Arizona Legislative Republicans are back at it at the State Capitol, playing the same old MAGA-White Nationalist-Religious Extremist broken records of voting suppression and taking away reproductive freedom, sponsoring measures designed to take people’s rights away in both areas.
In both chambers, Arizona Republicans want to circumvent a probable Gubernatorial veto by sending a ballot measure to the public to decide whether to continue the Early Voting Mailing List in its current form and the submission of ballots on Election Day.
In the Arizona House, Republicans are advancing measures that would compromise reproductive freedom by:
- Making it a felony if an unborn child is killed.
- Mandating witness reporting standards for partial birth abortions.
There is a third provision providing for enhanced child support for unborn children. To be fair, depending on the circumstances, this provision may not be a bad idea. No one wants a deadbeat parent avoiding their responsibilities.
Arizona Republicans are also taking a blind eye to the domestic terror threat that is ICE and the many innocent people being taken and detained without cause or due process in America’s Concentration Camps. They would rather concentrate on defending the poor American Gestapo thugs from comments from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes made about Arizonans having the right to shoot unidentified intruders in their homes.
To Republicans, it is increasingly apparent that Second Amendment rights should be enjoyed by Fascist fanatics who share their warped world white nationalist view.
Meanwhile, prices, thanks to MAGA Trumponomics rose $1600 for the average American Family in 2025.
They are set to go higher for millions of Arizonans and Americans in 2026 due to Trump and MAGA Republicans’ cuts to health care.
So much for bringing down prices on day one.
If Republicans want to go to Arizonans in 2026 and run on these issues that take their rights, freedoms, and purchasing power away, Democrats should be saying, “knock yourself out.”
On the Democratic side, they have been working hard at both the federal, state, and local levels to actually help people in the Working and Middle Classes.
Last month, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Democratic Legislative Leaders unveiled the Voters First Act, which, unlike Republicans’ policy prescriptions, would modernize and expand voter rights access in Arizona.
Democrats have also been sponsoring legislation to make housing, utilities, healthcare, groceries, and rural assistance more affordable and accessible.
In the United States Senate, Mark Kelly introduced a bipartisan Delivering for Rural Seniors Act, which would improve the delivery of food assistance to seniors in rural communities.
Commenting on the legislation, Senator Kelly said in a press release:
“Too many seniors, especially in rural communities in Arizona and across the country, are eligible for nutrition assistance but can’t reliably get to a pickup site. This bill will help close that gap. By supporting local partners who are willing and able to deliver food directly to seniors’ doors, we can help older Americans stay healthy and independent in their own homes, especially as costs continue to rise. Geography shouldn’t be the difference between getting help and going without.”
Representatives Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva celebrated legislation they supported that would help the people in Tolleson.
While Ansari and Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego are openly calling for housing and rental affordability for the Working and Middle Classes, assistance, the Mad King Economic Dope in the Oval Office openly muses on camera that housing costs should remain high.
In a word, oy.
On Trumponomic policies making life more expensive for the American People to the tune of an extra $133 a month, Arizona’s Democratic Congressional Delegation had harsh words for MAGA economic policies in a joint press release:
Representative Ansari said:
“Donald Trump promised to lower prices for American families, but he’s spent his first year in office gutting jobs, starting conflicts with other countries, and using his position to enrich himself and his billionaire friends. Prices are still up, and Arizonans are suffering–unable to afford groceries and medication, let alone save for a home. We need real solutions and real leaders who actually care about their constituents.”
Representative Grijalva offered:
“Arizona families are paying the price for broken promises and reckless economic policies. Instead of lowering costs, Trump’s tariffs and economic chaos have driven up the price of housing, transportation, food, and health care—leaving working people and families stretched thinner every day.”
Representative Greg Stanton relayed:
“People are struggling to make ends meet because the President of the United States slapped almost everything they buy with illegal tariffs. I’m fighting in Congress and the courts to end the chaos because Arizonans deserve better.”
Senator Kelly stated:
“Families across Arizona are doing everything they can to stay afloat, but they’re still paying more for housing, groceries, health care, and everyday necessities. Donald Trump promised to lower costs for working families. Instead, he called the very real affordability crisis a ‘hoax’ while his policies have driven prices up and left Arizonans paying over $1,500 more in just one year. That’s money families should be spending on groceries, rent, and saving for the future, not covering higher costs caused by bad policy.”
Senator Gallego conveyed:
“After just one year of Trump’s chaos, Arizona families are paying $1,569 more in everyday expenses. When I meet Arizonans, I see people filling their gas tanks halfway and putting items back at the grocery checkout. They’re working harder than ever and trying to stretch paychecks that haven’t gotten any bigger. This is Trump’s America: people pay more and get less.”
Arizona House Leader Oscar De Los Santos also commented to Blog for Arizona on Trump’s Inflation and Arizona Republican legislators indifference to it, saying:
“Of course life is more expensive under Trump. In the Arizona House, the first bill Republicans forced through the process was a major tax cut for corporations. To date, we have not voted on a single bill to bring down costs. House Democrats will continue fighting for an Arizona We Can Afford.”
De Los Santos also issued several posts, protesting Republican White Nationalist and Back to the Gilded Age legislative proposals and resolutions designed to:
- Restrict Reproductive Freedom.
- Do away with the direct election of senators now that Arizonans are routinely electing Democratic ones.
- Inflame Anti-Islamic Hysteria.
In the Arizona State Senate, Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan introduced SB1384, which would disallow utility company officers like those working for APS from spending consumer ratepayer payments on political or unrelated public/business ventures.
Senator Sundareshan also introduced SB1382, which would better track the amount of groundwater being pumped in rural communities.
She and other State Senators also gathered at the Capitol to defend Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes from unfounded and nonsensical accusations from State Republicans that she is encouraging Arizonans to shoot ICE agents if they approach them with no identification or proper cause/warning.
In her remarks, Senator Sundareshan said:
“Senate Republicans do not take this issue seriously. They have misquoted her, twisting her words, and calling for her resignation.”
Later, the Senator said:
“While Democrats are focused on affordability and on lowering your costs, unfortunately, Republicans are standing with these lawless federal agents and are focused on taking away your rights.”
Before her, Senator Analise Ortiz commented:
“Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has been a true champion for the people, fighting to lower costs, holding corporations accountable, and protecting our most sacred Constitutional rights.”
Readers and voters should be clear.
There is no major Arizona or National Republican figure in power that are talking about, in a meaningful way, lowering costs, holding corporations accountable, protecting Constitutional rights, making housing affordable, caring for children and the elderly, and expanding the Middle Class.
The only politicians who are and have been addressing these issues in a substantive way are the Democrats.
Voters need to remember that in 2026 and beyond.
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