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Maybe Ruben Gallego's moderate makeover isn't so bad

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24.05.2024 10

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Hamadeh calls his base 'the crazies'? Yep, he's done

So much for Honest Abe. Blake Masters dealt what could be/should be a death blow to his former America First running mate, leaking a text exchange...

23.05.2024 40

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Indicted senators finally hit with an ethics complaint

Finally, someone at the state Capitol is asking whether two senators awaiting trial on criminal charges meet the Arizona Legislature’s standards for...

23.05.2024 20

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Biggs demands Mayes resign over fake elector case. Funny

Rep. Andy Biggs and two other congressmen are demanding that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes drop all criminal charges in the fake elector scheme...

22.05.2024 10

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Republicans should demand a Lake-Lamb debate

Arizona’s Republican candidates for U.S. Senate are scheduled to debate on June 26, just a week before early voting begins. Pinal County Sheriff...

22.05.2024 20

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Poll shows Kari Lake in a deep hole with no ladder

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21.05.2024 40

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House nixes ethics complaint against a suspected forger

It’s now been a month since a state legislator hightailed it out of a race for reelection after having been accused of forging signatures on his own...

20.05.2024 10

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Rudy Giuliani, you've been served

Rudy Giuliani, you’ve been served. After weeks of evading agents, making light of his indictment by a state grand jury and generally acting like a...

19.05.2024 60

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The heat is on for Arizona's fake electors

18.05.2024 90

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The 2 Democrats who can go toe-to-toe with Schweikert

17.05.2024 20

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House may punish Democrats for yelling. Go figure

16.05.2024 20

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Former Gov. Jan Brewer stands up to MAGA. Who's next?

15.05.2024 40

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Kari Lake spews conspiracy while GOP reaches for Excedrin

15.05.2024 50

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Arizona could pass border bill that won't fix the border

14.05.2024 60

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Border bill suggests GOP lawmakers think they could lose

Comes now the strongest signal yet that Democrats have their best chance in decades to win control of the Arizona Legislature. Even the Republicans...

08.05.2024 10

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Indicted senator finally manages to anger his colleagues

One of Arizona’s indicted state legislators was banned from the Senate’s broadcast studio on Monday after using state equipment to link up with an...

07.05.2024 30

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ASU just taught student protesters a valuable lesson

You’ll excuse me if I can’t quite squeeze out a tear for the suspended Arizona State University students who will not be graduating this week, or...

07.05.2024 20

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An abortion debate? Let's have Lake ('22) v. Lake ('24)

Kari Lake is strutting all over social and conservative media, squawking about how Ruben Gallego is just too chicken to debate her on abortion. It...

06.05.2024 40

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Masters' ugly attack on Hamadeh is obvious for what it is

I just caught up with this week’s candidate debate in Arizona’s liveliest congressional race, and the award for the slimiest, nastiest attack of...

03.05.2024 10

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5 Arizona pro-life defectors save the GOP from itself

Five pro-life defectors completed their roll over their fellow Republicans on Wednesday, voting with Democrats to repeal Arizona’s 1864 near total...

02.05.2024 20

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GOP lawmakers faint over 'drag story hour,' but not this

Break out the smelling salts. On Tuesday, the Arizona Legislature was, as usual, not working, and so the Arizona LGBTQ Caucus met in the House...

01.05.2024 20

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UA's hunt for a new president must begin (gulp) in Tempe

It’s now been three months since the public got a gander at the University of Arizona’s full-on header into a financial and reputational black...

30.04.2024 30

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Lawmaker sees fake electors as civil rights protesters

Quick, what do Arizona’s now-indicted fake electors and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? If you said they’re all heroes then...

29.04.2024 9

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This just in from the Arizona Republican Party: We be crazy

The Arizona Republican Party on Saturday sent a flat out, full-throated, flabbergasting message to the voters of this great state. We be crazy, they...

29.04.2024 70

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Idictments are fine, but vote against GOP and you'll pay

Senate President Warren Petersen has rejected a Democrats’ call for indicted Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern to be removed as chairmen of two...

26.04.2024 20

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Rep. Biggs escapes, despite role in fake elector scheme

As we await news on which of Arizona’s now-indicted fake electors will flip on their fellow phonies and accused co-conspiracists, it’s worth...

26.04.2024 20

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It's about darn time Arizona charged its fake electors

At long last (and it’s about time), Arizona’s fake electors are about to find out it’s not nice to try to steal a presidential election. Sens....

25.04.2024 50

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Abortion repeal helps the GOP, but it'd rather retaliate

The Arizona House on Wednesday voted to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban, as three Republicans sided with Democrats to roll over their...

