April 23 UPDATE: As only she can do, Senator Kelly Townsend put a fly in the Republican Party’s ointment on Thursday when she unexpectedly voted NO on HB1485, killed the PEVL Purge bill (at lease temporarily), and left the building. [Below is my original blog post about the House vote.] April 20 was high drama in the Arizona … Read more
The anti-democratic, anti-majoritarian tendencies of authoritarian Republicans is growing worse. A Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday, which finds that Republicans increasingly oppose measures that would expand access to the ballot. The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights: The percentage of Republicans and independents leaning toward the G.O.P. who said that voters should be … Read more
Update to Corporate Accountability Backlash To Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bills (Updated). 72 Black business executives published a letter in The New York Times urging corporate leaders to speak out. Nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states: Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined in a strong statement against … Read more
You can’t make this stuff up. The bizarro world reality we are forced to live in here in Arizona because of the MAGA/QAnon conspiracy cult that controls our state legislature is stranger than fiction. The Arizona Mirror reports, Senate won’t say who is funding the election audit or allow media access: A heated press conference … Read more
Rachel Maddow reports on the insane conspiracy theories that underpin the effort by Arizona Republicans to conduct (another) taxpayer funded recount of only the presidential election ballots from last November from Maricopa County in the belief that they’ll discover that Donald Trump “secretly won.” Include this clip as an exhibit in the lawsuit because it … Read more