Arizona was a test case for Donald Trump’s campaign strategy in 2020: use the slow counting of mail-in ballots to undermine and to contest the legitimacy of the election. In 2018, 80% of Arizona voters received their ballots in the mail and voted early by mail. On election night, the first numbers you see reported … Read more
Usually, sine die is an orderly but sometimes drama-filled end to the Legislative session. Historically, the Arizona House and the Senate vote to sine die (end the session) on the same night and often under the cloak of darkness. The second session of the 54th Legislature was… different… even before the novel Coronavirus hit the … Read more
It was another late night on Wednesday, but I snuck away to my office for a couple of minutes to do a video in the daylight. It’s about this time in the session when the Democrats start to get ornery because one bad bill after another is passed on a party line vote. If something … Read more
Republicans in Arizona are scared of the grassroots. That’s why they are pushing SB 1451, which would create burdens for people collecting ballot initiative signatures. The Arizona House Elections Committee will be hearing this bill tomorrow. SB 1451 has already passed the Senate, so our only hope is to stop this bill in the House. … Read more
For many years, author and historian John Nichols has been coming to Tucson for the Festival of Books. In addition to his popular appearances at the Book Festival, Nichols has a tradition of speaking on Saturday evening at a free event hosted by Progressive Democrats of American (PDA Tucson) and the Pima Area Labor Federation … Read more