While Kris Mayes Protects Arizonans from Fraud and Higher Utility Costs, Warren Peterson wants to protect ESA Fraudsters and Go After Dreamers
June 17, 2026
What has Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and her team done this week? Put away, drug dealers and traffickers. Helped secure an appeals court’s vacating of the Arizona Corporation Commission’s imposition of a utility surcharge on Arizona consumers at the behest of APS. Late last month, her office obtained a conviction of a parent who
Arizona Democratic Congressional Reaction to Trump’s Apparent Unpublished America-Last Deal with Iran
June 17, 2026
Several of Arizona’s Congressional Democrats have weighed in on the still officially unpublished page-and-a-half memorandum signifying an armistice between the United States, Israel, and Iran that is the first step in a 60-day process to negotiate a more permanent arrangement. Or more accurately, what they heard is in it, based on scuttlebutt, what the Iranians
Vengeful ICE Reinstates Deportation Charge Against Karla Toldeo
June 16, 2026
ICE has proved our worst fears true by refiling deportation proceedings against Karla Toledo, a 31-year-old DACA recipient and long-time Tucson resident. Arizona Veterans are forced to ask a simple, painful question: haven’t they terrorized Karla enough? “When Vets Forward members stood on the steps of the immigration court for Karla Toledo’s first hearing on
Maricopa County Democratic Party Chairperson Patti O’Neil Previews the 2026 Summer Convention and Discusses This Year’s Elections
June 16, 2026
When Maricopa County Democratic Chairperson Patti O’Neil spoke with Blog for Arizona last December, she talked about her goals for improving voter registration numbers, messaging outreach, and candidate support. Now, six months later, Chairperson O’Neil graciously interviewed with Blog for Arizona again and previewed the County Party’s Summer Convention on June 20 and discussed the
MAGA-Only AZ Corporation Commission is Found Corrupt and Lawless in The AZ Court of Appeals
June 16, 2026
Our pugnacious and fearless (and former AZ Corporation Commissioner) Attorney General, Kris Mayes, just spanked the purely Republican-only AZCC in court for failing to do their duty under the Arizona Constitution, flouting the law, giving an outright gift to Arizona’s Arizona Public Service monopoly, and failing to understand, or willfully ignoring, the most basic concepts
Corrupt Utility Commissioner Kevin Thompson, Who Shills for Data Centers and Fossil Fuels, Must Resign Immediately
June 16, 2026
State Commissioner Kevin Thompson, who is supposed to regulate electric, gas and power rates, corruptly works for two companies that the Commission regulates. It’s called the “Arizona Corporation Commission,” (ACC) but what it actually does is regulate electricity and natural gas rates statewide. Thompson, who is the chairman, runs two consulting companies to benefit EdgeCore,
Adrian Fontes Reacts to Maricopa Recorder Heap’s Controversies and Trump’s Unconstitutional Plans to Use the Postal Service to Thwart Mail-in Ballot Delivery
June 16, 2026
Times are interesting in Maricopa County Government circles these days as MAGA-Trumpist fanatic County Recorder Justin Heap is tussling with the Republican dominant Board of Supervisors over who has control over the July primary elections in the county. A court proceeding that could decide the issue convened on June 15. Heap and his legal counsel,
With Iran, Trump Came, Saw, and Capitulated While Ushering in a More Unsafe World
June 15, 2026
Does anyone think Barack Obama could have written a better Art of the Deal book? With word of a kind of armistice deal between Iran and the United States that will be finalized (hopefully, depending on the details) with a more permanent deal in about two months, Donald Trump, the man who bankrupted a casino
