Be Like Ron Williams, and Testify to Save Democracy
Martin Luther King’s assassination, the civil rights movement and social justice advances have always been core motivations politically for Ron Williams of Goodyear, AZ, the editor of the Mule News. “I see these voting bills for what they are — suppression of Black, Brown and Indigenous voters and not about ‘election integrity,’” he says. Not … Read more
Real Election Reforms Are Possible, But Not With Election Deniers Running the Legislature
There have been A LOT of terrible bills dropped by AZGOP state legislators this session. Probably none of them will make it past COW in the Senate: State Senator Paul Boyer has made it very clear to his colleagues that he is not on board with any nonsense stemming from conspiracy theories nor the misinformation … Read more
AZ GQP Legislators Ignore Critical Issues For Christian Right Culture War Issues
There are only two critical issues confronting the Arizona legislature this session: (1) addressing our water supplies due to an ongoing mega drought and climate change; and (2) addressing the “fiscal cliff” our idiot Republican legislators created for our public school system when they tried to reverse the will of the voters in passing the … Read more
AZ Senator Kelly Townsend Is Running for Congress to Serve Trump and Fundamentalist Fascism
UPDATE 1/28: Rawstory just published a look at the disgusting career of Kelly Townsend, which reminded me of a few things, and informed me of a few more. I considered accusing Townsend of being a possible member of the Oath Keepers but had only associational evidence of it. Rawstory also suggests the possibility and presents … Read more
Tucson’s Own Gabriella Cázares-Kelly Appears on the Lawrence O’Donnell Show
[00:00:00] Lawrence O’Donnell: Our next guest, like Kyrsten Sinema, is an activist in Arizona, democratic politics before being elected to office herself in September of 2019. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly discovered that the county recorder’s office in her county, Pima County, Arizona maintains voter registration records in 2020. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly ran for the office herself and won. She … Read more
The Biden Boom: ‘It’s Morning In America’ According To The Economic Data
In 1984, Ronald Reagan began his reelection campaign with his Morning In America television campaign ad. It was a successful attempt to gloss over his dismal economic record. Reagan’s Recession: The deepest post-World War II economic downturn occurred in the early 1980s. According to the accepted arbiter of the economy’s ups and downs, the National … Read more
New State and Federal Voting Districts Are Now in Effect
With both Democratic members voting “no,” the Independent Redistricting Commission certified the new Congressional and Legislative district maps at their January 21st meeting, as described in this Jeremy Duda article in the AZ Mirror: Redistricting commission gives final certification to new maps Below are links to the new maps in both Google My Maps and … Read more
