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State Representative Ruben Gallego speaking at a "Gun Rights" debate hosted by Students for Liberty and Young Americans for Liberty at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Gallego Escalates Anti-ICE Rhetoric Amid Minnesota Protests

January 9, 2026 8:47 amJanuary 9, 2026 3:04 pm

Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) sharply criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents following a shooting incident in Minnesota, calling for firings and accusing the Trump administration of deploying “undertrained and ill-equipped goon squads”—comments made while an official investigation was...

Kolodin Slams Fontes over DOJ Voter File Refusal

January 8, 2026 9:36 amJanuary 9, 2026 1:20 pm

Arizona State Representative and Secretary of State candidate Alexander (Alex) Kolodin is taking exception to current Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’ refusal to turn over Arizona’s unredacted voter registration database to the U.S. Department of Justice. Fontes’ denial is escalating...

Kupper Warns Hobb’s USDA SNAP Data Denial Hurts Recipients

December 9, 2025 11:36 amDecember 23, 2025 3:49 pm

Arizona may be at risk of losing federal food aid support after state officials again refused to provide the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with detailed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility data. The dispute has triggered warnings from federal...

Maricopa BOS’s Stewart Applaud’s Heap’s New Voter Signature Process

November 26, 2025 6:57 amDecember 8, 2025 1:36 pm

Maricopa County officials are offering sharply different assessments of Recorder Justin Heap’s new signature-verification process, which was used for the November 4, 2025, jurisdictional election. During last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Mark Stewart publicly praised Heap and the elections...

Petersen Blasts Mayes for Wasteful Electors Case Appeal

November 21, 2025 3:24 pmDecember 5, 2025 3:04 pm

Attorney General Kris Mayes announced she will appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court in State of Arizona v. Ward et al., keeping the electors case active after a lower court ordered the indictment returned to a grand jury because of procedural...

Kolodin Files Sweeping 2026 Election-Integrity Measure

November 20, 2025 2:34 pmNovember 26, 2025 12:41 pm

This week, Republican State Representative Alexander Kolodin (R-2) introduced one of the most consequential election-integrity proposals of the upcoming session, filing HCR2001 – the Arizona Secure Elections Act – a ballot referral that would substantially reshape Arizona’s voting laws if...

Hamadeh Calls for Probe of AG Mayes over $200K Payday

November 17, 2025 12:18 pmNovember 26, 2025 7:03 am

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is now at the center of a national controversy as Congressman Abe Hamadeh (R-CD8) formally requests that the U.S. Department of Justice open a federal investigation into what he calls a “coordinated bribery and prosecutorial...