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Arizona Morning Briefing, 9-9-26: Turning Point Activists DeepFake Austin, Mayes Announces Charges Against Academy Del Sol, and Where Are The Biggs TV Ads?

September 9, 2026 8:48 amSeptember 10, 2026 2:13 pm

We all knew that AI was going to play a role, large and small, in this fall’s campaigns. But some candidates are making savvier use the technology that will destroy us all than others. •Over the weekend, Matt Whitmire and...

Arizona Morning Briefing 9-2: Sunshine Scope Widens, Lombardo Campaign Finance Plot Thickens, Park Officials Try to Figure Out What Went Wrong In the Canyon, and more

September 2, 2026 8:10 amSeptember 3, 2026 8:13 am

Arizona Globe goes on a brief side quest to visit the set of Jeopardy! in Los Angeles, and news just breaks out all over. Here’s a brief rundown of the stories we’ll be following this week and beyond. As Lloyd...

Fontes Blasts Federal Election Agency–After Downplaying a Real Cyberattack

August 18, 2026 12:24 pmAugust 21, 2026 8:16 am

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes used a federal election security briefing Monday to publicly berate the Trump administration’s cybersecurity agency, telling officials “I don’t trust you.” But Fontes’s own handling of a real cyberattack on his office last year—one...

Arizona Morning Roundup, 8-18

August 18, 2026 9:20 amAugust 20, 2026 8:39 am

Like shelter pets, sometimes we don’t adopt the stories, the stories adopt us. Here are some of the Arizona developments we’re following while eating our protein-enhanced granola: •The Protect Education Act is on life support this morning. After county validity...

Arizona Morning Politics Briefing: Mendoza’s Property-Tax Credits, a Gubernatorial Spat Over Sales Tax, Ralph Heap In Another Heap of Trouble…And More

August 14, 2026 7:20 amAugust 18, 2026 12:26 pm

“Politics ain’t beanbag,” the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington once said, but sometimes it does feel a bit like beanbag, or like weasels in a sack fighting over a scrap of meat. Here are some of the dramas playing out...

Arizona Morning Roundup: Fontes Loses in Court, Feuds With Kolodin; What Was a Green Candidate Doing for Ralph Heap?

August 13, 2026 7:46 amAugust 18, 2026 12:26 pm

The Morning Roundup radar was blipping all over this morning during our first cup of coffee with three juicy items that had us happy to be alive: •On the more serious side, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes lost a ballot...

CAMPAIGN PREVIEW: Fontes, Kolodin Frame SOS Race as Election Trust Battle

August 12, 2026 8:01 am

Arizona voters will choose between two sharply different approaches to election administration when Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes faces Republican state Rep. Alexander Kolodin in November. The state’s Aug. 6 canvass of the primary election formally advanced the candidates...