#StopTheBans is a nationwide day of action on Tuesday, May 21 to protest radical Republicans’ assault on women’s reproductive freedom and access to safe, legal abortion. Across the country, we are seeing a new wave of extreme bans on abortion, stripping away reproductive freedom and representing an all-out assault on abortion access. This is Trump’s … Read more
I have from time to time referred to our radical Republican-controlled Arizona legislature as the “Alabama of the West.” Alabama is without question the most ignorant and regressive backwater in America, and has been forever, but occasionally the Arizona legislature gives Alabama a challenge to its title. This week Alabama reclaimed its title. Just as … Read more
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, published in 1985, was supposed to be a fictional account of a dystopian future in which a totalitarian state resembling a theonomy has overthrown the United States government: Beginning with a staged attack that killed the president and most of Congress, a radical political group calling itself the “Sons … Read more
For the third year in a row, Arizona House Democrats forced a debate and a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). On April 16, I made an “emergency motion” to skip over First, Second and Third Readings of HCR2030 and bring the ERA up for an immediate vote. Predictably, the Republicans offered as substitute … Read more
In the Health and Human Services Committee on Thursday, Feb 14, we are hearing a long list of bills including two about health insurance. HB2375 would extend short-duration insurance to three years. This insurance is currently capped at one year because it is seen as a stop-gap measure for people who are between jobs or … Read more