BlogForArizona: Your Resistance Headquarters
We here at BlogForArizona are deeply concerned about the emerging Trump Dictatorship, just like so many of you. We have been and will continue covering closely the ongoing Coup by this Admin against the other branches of our government at the Federal and State level, our public institutions, and civil society. We will endeavor to … Read more
US Senators Cory Booker and Mark Kelly Blast Trump Cuts to Health Insurance
800 voters jammed a town hall in Tucson and roared their applause for US Senators Corey Bookman of New Jersey and Mark Kelly of Arizona. The senators blasted the Trump oligarchy’s budget plan to cut health insurance coverage. “We have a Congress where there are enough votes on the Republican side to pass the greatest … Read more
Governor Katie Hobbs Touts Her Plans for Helping Arizonans Get Affordable Child Care on ABC and Fox
Like the Democrats in the Arizona State Legislature, Governor Katie Hobbs has been championing legislative and budget proposals to make life affordable, prosperous, and comfortable for the Grand Canyon State’s Lower and Middle Classes. One idea that she promoted in interviews to both ABC and Fox News is her Bright Futures AZ Plan, a vision … Read more
“Shady” Republicans Stack the Deck at the State House Appropriations Committee to Stop Help for Disabled Children
In a move that Arizona House Democratic Leader Oscar De Santos called “Shady” on social media, MAGA Republican Leadership at the State Legislature, when they realized there was bipartisan support for an amendment offered by Representative Julie Willoughby to a legislative proposal to provide supplemental funding assistance to children with disabilities, decided to stack the … Read more
Bravo to Kyrene School District For Standing Up to Tom Horne and MAGA Anti D.E.I. Policies
When there is one side that is for promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) and another one does not, you can be pretty sure that the group that favors D.E.I. is on the right side of history. Such is the case of the Kyrene Elementary School District in the Tempe/Chandler/Ahwatukee area of Maricopa County’s East … Read more
Pima County Board of Supervisors appoint former AZ House Rep. Andres Cano to vacant District 5 seat
District 5 Supervisor Adelita Grijalva resigned on April 4, 2025 to run for the CD 7 Congressional seat vacated by the death on March 13 of her father Raul Grijalva. He had served 22 years in that seat, and died from lung cancer at age 77. His daughter had followed in his footsteps to serve … Read more
Who’s running for vacant CD 7 Congressional Seat in Special Primary 2025
Az Secretary of State has posted the official list of candidates interested in running for the CD 7 seat which has been vacant since the death of Congressman Raul Grijalva (D) on March 13, 2025. The deadline for filing nomination petitions was April 14 at 5 p.m. A total of 27 citizens filed statements of … Read more
“Fascism”: Ansari and Kelly Condemn Trump’s Refusal of Supreme Court Ruling to Bring Kilmar García Home
It was astonishing, in a bad way, to read and watch the Felon in Chief, his enabling Attorney General, and the leader of El Salvador say with straight faces that, despite a 9-0 Supreme Court Ruling, they would not return Kilmar Abrego García, a man wrongly deported from this nation last month. It was beyond … Read more
