Last Week This Morning: Arizonans support a primary challenge
Sinema should be nervous. New polling released by Data for Progress clearly demonstrates the frustration Arizonans are feeling with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema—she is trailing in overall favorability ratings. Sen. Mark Kelly and Pres. Biden, on the other hand, are both overwhelmingly popular in Arizona. Additionally, two-thirds of Arizona Democrats would support a primary challenger against Sinema, if the challenger supported filibuster elimination. […]
The Child Tax Credit: What You Need to Know
Last week, 750,000 families in Arizona began receiving the #ChildTaxCredit! If you have a kid under 6, you’ll start getting monthly payments of $300. If you have a kid under $17, you’ll get $250. Not a single Republican voted for this program. Here’s what you need to know: -If you’re eligible (making less than $200,000 […]
Last Week This Morning: The ocean…is on fire
The ocean’s on fire. A major underwater pipeline burst in the Gulf of Mexico, sending boiling flames to the surface of the ocean on Friday. The fire has since been extinguished, but the video captured from the scene is truly unbelievable—yet another example of why we must divest from fossil fuel reliance and pass bold climate crisis solutions. […]
LWTM: Mourning the Lives Lost to Police Brutality
Police brutality. Amid the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer charged with murdering George Floyd last year, two other police killings are receiving national attention as protestors mourn the lives unjustly lost to police brutality. Daunte Wright, an unarmed, 20-year-old black man was fatally shot by Minneapolis police during a traffic stop. Newly released […]
Last Week This Morning: Sinema’s flawed case
Gun violence epidemic. On Thursday, the Biden Administration unveiled a slate of common sense gun control measures aimed at reducing gun violence. The actions come in the wake of multiple mass shootings across the country. Biden also urged Congress to pass broader gun control legislation, but Republicans in the Senate are likely to filibuster any such policies. Many gun control groups have now […]
Sinema Unpopular in AZ After Filibuster Stance
Arizonans are growing tired of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s excuses. For the past couple of months, Senator Sinema has been a vocal supporter of the filibuster, an arcane procedural rule in the Senate that was used to block civil rights legislation in the Jim Crow era. In recent years, it’s been overwhelmingly used to block popular […]
Letters to Farmers’ Insurance, Allstate, CVS and Enterprise
Earlier today, more than 30 Arizona voting rights organizations and community groups released a letter to Allstate Insurance, CVS Health, Enterprise Holdings, and Farmers’ Insurance, asking them to take a public stance against bills currently moving through the Arizona state legislature that would limit voting, criminalize protest and block police accountability. The full text of […]
The integrity of our elections is actually under threat — where is the AZ GOP?
Over New Year’s weekend, the Washington Post published a recording of a damning hour long phone call between Trump and Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Secretary of State. Trump is clearly heard asking for an overthrow of the election results in Georgia: he uses his favorite tactics of threatening and abusing his power in demanding that Raffensperger […]
Who are the Republicans attacking Arizona’s Education?
Arizonans across the state have showed up for education in a historic way — from massive state-wide teacher strikes and pro-education marches, to passing a long-needed wealth-tax to help fully fund our Arizona education system. Proposition 208 passed during the 2020 general election, and received 1,675,810 votes, with approximately 52% of the vote and also […]