David Siders reported at Politico last week, ‘Down the rabbit hole’: Arizona GOP goes full fringe: Just when it seemed Arizona Republicans couldn’t make more of a spectacle, they found another way. As the Republican Party hardens around its fealty to former President Donald Trump, the Arizona GOP is filling up its midterm ballot with … Read more
There you go, Joe Manchin. We wasted valuable time humoring you by letting you craft a watered-down version of the For The People Act, one which you asserted your self-proclaimed (mythical) powers of bipartisan persuasion would convince the Sedition Party, which is currently engaged in a slow-motion insurrection against American democracy, to go along with … Read more
In an op-ed at the Tucson Sentinel, former Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini and Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, write Sinema should reconsider filibuster stance to protect seniors’ voting rights: Older Arizonans who voted safely and securely by mail in the 2020 election may find that … Read more
Time is running out to collect 119,000 qualifying petition signatures on six 2022 ballot initiatives each to stop Republican efforts to gut Invest in Ed, and the suppression of voting rights. There is also a seventh ballot initiative designed to stop the continuing influence of Dark Money in Arizona politics. To that end, Stop Dark … Read more
Christmas arrives early this week for the MAGA/QAnon Trump cult “election truthers.” The long overdue Cyber Ninja “fraudit” report is supposed to be released this week just ahead of the next seditious insurrection rally in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Coincidence? We think not. It’s all part of fascist propaganda stagecraft. Remember how Senator Karen Fann … Read more