For the Record, Joe Biden Inherited a Disaster and Will Leave the Country Better Than He Found It
For all the lazy and timid reporters and pundits in this country who do not counter Donald Trump and his MAGA allies when they say they are inheriting a mess, just remember what shape Trump and his minions left the country in four years ago when the 45th President did not have the decency to … Read more
Fly your Flag at Half-Mast on Inauguration Day
Join me in hanging your flag at half-mast, honoring the death of our democratic republic. There are 75 million of us who did not vote for the criminal monarch, and we will not bend the knee on inauguration day on January 20. Starting on Tuesday, jack-booted government agents will raid homes, stores, farms, construction sites, … Read more
Robert Branscom, the New Chair of AZ Democratic Party, in his Own Words
Arizona Democrats elected Robert Branscomb at the party’s state committee meeting on January 18, 2025. He defeated incumbent chair Yolanda Bejarano in her re-election run. Following are the remarks of Robert Branscomb in a debate video released before the Party election on January 18. My vision for the party is rooted in the idea that … Read more
Obituary for TikTok US: 2017-2025
UPDATE: TikTok goes down. TikTok comes back up. All in less than 24 hours. Convenient how creating the problem lets you swoop in to save the day, isn’t it? We’re all being played. Gone Too Viral In a time when our lives were choreographed by algorithms, filled with lip-synced trends, and stitched together into a … Read more
Governor Hobbs’ Budget Focuses on Border Security, Water Supply and Fraud in the ESA Program
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has unveiled her 2025/26 budget proposal and it reflects the priorities she laid out in her State of the State Address when she called on State Legislators to work with her to achieve “Arizona’s Promise.” In a Gubernatorial Press Release, the Governors Team highlighted the following features of Ms. Hobb’s proposed … Read more
It Appears Speaker Mike Johnson Has Never Heard of the Separation of Powers
Our long national nightmare is returning. This week has shown yet again that the Republican Party, after 40 years in the making with increasing levels of subservience to a series of “Dear Leader” Presidents (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump,) has morphed into an authoritarian-plutocratic-white nationalists-alternative reality based-neo fascist political entity. In 2025, fealty to Donald … Read more
Gallego and Kelly Will Regret Supporting the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka ‘Laken Reilly’)
It seems that many elected Democrats, including some of Arizona’s own, have been cowed into supporting a very bad bill. In brief, the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka the Laken Reilly Act… you can always count on MAGA to horribly and cynically exploit a family’s tragedy for political purposes, can’t you?) not only mandates … Read more
