voters given the choice of a Republican or Republican Lite will go with the … Read more