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Right-wing protesters gather outside the Maricopa County Elections Department on Nov. 4, 2020, demanding that all ballots for Donald Trump be counted. Inside the building, election workers were busy counting hundreds of thousands of ballots.

The lead organizer of the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that turned into a deadly coup attempt said Arizona’s #StopTheSteal movement started with one man. “Arizona started with one man, State Representative Mark Finchem,” Alexander said to an interviewer posted by Church Militant on Jan. 10. “I’m very confident that the Stop The Steal movement has taken over Arizona.” Read more»

A supporter of former President Donald Trump in November, when thousands protested the election in Washington. On Jan. 6, Trump addressed a Washington rally of his supporters that turned violent when they stormed the Capitol in a deadly riot that sparked a second impeachment. A new poll says a significant number of Arizonans still believe Trump won.

As the Senate began debate on an historic second impeachment of former President Donald Trump, a recent poll shows that more than half of Arizona Republicans believe Trump was the rightful winner of the November election. Read more»

The assault on Congress signaled the start of a new era, according to counterterrorism experts. The convergence of a mix of extremist groups and activists solidified the idea that the far-right threat has overtaken the Islamist threat in the United States.

White supremacists are building international networks to spread their violent ideology. Efforts at transatlantic counterterrorism cooperation hit an obstacle: the politics of the Trump Administration. Read more»

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.

Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, taking the oath of office while standing on the same platform where insurrectionists swarmed just two weeks ago as they sought to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's victory. Read more»

Officials erected fences around the State Capitol complex last week after demonstrators, some armed, showed up to protest the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win. That protest came the same day that a demonstration in Washington turned deadly, as a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

The Arizona Capitol is surrounded by two rows of chain-link fence and police presence has been increased, as authorities brace for possible violence in response to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Read more»

Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Peoria, like many Republicans in the House, criticized the timing of the impeachment, noting that President Donald Trump will have left office before the Senate can take up the issue. But Democrats – and some Republicans – said Trump’s part in an assault on the Capitol demanded action.

No Arizona lawmakers broke party ranks as the House impeached President Donald Trump on a mostly party-line vote, just one week after a deadly mob attack on the Capitol that critics said was incited by the president. Read more»

Legislative Democrats are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate four Arizona Republican officeholders for their possible involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Read more»

President Donald Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence, left, at a 2017 Environmental Protection Agency event with then-Administrator Scott Pruitt. Pence told lawmakers Tuesday that he would not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump with just days left in their administration – setting up a likely House vote to impeach Trump a second time in two years.

The 223-205 House vote came a week after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly attack that critics say the president incited, and just one week before Trump is scheduled to leave office and be replaced by President-elect Joe Biden. Read more»

Soldiers with the New Jersey National Guard patrol the area near the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Jan 11, 2021. National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from several states have traveled to Washington to provide support to federal and district authorities leading up to the 59th Presidential Inauguration.

Authorities are on high alert for extremist right-wing groups that are armed and said to pose a dangerous threat to all Americans following the insurrectionist siege of the U.S. Capitol. Read more»

All five of Arizona's Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are among the 214 who have signed on to a measure to impeach President Donald Trump that was introduced Monday, charging him with inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week. Read more»

Gov. Doug Ducey applies hand sanitizer prior to giving the latest Arizona coronavirus update during a news conference July 23, 2020, in Phoenix.

When the legislature convenes for the 2021 session, among Gov. Doug Ducey's top priorities will be helping Arizona repair much of the damage that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought over the past year. Read more»

President Donald Trump is greeted by Gov. Doug Ducey after landing at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for a visit to Honeywell International’s mask-making operation in Phoenix on May 5, 2020.

While Gov. Doug Ducey has repeatedly condemned the violent mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol Jan 6. during the count of Electoral votes to declare Joe Biden the next president, that condemnation doesn’t extend to President Donald Trump’s role in inciting the insurrection that left five people dead. Read more»

5.9 earthquake, centered in Virginia, was also felt in New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C., where the White House, Pentagon and U.S. Capitol Building were evacuated. Read more»

Emily Nottingham said her son, Gabe Zimmerman, pictured on the poster behind her, should be remembered for his life of service and not how he died. Gabe, a staffer for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was killed with six others in January when a gunman opened fire at a Giffords event in Tucson. Lawmakers have proposed naming a room in the Capitol complex in Gabe Zimmerman’s memory.

Update: Gabe Zimmerman's “hard work and ideals... should be recognized here,” his mother told a crowd gathered as members of Congress unveiled a bill to name a room in the Capitol Visitors Center for the first congressional staffer killed in the line of duty. (with video) Read more»

Smart v. Stupid: Both Democrats and Republicans are rooting for Christine O’Donnell and her long shot bid to win a seat in the Senate next term. How can that be? No one expects her to win, but everyone agrees she’s a laugh riot. Read more»