As the Next Representative from Arizona LD 17, Kevin Volk will Emphasize Shared Values and Solving the State’s Challenges
December 18, 2023
Arizona Legislative District (LD) 17, because of the MAGA extremism of the two members of its delegation — State Senator Justine Wadsack, and Representative Rachel Jones — will be a watched district in the 2024 elections as Democrats look to take both chambers of the State Legislature that both currently hold a one-vote Republican majority.
Northeast Arizona Native Democrats Are Getting it Done Right!
December 17, 2023
I wrote recently about my donation to the Northeast Arizona Native Democrats encouraging you to do the same, and now I have gotten a followup email that is a good model of how to communicate to established donors for anyone trying to raise political money. I share it here with you both as a model,
While David Duke Endorsed Trump Continues His Eugenics Attacks on Immigrants, the Biden/Harris Campaign Recognizes the Importance of Black and Latino Communities in Two New Ads
December 17, 2023
The David Duke-endorsed candidate is at it again. Donald ‘I killed Roe v Wade’ Trump has continued his eugenics-styled attack on immigrants at a campaign rally in New Hampshire saying: “They’re (immigrants) poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they have done. They poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just
Smoke and Mirrors: Accountability and the Language of Rape
December 16, 2023
Like many writers, I’ve had my fair share of fascination with how language can warp our minds, make us care or zone out, or pull our attention in random directions. So today, I was dutifully cleaning out my inbox and occasionally succumbing to clickbait-y subject lines when, voilà–another newsletter, another letdown. This time, it was
Poll Anxiety and Electoral Signals
December 16, 2023
One of my favorite political analysists is Rachel Bitecofer, who publishes the SubStack newsletter The Cycle, among other projects. She is fiercely partisan and firmly on team democracy, but she is a hyper-qualified PhD in political behavior and statistical methodology, and just plain has lots of common sense, Here in Southern Arizona had a chance
Arizona’s Republican House Delegation Betrays Our Military, Votes Against Defense Spending Authorization.
December 15, 2023
Never let these MAGA clowns pretend to care about our military ever again. Republicans Biggs, Crane, Gosar, Lesko, and Schwiekert all voted to reject funding our military this year in a snit over bullshit like ‘DEI’, ‘ESG’, transition surgery, abortion services and travel, and drag shows on military bases. They think their culture war nonsense
Outraged by Saudis Mining Our Groundwater? We CAN Do Something About That…
December 15, 2023
You might be aware that in much of Arizona (outside the Active Management Areas) it is perfectly fine for a foreign citizen, corporation, or nation to buy a plot of Arizona farmland and then mine an unlimited amount of ground water under said property to grow whatever they like and then export it back home
AZ State Representative Alex Kolodin is a Naughty Little Lawyer
December 14, 2023
Arizona state representative Alexander Michael Del Rey Kolodin – who is allegedly an attorney – has admitted to the Arizona Bar that he violated the Code of Ethics for Arizona attorneys. Kolodin admits he committed those ethical violations in the course of his representation of his client in the so-called ‘Sharpie-gate’ litigation, in which he
