How Arizona Reveals the Future of Food Stamps

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/woFxqLOvjtA

 

The implications of Trump loyalists and election deniers winning GOP primaries | PBS News

In Arizona, three prominent election deniers won Republican primaries for governor, secretary of state and attorney general. If they win in November, they’ll play key roles in overseeing elections and defending voting laws. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Stephen Richer, the elections recorder in Maricopa County from 2021 to 2025…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-implications-of-trump-loyalists-and-election-deniers-winning-gop-primaries

An Arizona Sheriff’s Office Misused $163M Related to Racial Profiling Case — ProPublica

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was misattributed or misappropriated...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-sheriff-audit

 

‘Apartheid in the US’: Arizona’s secretary of state fights Trump’s plot to amass a ‘master list’ of voters

“This doesn’t have anything to do with non-citizens, because non-citizens don’t vote. Every study shows that,” he said. “So what you have here is an unprecedented invasion into the privacy of Americans, sold under a false narrative of illegal voting.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/arizona-state-secretary-trump-elections

 

Judge thwarts Trump administration’s attempt to access Arizona voter rolls

Justice department’s lawsuit dismissed in latest setback for government’s effort to amass information before midterms

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/arizona-voter-rolls-trump-administration

 

ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving ‘timely medical attention’

"His reported struggle to receive timely medical attention before being transferred to a hospital raises serious and painful concerns about the quality of care provided to individuals in custody," Christine Ellis, a Chandler city council member, said in an Instagram post… 

"He was complaining for almost two weeks straight, until he collapsed and got septic from the infection," Ellis told the local news outlet. Ellis said Damas was transferred to a Scottsdale hospital sometime last week…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/ice-detainee-arizona-death

 

Inside Turning Point’s effort to take over Arizona’s Republican Party - POLITICO

Turning Point USA is campaigning against two Republican candidates for governor, Karrin Taylor Robson and Rep. David Schweikert, in favor of Rep. Andy Biggs. And it's actively trying to undermine Gina Swoboda — the Arizona GOP chair running to replace Schweikert in the state's 1st District — even though President Donald Trump endorsed her, showing even the president's backing isn't enough to automatically win its approval...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/turning-point-usa-arizona-republican-party-00702306 

 

Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona 7th special election to narrow GOP majority - The Washington Post

Adelita Grijalva is the projected winner of the race to fill her father's congressional seat, trimming a Republican House majority that was already historically small...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/23/arizona-special-election-7th-district-adelita-grijalva/

More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county

August is on track to be hottest on record, with temperatures hitting at least 110F (43C) nearly every day…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/death-toll-extreme-heat-arizona-county

 

Border agent charged with child sex trafficking, fraud in AZ

"A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 24 felony charges, including 10 counts of child sex trafficking, the latest in a series of sexual-misconduct convictions or charges against U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees in Arizona. 

Willcox border agent Bart Conrad Yager, 39, was also charged with six counts of "pandering," or encouraging someone to engage in prostitution; one count of attempted child sex trafficking; and two counts of fraud, between July 2023 and March 2024 in Cochise County, indictments from the Cochise County Attorney's Office show…"

https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_5e596767-4575-485b-88e8-0a6265e5bb41.html 

 

US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days

"Under the Trump administration's theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back," Mark Joseph Stern, a legal analyst for Slate, wrote on Bluesky. "This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-border-patrol

 

An Arizona bill to let chaplains in schools would ban atheists from participating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFpc0XJ_AqE

Sanders and AOC tell packed arena Trump is ‘screwing over’ working class | US politics | The Guardian

Progressive political stars say president and billionaire Elon Musk are turning US into oligarchy at rally in Arizona…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/bernie-sanders-aoc-arizona-rally-trump-musk 

 

BREAKING: Trump allies get SURPRISE bad news in ongoing prosecution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0OkdSwfvTg

The "New Atheist" War on Trans People (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #564)

— FFRF, Jerry Coyne, and why the “New Atheists” have waged war against trans people. (1:45)

— Taxpayers funded this trashy, failing Mormon-based private school in Arizona. (46:45)

— Oklahoma’s new social studies standards go all in on Christian Nationalism. (57:15)

— Texas book ban backfires after school removes Bible over “sexually explicit” content. (1:06:27)
Interview: 

https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/2025/01/02/the-new-atheist-war-on-trans-people/

What an Unregulated School Voucher Program Looks Like — ProPublica

 For instance, the state never informed parents who were new to Title of Liberty and were planning to spend their voucher money there that it had previously been a charter school called ARCHES Academy — which had had its charter revoked last school year due to severe financial issues. Nor that, as a charter, it had a record of dismal academic performance, with just 13% of its students proficient in English and 0% in math in 2023…

Yet just a month after the board's decision, ARCHES was re-creating itself as a renamed, newly religious private school, simply by pivoting to accept voucher dollars. In other words, it was closed down by a public governing body but found a way to keep existing and being funded by the public anyway, just without the standards and accountability that would normally come with taxpayer money… 

…Still, she said, it's "on you" to check the credentials and the criminal history of every private school founder and provider to whom you're considering paying your ESA dollars, because in Arizona, "anybody can start a private school, you have no idea." There are mostly "just rumors to rely on," she said. … 

"You're putting your kid in [a school], hoping it's going to work," Cross said. "If it closes midyear, you're kind of screwed."…

https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-private-school-vouchers-no-transparency

 

TSMC’s New Arizona Fab! Apple Will Finally Make Advanced Chips In The U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHat_LYrpQE

Biden administration finalizes $6.6B in chips grants for TSMC before Trump takes office

"Today's announcement is among the most critical milestones yet in the implementation of the bipartisan CHIPS & Science Act, and demonstrates how we are ensuring that the progress made to date will continue to unfold in the coming years, benefitting communities all across the country," Biden said in a statement. 

The grant is expected to create $65 billion of private investment by TSMC in Arizona, Biden said, which will include three new facilities and the creation of tens of thousands of jobs by the end of the decade. The first of the company's new facilities is on track to open next year...

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4992410-biden-semiconductor-investment-arizona/

Democrat Ruben Gallego beats far-right Republican Kari Lake to win Arizona senate seat

Gallego will be the first Latino to represent the state, filling the seat of Democrat turned independent senator Krysten Sinema…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/us-election-arizona-senate-race-ruben-gallego-kari-lake

Arizona AG to investigate Trump's Liz Cheney comment as potential death threat

Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says her office will investigate whether former President Trump broke the law when he suggested former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney should face "nine barrels" at an Arizona rally on Thursday…

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/01/trump-cheney-death-threat-investigation