More than 100 national, state, and local advocacy groups will launch a mobilization Saturday to counteract the Republican Party’s systematic dismantling of the United States’ democracy, calling on supporters to help fight for legislation aimed at protecting the right to vote. Fight GOP Voter Suppression: John Lewis Day Of Action: At the John Lewis National … Read more
Each session has a pattern. This year, everything seems more orderly. We have had only one night where we were on the floor past 7 PM. Mondays generally have a leisurely pace, now that there are no committee meetings, but Thursday’s make up for it with rousing debates. Arizona House members had several debates on … Read more
Republicans are attacking your rights at multiple levels — voting rights, reproductive rights, the right to protest, the right to sue a business, the right to citizens initiative, and the right to unionize. On Tuesday, the first bill up for debate was SB1268, the anti-union ALEC bill. In committee, we were led to believe that … Read more
For many years, the Arizona Legislature has had a 100 day target for the length of each session. April 20, 2021 was day 100 for this session. When more than 1000 bills are proposed every year and more than 300 are usually signed into law in non-pandemic years, the Legislature doesn’t generally finish in 100 … Read more
Often when the House Democrats go into caucus, we were greeted with a HUGE list of bills to consider that morning. Such was the case a few weeks ago when the caucus agenda was several pages long, including two pages of proposals attacking your rights. Since the staff didn’t receive the caucus agenda until about … Read more