(UPDATED) “End the Waste. End the Fraud. End the Abuse”: Auditor General Finds Major Issues of Non-Compliance with the ESA Program
May 12, 2026
It is amazing what an audit can uncover. In another bombshell report by 12 News journalist Craig Harris, the billion-dollar-a-year Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) private school voucher welfare/scam for the wealthy and huckster class program, has been found by the Auditor General to have major issues of non-compliance in how management at the Arizona
These Three Remarks from Mad King Trump May Be the Democratic Midterm Campaign Ads for the Year
May 12, 2026
When he is not dozing off on television in the Oval Office or heading up a crime family scamming the American taxpayer, or destroying the nation with his brain-dead economic and foreign policies, Mad King Donald Trump gives the press a lot to write about and broadcast with his words. Earlier today, as he left
Competitiveness and the Voting Rights Act
May 12, 2026
[Note: this article was co-written with retired attorney Jay Simpson.] Redistricting is in the news. While it can be an obscure topic, mostly of interest to a modest number of nerds (us included), it has become national news every day. More people now see how it can fundamentally affect our democracy. As established in the
Despite the Court Setbacks, Democrats Need to Persevere and Fight
May 10, 2026
The decisions from the United States Supreme Court to essentially gut the Voting Rights Act and the Virginia Supreme Court to nullify a Democratic-held election where voters approved the redrawing of their congressional districts are setbacks and have allowed Republican states in the South to engineer a racist power grab by wiping out districts held
JoAnna Mendoza Held a Town Hall, and We Wish You Were There
May 7, 2026
April 28th was a busy day for JoAnna Mendoza, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Arizona Congressional District 06. From the roundtable discussion with medical professionals in the Murphy-Wilmot Library, she traveled to Vail for a town hall with veterans of our armed forces. Jo Mendoza answered tough questions from the moderator, such as: She
Ansari, Grijalva, Mayes, Fontes, Stanton, Roe Lewis, and De Los Santos Launch the Protect the Vote Arizona Ballot Initiative
May 6, 2026
With Arizona Democratic House Leader Oscar De Los Santos telling audience members that state Republican Legislators, like Representative and Secretary of State candidate Alex Kolodin, like his MAGA master Donald Trump, want to put a bullet in the head of mail-in voting (except on those occasions when they need to use it), other leading Grand
Arizona Legislative Republicans Came, Saw, and Ran Like Hell After Passing Their “Corporations First, Arizonans Last” Budget
May 5, 2026
For months, politically minded Arizonans have waited for State Legislative Republicans to put forth their budget proposal. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has had hers out since January, and she had to resort to a bill-signing moratorium to pressure the state MAGA bunch to put forth their budget. Last week, Legislative Republicans finally publicly broadcast their
While Children Go Hungry Thanks to Their Budget Cuts, Republicans want Taxpayers to Pay for The White House Ballroom
May 5, 2026
The White House Ballroom was supposed to be funded by private donations. Below is a video montage of all the times Donald Trump said so. Chalk up another in the pile of thousands of lies from the Liar in Chief, along with “Mexico will pay for the wall,” “I’ll have a health care plan out