25.04.2024 20

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Turning Point USA has a pile of Arizona embarrassments

It’s been a rough … some might say illuminating ... week for Turning Point USA. First there was Rep. Austin Smith, a senior leader in the Turning...

24.04.2024 20

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Kari Lake's 'explosive' lawsuit just blew up in her face

Remember last month when Kari Lake and Mark Finchem claimed they had “new evidence” meriting a “do-over” of the 2022 election? “This new...

23.04.2024 20

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Coyotes ex-owner wants to soak us for his hockey dream

The Arizona Coyotes may be gone, but the team’s ex-owner remains and — oh, what a surprise — he will deliver us another team if only he can tax...

20.04.2024 10

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No more toss-up: Kari Lake is favored to lose the Senate

Already we’re seeing fallout from the Arizona Republican Party’s disastrous embrace of that 1864 law that criminalizes abortion. On Wednesday,...

19.04.2024 20

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Rep. Austin Smith must resign now over forgery claims

Rep. Austin Smith, one of the Legislature’s fiercest crusaders for election integrity, has decided not to run for reelection after all. This, after...

18.04.2024 20

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Sen. Shawnna Bolick, defender of abortion? Don't buy it

The right to an abortion in Arizona is hanging by a thread — one held up by a pair of pro-life Republican senators. Just two years ago, Sens....

18.04.2024 20

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GOP makes it official: 1864 is the new 2024 on abortion

Republicans in the Arizona House on Wednesday fended off a drive to repeal the state’s 1864 law that criminalizes abortion. The prospect of losing...

18.04.2024 20

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Hobbs nixes bill to turn school board races into the WWE

A bill to transform Arizona’s school board elections into partisan smackdowns has been sent to Gov. Katie Hobbs’ growing veto pile. Sadly, it...

17.04.2024 10

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Lawsuit: Far-right lawmaker forged signatures to run

One of the Arizona Legislature’s most ardent warriors for election integrity may have landed himself smack in a steaming pile of political poop. It...

17.04.2024 10

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Arizona's abortion shot-caller says no abortion repeal

Just in case you thought there was an outside chance that the Arizona Legislature might repeal the abortion ban that has catapulted women back to...

16.04.2024 50

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GOP's leaked abortion strategy is an insult to voters

Republican legislators let a dirty little secret slip out on Monday. They don’t much respect you. That seemed clear in a document leaked on Monday,...

16.04.2024 10

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Arizona may have dodged a slapshot if Coyotes leave

The Arizona Coyotes prepare to skate out of town later this week, not even a week after the team owner was trying to sell us on a shiny new $3 billion...

16.04.2024 5

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That 1864 abortion ban isn't going anywhere. Here's why

The Arizona Capitol will be ground zero in the nation’s abortion debate this week, as the Republican Party scrambles to hold the line and protect...

16.04.2024 8

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Trump pushes the panic button on abortion in Arizona

On Monday, Donald Trump said he wouldn't support a federal abortion ban, that it should be up to each state to decide where to draw the line. On...

13.04.2024 20

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Kari Lake lobbies to bring back abortion. Wait, what?

The Great Arizona Republican Abortion Retreat continues as Kari Lake is now lobbying the Arizona Legislature to repeal the state’s new 19th century...

12.04.2024 70

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10 lawmakers most likely to be booted over abortion ban

Now that we are living in the year of our Lord 1864, I picture Sen. Shawnna Bolick breathing into a paper bag. Republicans already were looking at a...

12.04.2024 20

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Trump sounds pro choice as he slams AZ abortion ban

Donald Trump on Wednesday said the Arizona Supreme Court went too far in reviving a 160-year-old law that makes abortion a crime. During a stopover in...

11.04.2024 10

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The Great GOP Abortion Retreat is on

In the hours since the Arizona Supreme Court dragged us back into the 19th century, the Great Republican Retreat on abortion has been nothing short of...

10.04.2024 9

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Abortion ruling is a disaster for Republicans

The Arizona Supreme Court set off a political earthquake on Tuesday, resuscitating a 160-year-old territorial law making abortion a criminal act. But...

10.04.2024 40

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3 races that could loosen MAGA's grip on the Legislature

Arizona legislators, having accomplished not much of anything thus far this year, take a break this week so they can hit the campaign trail to tell us...

09.04.2024 10

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Gov. Hobbs gives GOP's 'great' gun bill a mercy killing

To the surprise of no one, Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill that appears to give legal cover to ranchers who shoot migrants crossing their land....

09.04.2024 10

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Biggs was subpoenaed in fake elector case? About time

Add now Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar to the ranks of politicians, activists and assorted scoundrels who’ve been summoned to testify before the...

05.04.2024 40

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