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Democrat Teresa “Terry” Leyba Ruiz used Tuesday’s Arizona superintendent debate to draw a stark contrast with Republican Kimberly Yee: Ruiz, a former Glendale Community College president with 35 years in education and 25 years in the classroom, repeatedly argued that Arizona’s next superintendent must understand the re
Score a victory for Democracy today. The United States Supreme Court denied Trump’s Fascist Regime’s attempt to use the Postal Service to control mail-in voting. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas conveyed that they were willing to allow Trump’s authoritarian move to control the mail-in voting process. No surpri
Senator Ruben Gallego is escalating his call for aggressive federal oversight of artificial intelligence, warning that the technology’s most serious risks are arriving faster than Congress is prepared to confront them — and accusing President Donald Trump of dismissing the need for meaningful guardrails. “This technolo
It has been a week since former Anthropic AI employee Jacob Coxon posted on social media that emerging technologies, if left unchecked, could trigger a human extinction event within 10 years. In that time, Donald Trump, whose financial fortunes have reached new heights thanks in part to his stock trading on various A.I
The Fall Campaign is heating up. The Kris Mayes for Attorney General Re-Election Campaign is running on all cylinders, touting the incumbent’s record of service to Arizonans during her first term while highlighting the ways her MAGA-Republican opponent, Warren Petersen, has served his most important constituency-himsel
The following is an opinion piece written by Ashley Harder, a Phoenix business owner, community leader and historic-preservation advocate. She is a candidate for Phoenix City Council District 4. Please submit comments at yourvalley.net/letters or email them to AzOpinions@iniusa.org. Phoenix has a strong economy. It’s a
Republicans have a well-honed ability to take a phrase that means something important to Americans and suck the life out of it. Congressman Juan Ciscomani carried out one of these delicate procedures last Thursday in the Sixth Congressional District debate when he drained meaning from the well-known words “social safet
In Donald Trump’s reality, EPA probably no longer stands for the Environmental Protection Agency. In his science-denying mind, it probably means the Environmental Punishment, Purge, or Plunder Agency because that is what he and his climate change-rejecting allies have been doing since coming back to power. In the lates
Andrew and I were joined by former CD 6 Democratic primary candidate Chris Donat for a podcast episode taking apart the JoAnna Mendoza v Juan Ciscomani Clean Elections debate. Please like and subscribe to feed the algo! Just a word of warning: if you just want to watch the debate straight through without frequent stops
Not sure how or whom to vote for in the November 3, 2026 General election? Here’s link to Pima County Dem Party online website for ballot recommendations: https://pimavote.com/. All you do is type in your street address, and up pops your Congressional District, candidates for statewide offices, propositions on the ball
This would be a sick joke if Democracy and competent Arizona Governance were not on the ballot this November. In a stunning example of hypocrisy and nerve, Arizona MAGA zealots Jake ‘Troll Farm’ Hoffman, Wendy ‘The COVID-19 vaccine is an instrument of the Devil’ Rogers, and Mark ‘I was with the other criminals at the .
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