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Arizona Republicans spent $205,000 or so on a three-day bus tour in the final days of the campaign, expenses that some Republicans say came at the cost of losing close races.

Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her team spent more than $530,000 on what one GOP consultant said were “vanity projects” designed to boost her ego instead of winning races on an election that ultimately ended in disaster for Republicans in Arizona. Read more»

It was this election in 1948 that Democrats last controlled both U.S. Senate seats and the the state's top three executive offices.

Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly won the race for Arizona attorney general. Democrats won all the high-profile races across the state (which they haven't done since 1948). Republicans keep losing here. Is it a fluke or the new state of things? Read more»

The county uses a process, outlined in a guide given to lead poll workers, to check a voter out of the system if they want to leave a location after getting a ballot, but before voting.

After widespread printer problems in Maricopa County on Election Day, the ballots of 146 county voters - from voters who checked in at an initial vote center and received a ballot but left, potentially without casting that ballot - are in limbo, and potentially will not be counted. Read more»

Chair of Arizona’s Republican Party Kelli Ward.

The Supreme Court removed its temporary guard that was preventing members of Congress investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection from collecting the phone records of fake Arizona electors and chair of the Arizona Republican Party Kelli Ward Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward. Read more»

There are two machines at each of the 223 vote centers spread out across Maricopa County. If both machines are having problems, voters are offered other options.

The machines that tabulate ballots at Maricopa County vote centers had widespread problems during much of Election Day, with about 20% of locations affected. Shortly after 2p.m., Maricopa County election officials said they had found the cause and were resolving the issue. Read more»

"For the first time in memory, as a lifelong Republican, I cannot vote for or endorse any of the federal or state candidates in Arizona my party put on the ballot this election." — Dick Walden Read more»

A video of former President Donald Trump speaking is displayed as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington on June 13, 2022. (

The House Jan. 6 committee urged the Supreme Court on Friday to stay out of a probe into fake electors and chair of the Arizona Republican Party Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael, who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state in the 2020 election. Read more»

Chair of Arizona’s Republican Party Kelli Ward.

Kelli Ward, chair of Arizona’s Republican Party, and Ward's husband, Michael - two of the 84 fake electors who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won their states in the 2020 election - managed to block a subpoena stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection probe. Read more»

Early voting started this week and voters are set to approve or reject 10 ballot initiatives.

Early voting started this week and voters are set to approve or reject 10 ballot initiatives - the majority of which were referred to the ballot by legislators, including three which restrict the ability of Arizonans to pass their own laws. Read more»

Pro-Trump protesters on a street corner near the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where the Arizona Senate was conducting a review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.

The Republican National Committee is suing Maricopa County over election transparency and election worker hiring practices, in what the Arizona county’s Republican recorder called “a political stunt.” Read more»

Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward at a February 2020 rally for Donald Trump in Phoenix.

Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, refused to answer questions from the congressional committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 insurrection aimed at overturning the 2020 election and instead asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Read more»

Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward in July 2021.

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has the right to see phone records for Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Read more»

Michael Ward joined his wife, Kelli Ward, at a primary election night watch party in Scottsdale in 2016. Both were fake Trump electors in 2020 and are facing subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice, and Michael has a leadership role in GOP attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh's campaign.

Republican candidate for Arizona AG Abe Hamadeh accepted a $1,000 donation from fake elector Dr. Michael Ward — husband of Arizona Republican Party chairwoman Kelli Ward — and then appointed him to a campaign position. Read more»

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers testified during the fourth congressional hearing on the January 6th investigation on June 21, 2022.

The Arizona Republican Party formally censured House Speaker Rusty Bowers Tuesday as “unfit to serve” the party, less than one month after he testified to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Read more»

Senate President Karen Fann speaks to a crowd of Republicans who believe the 2020 election was rife with fraud after the Senate released results of its “audit,” which found no evidence of fraud.

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Mesa Republican Senator Kelly Townsend were subpoenaed by the FBI for an on-going investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged pressure campaign on state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Read more»

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